The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-20
THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.
GENERAL sCHENCK ON THE STUMP.
President Johnson's Views on
Reconstruction.
What the Rabid Secessionists are
to Expect.
Especial Despatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.]

CHLIcoTHE, August 10, 1885,
Tar larger audience than is usual on such Occasions
in this rather undemonsrative town, assembled this
evening To hear General Schenck The City Hall was
crowded, whereas usually half its benches are empty
The General was received and greeted In his remarks
with gratifying enthusiasm He said he was here more
by accident than design he was on his way to attend
reunion OF the soldiers Of Sciota and Pike counties
where he had promised to speak to morrow but he
graned 70 meet again. after an interval of ten fifteen
years, the citizens OF Chicothe, especially such OF
them as had, with stern resolve stood by the Union
through the four years Of terrible thathad tried
the hearts of patriots Although the rebellion broken,
80 FAR as its physical power concerned he felt II to
be his duty to say his late fellow soldiers that the work
saG nes sa, o s Was SUI
tder tha or Sas Of his Union has the right 10
sas UP The ohois gopermen! at pleasure and bring upon
as al The horrors hare just passed through still pre-
vcis Until this is extngushed and the work Of re-
construction accomplished in the establishment OF har
peted. The speaker then considered the difficulties In
the way of reconstruction The President might have
held the rebeOus States military subsection as con-
quered people until satisfied OF their entire loyalty and
until rensated In their former positions by legislative
action; he might have Withdrawn the military force
altogether and left them exercise their civil functions
iOca and in their relations TO the other States From
tn start were objections each Of these courses
and the President combined them, holding military
force over them at the same time that he al
lowed them 90 reinstate these civil powers,
functions. This latter privilege, however, was
only experiment and the SPEAKER assured his hearers
that President johnson regarded 1t. Only days
az in fDu and free inerpeo Nth him, the Presidsni
said he regarded the local governments set up the retel-
temporary e1peF1ntenE,
pope an prtuny wether they ,ci deSelop me
right spirit and policy necessary for full ,est ration TO
their proper position In the government. While regard
ing tn I'm as experiments intends that the military poer
Of the vereA shall hotd them in check that II they
DO found sraying back into rebelous ways the military
will be there to prevent them from again making the
trouble they have heretofore caused
The President ns this conversation, referred TO the
course that had just been pursued in reference TO the
Richmond election, where the citizens manifested their
rcteil,ous spirit eecting to Office the very who
had emily been IN arms against the government.
Witt his sanction that The military authorities had Sc,
aside hat election, and he this example of What
Migat te expected In other cases Of a similar
kind Approaching the question of suffrage, the
speaker said it did not trouble him in the least The only
question with him in regard to the restoration OF the
beious States to the full privileges of citizens
the loyalty Of the people, When satisfied this point,
whether year ten years hence Congress should
store them but then would up the question Of re-
pres ntaton Slavery abolished and the rule allow
gross unjust to the North would have to be abolished
with it, and representation must be according to voters
and not according TO population II else did, the
an amendment to the constitution, by which this
threc.hfth privilege should be done away with,
and certainly no democrat, any more than
republicans could object TO the fairness of tho
principle that representation should be according to
rs IT, under such amendment, the South wished
20 have its vast coored population represented In the
che political power the Northern population of voters
shout inaugurate negro suffrage nobody had any right
90 complain and II they could allow their thousands Of
negroes under conditions Of education property
to vote there would be great objection In the North
ff the few negroes have among allowed the
privilege; but this was question for the future
aud for the south itself to determine, not for and
there mood Of the Union party being disturbed by
discussion Of the subject II had enough else to look
after regard what privileges white rebels should DO
allowed to exercise.
General Schcnck's remarks on this topic very
clearly forby put and heartily responded 10
BY his intelligent and apprecativc audience.