Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-03-20
From the Baltimore American.
THE POLICY ow THE PRESIDENT,

The policy of President johnson. as indi.
Gated by his veto message, his speech ut the
Executive Mansion, and his almost daily ut
terances to committees who wait upon him,
we regard as disastrous and fatal to the in
terests oil the south, and as calculated in the
END to give strength to those who are its
most bitter opponents Had he made an ef-
tort TO temper the ultra views of those he
terms Radicals in Congress, and to have thus
shorn the extreme Radicals of their bitter
ness, the result would have been far more to
the immediate and ultimate advantage of the
rebelllous States than the open defiance he
has hurled against the representatives of the
people, who are of the people, and direct
from the people. Those who persistently
assert to him that the masses of the loyal
people of the loyal States do or will sustain
him in the policy he has adopted arc nog his
true friends, and they know that they are
deceiving him. They know that the demon
stratlons got up in Maryland, for instance.
have been composed mainly of those who
have done all in their power to defeat the
National arms-that the speakers were sur
rounded and appauded by men fresh from
the Rebel army-by those who participated
and encouraged the massacre of the Massa-
chusetts troops on the 10Th of April, and by
those who poisoned the air with their reioic-
lngs when the news OF the first defeat of the
loyal troops at Bull Run was received in
Baltimore. They have been mostly assem-
blages of men disfranchised for disloyalty:
blockade-runners; Rebel mail carriers: men
who sent list of loyal Baltimore shipowners
to the commanders of the pirates Alabama
and Shenandoah, that they might know how
to discriminate in the work of destruction:
and those who hooted and insulted with
iibes and jeers the troops passing through
our city to join the Union army True,
there were few then present who have
| claimed to be loyal during the war, but they
were mostly of that doubtful loyalty which
led them to denounce almost every measure
adopted by President Lincoln for the sun.
preston of the rebellion. OF the names
| signed to the call of the meeting, several of
the most prominent have assured us that they
were used without their consent, and others.
| that they were given in the hope that ii
would have tendency to conciliation and
compromise between the extreme views of
the President and Congress-
| There is, we repeat, but little doubt that
the course of President johnson will do more
to retard the reorganization of tile South
than all that could have been done by the
most radical of the Radicals. 1t will con
centrate the South in support of tho Presi-
dent and his policy, and equally consolidate
the North and the great West in opposition
| to the South, and in the support of Congress
1t will make loyal Conservatives bitter Radi
Gals, and there will probably be no Southern
Representatives in Congress until after the
close of the next Presidential election, which
will be decided on this great issue-a united
| North against united South. The loyal
men of Maryland were disposed to moder
ate course between the two extremes. They
have no bitterness of feeling against the peo-
pie of the Southern States. There is no
loyal man in Maryland who would not wit.
ness with unspeakable joy returning love
OF the Union on the part of those who have
been engaged in the rebellion. But il does
not exist, and it is folly on the part of any
one to assert that it does Those in our own
State who have merely sympathized with the
rebellion would today consider it an insult
lutions they adopt approving of the presi.
dents policy carefully exclude all express
sions OF loyal sentiment, and it is with dim
Guilty that they are constrained from Missing
any temporieing Unionist who tells them oi