Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-24
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S
POLITICAL VIEWS.
Earl RatsseX RepNdi0tes L.
abilities for Damages dome
by Rebel P3'ir0tee2s.
Knotty Questions for the Missis-
sippi Legislature to Decide.
FENIAN SCARE IN CANADA.
Railroad Accident.
Me<ican Affairs.
Political Sermon by Henry Ward
Beecher.
&C., &C., &C., &c.
Knotty Questions for the Missis-
sippi Legislature to Decide.
FEN1AN SCARE IN CANADA.
Railroad Accident.
Me<ican Affairs.
Political Sermon by Henry Ware
Beecher.

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-Thc substance of
President Johnsons remarks on the subject of
reconstruction in the Southern States, during
a recent private interview with him. is given
with the Presidents approval, by Mr.. G. L.
Stearns of Massachusetts,.
The President, in reply to a remark that the
Democrats claimed that he had given over to
them, intimated that the Democratic party
has discovered that he was in advance of it,
and that it was now trying to come up to his
standard, and he hoped it would soon succeed
in doing so. He enunciated his doctrine that
Notwithstanding the so-called secession of GER
tain States, they were never out of the Union,
but that by their rebellious course they had
forfeited their civil government, to reconstruct
the machinery of which, as soon as practicable,
he considered the chief duty of the President
This, he says, cannot be done in msment, but
such great and happy progress is being made in
it that the results sometimes appear to him like
dream. He did not expect to forever deprive
them Of their former civil rights, even of u ma
iority of those who were excluded in the am.
nesty proclamation, but he intended that they
ormity of their crime.
He is in favor Of allowing those negroes who
have served in the army, those who can read
and write and those who are possessed Of cer-
! tain other qualifications, to vote, but does not
| think it is right, polite, or that he has the
| right to force these conditions or the white
people of the South, though he believes that
they will, ere long, concede this privilege to
the freedmen. The President also favors basing
representatives in Congress on the number of
qualified voters, instead of on population, as at
present
| New. Y oRK, Oct. 23.-The Herald's Raleigh
correspondent says Of the North Carolina Con.
vention A singular announcement was made
by the chairman to the effect that, after dill
gent search he was unable to procure a ns-
tlonal flag to hoist over the capitol, and had to
send to New York for one.
Nothing, it is said, but the timely receipt OF
the telegram from President Johnson saying
that North Carolina should, at once aud for
ever, repudiate every dollar of the indebted.
ness contracted to assist the rebellion, pre-
vented the staving off, by the secession mem.
bers of q vote on the ordinance completely ig.
noring that debt, as they had their plans very
adroitly laid for the purpose, but on the read
ing of the Presidents dispatch, the ordinance
was Immediately taken up and passed, amid
cheering and great enthusiasm, there being bu,
a few negative votes. The proposed amend.
ment to submit it to vote of the people was
not adopted.
The ordinance, which was passed for the or.
ganization, in some of the counties, of mill.
tia force, to suppress outlawry, has, 1t is under.
stood, the approval of the national military
forces.
Resolutions were adopted requesting the
President to restore to the people of North
Carolina their constitutional rights, to remove
the military aud to transfer civilian prisoners
to the civil authorities