Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-08-10
JOHNSON REvIEwED BY A FRIEND.

The New York Evening Post which has lean
ed strongly toward Mr.. Johpson's policy of ad-
mifting Southern Congressman without any
other tests than the oath, and which is conser-
vative enough to aliay all suspicious of its Ian
guage being radical comments as follows on
! the Presidents connection with the New Or
leans massacre. We ask careful reading Of
the article: 'sHa"h eii .N,s''sE'f'7' \ :
In the first place.. according to Mr.. johnson s
| theory, Louisiana is state OF the Union; why.
then, does he interfere with the internal affairs
of Louisiana? A convention was to be held in
Louisiana; this convention was either legiti-
mate or an illegitimate body. In the first in
stance il had right to sit; in the second, it was
an Illegal body, whose acts would be void and
of no force, and whose members would be sub
iect TO arrest if at ALL under the State laws by
the State officers of Justice. As they number
ed only twenty six, their arrest whenever their
acts made them liable, could not have been
| difficult in the great State of Louisiana. We
! do not see on what plea the President had a
| right TO interfere or.wbat business he had to
issue any order in the matter ~. --faf.fsf4G
Next, we find this order addressed not TO the
Governor of the State but to de Atorney- Cen
crdi Why is this? Does the President super
sode the GovernOrf o1'' i.0t .Ja..
But, after all, it is not the Governor, or the
| Attorney General nor any State Officer, but a
| local city officer, the Mayor of New Orleans
| as il happens a fragrant and defiant rebel, who
seems to think that the Presidential pardon in
his pocket not only condones his crime, butjus7
titles tit is this person who takes the matter
| in hand Of arresting the convention. Under his
skillful management a considerable percentage
| of the members were assassinated before they
were arrested. nos. .5,if- reat ,LaL !
We can only say this order, appears to have
had as unfortunate and effect as his 22d Of Feb
| ruary speech; instead Of comforting and pro-
tecting the law-abiding and loyal citizen, it
seems to have encouraged bloody minded and
indicative mob of men lately engaged in re-
bellioD.
Who made the President the Judge of the le-
galitv of State Conyention3 When did he
hear evidence upon the matter? Where does
he get his authority for interfering? By the
Constitution, "the United States shall protect
each State against INVASION and on application
of the State Legislature, or of the Executive
(when the Legislature cannot be convened)
against domestic violence. Where was this "in
vasion?' where the domestic violenceT'-
where the application of the Legislature, or of
the Executivel where was even the danger Of
the public peace? A convention numbering
96 men met in hall in New Orleans. Was It
feared BY the psatrderous mob or Mayor .Honroe
that those 26 would rise and put the whole or
der of Thugs to the sword? p. -..- 80
1t does not escape the attention of the Union
loving people that every outrage like the new.
Orleans not, in the Southern States, is done in
the interests of oppression. and against equal
rights and impartial justice, by men who were
but lately Jealous and fragrant Rebels, and who
continue to boast of their crimes against the
country and the flag Whether at Memphis or
New Orleans, in Richmond or in Georgia.
wherever we hear. of mob violence, it is the
violence, the brutal lawlessness of men lately
engaged in an attempt to destroy the Union;
and their victims are men, women and children
whose loyalty to the Union was SO active during
the war that no history of the war can be writ
ten without recording their courage, fidelity
and self-sacri6ce. It is not pleasant to Union
loving people 10 see the President Of the Uni
ted States, no matter by what accident or mad
vertance, placed in the position Of giving en-
coursgment to such -lawlessness and making
less endurable the sufficiently hard position of
men who are hated and reviled by the late reb !
els as Southern loyalists. 20 ''Hf 'it' 81 'fr