Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-04
Conspicuous lncOn>istency--Or
Something Worse.

Gov. BruwDi5w f Tennessee, in recert
spec distinctly declared, on The authority Of
Gu. Fi-ke of the Freedmeu's Bureau, that the
Fr--dnens bureau pIli which President hn-
son vst,-d, submit red 10 the President be-
fire ID vas IN reduced into Congress, ia pro-
WHOM, tuiis sppr we'd by him, ana its necessity
ackuos -lSed; and the President said, if il
pa-s-o he III, uld ign It, Toe same statement
sub tanl4I.y mas BE-, n mad frequently during
ire tat IND X, On the authority of Geo.
II ward, en- F *, Senator Trumoull, ard
others. Thus the stat. mrnt has received
no authoritative denial. An additional item OF
evidence i the bet m4de ~ Speaker CoIf,x, of
a box Of cigars, that the President would sign
the bureau Bul Mr.. Cof.x paid the BIT, en-
d1rsing on the box of cigars, From victim
of~1s2laced confid, nee"
Th- CT cl1sion from th abo,e circumstance
that President J jhnson, for some unexp4ined
Feaspn, cl.ng-d his Nil d and after having once
approved the ,Iil, afLerward vetoed il, mas
Il NATION ia the f CT, that since his veto of The
Civil X ghts bill, 1t has been asserted that he
at one line favored that also. This report the
Thus his silence on the former chsrge-espe-
ciA ly in view OF the violence OF his feelings and
reseurmenl-, AID his readiness to volunteer
Wind OF himself on all occasions-becomes
the high 81 evidence OF It's truth and amounts
3 confession Of rs correctness.
It. caanJt, OF curse. De expec ed that man
who r4nnot r-main of one mind lore than three
We Ks, viii hold the view, which
he eDi.r aintd l-.r ) ,mmt ', yet may not be
upla-lruc. vr To iI.tn Expose the terglversa-
tIU- OF TIL AnGrrw Johnson aud " his policy"
since l4s' ) prng- lis pan OF rec)n>rruc ion 10
lie origin from being uno'J C -onabIe,
it tanned the seeds from VII en- al TIE present
evils attending reconstruction have grown. A
wise, Il NJ and -te4df4st friend of freedom like
Ps->ld-n Line ,ln-whose good nature led him
10 b. merctui IN bis judgment of traitors, but
never il dI-nced him TO desert the poor and
helpless Tsce whom be had brought into the
light of liberty won have kept this plan of
r+c1n-truc continually under control, and
Wound b We intiuua.ly modified il in favor of
the q11aIy of all m-p at the South. President
J Unison mas, however, developed all the evil
there in this policy of reconstruction, anG
repressed all the good, uni. he has m, de it, in
its se-ulJ-, N ST unsatlsfsc-nry and mschIevous.
He h4s med to do this with a wtul perver-
shy. A. TIE outset did not claim or pretend
that his policy amounted TO anything than
al offer 10 the South of an opportunity of re-
orr NJ their state govertm -nrs. that reor
z Ion to be SUBJ TO the express approval
OF e. gress. In July last the President, through
Mir. seward, sent the following telegram to
Provisional q .veraor Shaikey:
WASHINGTON July "a, 1863
w. L. SHARKLY. Provisional Governor OF Miss
i>>IppI:
Y tell gram Of the 2Ist has been received
Tn- President no son to Interfere with
General 81 Gums pr. ceedIngs. The Govern
ment OF the state will be provisional only until
II civil aur horIti-s shall be restored WITH TIE
APPROVAL OF CONGRESS. Meanwhile military
authority mot be vi hdrawn.
MILAN H. SEWARD
Two months liter, Provisional Governor Mar
win of Fl1rijs communicated TO the President
cop, OF his proclamation to the people OF that
Stare- The last clause 10 thai procla alton
reads as follows:
Upon III establishment of a republican form
OF Stale g-v-rnnsnt, under a COM tiruion
which "a 4rant-es and secures ib-rry all The
inn=DuAnts alIkr, with Ut dsiInc ion of coltr,
there will no longer kit any impeachment in the
Wy OF fest irIng the ate to IT. proper nsli-
tuuoDa' relations TO the Guve5nment of the
ULUed aIes, Whereby il. re- pie vii be en-
titled 10 prot. o,Ion BY the Unued States against
invasion, Insurf, ctlUn and nestle Violence
Upon the receipt Of copy of this pre- cIama-
ti'p, the President Caused, under date Of Sept
u. 1915. message 10 be sent to Gov Marvin
by the Secretary of State, in the following terms:
DEPARTMENT CT STATE.
Washing to-, Sept ~, 1865 {
SIR: Your Exc-llencs's letter of tbe 29tn
uIt., with the acc .mp4nyIDg proclamation, has
been received and submits. d 10 the Presiden..
The steps 10 which il refers &c ward reorganizing
the Government of Florida seem 10 be, 10 the
main, ludicious, and good results from the m
my b- hoped for. The presumption to which
the proclamation refers, however. in favor OF
insurgents who may wish TO vote, and who may
have applied tor, but rot received, their par
dons i, not entirely approved. All Implications
tor pardon will be duly considered, and will be
dispoeed Of soon may h. practice bic IT
MUST, B,.wEvER, BE DISTINCTLY UNDERSTOOD
That THE RESTORATION To WHICH YDUR PROC
LAAATIoN REFERS aill be SUBJECT To THE DE-
CIsIt.N Up tCNGREsS
have the honor TO be your Exceilency's
obeoi-nt servant, WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
HE ExcelIer CIV WILLIAM MARVIN, Provisional
Governor OF the Safe of Florida"
The policy President Johnson as disclosed
by these dispatches, SO late the middle of
Septemo-r, distinctly admitted that southern
stare governments, aud southern restor ration
were 40 De srsj CT TO the decision and approval
OF Congress. A. hat time, if he bad neter mined,
be had Lot asowed. the purpose, to usurp all au-
:horiry over the su j ct. TO the entire exclusion
of the immediate representatives OF tne people.
Bad as his plan then was in It's details, it was
then saved from sweeping condemnation, by
its reservation o. tpe right of Congress to pass
upon The vnoIs sotj CT matter. The scheme
OF controlling the government. by union of the
d. MT cratic party Of the North with the recon-
.rucssd rebels of the South, under the lead OF