The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-08
The Secretary Of the Treasury for
the Presidents Plan.
he VINDIcATEs the PRESIDENT.


connected with banks and the tinanci IL
affairs of Indiana. The skill, ability and
honesty exhibited in connecting the
monetary interests intrusted to his man
agement were OF such high order as to
give him National fame, be matter OF
Just pride to the people of ihis State, and
admirers.
Several gentlemen of the latter Glass;
anxious that his great personal popular
ity and hold upon the judgments OF his
many friends in Indiana might be
brought to bear in the advancement OF
the principles of right, sought to OBTAIN
his presence in heir midst. We are sorry
TO announce that he can not be with his
friends in Indiana soon, as may be seen
by MS letter to those gentlemen I; but at
the same time there is no doubt left as
to his position in the controversy with
fanatical Radicalism. We ask all con-
servative Republicans to weigh well the
language of one who has always been of
them, and with them, viz:
WASHINGTON d. c., Sept %, 1866.
GENTLEMEN L have delayed &C
know lodging ii" receipt of your letter
of the 9TH inst, in the hope that l might
be able so to al :ange my business as to
be absent for few days from Washing
ton.
regret now to be under the neces-
sity OF saying that my official engage
ments are of such nature that it will
not be in my power to accept your invi.
tation to address my fellow citizens of
Layfayette, PEN, and Fort Wayne, as
reques ted by YOU, prior to the October
elections, upon The momentous questions
which are now rngrossing the attention
of the people OF the United States. |
regret that this is the case, as it would
afford me great satisfaction to have
fair, frank talk With my old friends and
acoualntances IN Indiana, with whom
have acted politically IN times past,
and especially during the late civil war.
In the unfei tunate controversy that
has arisen bet cen the President and
Congress, l staud with the former. ln
doing so, l am lot conscious of abandon.
ing any principle or becoming convert
to any new doctrine. In common with
the great mass of theIUnion party, have
always held that the States whose citi.
zens rebelled against the Federal Gov
eminent never ceased to be States in the
Union; and when the rebellion had been
overcome, felt it to be my duty to CO.
operate with the President in carrying
into effect the plan of restoration which
had been approved by his lamented pre-
decessor. To that plan regarded the
party of which was member, as yir'
tually committed by the action of its
conventions and the resolutions OF Con-
gress, before Mr. Johnson attempted to
carry it into effect To that plan am
still committed by the dictates Of my
best Judgment. 1t is, in my opinion,
wise, liberal and statesmanlike; the only
plan yet presented which properly re
CARDS both the rights Of the Central Gov.
ernment and the rights of the States,
which can be adopted with safety by the
conquerors, and accepted without sacri-
fee of honor and manhood by the con-
quered, and which leads directly to re-
Cancellation and peace.
l have no time to write you at length,
but eau not close this note without Re
marking that the charges made against
Mr.. johnson OF abandoning his princi.
pies, or Of desiring to bring the recent
enemies of the couHtry into power, are
like the reports in regard to his habits
of personal indulgence-utterly desti-
tute of oundation-slanders which the
authors themselves will be ashamed of
when the heat of party passion shall
have subsidized. 10 his unprecedented re-
marks he may have INDUCED in plain
ness and directness of speech, unusual
in the Chief Magistrate of the Nation,
aud offensive to some very critical and
fastidious people, but every body admits |
that his messages and other official
communications (snd by these he must
be jndgeO are models ofabilty and good
taste. Men may differ with him in re-
gard to his manner of dealing with the
States recently in rebellion, but no fair |