The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-07-31
q Visit ia Thad. Stevens.

correspondent Of the New York Herald haFia
i visited Thae Stevens at his residence N aaneaste
PENNSYLVANIA, devotes over three columns % tss y.
I inas, from which We CLEAN the following:
Question by your cosrespondent-sha you propos
an i,peachmeut of the President at this coming extr
/ session?
Mr. stevens-I shall propose an impeachment as
i matter Of duty and conscience II can md M
iority III Congress who VIII sustain III snail vote 7
inpeachDent Of Andrew johnson and his trial just q
soon as The court can Be organised in order to put on
of the way at once high official who, through his pc
siton ebstructing the work OF Congress defyng IN
laws of the United States and destroying the country
i OuestoD-Y GU think, then, that resolution OF IN
| peachment could not now be carried
! Mr.. Steyens-I think not y would be defeated o
account Of Jealousy on the part OF the opponents
Senator " ade. The contest between Wade ana res
| sender for the presidency Of the Senate vas yer
\ bitter one. and personal feelings and motives VIII III
terfere to proven. Wade from occupying the presidel
/ tial chair even fer single day Alter " ace eiec
tion Blaine Of Maine, said on the hoor OF the House
don't want any of Ben Waae's .sheiywaggers
/ around the White House., It is this sentiment tina
will defeat impeachment Every little tricky nolltl
elan who wants this man for postmaster Or that MAJ
| for constable, and does not think Ben " aae VII
| give him what he wants, will oppose it.
g If had my way in Congress, continued Air ote
vens 81 would declare every act that had been don't
BY the President or his cabinet or his legal ADVISER
since the adjournment Of Congress, IL reference 20 iht
question of reconstruction nulity, and an lmperti
ent and unauthorized interference with ana hcroaeii
ment upon the powers and duties OF Congress ana
would forbid any peTsotl-Iniiitary COMMANDER o.
other-to obey any orders instructions that mish
issue from the President would go further, ane
pass separate enaetment II when would dlstlctly
pnumerate who should be registered ana VINO shoulc
be DISTINGUISHED in the conquered territory. aha'
would serve 10 protect the military officers who are IN
! ~. IF, rom fk.a Gfr
of Congress and leave no doubt as TO The meaning OF
| the law
Your correspondent, having inquired whether this
tsaild contiseaon was all Mr.. Stevens desired, re
ceixed the following reply ::
Well Sir, I shall attempt to carry biil-prooably
not at this extra session. bat the next regular ses
sion-to assess sufficient sum on certain class OF
rich rebels to pay these damages to private cltzens
FIRST inasmuch they be repaid II no other tnaI-
ner except by the people upon whose neeks We have
our feet But this will not satisfy me by any means
Before consent TO regard the rebels entitled to
full pardon and peace should 90 on and carry out
the old confscation law Of 1862 which IS still nnre-
pealed and should then upon the general prop
erty Of the conquered territory pro rata, sufficient
amount to pay the whole outstanding war debt OF the
United States in full. / should do this because that
debt presses hard upon the loyal aboring masses OF
the North and helps keep them poor aud to bring
some of their families the point Of stAryation and
because it was incurred in wagng q war wiczedlF
forced upon u.s. without cause Or excuse, by tie
South.
When had done thus much through confscation
repair the injuries to The loyal people and the North
believe should go yet little further. am not
willing to allow the murder OF twenty thirty thou
sand Union soldiers in the prison pens ct Anderson
vile and other places, and the shooting down OF col
ored soldiers like mad dogs to pass unavenged l
would create military tribunals at the South, charged
with the special duty OF Investigating all these oenses
4 rY1nr,F pr
son. nor would it be necessary to hang them; but |
would hold the Whole conquered territory responsible
for tile acts. The socalled Confederate government
must have known Of these murders and brutalities,
aud would let none of them off on the patty pre-
tense that they not guilty because they had not
been formally indicted for the crimes. would put
such forfeiture Of their estates would suffice TO
munerate in some degree the survivors OF their bru
talites, and then would cut up the other conscaed
territory into small tracts end would sell some Of
to small capitalists that the South sonld no longer
be held BY few arstocfats in large manoral posses
sions.
would also give every adult freedman who was the
head of family small holding, say of forty fifty
acres out OF the tnnds of their former masters II
could net find enough IN the old plantations upon
which they were owned, would make it up out o!
the adjoining land so that every freedman might re-
main the spot where he raised, aud If he could
not find other labor he could occupy himself and sup
port his family by working his own farm at home.
think this would be productive OF good the whole
country and to all classes of men-to the former
tiers as well as to the former slaves. The freedmen
would then be independent yeomanry, feeling their
own freedom and manhood and selfrelianee which
would be better for them than the ballot. This sir
is what would like to do fl live and have power to
do it. But at the present moment, considering the
demorased condition of the Republican party-for it
is badly denoralsed-I may content myself with the
payment OF the losses Of loyal citizens by the war; and
the provision Of hpmpstt.aHS the 9r1an md
with such mild confscation may be necessary TO
these objects. shall not under any cir
cumstanees, feel satisfied With less than this.
TIE LOUISIANA GUBERNAToRIAL IMBRoaLfo AND THE
LETEEs.-A Washington special of the 10th to the
Cincinnati Enquirer, says
Citizens Of Lniis iana here r.