The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-03
Letter from GOV. Cox, of Ohio.

Gov. Cox, of Ohio, has written q
letter, detailing a conversation re-
Gently had with the President on ma
tional affairs, from which the follow
ing is extracted:
"He stated that his policy had sim
ply aimed at the earliest restoration
of peace on the basis of loyalty. No
Congressional policy had ever been
adopted, and, therefore, when he en-
tered upon the duties of his office, he
was obliged to adopt one of his own.
He had, in some sense, inherited that
of Mr.. Lincoln's, with which he
thought he agreed, and that was SUBJ
stantially the one he had carried out.
Congress had no just cause of COM
plant that he had not done so, for
they had not seen fit to declare their
views or to adopt any measures en-
bodying what could be called policy
of restoration. He was satisfied that
no long continuance of military 60
vernment could be tolerated-th
the whole country would properly
demand the restoration of truly
civil government, &c. One central
idea had controlled him in the whole
matter, and that was that the proper
system of pacifcation should be one
which tended everywhere to stimu-
late the loyalty of the people of the
South themselves, and make it the
spring of loyal conduct and proper
legislation, rather than to impose
upon them laws and conditions by
direct external force. Thus, in the
case of the Freedmen's Bureau, he
was not against the idea of the bureau
in toto, for he had used it, and was
still using it. It might continue for
period of more than year, yet he
had contemplated that either by pro-
clamation Of his own, OF by some ac-
ton of Congress, a condition of peace
the technical end of the rebellion
would probably be declared at some
period, perhaps not very remote, and
as he understood the present law,
the bureau might continue a year
from that time Meanwhile, he could
say to the South, it depends upon
yourselves to say whether the bureau
shall be discontinued at an earlier
day, for I will put an end to it just
as soon as you, by proper action for
the protection of the freedmen, rem
der it necessary. Thus, said he, the
hope of getting rid of the institution
stimulates them to do what is right,
whilst they are not discouraged by
the idea that there is no hope Of an
end to what they regard as q sort of
military government. If, on the other
hand, the bureau was to be made q
permanent thing by legislation, which
on its face appears to be part of the
fixed law of the land, all the objec-
tions he had urged in his message,
applied in full force to it, and instead
of encouraging the South to loyalty,
you tend to drive them to despera-
ton, and make their hatred of the
Government invete-ate. He said, in
the course of the conversation, that
his whole heart was with the body of
true men who had carried the country
through the war, and he earnestly
desired to maintain cordial and per
feet understanding with them. This
sentiment and purpose he regarded
as entirely consistent with determined
opposition to the obstruction policy
of those extremists who, as he be-
lieved, would keep the country in
chaos till absolute ruin might come
upon us.
GOVERNOR VANCE STRICKEN WITH
PARALYSIS We are panied to learn
that Governor Vance, at his home
at Statesville, has been stricken with
paralysis on one side. We have not
heard particulars, and hope it is but
slight. -Raleigk Sentinel, 26M M.