The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-06


that he could be induced to remain with
the Union party. Long after more
earnest men had given up hope, Mr..
sherman clung to him, but he at last
was compelled to confess that the Presi-
dent had betrayed the cause which
made him President. In a recent
speech at Cincinnati, Senator Sherman
had this to say of the perfidy Of An
drew johnson:
DECEPTION OF THE PRESIDENT.
am about to state one or two facts.
70 snow you how much was misled,
Judge Trumbull, Chairman Of the
Judiciary Comnittee, who framed this
oll!-and the committee was composed
OF the ablest and best lawyers Of this
country, among them Judge Harris, of
New York, and Judge Trimbun, hiTn-
self man of great ability-reported.
almost without objection, the bill. Be.
fore the bill passed the Senate, Judge
Trimbull took 1t to the President of the
United States, and showed 1t to him /:
talked with him about its provisions.
and he has recorded his testimony of
what occurred in the interview. He
pronounced 1t in a speech in the Senate,
saying that the President had approved
and sanctioned that bill before il was
presented to the Senate. = ; =
After the difficulty about the Freed
mems Bureau bill, after the Civil Rights
Dill had passed, / went to President
johnson myself, under peculiar cir
cumstances. IhRd been invited by the
Union men OF Connecticut to. make a
speecnln their approaching canvass. re
was circulating all over the country
that Mr.. johnson was. about to prove
false to his party, and false to his coun-
try; and that he was about to use the
vast patronage of his position to iniure
the party that placed him in power. I
thought would ask him ifthere was to
be such a conflict as that. He received
me kindly, aud we talked over the
whole matter two or three hours. will
not undertake tosay precisely what was
said by the President, or by myself, in
this conversation; but I say to YOU, on
my honor, that he left the Impression
on my mind, as clear and strong as
your faces now appear before me, that
he would approve the Civil Rights bill,
and sign it. And|further, that if any
controversy sprung up between, him
and the Congress, he never would ap-
peal to the rebels and Copperheads to
| come between us. [Cheers.l He ex-
pressed his desire that should go to
Connecticut, and went in the full
faith that there would be no further
controversy between the President and
ourselves.
The only stipulation that the Presi-
dent spoke of was this: He said he
wanted the Radicals, as he called
them, to abandon, negro suffrage and
the doctrine of State suicide. If these
were given up by that portion of the
Union party, he would Cooperate and
act with that party. he said he expect
ed to approve the Constitutional
Amendment to be reported by the Joint
Committee. That was the position of
Andrew johnson then.
went to Connecticut. And what was
my surprise and modification when
returned, n few days afterward, to re-
ceive from the same President his veto
against the Civil Rights Bill, and to
learn that before and at the time he
held this conversation with me, he was
cooperating and combining with the
Copperheads In the State of Connecti-
cut for the defeat of the Union candi-
date.
NULLIF1CAT1oN OF THE PRESIDENT.
The Civil Rights bill was vetoed, but
even then we did not give 1t up. john
son said he did not believe Congress had
the right to pass such bill. We have
waived that, or rather we passed it
over his head. What was the result 2
The Civil Rights bill is now dead
letter. The President of theIUpited
States refuses to enforce it. The Con-
stitution of the United States declares
the law making power shall rest with
Congress; that we shall submit our
bills to the President, and If he disap-
proves them he shall return them to
Congress, a vote shall be Immediately
taken, and If they pass by a two-thirds
majority they become law of the land.
He now refuses to enforce this law of
the land, and what is to be done.
a Avo1ce-1mpeach him. (Cheers.)
what Is the result2 The white loyal
people of the Southern States are fleeing
northward. Thewhole rebel States are
In the hands of rebels. The attitude of
acqutescence which the Southern peo-
pie assumed after they were conc uered
in arms has been entirely laid aside,
ana the position OF conquerors is as.
snmeu by them. They are opposing
the blacks In every form; and the law
which your Congress, by two-thiris
vote, passed to protect these loyal peo-
pie, is regarded as a dead letter, and is
proclaimed by President johnson as
null and void. That is the condition in
which affairs have been left by this un-
happy dtthculty. But let that pass.
Even this,is not SO bad as something
else have to say about President johns
son. - I. 4
II Mr.. johnson had co-operated with
Congress in the settlement Of these
questions by the constitutional amend.
menu. we Wonld not have cared for the
Ereedments Bureau bill or the Civil
Rights bill, for the constitutional
amendment would have Secured these
objects. His chief objection to the Civil
flights bill was that we had not power
10 pass 1t. We took him at his word,
ana proposed to appeal to the people OF
the United States TO give Congress pow
er TO pass 1t. (Cheers,) We did say SO.
and adopted the constitutional amend
ment, reported by the COMMITTEES of
heconstructton, as modified by the
Senate. And say 10 you that q more
liberal, conservative plan, in the trne
sense OF that word, was never submit
ted to conquered people in the world.
(Applapse.) stTs-
Massey, in the Toledo Blade. snvgest-
ed the following order of procession for
the johnson reception:
The procession should form In the
following order, each section carving a
banner appropriately inscribed and
singing hymns sweetly as is here set
j, Federal ofHce-holders in a small
carriage. +1S- S---'
BANNER.
THE serpent tempted me, and did
HYMN,
sThis is the way we long have snu0lt
AMI mourned because we found n moi
2. Those that wanted the Offices and
didn't get. them, In broken down lhacIEs
drawn by lame mules clothed in mourrl-
ing. = - - -
every man has his price-would that
we could get ours.n