Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-09-07

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amendment (abolishing Slavery by South
Carolina as indispensable to the restoration OF
Union"
II. unat becomes Of your new tangled doctrine
mat no conditions can be imposed? All
through the time when they we're occupied in
nut reorganization upon his provisional plan,
ne was imposing aud insisting upon conditions
preliminary to restoration in all these States
again soy 1t is not true that the President
" mat time arrogated to himself the solo right
y. Juuging, to the exclusion Of Congress, what
should be the form and plan or basis on which
the States might return to their full relation.
~. refer again to the record. On the 9th Of
July 1876 be wrote TO Gov. Sharkey, Provisional
governor OF Mississippi, saying; "The govern
ihehl Of the State shall be provisional only till
tne state Goverment il organized. The basis
oi that organization shall be subject to the de-
cision OF Congress. He he'd not yet become
inculoated In this new doctrine.
ln July last while g7ing on with this organ
izatlon' ne writes Provisional Governor Sharkey
mat me provisional Government which be has
es,aoilsheu must continue until the matter is
submitted for the decision of Congress.
Now call Andrew johnson to the witness
stand 10 oppose Johnson's present position.
iou Will remember that called in August and
octoDer last upon Johnson at Washington. and
held conversation with him in regard 10 his
intention repeated this conversation n year
ago to the people represented, and afterwards
to him what had said and he observed to me
IN our last interview that had neither misun-
derstood nor misrepresented him. He told me
III august, and repeated ii in October at was
matter OF record that his course in regard to
'hese states was intended to be merely expert
mental, TO see whether they would develop into
sufficient nf If,,A h.,
to their former place in the Union, and that
nothing Was further from his thoughts than to
Withdraw the matter from the action of Con-
gress."
With this was satisfied. | came home to
you, and all through that canvass and all
through last Winter, aud up to last Spring, and
although my dstrust of him-because Of his
conuuct and his association with Rebels aud
Copperheads--was excited, hoped against hope,
ana dld not give him up until the mask was
thrown oil. Now the mask is off, and be goes
over to confederate with Rebels and Copperheads
70 make up new Copperhead johnson party
Still he pretends 10 occupy tue same ground
which he took ut first. lie took the ground,
repeat, that these States had lost all civil gov
ernment, and could not be restored except upon
proper conditions and that whatever those
conditions were the whole basis of arrans cement
must be submitted to the decision of Congress
before it could be binding.
One OF the conditions reluctantly, growingly,
grumblingy they have been compelled to comply
with--that is the adoption OF the anti-Slavery
amendment to the Constitution Last Fall these
Democrats, now so well satisfied, and ready with
the rest of the Rebels to accept the situation,
were making war upon that amendment Now
they admit it TO be right. Although they say
we had no right to impose condition, they are
willing that conditions which have been COM
piled with shall rest. If other conditions had
been insisted upon, and il Congress had been
consulted, and proposed them at that time,
they would have been adoptcd | doubt not,
Immediately after the Rebellion as we'll as the
anti-Slayery amendment. Unfortunately, how
ever, there has been change. We have been
disappointed. We have not been sustained
Controversy has arisen with regard to the two
polices-that of the President and that of Con-
gress
Immediately after the war the Rebels were
humbled, and with bated breath were ready to
ask, What can We get from the Government Of
the United States2 Now, instead of that
modest inquiry, the question with them seema
to be, as disclosed by stephens anl others, Whnt
shall we accept from the Government of the
United Statesl Aud. johnson and the Phiadel-
phia Convention, and those who sustain them
and "my policy" if they have their way,
will bring on condition of things which will
induce Rebels next to inquire, What shall we
allow the id Yankees to have? The truth is
they have conquered US, and not we them. Ste
phens, in proportion to his modesty and former
good conduct has become now think the worst
Of all Rebels. He says Georgia will accept of
no conditions, but claims what she does as right.
Still, no don't rropooO to maat theGo demands
with humbleness and submission on our part
We don't propose to forget that we whipped the
Rebels, and that they must submit VOICE
Yes. and We can do it again We will not have
occasion to do it again. IL the people will sus
tain Congress, and fight this battle at the pollt
this Fall, and send as strong majority there
as We have now, the Rebels will submit and ao
cept auy conditions they can get.