The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-19

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The Prcsident'x Views.
He Trusts The South-Does not Beliere
an Sensation Letter. Writers and -E1ai-
tors
On Monday, the 11th, delegation
Southerners, numbering some fifty of
persons, representing seven States
Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi, Flori-
da, Arkansas, Virginia and Tennes-
see-called on President Johnson, for
the purpose Of paying their respects
and expressing their confidence in his
Administration, and returning thanks
for the 1enient course he has pnrsued
toward their respective States
The delegation was introduced to
the President at about ten o'clock,
and, after the usual courtesies, Hon.
W.. A.. Macfarland, of Virginia, ssd-
dressed the President in substance as
follows:
1t became his agreeable and plea
sant duty to say that they called upon
him to assure Kim of their person
al regard, and their confidence in his
purpose to administer the Govern
nent upon the highest principles of
wisdom and mature statesmanship :;
confident that his policy would be
earnestly sustained by the entire
South, And that devotion to .+sc U1ricn
ana free Institutions would ever char
acterize all their political and person
al acts and it was their purpose ever
cheerfully and earnestly to support
him and his administration of the
Il
this pledge rs gentlemen, they had
right to demand full credence for their
sincerity.
in behalf of the South, ne thanked
the President for the kindness and
leniency that had been shown them,
and expressed the thought that what
ever MY be said to the contrary, the
purr Use and object of the entire South,
he ielt assured, was for restoration
and peace upon the basis of the Union
of the States.
After Mr.. Macfarland had conclud-
ed his remarks, President Johnson
replied as follows
GENTLEMEN I can only say, in re-
ply to the remarks Of your chairman,
that I am highly gratified to receive
the assurances he has given me. They
are more than [ could have expected
under the circumstances. must say
was unprepared to receive so numer-
GUS delegation on this occasion; it
was unexpected; had no idea it was
to be so large, or represent so many
States. When 1 expressed as L did
my willingness to see ut any time SO
many of You as chose to do me the
honor to cali upon me. and stated chat
should be gratified at receiving any
manifestations of regard you might
think proper to make, was totally
unprepared for anything equal to the
present demonstration. I am free to
say it excites in my mind feelings and
emotions that language is totally in
adequate to express. When I look
back upon my past actions and recall
period scarcely more than four short
years ago, when stood battling for
principles which many of you opposed
and thought were wrong, L was bat
tling for the same principles that ac-
tuate me to-day, and which principles
thank my God you have come for
ward on this occasion to manifest q
disposition to support. say now, as
=! have said on many former occasions,
that entertain no personal resent
ments, enmities, or animosities to any
living soul South of Mason and Dix
on's line, however much he may have
differed from no in principle. The
stand then took claim to have been
the only true one I remember how
I stood pleading with my Southern
brethren when they stood with thei.
hats in their hands ready to turn their
backs upon the United States; how
implored them to stand with me there
and maintain our rights and fight ou,
battles under the laws and Constitu
ticn. Of the United States. I think
now, as I thought then, and en-
deavored to induce. them to believe,
that or true position was under the
law and under the Constitution of the
Union with the institution of slavery
in it; but if that principle made al
issue that rendered disintegratioI
possible-if that made an issue which