Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-08-17


State, wanted to he brevettd-l went with
him and saw the President. went to
ask the President to appoint your one
armed General Sanuard TO the Collector
ship-and then saw the President, and
that was the last time saw him new
er had any manner of political converSa-
ton with the President.
In reference to the President and his
course. l think when President johnson
adopted his "polcy" that he thought he
was getting up good one. The difficult
.y is, it has proved an utter and miserable
failure, and instead of honestly owning
the fact, he is so wilful and obstinate that
he will not abandon it. have never en-
tertained the slightest doubt upon the
question OF reconstruction of the South
ern States. They went out, and We're
declared in state Of instruction. They
divided and severed the Union. Can any
body ask who it belongs to to reunite
them? 1t is to the people through their
/ Repre- sen,atives-n0t to the President
| He is not the man TO make the reunion.-
| Upon that question | have never had any
| donbt. I have avowedly declared the
| doctrine from the first to the last that
without the slightest doubt the power of
reconstruction belonged to Congress and
it alone.
do not apprehend | feel any sympa-
thy for President johnson, his course, or
his policy and l don't believe there as
any man who has any information that
have been closeed with tie President
IL is a sheer LIE and the men ackO hare
ever said ii ka,eao a. to be so! But have
already detained you longer than in
tended when / assembled this platform
You must already know the political SEN
timents entertain. have not been a
stranger to the people of Vermont during
the past twenty years, nor have enter.
tanned the slightest doubt but that you
/ knew what my political standing was.
| For want of space we omit that por-
| ton of Judge Poland's speech relating to
matters which have been discussed during
the late senatorial canvass. In relation
to his vote in the Stockton case, he said
he voted on it as question of law, and
with Senator Trumbull, who was the most
radical man in Congress, as well as with
many others of the most radical republi
cans. That question was one of law ani
not of politics. He was also questioned
and explained his vote admitting Senator
Patterson as Senator from Tennessee.
| VoIcE- Have you ever franked an,
documents of Senator Cowans?
/ Mr.. PoLANp-There's pretty GOO
| joke attached TO that matter. / will ex
plain to you. AT the house where
boarded in Washington there also boarded
one DR.. Burleigh, who was great radi
cal and who laid in very large stock o
Mr.. Summers speeches.
| And here l may just as well say that i
any of we members want our speeche:
printed, or desire the speeches of others
we have to pay for them out of our indi
vidual pockets. We don't get them fol
nothing-by any means.
To continue. This DR.. Burleieh, like
good many others, when he saw upor
which side the loaves and fishes were IL
be distributed, became johnson man.
Having no further use for Mr.. Sumner
speeches he gave them to me, and ! wai
very thankful for them. l had them done
up and sent over to my room gave thu
clerk my book, in which a good many
names were registered,--very likely ;
goodly number Of yours who are her,
present-and told him to serd them out
The clerk afterward told me that he occa
sionally came across Dooittle speed
among them-which was nothing stran Q
as DIR. Burleigh had taken to that kind O
literature and had undoubtedly got th
two kinds slightly mixed--so if any G
my friends have received any of Doolit
ties or Cowan's speeches this accounts 70
it. (Laughter) Any more question
gentlemen?
Three cheers were given for Mr.. Pc
land and he retired
After Judge Poland had been nomina
ed, he was again called for and came 70
ward and addressed the convention
follows -
Mr.. PRESIDENT Gentlemen of II
: Conventional am informed that you ha,
; through your committees and the sanctic
/ of the convention, rendered me the nom
nation OF representative in Congre
; from this District. When ! was Gale
, upon the stand before l made some all
[ sion to the position in which | stood.
I, did believe that the true interests of Il
4 people of the State required that NJ
!, morrill, should still represent them IN Il