, 1866-05-23
PRESIDENT JOHNSON,S COlIMUNl-
CATION TO TILE LONDON TINES.
Indignation Of Americana In London

Indignation Of Americans In London.
(From the Apglo-Amercan Times. 0fay 81
The late remarkable conference" between
the President Of the United States and . cor.
respondent Of the London Times is declared
by TINT journal to be highly honorable to the
President. We do not profess to understand
that peculiar kind Of "honor," which forms
the stock-in.tfndc of the Tines, but ne are
putting the case very mildly when we declare
that among the four or five thousand loyal
Americans now In London, there are ycfy
few who have not, ever since the publication
! Of that account in the Timer, walked the
streets or this metropolis with q per-
| sonal Sense Of humiliation and degrade
| tion. We speak Of that which We know, md
! testify1of TINT wh1o4 ne have seen, when we
assert that Of Ill the vagarles Of President
johnson none have so eompletely disgusted
| lis countrymen aud rendered them so heart
ack rs this. They feel, rs Americans, that
| their President should be reslccnt IN speech,
and should make himself heard through bis
| official utterances aud Lis public acts Bat
II Ills torgus i5 80 O. nnruly that It eannot @ 40 %
| restrained, they feel, at least that he should
address himself to his own people, and not to
| a prolcssed public enemy Of his country and
| tho Institutions which he represents. The
London Times has go often outraged, and in
suited, and illuminated the American nation,
| that when the President consorts with It or
| any of its representatives al Americans. feel
| that his indIscretion Is something very like
insanity, and that, instead OF Congress i'm
parchment medical commission to inquire
into bis mental condition would be the more
/ appropriate. -. ::
very p1ain terms on what we cannot but con-
| slider the most dcp1orable indfscretion erer
! committed BIZ 9 President Of the United
Statca. But ne desire not to be mfsunder-
stood by our Eu,lish fiiends. We are most
sincerely anxious thot the people Of this
/ he fuQF M
and anF attempt on the part Of the President,
consistent with dignity and decency,. to con-
ciliatt the good opinion Of England, would
be not ou1y unobjecttonahle, but highly conf
mendablc. Il President johnson had Instruct
cd Mr.. Seward to explain his domestic policy
the Government and the people OF Great Brit
ian, We might have qucsttoned the e1pedl
| ency, but not the decency. OF the proceeding
In giving two hours conference to o repre-
sentative Of foreign newspaper, for the pur-
pose Of explaining TO such m auditor the de-
talls Of BIS domestic policy, he Is placed in
the position Of one, who having, arrayed him
self agaInst his own people, appeals to foreign
ers and detractors for support aud sympathy.
If any Of our English readers Imagine We
are putting this matter too strongly, let us
ask them what they would think Of their
tive Of the New York Herald, and IN two
hours audience. condescend to explain to that
sap,ent Individual, the diIeEences between
the Ministry and the Opposition il parlia-
ment on the subject Of reform? The Prcs1-
dent OF the United States occupies the same
relative position as the Queen Of TIE unsteo
Kingdom he Il the highest pefsoasge N
the Iand-alike the Governor, a-d the Com,
mauder. in: Chief An act wlieh. would amount
simply 10 folly If perpetrated br any oth'
or lecornes IN him not merely grave mls,
cemeanor, but high cr1me-a crime asatns
fba socIaty which be represents. As such his
Iate INDIGENOUS ouyersatiou with the TINES
correspondent will l,e regarded By his lntclli
gent countrymen. We do not venture to Pre-
dict the feeling with which that conversation
will be received in America When its detail
become kEpwp, but VIC think 1t out OF plas'