The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-02
ANDY JOHNSON REVIEWED.
Speech of Senator Sherman.

On EFfday night last Senator SiEhs
MAN, of 0hia, addressed . large audi
enoe in Mozart Hall, Cincinnati His
speech was one of unusual clearness
and force. We regret that our limited
space prevents us publishing il en-
tire. Some extracts, however, are Of
such peculiar Importance that we
make room for them, Taken in con
neetion with Senator TRUnBuLLa
expose of President JoHRsoN's bad
faith in his action on the Civil Rights
Bill, Mr.. SHERmAR's statements may
be regarded as branding the acting
President with the most infamous du-
plioity and treachery known TO poll
ties. No one can read the extracts
we quote from Mr.. sHERMAa's speech
without concluding that Mr. JOHNSON
meditated betraying his party from
the outset, and every act OF his since
ID but 80 many consistent aud persist
ent steps towards concentrating that
criminal intention,
After demonstrating that the Presi-
dent and Congress at one time were
agreed az to the best policy 10 be pur-
sued in the work Of demonstrations
the necessity and eonstitutionality of
the Congressional Joint COMMITTEES on
Reconstruction, and the conservative
policy pursued by it, and the neces-
sity for the Freedmen's Bureau and
Civil Rights Bills, Mr.. SHERMAN, in
the following measure expresses the
RAD FAITH or THE PRECEDENT,
am about to state one on two facts
in regard to this bill, TO show how
much | was misled In regard to 1t,
Judge Trumhull framed this bill---and
the Judiciary Committee was com
posed of some of the best lawyers Of
the c0untry-it was most conserve
tive judiciary Committee Before
that bill passed, Judge Trumbull took
it To the President of tho United
States, and showed it TO him, and he
has recorded his testimony of what
occurred then aud there-pronouno
ing il in speech Ia the Senate, and
the Preeident has 40 where contra
dicted him, He stated that the Presi-
dent had approved and sanctioned that
bill before it was presented To tile
Senate of the United States.
SENATOR sHERMAN's INTERVIEW wITH
stn THE PREsiDENT! I'LL a'lll
After the difficulty about the Freed
mems Bureau Bill, and this difhtulty
between the Committee and the Pres
dent, after the OWL Rights Bill had
passed, went to Mr.. johnson my
self under peculiar circumstances I'D
had been invited by the Union men Of
Connecticut togo there and make d
speech on the approach canvass,
1t was whispered that Andrew John
son was about to prove false TO his
party and his country, and was going
to use his patronage against the party
that elected him, 1t was whispered
that he would veto the Civil Rights
Bill, and everything else good that we
did. | thought / would 60 to him
and ask him if there was TO be such
controversy as that. | thought | did
right to do IL aud believed | had
the right, He received me kindly,
and we talked over the whole matter
for two or three hours. | willnot un-
dertake to say, precisely, what was
said by myself, or by the President,
but | say to you, upon my honor, that
he left the impression upon me as
clear and strong, as | look upon your
faces tonight, that he approved that
Civil Rights Bill and would sign il.
Ii was then before him. 800
He further said that should any
controversy spring up between Con-
gress and himself he would bo fo,n1d
ON the side of the Union party and
that he never would appeal to the
rebels and copperheads to aid him in
any controversy He expressed his
desire that ltshould go taOonnecti
cut, and | went in full faith that there
would be no further controversy be-
tween the President and Congress
and that all would pass off, and that
"allstha clouds that lowered upon nnr
house would be dispelled. The only
stipulation that the President com.
planned of, was that he wanted the
Radicals to abandon negro suffrage
and the doctrine of State suicide; and
THESE were gtNoh w ny Anat puItlpL
of the Union party who believed in 1t
he would cooperate and act with tha
party, aud that he expected to approve
the Constitutional Amendment re
ported by the committee, il they
would abandon. these tive radical doc
trines. My friends, / went to Con
neeticut, and what was my surpris,
and mobilization when | returned. i
few days afterwards, to receive from
the same President his veto agains
the Civil Rights BILL and To Il6arr
that, at the same time he held tn,
conversation with me, he was co oper
atlng and combining with The Nnn