The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-12-09
Presidents Message.

Johnson's Message was sent in to-day
and read before both Houses Of Congress
Aitor the PREDATORY features, which
are eloquent illusions to the national
blessings in the national triumph, he
maintains that resistance to the General
Government having exhausted itself, the
first and most important question is,
whether the territory within the limits
OF those States which had attem pied
secession should be held as conquered
territory under military authority eman.
ating from the Chief Magistrate of the
Union. The policy of holding it under
such rule, as a temporary measure, was
justified by all facts bearing on the ques.
tIon-it was public necessity, but he
| considers that the subordination oG civil
to military authority for an indefinite
period, would have offered 10 security
for. an early suppression OF discoutent-
would have divided the people into van.
quishers and vanquished, and envenomrd
hatred rather than red.affection and
invited harmony.
The President says the true theory IS,
that all pretended acts of secession were,
from beginning TO the cessation Of hostl.
tiles, null and void. States cannot com.
init treason. nor can they screen, by any
pretenses of individual sovereignty, their
individual citizens who may have been
guilty of that monstrous crme.-Those
States which attempted to sccede placed
themselves in. a condition where their
functions were suspended. but not
IDEALLY destroyed. But if one State ne.
elects or refuses to perform its proper
offices, there is created greater neces.
sity why the General Government should
MAINTAIN its authority and as soon as
practicable resume the exercise of all its
functions.
1t was upen this principle that lie
proceeded in his policy towards the
Southern Statcs.-Gradually and quietly
by steps almost imperceptible, he had
sought the restoration of the rightful re.
lations of the General Government 10
the separate States. To that end Provis.
ional Governors were appointed for ea,ef
OF the members of the Union lately 5.
rebellion, and now all parties to the 4ss4
terrible conflict must work together in
harmony. 1t is not too much to ask
that on one side the plan of restoration
shall proceed upon the basis of willing
ness to cast the disorder Of the past into
oblivion, while, on tho ,el.a ss.le, the
to sustain, in,S .s;IS~ ms eossSsv v,dsSS9 blity
of the Uniob, aa snSHoyeM% suM ~ S,yonl
any shadow ,uos,s,se 'ssN1 'Mp 90 ,o, s,acy bv
the rati6cati, s,p, ,y%o,, p,s 200 .s,s vstiavc.
ry, Amendrins eWo W new pua ,S%Sas,,n of
the United !.ses,S%s iG bsrs 1as }Sment
being adopte ad" Sc in.
s:r,recllonary rove up, he raised |, Lee
S' s'a'iies' III led them "Hic ahos
otates TO resun. can't You give "A m;@
plete the work 9th id maan ~ y,
In regard to llS - @'G%sp ~ Fresi.
dent says he has IA ~. .sttflty to make
freedmen elecbag l,authoritv in such
respect resides slsaa Sespains with the
separate Stassk aissfh questions are
foreign to the lMendtic nts or fair con
strn tion of the Constitution. The South
must and should decide for herself whe'h.
er he elective franchise is to be con.
ceded at once, Of gradually, or if at all
and upon what conditions. Good faith,
however, reqnires the security of freedom
to the African race on our soil, and that
| they shonld enjoy in the full protection
in property possessed or hereafter ac,
/ quired, the right to labor and to claim
just remuneration for the same.
| In speaking of other than home,mat.
| ters heannounces that it will be his con-
slant aim to promote peace and unity
with all foreign nations. He believes
that all of them are animated by the
same disposition, yet the accordance ol
| belligerent rights to the late insurgent
STATES was without. precedent and on.
| tirely unjnstiiable But Great Brlttn in
formed an exception to all other powers in
/ Christendom. She built ships, and fur
| tnished men and material of war to the
i late Confederate States. Snch conduct