The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-16


to efer you the support Of their arms l name Le-
febvre my lieutenant. will faithfully discharge the
duty you have entrusted TO ne Let none seek in the
past examples 10 regulate the present Nothing in
history has any resemblance to the close Of the
tury resembles this moment. We are rosolysS to
have a republics we are resolved to have II founded
on true liberty and representative system. stoear
it In my own name and IN that of my companions In
arms" From the mOment in which he uttered that
hollow oath TILL that Of his downfall the story Of
msnt. The perjury freightsd breath of him Who
swore to protect the Republic had killed il. The
power which enabled Bonaparto to destroy the Re-
public he thus swore 70 protect was dissmulaton;
the essential agency was the success with which he
impressed The chiefs of the different parties with tho
belief that he was controlled by the ideas in which
they had faith.
from history or his own experience, Andrew John
son has learned that disslmulaton alone will enable
HIM TO execute his purposes. To have appealed to
the persuasive power Of patronage Immediately upon
assuming Office would have awakened suspicion, and
he is too experienced and crafty politician for that
He knew that the allies of tho Rebels In hope
less minority in the North and that to restore the
North-he must secure measure Of popular conf.
dence before he disclosed his purpose even to tho
poU,T'is. II was by protesting fidelity to the repub-
lies OF 1898 and 1s4s that the Bonapares we're able to
overthrow them. And his purpose IL to put this
country into the hands Of the imPenitent Rebels Of
till he shall have divided its counses and wrought ITS
overthrow. In April last, while the loyal heart Of
nounce the radicals ofinsist upon it that we must
repose confidence in somebody, and oughtto trust
inc people OF tue SOuth.' 10 q QeleRaUon oil loyal
boutherners he then sald-
But II asked what should be done with the assassin,
what should be the penalty.the forfeit eTac!ea-I
he shoud pay the forfeit with his life. And hence we
Ss are times Tnen and S
where started from, and again repeat that II time
not mere pOttfS 70 c 6Os NOR contest be-
for if they had succeeded the life OF the nation would
tCyeG Se4 surely % The NH suceny
consists % dp in sYyng war against ain TT the United
With this definition It sTST5es t the sxrf:e Of
have levied war against the United States; nor
to ascertain Who has given to fi the enemies Of the
States does ascertain who are the conscious and inte
gent traitors the penalty and the forfeit should be pad
MERCY WITHOUT JUSTICE.
If mercy without justice be crime who shall alb
solve Andrew johnson from the consequences of his
great ransgressionP Has he the acumen to discover
who have been traitOrsP And is not that mercy
without justice which, IN violation Of the express
provisions of law, has restored to bloody-handed
TRAITORS immense landed estates. the titles TO which
we've absolutely vested in the United States, and,
therefore, beyond his lawful controlY Tested by his
own standards, you may be disposed to ask wherein
his guilt differs from that of the stern statesman"
south is for vet little while restrained by the strong
walls of Fortress Monroe? But let not hasten to
conclusions The subdued tones Of his voice and the
broad generallties In which he cloaks his designs,
still deceive some patriotic people. They have not
sounded the shoals and depths OF nature like his
Let me, rapidly as can, for your patience must
weary, illustrate his methods for overthrowing the
party that maintained the war and conquered his
rebellious section.
JoHNsoN's IDEA OF LOYALTY"
Bold as partial success has made him, he still, In
his pubic addresses, speaks of loyalty, and in his
celebrated interview with the representatives OF the
oScuTrea the day after he Exhibited himself in such
painful contrast with the representatives of the
'lnferior race" whom he had honored with an
into ha fhQf bIfln
be admitted to the councils OF the nation 1t is,
however, fortunate for the country that he less
retcent than Bonaparte, or not so excellent
reader of the hearts of men, tnat our more popu-
lar government constrains more frequent expires.
Sa G 1GT us 10
and the popular phrases by which he hopes to
delude and divide the people OF tine North.
Having at that time talth in his integrity, ana
being anxious to lend him any aid could IN tho
execution of the high duties confded to him, once
filled the role filled by Major George l.. Sterns,
ana more recently by Governor Cox of Ohio 1t
had been my privilege TO pass an hour IN close and
friendly intercourse with him in the ante-room to
the Executiye Chamber in the early part of April
last on the occasion of the last call was permitted
to make on Abraham Lincoln.
HE PROGRESSES TO AGREE WITH SUMNER.
During that interview he referred very kindly to
my speech in favor of universal suffrage. and re-
quested another copy, saying he had misaid the
one he had read with so much pleasure, and wished
1t that he might refer to some of the authorities
cited When next saw him he was President of
the United States, but had not taken up hH abode in
the Executive manson. Having arrived IN w Wasn-
ington in the evening, DELAYED my call upon him
till the next morning, and having heard that Sena-
tor Sumner had had protracted interview with him
that DAY, with General Can't OF Arkansas went
to his room, where 1 found General Carl Schurz,
fresh from North Carolina, and the surren-
der OF Johnstons army. He had as you
remember, commanded division OF the con-
queriDg army in IT'S wonderful march through
the enemy's country, ana was ~. sun a 9n
the President and he had discussed, and we parted
with mutual congratulations that the Presidential
Office was IN the hands OF one who abhorreQ trea-
son, was determined TO punish traitors, and wac,
being familiar with the Ignorance and degradation
OF the poor WHITES Of the South, knew how grie-
vously they had been msled and was therefore capa
Bile of pardonmg them. we were gratlied TO be
cessity of awaiting ourselves in the res rganlZation
of the South, of the political power OF the loyal
people of that section without regard to lineage or
past prejudices had avalled ourselves OF their
military power IN the extreme exigency OF the
country.
JUDGE KELLEY's INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT.
Accompanied by General CAN'T 1 waited upon
President Johnson the next morEng at ms residence
in the MANSION OF the Hon. samuei hooper, OF
Massachusetts, Our interview was satisfactory, bat
chiefly so in thls:-Ihat the point on which the
President ost clear was, that there must be no
haste in the work oil reconstruction; that time was
ablest ally that these people having OYertnroWn
their government must be permitted TO teel the want
OF government ana 10 suffer from It's want tnat they
might be brought to comprehend ths true Iounda'
lions OF Just government 1t was IN ms judgement
lor the question OF the ossiby OF called session
OF Congress was incidentally touched on-fortunate
that CongIess did not meet at earlier day for III
the interIu would De able 10 ascertain the true
spInt OF the people OF the Sonth; they would dis
cover and appreciate the just emapds OF those who
had maintained the Government, and we would all
be better able to judge how 1ar the newly emanci-
paied cItizens could be trusted with political power.
| The point specially pressed by General CAN'T was
| the agency through which argument persuasion
and information cOuld be presented by the people OF
the rebelhous district The heresies which haa pro-
| In Raha flug In 4.