Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-10

tain 10 bring him and his Office into con
tempt just here perhaps | may as well
state that have very good authority for
setting at rest all anxiety on the'subiect Of
Sheridans removal. Nothing of the kind
will be attempted; and if any Of the 7" Cen
erals commanding" in the South want polit-
zeal promotion, they must seek it in some
other way than by trying to get the Presi
dent to tread on their coat tails. He won't
do it.
Referring to the subject Of impeachment,
which / had introduced in some remarks
as to what Congress would attempt at the
present session, the President asked me if
the Judiciary Committee had had another
meeting, or had made up its report yet. |
told him thought it held its last meeting
to-day, Tuesday and that il was under
stood that its members were divided: four
for Impeachment, three for censure and two
for acquittal. He smiled at the idea of
censure from political opponents, and
thought that il might be kept as stand
ing report for all administrations opposed
10 Congress. ] asked him if he had read
Greeley's testimony, published that day in
the Tribune, No, he said, he had not, and
asked me what it was about. | told him
that it related entirely to the bailing of
JEFF Davis, and entirely exonerated him
from any hand in the matter. "Opshaw,"
said he, "what had do with the bailing of
JEFF. Davis" and he smiled again.
told him l was glad Greeley had
run off with the manuscript of his
testimony and furnished it to the public,
through the Tribune and the Commercial
that it would do good in showing to the
country the style Of Testimony they have
been taking. He laughed again and said,
81 wish they had published it all as they
took it down. OF course don't know what
they've got against me, but | know what
the facts are, and Pm not afraid of them"
] asked him if he knew the character of
some Of the witnesses brought against him
such as Bakers detectives. He said he
did not and / inferred from the way he
said it that he didn't care much who they
were. | told him'a few incidents in the
career Of his "great prosecutor" Mr.. Ash
ley-yarious historic and geographic mat
tiers connected with the Toledo member.
He laughed very heartily and said, "That
man seems to be very strangely infatuated
about some things; can't understand him
at all'-and then laughed again, and added
Jul BNlld % nG ulCdnS wei EuOtBu
Mr.. johnson had heard that afternoon that
Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, had been
summoned before the Judiciary Commit
tee, and asked me if knew what the object
was / told him did not; that had seen
Col. Matthews in Washington, but hadn't
learned his mission here. | asked him
what Colonel Matthews could possibly have
know about him. He said he didn't know,
unless the Judiciary Committee wanted to
20 back TO the time when he johnson
was Provisional Governor of Tennessee.
Matthews was then Provost Marshal of
Nashville ! replied to this, that all /
knew about it was, that Ashley asked Mr..
Bingham during the last session of the
thirty-ninth Congress if President could
beimpeached for what he had done before
he became President, and that Bingham
very promptly replied by calling Ashley a
fool. THAT was a pretty sharp answer"
said the President, with another big laugh.
MACK's CONCLUSIONS.
My own impressions, as the result of the
interview, are these: That the President,
whatever may be his opinions of the con
stitutionahfy or the propriety of the mill
tafy law, never had any othFr paFpuBs with
reference to it than that Of enforcing 1t
Justly and properly; that il he feels little
vexed when he nnds Major Generals who
never read a law book, running a tilt with
such lawyer as Attorney General Stan
berry, on the Interpretation of a statute, he
is not much to blame; that he will not and
ought not TO allow Brownlow's militia to
create bloodshed in Tennessee; and that he
is very little concerned about the impeach-
ment, which he evidently regards as a big
Joke.