The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-06
A METHODIST.

rous to be cited here.
A METHODIST.
Eight years ago, when Minnesota
made application for admission as
State, and it was objected that the
Constitution she presented gave the
right of suffrage to aliens, President
Johnson then foreshadowed his pre-
sent policy, and announced some of
his ideas about Republican Govern
ment. In his speech on that occasion,
favoring the admission of Minnesota,
he said: s'This Government has no
power under the Constitution of the
United States to fix the qualification
OF voters in any sovereign State of
the Confederacy. want to enter my
protest against the doctrine being
lndulged in or cultivated to any other
extent, that this Government has
power to so inside a sovereign State
and prescribe the qualifications of her
voters at the ballot-box. It is for the
State and not for the Government to
do that. If the doctrine be once con-
ceded that the Federal Government
has the power to fix the qualifications
of voters in a State, the idea of State
sovereignty is utopian. There is no
such thing as State sovereignty if
this Government can fix the qualifi-
cation of voters" AS shown by his
recent veto, the President has not
changed his opinions.
EMIGRATION SoUTH.-The Man
chester IN. H. Mirror, alluding to
the departure this spring of large
numbers, from New England to the
South and West, says that number
have already left Manchester for
Virginia and other parts of the South,
while others are waiting but for the
season to be little further advanced.
But for the precarious condition of
Southern society at present, the
number would be still larger, for it is
generally conceded that opportuni-
ties for business there are not to be
excelled.
GEN. FORREST KILLS NEGRo.-A
letter from Sunfower County, Missis-
slppi, says negro employed on Gen.
FORESTS plantation, while assaulting
his (the negro's) sick wife, was remon-
strated with by Forrest The negro
drew knife and attempted to kill
Forrest, who, after receiving a wound
in the hand, seized an axe and killed
the negro. Gen. Forrest then gave
himself up to the sheriff The ne
groes on the plantation justify the
homicide.
TIMELY CAUTION. correspon-
dent of the Mobile Advertiser and
Register cautions the cotton planters
throughout the South to test the seed
they use. He says that much of the
seed in the market is worthless, and
will doom many a planter to disap-
pointment when it is too late to
repair the mischief, unless they ex-
pertinent with the seed they intend
using, and ascertain that its germi-
nat1ng powers are unimpaired.
The President has sent to the
House communication from the Co.
vernon of Alabama, asking that that
State be allowed to assume and pav.
in State bonds, the tax now due from
her; or, that delay of payment be
authorized until the State, by sale of
bonds or by taxation, can provide for
the payment cf the same
The steamer Croton, Capt. Fitz
gerald, from Savannah, cia Beaufort,
for Charleston, struck some obstruc-
ton in the Coosaw River, on Tues
day afternoon, and sunk in q short
time, her deck being submerged.
Her passengers and most of her freight
have been taken off.
GEN. NJ W. GARY.-The Courier
has learned from gentleman that
Maj: Gen. M. w. Gary, who was
carried to Charleston under arrest and
committed to Jail, has been released
on parole
It was rumored in Washington,
Saturday, that a stormy Cabinet meet
had resulted in the notification of |
Secretaries Stanton and Harlan, by
the President, that he would be glad !
to receive their resignations
In the case Of Bradley johnson,
late of the Confederate army, recent
ly held to bail in Baltimore, to an
swer to All Indictment for treason,
the President hac iptarnocoI n, o,do,,