Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-01

this. Whenever State or District sent
g loyal man, properly elected and quail
fled, he would think ik.righf to admit
him the same Ms if from Any other State,
and BE would admit nons butspch loyal
men, no thai. other States OF Districts
might be induced to send similar men.
When they had all done this, their rep
resentation would be full, and the work
would be done.
Such was the plan. He did not ask
to be a judge of elections or of the
qualifications of members of Congress,
or of their loyalty. Congress WAS its
own Judge, and he had no dream of in
terfering with its Constitutional rights,
but he felt like urging upon them and
upon the country that this mode Of finish.
ing the work, 50 nearly completed in
other respects, was the only feasible one
which had been presented, and that it
was impossible to ignore the fact that
the States were exercising their rights
and enjoying their privileges within the
Union; were, in short, restored in all
other respects, and thatit is too lategto
question the fundamental right Of repre-
sentation. s st.sf
81 then remarked to him thatI heard
Il suggested that legislation could prop
erly be made by Congress, purely civil
in its character, providing for the. pro-
lection of the freedmen by the United
States Courts, Of inferior jurisdictions In
all cases where the states did not do so
themselves.asl sas so sasf ssesgms T.
He replied that such an idea would
run exactly parallel to his plan, but he
had not thought il jet time to fix his
own ideas Of the precise mode OF accom-
plishing this. and because we had a
margin OF time lasting till after the next
session of Congress, during which the
present Freedmen's Bureau could con-
ktinue in operation. If, before that time,
the Southern States should recognize
the necessity of passing proper laws
themselves and of providing a proper
system of protection for the freedmen,
nothing further, on our part, would be
necessary, III they did not do what
they ought, there would then be time
enough to elaborate plan.
"He then deferred briefly to the fact
that mem have been rejoicing over his
veto message, saying that If these men
in good faith adopted the views of his
policy, which he had himself held and
acted upon, and which be had so fully
elaborated in his annual message and
explained to the country, surely be could
have no cause for sorrow in that. If
disloyal men every where, North and
South, should cordially give their adhe-
renee TO TIE Conditions of restotation he
had uniformly insisted upon, he thought
that was precisely the kind of paci6ca-
ton loyal men every where would rejoice
in. The more they we're committed to
such a course the better he would like it,
for-if they were. not sincere they wonld
at least diminish their power of danger
GUS opposition in the future. His whole
heart was with the hodyo true men who
had carried hecouutry through the war,
and he earnestly desired to maintain a
cordial and peffect understanding with
them. This sentiment and purpose
he regarded 90 entirely consistent with
a determined opposition to the obstrue-
ton policy of those extremists, who, he
believed, would keepthe country il chaos
until absolute ruin might come upon as.
Such, my dear sir, is the statement
of the President on this important mat
ter, and if you could meet his straight
forward, honest look, and hear the hearty
tones Of his voice, as / did lam we'll
assured you could believe with me, that,
although he may not receive personal
assault with the forbearance Mr.. Lin
coin used to show, there ia no need to
fear that Andrew johnson 10 not sim
4 L. Al -
| upon which he was elected.
Very truly yours, ne az
l6ignedl 49, ~, . :, : I. /. 3 = J. D. Cox"