Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-10
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FROM WASHINGTON.
A Delegation Of KenlncI6Ians Call
Upon the President.

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WASHINGTON, March GA delegation
from the State OF Kentucky have presented
to President johnson the proceedings of a
mass meeting held at Frankfort, in that
State. indorsing his veto message. Mr..
Dawson made an address, in the course of
which he said that the presence Of the
agents of the Freedmen's Bureau in Ken
lucky only tended to produce demOraiza-
tlon and dissat sfaction among the negroes,
annoyance and Inconvenience to the white
citizens. and was productive of no good re-
suits. The people of Kentucky and the
laws of the State, If left to themselves, will
secure the negro in all his rights-of per-
son and of property. There are more cases
| of wrongs by negroes upon white persons
in the State, which go unpunished by the
civil authority, than of wrongs by white
| persons against negroes. He would not
disguise the fact that there has been, and
there still is some impatience and dissatis-
faction felt by the people at what they re-
gard as unkind suspicious and discrimina-
| tions against them upon the part of the
Government, which they sustained through
out the late terrible conflict at such sacri-
fees as only they and those similarly stu
ated can know.
The President briefly responded, tender
ing to those whom the delegates represent
ed, and to the State of Kentucky, his un-
feigned thanks for the kind expressions
| and manifestations of confidence in him
personally, and the Endorsement of the pol
icy which shall control his administration.
1t was peculiarly gratifying to receive these
assurances at this particular time. He
trusted that results would show that
the confidence thus reposed was not mis-
| placed, and would never become matter
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expression thereto. The present is re-
garded as a most critical iuncture in the
affairs of the nation, scarcely less SO than
when an armed and organized force sought
to overthrow the Government. To attack
and attempt to cause q disruption of the
Government by armed combination and
military force, is no more dangerous to the
nation than an attempt to revolutiOnize
and undermine it by a disregard and de-
structiOn of the safeguards thrown around
the liberties ofthe peoplein the,Constitution.
| Our stand has been taken and our course is
marked out. We shall take no step back
ward in this matter. No other or higher
evidence OF our purpose in this regard can
be given than has already been furnished.
In the future as in the past, we shall en-
deayor, in good faith, to make the admins
tration of the affairs of the Government
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spirit. Therein is the only guaranty to the
liberties of the people. 1t is hoped by an
adherence to this rule to remedy, ere long,
all the irregularities and annoyances to
which the people have been subjected.
| Again do we assure you that these de n
onstrations of confidence and assurances OF
support upon the part of the people, are
exceedingly cheering to us; that we are
| grateful for aud properly appreciate them,
and that our most earnest wish is so to dis
charge the trusts confided to us as to merit
them.
Another Speech by Ihe President.
| WASHINGTON, March "a committee OF
the Maryland Legislature, headed by
Speaker Frazier, had an interview with
President johnson yesterday, to present
the resolutions adopted by the Legislature
indorsing his policy for the reconstruction
of the Union. The President made brief
reply, referring to and reciting his previous
declarations in regard to reconstruction,
and said he had only to thank them for the
encouragement given by the resolutions
He hoped his future acts would show that
this confidence has not been misplaced, and
that the passers of the resolutions are
not mistaken in the approval they spoke
I He said: 1t is not necessary for me to
state the principles have adopted for my
guidance. They are understood, and
there can be no mistake as to the position
occupy. Persons who act upon prin-
ciple, and understand the principles they
act upon, cannot disagree and must act
together, and whatever their starting point
in acting upon such principles, they, how
ever invOluntarily, sometimes will APP
proach each other; and the converse of this
proposition is also true, that whenever they
disagree upon principle they commence a
divergent course. The most gratifying
thought to me is, that have acted upon
principle ever since my first entrance into
public life. There has always been with
me some fundamental idea Regarding the
nature of this Union, and have never de-
parted from it; and it is also gratifying to
me that after the ordeal through which we
have passed. that through the chaotic state
of public mind this idea still lived, and that
these principles are again enunciate ; that
there Is still an appreciation of them
around and about which there seems to
arise crystalization and formation OF
men that will in the future sustain the
country and the principles on which it
lives.
Mr. PetersOn's bill for SheItering
the Dying Body OfAoresident Linz
coin.
New York, March 9.-The Tribune thus
speaks of Mr.. Peterson, whose residence
opposite Ford's Theatpr was forever made
an object of reverence by the American
people, from the accidental circumstance OF
its sheltering the dying form of President
Lincoln on the 14th of April last: He has
finally received from the Treasury the
amount of his bill for the tritling damage
done to his bed linen and furniture of that
fatal neighborhood. Among the items
charged in the bill was one for $l50 toI
injury done his carpets, $50 for personal
services, So for gas. and large number OF
similar charges, amounting in the aggre-
gate to $203 so, The modest and patriotic
Peterson also rendered another charge for
loss of time for several weeks after the ass
sassination, nexhibiting the room In which
the President died. The validity of this
latter claim could not be fully realized by
the Secretary of War, who ordered it to be
disallowed.
Smuggling ON the Canada From
tier. |
The Tribune's Washington special says
The Commissioner of Customs yesterday
received highly encouraging reports rela-
tive to the suppression of smuggling on the
Canada frontier. The large seizures recent
ly made and the measures now being taken
by custom officers to prevent the anticipat-
ed increase of smuggling after the terminus
tion Of the reciprocity treaty, 1t is believed
by the Commissioner, will be sufficient to
preclude the possibility of its revival to
any great extent. tE7 fareu -E
fhe Herald,s Washington sneciaI savs