The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-12-06
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Summary of the Presidents Message.

summary of the Presidents Message.
WARRINGTON, December 5.-The Message Of Presi-
dent JOHNSON read to Congress this day. cit says
that resistance to the Government having exhausted 1t
SELF the first question be considered is whether tho
territory within tho limits of States which attempted to
sccedo should bo held conquered territory under
military authority emanating from the President He
considers that military governments established for an
indefinite period would have offered security for
early suppression of discomfort would have produced
yanquishcd people full of envenomed hatred rather
than restore their affection, which Ia tho true theory
pretended acts of secession from the beginning
null and void States cannot commit treason nor secode
through their individual citizens who may have commit
tod treason. The States attempting to secede placed them
selyesi condition whero their functions suspend
but not destroyed but any or refuses
to perform It's Offices there s the moro need that the
General Government should maintain Its authority, and,
soon as practicable, Its functions On this
principle he acted gradually and equally; by almost i'm
perceptbe steps, he sought to restore the rghl
Ky of tho General Government and tho States To that
Provisional Governors appointed. ALI parties
late terrible conflict must work together In har
mony. 1t is not too much to ask that oneside plan of
restoring the States shall proceed conformity with
Willingness to cast the disorders OF the past into OBJ
von and that the other side the evidence OF sin-
certy In the future maintenance Of the Union shall be
put beyond doubt by tho ratification Of the proposed
amendment being adopted. 1t would remain for tho
States 10 resume hcr places In both branches Of Con-
gress and thereby complete the work The
President says that the General Government has no
authority to make the freedmen electors; that power
mains with the Staes they decide whether 1t Is
be adopted ut once introduced gradually, with tho
condition, however, that the Government faith requires
tho secorty Of the freedmen In their liberty property
right to labor and to claim jurisdiction of their labor
1t win be his constant aim TO promote peace with all
foreign nations, and thinks they animated by tho
same disposition.
The accordance of bogerent rights to the iAsurgent
States unjushAable but Great Britain was exeep-
tion sho built ships, furnished and material war
to the insurgents justification Of 1t cannot he sus-
tnined before the tribunal of the world the Same
time he does not advise any present attempt redress
by acts of legsaion for the future friendship be-
tween the two countries must rest basis of mutual
justice. We have wisely foreborne, because of the
alleged propagandism of repubhcanism; but It
should be of great calamity to our
selves and the CAUSE of good government should
any foreign power challenge tho American people to s
defenoo against foreign Interference relos on tho
wadom and justice Of those powers respect our
tenn OF noninterference which has long been sane
toned by time.