Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-14
THE PRESIDENT JUSTIFYING THE
CONFIDENCE OF ALI TRUE UNION

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THE PRESIDENT JUSTIEYING THE |
CONFIDENCE OF ALI TRUE UNION |
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In our last issue we took occasion to show
that the President has done nothing to really |
Justify the hopes or expectations Of the dis |
loyal that he was ready to form a coalition
with them; and we Illustrated this position by
quoting the views of the journals VIGOROUSLY
in utilization with treason during the wharf.-the
New York World and NelcS;-we showed con-
clusively that this view of the case is the true
one. Whilst his clemency, his desire for actual
peace may have fostered premature and undue
hopes in the hearts of the less discerning of
the old Buchanan Democracy, the leaders
have had occasion to know, and do know, that
the dead set made upon him as a hoped for
ally has been an entire failure; that although
certain of the radical leaders of the Republi.
can party might, for partzan purposes, seek to
make final rupture with him, that he could
not be read out of the Republican organiza-
ton by the dictum of men who sought to
monopolize all political power for themselves
We have taken the ground, further-that,
notwithstanding the Presidents veto of the
"Freedman's Bill yet that he is, after all,
the most judicious and reliable friend the
freedman has; that by nothing he has yet
done, or proposed to do, has he neglected the
defence of the freedman rights and interests,
since by virtue of his high office he already
has the means at command as chief of the
army and navy, to protect the freedman when
ever he needs protection; that besides this, he
has the will to do it, as is proved all along by
his acts. Remembering that whatever has
been charged upon him as puIpoSca readiness
to betray the cause of which early in the con
hict and at all times he has proved himself
one of the very foremost champions, that he
has not been guilty, after all, of any grave
neglect of duty in the premises-and should
not those so very swift to accuse him. consider
whether the people will sanction their reckless
and wholesale charges rejecting upon him as
the leader of the Union party?
Again we had the charge hurriedly and
recklessly made-that he had deliberately mis-
led and betrayed General Howard in his deal
ings with the Freedmen's Bill; and when
General II. deems it his duty to formally con-
tradict such charge, is there not room for
much distrust of the charges so hastily made
against him dditional-as to his conduct in
regard to the preliminary action on the Civil
Rights bill? We cannot expect heated par
tizans, men disappointed of places, perhaps,
under the contemplated enlargement of the
Freedman's Bureau, to be altogether disposed
to do the President justice; but now we pro-
pose to quote from the Washington CORES
pondence of one of the best and truest Repub-
hcan papers in the Countrywide Boston DaiIy
Administrations which should 60 far to I'M
deceive those who have so hastily Jumped to
the conclusion-that the President can no
longer be relied upon as the leader of the
Union party. We quote:
THE President has in a conversation with General
Howard respecting the Freedmens' Bureau, said
something of Importance by way of Interpretation Of
his recent peace proclamation. He says it has only
such scope with reference to the States named therein
his former proclamation had with reference to Ten
nessee. lie regards 1t as only another step in the
policy of reconstruction being pursued by the gov
eminent. 1t does not suspend the operation of mill
tary law in any of the States, aud the Freedmcn's
Bureau will continue to exercise its accustomed
remain on duty as its agents and justice will con-
tinue to be administered between the freedmen and
the whites by the existing sem-mitary courts till
the States give the former the right to be heard in
the civil courts in the manner that the latter
1.-The President referred to the fact that military
power was exercised in Tennessee as well as else
where in the South, and spoke particularly of Gen
Fisks administration of the affairs of the Bureau in
that State. He would remain there and the procIa-
nation would not curtail his powers nor the bowers
of any other agent of the Bureau. The rebels or
Kentucky the President regarded as of worse sprt
than the people of any other State General Fisk
had not been too severe with them. and the freedmen
of that State as well those of Maryland wouid
still be protected by the military The scope of tbe
proclamation with respect to military trials bv
courts martial or commissions, does not seen well
understood even by officers high in authority here
and elsewhere. The Department Commanders of
Georgia and Alabama have teesraphed for informa-
ton on the subject. and it is understood that the
matter was brought before the Cabinet to-day What
action was taken is not known, but there are good
reasons for believing that the War Department will
soon issue circular general order of instructions
Now we ask-in view of statement like
this from responsible source, whether it is
not time for the Hotspurs of the Radical wing
to hold up little in their headlong endeavor
TO break up that great party which has saved
the Union, and might yet be the agency of
untold good to the nation, could it be guided
by sound discretion? Plain-as we have shown
the case to be-that the President does not
intend to be the one to destroy its organiza-
ton or compromise its usefulness, is not the
burden upon those who have been too vindic
tive and hasty in their condemnation of the
President, to re-adjust matters for the common
good. Shall it be permitted to men like the
irrascibe member from Pennsylvania and his
few followers, to read the President ont Of
the Union party; when if the people stand by
him-despite the politicians-they might about
as well attempt to read out the entire defend
ers of the nationality? He had fought for the
Union cause and made his mark-made him
self illustrious as its champion on the floor of
the Senate-when none other scarcely had his
nerve to do it; and now are we to question his
patriotism, must we stand by in silence and
see him denounced because after buffetinp the
storms of war in the very front, for years. he
desires peace? The politicians of to-day NAV
not do him justice; but there is the assurance
that history will; and that as the judicious and
firm statesman, the true restorer of the Union
so far as his high Office permits, he will merit
and receive the gratitude of posterity.
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