Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-11

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Letter from John W. Forney Just Before the
Close Of the War
WASHINGTON, January Tile National
Republican, this morning, publishes the fol-
lowing: .s... ..9
WASHINGTON D. G.. Jan 7th, 1865.
HIS EcceZIency Ane}reao Jo]mson: : IS.
iiY DEAR GovERNOE-l cannot too hearti-
" thank you for your letter, dated Nashville,
Denember SO, 1864, received on "Wednesday
evening There is not a word or sentence in
the al tiu'e frou the Nashville Times, which you
curose, that does not meet nay warmest ap-
pri.5stion | have read and re read your letter
and il, and have shown both TO several ultimate
friends I hope soon to be able to endorse
both in my two pers-the Chronicle and
the Press. After pretty thorough canvass l
think the Senators ana Representatives from
Louisiana will he admitted and, If this is So
it IS easy to anticipate that those Of Tennessee
will also be received. ID.
The only person that Gni opposed to your
theory, aud who is now hesitatiog as TO the
true course to be pursuuI in reference to the
admission of Louisiana, is Mr.. Sumner, Of
Massachusetts He may probably be followed
By Wade, Wilkinson, Chandler, and tew
more but Senator W iison, of Massachusetts.
is open and determined in his course, and, l
think, will carry with him q number. The
attempt to eulbarrass the admission OF such
oft., how hrn rf,
snch sufferings asyourS, and alter having re-
orsanized their States from the very foundation
of principle and law, would be sad proceeding.
The fact is, my dear Governor, we cannot
resist peace should the Southern people lay
down their arms and demand to come back into
the Union under the terms OF the amnesty
proclamatl0u-agreelng 70 the abolition OF
Slavery by the amendment cf the Constitution,
and conSeuting to the restoration OF the old
Union. Any party that opposes such au ap-
peal would come to confusion, nor can we at
tempt 10 embarrass such questions as those
presented in the case of Louisiana and Tennes-
see, by legislation on the subject of negro
suffrage, because that question belongs TO the
States-and it will look very odd if the legis-
lators from the free States should endeavor. to
confer the right Of suffrage upon the as yet
ilhtera,e negroes, just delivered from slavery
in the South, when, in nearly all the Tree
States, the negroes are wholly distranchlsed.-
feel in high hope that the course of the people
of Savannah-which you have by this time
seen-n coming forward Voluntarily and heart
lily agreeing to the terms offered by the govern
ment, will be followed in other quarters, and
tha' We are, in fact, about to realize the be-
ginning of the end OF the rebellion. We are
looking for you here with much INTEREST
Your presence and your counsel are needed
Yours, truly, (Signed,)
J. ". FoRNEY.
Hon. Andrew Johnson, Nashville, Tenn.
PROPOSED NATIONAL GUARD.-On Thurs
day, a bill was introduced in Congress, to or
gauize, arm and discipline the militia and for
other purposes 'It provides that all able
bodied male persons who shall have been born
or naturalzed in the United States or shall
have declared their intention to become citi
zens or shall have actually voted at any State
or Territorial election, and all between the ages
of IS and IS, shall be enlisted in the militia
The National Guard of the United States shall
consist of two regiments Of intantry, organized
of volunteers from the enlisted militia In each
District and Territory represented in Congress.
one of which shall be composed of coored men,
of such District or Territory shall be colored
men. No person shall be an officer or private
in the National Guard who shall be disqualified
for or exempt from enrolment In the militia or
who shall have voluntarily borne arms against
the United States, or given countenance or aid
to the rebellion. or accepted Office under the
late Confederacy. 4 Bureau Of Militia is to
he established in the War Department. II is,
among other things to provide that Congress
may order the whole or any part OF the Ma
ti0nal Guard into the service Of the United
States to execute the laws thereof where the
same may be obsructed, or to rcpel invasion,
aud to suppress domestic insurrectlon. The
bill was referred to the Committee on the
Militia" .-a
REV. JAMES WILKERsoN.-A day or two
ago we had call from Rev. Jas Wilkerson,
whose history is invested with something of
romantic in crest. On his mothers side he is
descended from the Powhatan tribe of Indians,
small remnant Of whom are still living on the
waters of the York river. His father, we are
informed, was white man His physiogno-
MY is decidedly of the Indian cast, and his
complexion copper colored. He processes to
belong to the Society of Friends or Quakers,
and is strongly imbued with their princlpels-,
using the same paiuncss of language and OF
costume. -.s.. ..
Fora number Of years James has been act
ing as missionary, frequently visiting the lu-
dans on the other side OF the Mississippi, pro
noting the arts of peace and preaching the
Gospel among them -PacysJug Enpress.
The TouloDnais gives an account of the cap
ture OF sea serpent on the coast of France on
the 22d December, which, it says, can be
YoMched for hy nrettu nearlv he whole uonu-