New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-23

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pendent.
Under date of April 10th, the Times American
correspondent gives the following account of an
interesting interview he had recently with Presi-
dent johnson:
The President first adVerted to the condition in
which he found the country on his accession to
Office and pointed out that ever since that time
the radical party which now has the control over
Congress, had been preparing for the issue forced
upon him. Their object was manifest, and it was
one which, from their point of view, they could |
scarcely be blamed for pursuing so eagerly. They
knew perfectly well that when the South came
back into Congress their day of power would De
over-the Southern representatives would stand as
unit they would probably fall into alliance again
with the Democratic party, the OLD issues OF sane
rY and State sovereignty would pc aeau @t NJ
'cHed and the party which now ruea wo mhGo Nc
nf0py and beneyolence to the negro meant noth-
ing more than a desire to work upon the leShl9s
of the North, SO that they might be enapieu u
carry everything their own way m 4
sections of the country were ready 10 go w W.
before the rebellion broke Outthe one 10 preseIYe
slavery the other to destroy it. Each sac We" te
willing to sacrifice the government III o[ m w
gain its object The South struck first. me re-
bellion subdued at the Southern emu VI on r1
line, and tits swinging round to tne ougi onI
These men," continued the Presldent am aii ~ a.
ways used these words to denote the Fa TAU; pai
ty-" are almost ready to go into re9ea .d IN
p [aWer thau naFe 'het I'll cnnth They know
nothing practically of the real state OF te oouta
The very man who had drawn " ~ 7 oft bn i
OH, wnat are us ileah9 "a and went out to Ten
nessee and saw it ALL and bore my snare Of the
Gloupes he seppppoaa s's onare into the events of
oIS 70 maze uis IN IDEAS " hich he has never
INT, Ing % W. tsa a4 tos ~ '''N''
me President Ileh a hsen broght nm he said
au9 my Heslo ,Sot If theiDstitlition Of slavery
9 III FL w y, and owned slaves but still he had
~ nov ts Fr polishing slavery upoA any basis
1+Tegs II ~ adonted with Al fetv 10 the countrv
y WIZ V0u'u ~ IN the question whether slavery
noh y o 'a"hnshed or tie Government broken ~
5noulu po la a dnubt ag to the course which he
e ~ ~ " tI he decided to rive nm slavery
ous ~ ~ " ,Pind Nv that decision Bit the soutb
SUI w I treat the negro with greater Kindness
49, thn North if il we're let alone and not exas.
sh sG ,.phav tait ~ inotce IN +ba regro ,, CON
ti,aJ tho President "(I1d knoyys nv heart vearns
tn,1srds him when think of the end which these
an ore Ireparinp for him see that end clearly
ononghLthey are noing the Way for n conflict Of
* 1900 Wbrn that neclrs wa aiT know how it will
fsTa with The negro, How has guch a contest
aIyTays ended
i.pben tha time comes there will he no struggle
Tho rasnIt win he decided without that Now.
than What do wa fnd !? The very thing which VIC
ssid these Southern States could 1ot do2which We
fn1ght theee four wears To preyent them doing
thasa Nan affirm that tbeV have actually done
na-nelv been ant Of the Union. The Southern
Ststes' are ready to come hack upon onr terms
Val laval natl n a
St ,bcsa men sav thew shall MT. Wbv. # the,
Lsj afara5 n come hack or anv of Them during
the rebellion, should we have turned them ava!
on the ground that they had placed themselves gu
of the Union? MIR. Lincoln offered TO receive thu
whole legislature OF RChmOnd-a rebel legisa
ture-and would have welcomed them with opel
arms Would he have refused TO receive tines
States no that they have fully submitted 2"
Mr.. johnson then enlarged with conslderabl
detail upon the operation OF the freedmen's bu
reau, and said its machinery was now being use
to get negroes conveyed from the North back t
the South by the very men who were assertin
that the lives of The freedmen were not safe in th
South They hid hired or bought lands the
= wanted labor ard they got their negroes tran
ported at the expense of the government. tn
freedmen's burem compelled the negroes to g
or they stopped their subsistence allowance.
was little bette than another form Of SLAYER
only that it was olely conducted by aboionistl
Tor the freedmu's bureau would not assist
Southern man ingetting negroes from the Mort
where many thousands of them have taken refu(
@ during the wal gentleman from fakal
county Virgins had been to him, the Preside
said only a fewdays ago, saying that he had Sc
three hundred ngroes to the District Of CoIumb
for security dung the war. He now wished
hire them, hut he fri edmen's bureau interpos
B Obstacles and wud give him no help in trar
porting them; 1bereas the government railroa
were placed at he service OF other speGulato
In all that he sad it evident that the Preside
approved some ian for protecting the negro a
yivin1 him suCOr but that he considered I
administration o the ireedmen's bureau was
ali that could bedesred. II did not accompi
the true object # which it was founded.
sneakipp of IL radicals he said
s'lTbese men he also said. have raised the c
nF smaS don, atne. and the people seem to
1attina AFRAID. lev will understand me better
5Ud d.nS and nnde land these men. 700, COZ
ot eynert to % through without q struggle
~ ~ tyaa ms q rtra ordinary he continued
ttjn,y of tSe conr, which :. these mem were d
,h.n u r. beimg,nied again the country wo
II tan5 ras1ected the ewes OF the world. It
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