The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-17
/, .KEOKUK, IOWA
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL II.


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ard with the President.
iCorrsspoudence Il The Clieago 1fibunel
#as sg WASHINGTON, APnlS ., 1855.
The ;ntarv;ev of General Howard with
the Pres;dent on the 4th inst, was one Of i'm
,,ort.nce. ~ viII appsAr from . tEsoMsof the
Conversation which / am able to give you be-
low.
- -.s cordially greeted. az always hereto
c.. axoent nerhaps during the continuance
.nn,,,, hra Of the first veto, when shode Of
apt;ffness might be pardoned as quite natural.
The General opened the conversation BY
explaining that he had sought the interview
for the purpose Of learning, without delay,
the effect which the Proclamation was de-
signed to produce upon the methods and
machinery Of the Bureau. More specifically,
he wished to know If martial law was now
abolished, and with It the system Of military
courts established for the protection of the
otherwise unprotected freed people.
The President replied, without hesitation,
that the proclamation was q declaration Of
policy, and nothing more; that it did not abol.
ish military courts, did not remove martial
law. and was not designed to modify the
operation Of the Bureau in any respect what.
ever. On the contrary, it was the Presidents
expectation and express desire, that the ad.
m;nistration of the Bureau should be con-
timed as heretofore, and that all judicial
functions should be exercised, ~ the inter
ests of impartial justice may require. The
President further observed that this procla.
nation would be Executively INTERPRETED and
applied precisely ss was the proclamation an
nouncing the restoration Of Tennessee. As
the States or parts of States give unquestion-
able evidence of entire readiness to do i'm
partial Justice, they will be individually and
locally relieved from military government;
not otherwise, nor sooner.
The General then asked specific instruc-
tons in the case of Kentucky, aluding to the
extreme restiyeness of the white citizens of
that loyal State under what was deemed IN
impertinent intermeddling with local affairs,
and intimating his individual readiness to
obey any orders the President might be
pleased to convey.
The President replied, that there can be no
discrimination in favor of unreasonable pre-
iudices simply because they are extreme, or
extremely unreasonable; still less can one
State claim indulgence denied to another;
that the administration of General Fisk had
not been oppressive. so far as he conld learn,
but had been prudently confined Ito the de.
fence of the personal rights of his wards; and
that such an administration must be contin.
ued in Kentucky, as elsewhere, just as long
as the restiveness of the white citizens under
wholesome government might render special
judicial agencies necessary to the ends of
equal justice.
The Generals impression at the close OF
the interview was clear, that the Presidents
declarations were equivalent to nothing less
than an assertion of his readiness to sanction
the accomplishment, through the Bureau as at
present organized, of substantially all that is
arrived at in the Civil Rights Bill. He does
not anticipate any factious opposition from
the President to the execution of the provis-
ions Of that bill, when it shall have become a
law; and in any event he intends to take the
President at his word and require of his
agents the prompt cognizance and exemplary
punishment of every offence against the spirit
Of its provisions.
ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY.
On Saturday last General Tillson, the As
slstant Commissioner for the State of Georgia.
telegraphed General Howard that he had Just
received the proclamation Of the Sd, and was
at a loss to proceed without the aid of mill
tary prerogatiyes in the administration of ius-
tce.
Gen. Howard at once sent the despatch BY
the hand of an aid, to the President who.
after reading it. remarked, that Gen. Tillson's
information was in advance of his own, for
he had not yet heard of the abolition of mar.
tal law He referred the despatch to the
Secretary Of War, whose opinion has not vet
been rendered.
THE LETTER.
DEs MONIES, April 12.
Hon. John A. Kasson, in response to GER
tam unauthorized charges that he was to run
as an independent candidate for Congress says:
'lt l am q candidate it must be as a thorough
going Republican, one who began in 1848,
whohelped build its platform in 1860, on
which it gained its first success, and who ad.
heres to the platform of 1864, and who ex-
poets to adhere to the Republican platform
and candidates of 1863 l am neither for nor
against any man as against the Republican
party and its principles. / am against An
drew johnson all the time, if he is against
the protection Of loyal Unionists both white
and black
THE "PoLIcY" IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The Raleigh Standard Gov Holden's pa.
per, says that the Presidents policy in North
Carolina is a complete failure; that ultra Sc.
cessionists now fill every office in the State
from the highest TO the lowest; and that the
secession leaders are determined that Union
men shall never govern the State. 1t adds ::
ssrhe cause of restoration has been arrested.
The State has been set back to the point
where it was at the commencement. No one
can foresee the result. The'generosity of the
President has been abused, and the LOYALTY
of these people has been neutralized by the
love of money, and how long will it be be-
fore they are rebuked, as they should be, and
made to know their places 2''
IMPORTANT DECISION.
A decision of great appearances was made
yesterday by Judge Underwood, of the U. S.
District Court for Virginia, sitting in Alexan-
dra. Thos. Garvin was tried some time
since before the Provost Judge, under the
Freedmen's Bureau law, for assaulting and
iniuring negro boy, found guilty and SEN
fenced to pay $500 damages to the boy, and
to be imprisoned until the damages we're paid
The sentence was approved by Gen. Augur
commanding the military district. An apnli-
cation for writ Of haJcas corpus was sued
out by Garyin's counsel under the aupposition
that the Presidents last proclamation re.
stored that writ, and set aside the operations
Of the Freedmen's Bureau Court. The pris.
oner was brought before Judge Underwood,
the case ably argued for six hours, and = de-
cision rendered that the Presidents procla. |
nation did not restore the writ Of habeas cor. |
Das. 1t was rumored that if this decision
had been in Garvin's favor, that similar ap- |
pin cation would have been made in the case