The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-03-30
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

The committee of gentlemen from New
Jersey, consisting of Messrs. Wright, Rogers,
Cleaveland, Ogden, and others who called on
the President the other day, took occasion to
congratulate him upon the glorious example
afforded by his patriotic rejection of unconsti-
tutional powers, and his efficient resistance to
the "centralizing despotism" of the radicals.
His Excellency seems to have accepted these
compliments with great satisfaction, compla-
Gently pointing, as usual, to his "public acts
in proof of his great merits. In view of the
fact that Mr.. johnson is persistently using the
powers accidentally devolved upon him for the
purpose of thwarting the will of the people
whose choice he was not by multiplying the ac-
ton of their representatives, we think this
pretense of self-denial in the use of arbitrary
power almost too broad farce.
D-"A war of races" is the bugbear which
seems most to alarm the President, and the
method by which he proposes to obviate this
danger is to deliver the one race, bound hand
and foot, into the power of the other. Of course
if all power of selfdefence be taken away from
the colored man he must needs SUBMIT no mat
ter to what extent he may be oppressed, but in
that case we can have no war of races The
wolves will keep the sheep in order. We shall
have peace i.s.aaa5i' ~ ,t,sii
In Quebec they are SO afraid of the Fen
ians that the gates of the lower town are regu-
larly closed every night at certain hour, and
after that no person can enter. Any one in the
suburbs requiring a physician can only get
him by sending message to the gate, where
other messengers are stationed to be in readi-
nese to attend to demands of this kind
EvThe Alexandria (Va.) Journal says that
on "the night of the 18th instant the building
in which Miss Wood teaches school for
freedmen in Warrenton was stoned, the win
dows knocked out, stones hurled in among the
scholars, and considerable damage done to the
has been authorized by the council to offer a re-
ward for the apprehension Of the guilty par
ties.'
Ey- The London Star has this squib
CAMBRIDGE AND HARVARD.
When Cambridge Dons, with Tory air,
Their scorn of Thompson s boon declare,
The world will read their answer thus
"Shall big U. s. teach little usS"
Gg" An English astronomer, Mr.. Geo. F.
Burder of Clifton, writes that spot or rather
cluster of spots, of very unusual size, may now
be seen on the suns disk. 1t is so large as to
be conspicuously visible to the naked eye when
the sun is looked at through colored or smoky
glass, OF through fog of suitable density.
E1John G. Cook, Esq, of Lewiston, has
just returned from trip to Washington and
the South, and reports substantially the same
observations as others who have recently been
in that section. The Journal says he visited
Washington, Richmond, Petersburg, Whining
ton, Newberne, Charleston &c., and conversed
freely with the people. They say they are
whipped, but believed they were right in seced-
ing, and only wish they had succeeded in their
attempt. A South Carolina legislator told him
that if he were to go abroad he should hail not
from the United States but from South Caro-
lima. The policy of President johnson encour-
ages them in their passion for political indepen-
dence. Mr.. Cook states that the Freedmen's
Bureau has been of incalculable benefit in dis
abusing the minds of the negroes of false inn
pressions and in securing justice to some ex-
tent, from the planters. He thinks the South
will continue to be benefited by .judicious
sprinkling of U. s. troops at convenient points.
The railroads of the South are in poor order,
especially the rolling stock. Passengers are
mostly Northern men. The Southerners are
rather dilapidated in appearance, sporting,
however, generally avenerable pair of kids.