The Portland daily press., 1866-04-24
VARIETIES.

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The hardest blow President Johnson's
reconstruction policy has received from abroad
has been in the admiring Endorsement ofCharles
Mackay, who served the rebel interest here to
the extent Of his power during the war as
American correspondent of the London Times.
He says that "the reconstruction of the Union
on Mr., Johnson's plan, and the consequent res
toration to full validity of the old Constitution
slavery excepted-would infallibly place the
| conservatives IN power, and hand over the gov
epnment to party in which the statesmen of
the South acOusd predominant an the future, as
| they predominated in the past. " Mackay's
opinion was never worth much, but the SYM
pathies of such creatures are significant. bias
By An English paper observes IF some
of the speeches of our statesmen do not reach
down to posterity it will not be because they
are, not long enough" The same remark is
applicable here. .,s 80 s4.,,s.4. i.-5.. -.iaiif
EB- The Bangor Times has read tho speech
of the President to the soldiers and saJRyS ana
we were inclined to think the speech quite as
strong in that as in logic or good TASTE
EH Employers who have workmen infected
with the eight-hour disorder, will find it a good
method to hire by the hour, on the express
| condition that there shall be no ioverwork. In
less than week the patients will be GONZALES
| cent. als l5isiw % lilruHa 1Ei.os iefl...-
E- Here is a specimen of the "perilous
stuff" which the New York Meas is uttering
daily We quote from it's Texas correspon-
dence "The President cannot save the coun-
try by his democratic ideas, or appeals to the
| wis nd v;r of fha TI,o4
| has already been made, and the people have
decided against repubicanism.I The only
thing now lett for the President to do to save
the country, is to imprison the Congress and all
acho oppose hispolicy, and awe into tranquility
their restless and revolutionary spirits which
infest the country and disturb its peace and
harmony" -o' 'i q" l'
BB Mr.. Ira Aldridge, the negro tragedian,
who has just completed successful tour
through Russia, is soon to make his appear
ance in OtheHo, Hamlet, and round of other
Shakespearean characters, at the French thea
tire in Constantinople, where he will himself
deliver his part in English, and be played up
to in French by the local company. ioa.i u
.BB- Quilp, Of the Boston Post, suggests that
the celebration of the passage of the civil
rights bill should be called the Yankee feast of
the passover, ~ ~ -
I EB Mr.. Louis Bulewsk has arrived in this
country from Europe as delegate from the
European Republican Committee, on the err
rand of interesting the friends Of liberty here
in what doing in the old world, especially on
the continent Of Europe, for iberalizing the
present governments. M. Bulewski has visited
Washington and conferred with the leading
members of Congresson the subject of carry
ing his purpose into effect The principal OBJ
ject of the movement is to encourage the
efforts Of those who desire to see the European
governments administered with a greater re-,
gard to individual liberty by bringing to their
aid the power of public opinion on this side of
the Atlantic. s1@s ,sesASssAt nole34