The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-19

for months past had the public mind
open 70 them, and had poured into it
whatever they pleased. Now it had
become incrusted, as it were; but
once let that incrustation be broken
through, and the truth would begin
to find its way. 81 am not discou-
ragged" added the President; ''cither
these States must be brought back or
they must be kept out It IS like
doing a sum in addition some sums
want figuring up more than others
before you can get the answer. but l
believe it will all come out right in
the end"
Mr.. johnson then enlarged with
considerable detail upon the opera
tions of the Freedmen's Bureau, and
said its machinery was now being
used to get negroes conveyed from
the North back to the South by the
very men who were asserting that the
lives Of the freedmen were not safe
i'll the South. They had hired or
bought lands, they wanted labor, and
they got their negroes transported at
the expense of the Government. The
Freedmcn's Bureau compelled the
negroes to go, or they stopped their
subsistence allowance 1t was little
| better than another form of slavery,
only that it was solely conducted by
the Abolitionists; for the Freedmen 5
Bureau would not assist Southern
man i'll getting negroes from the
North, where many thousands of
them have taken refuge during the
war. A gentleman from EauQuicr
County, Virginia, had been to him,
the President said, only Il few days
ago, saying that he had sent 800 ne
grocs to the District (of Columbia
for security during the war He now
wished to hire them, but the Freed
mems Bureau interposcd obstacles,
AND would give him no help in trans
porting them; whereas the Govern
mrnt railroads were placed at the
service of other spectators. In all
that he said. ii was evident that the
President approved some plan for
protecting tn" negro and giving him
succor; hut that he considered the
administration of the Freedmen 5
Bureau was not all that could be de-
object for which it was founded
Passing this subject, the President
said that the radical party in Con
Sress talked to the people rs if they
had to fear some act of oppression or
tie part Of the Executive. because
the civil rights bill had been vetoed.
But the veto power" he said.
'|coull never be made IN engine ot
} oppression. 1t has only a negative
, force it originates nothing. 1t can
: only say, when it sees unwisc or un-
constitutional legislation attempted,
J Now, stop: consider this thing {;
"A little further: pass til" bill. if yor
~ will. by your constitutional two thirds
majority: but think it we'll to give
you an opportunity to think over il
, again They have passed the civi
rights bill, and it viii not be long be
fore Il Judge is arrested for carrying
| out the laws of his State Then tn,
} case Will hc brought to The Supreme
+ Cour; and the people viii soon Sc,
which was right --CongreSS insisting
, upon having it. or III endcavorln4
, to diss,ladc them from it. Here
l again. the President distinguished
t between the principle on which th,
l bill is professcdlv based and the bill
| itself The former he was anxious t,
see carried ont. but the means pro
posed he considered ubjectionabl,
and hazardous.
c Congress, the President fnrthe
: }Sail. represents the States, but tn
t men who voted for them inuividualI,
all voted in my election. | am like tn
. Trihnnes elected 10y the Roman pco
G pie ann to stand and represent thci
T interests And what other object
+ can | have but to represent those in
4 forests the interests OF my country
n have no party objects to serve N
$ selfish interests TO promote. II
V We're Il man of ambition, do no
o know what | could desire more 1ha
d | have gained. have gone the Who'll
II gil,lv round. from alderman upward
IS and do not value this office ihcr
: the President spoke with great cal
:. ncStncss and feeling except for tn
II good which 1t may enable me to do
h live in, and do not care a bawhc,
r rs The Scotch say. for all the rest l.,
e me bat see the country at harmon
t, and peace, and how GLADLY would
d give mp all. | suppose ! may 81
n that | have dome enough to sAtiSi
! any reasonable amhitiun, and fr
re- that my race is we'll lniGh run. The;