Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-05
The President and his policy Inter.
 view with Hon. Beni. Eggleston.


 has the following:
 I Representative Eggleston of Ohio, had a E long interview with the President to-day. 4 He spent more than an hour in converse \ with him on general matters, reconstruc- |I tion among the rest. After talking of the result of the election MT. Eggleston asked I the President if he did not think it would T have been better for him to have surren- F dered his views and opinions in favor of E the popular yerdicts in October and Mo- E vember, and not to have pressed his poli- # cy in his message. The President replied E to this that he did dnot think he had shown X any further opposition to the popular yer E dict than merely to express his opinions to Congress in what he thought would \ best conduce to the welfare of the country. He thought the Radical party had made a ! great mistake in spending so much time
 as they did last session before announcing l upon what terms they would agree to l readmit the Southern States and that great
 damage to the public welfare had been the
 result of the delay. Now that Congress had passed the amendment, and it was to become part of the Constitution, he could see no guaranty that the Southern States would be admitted, even after the ratification had been fully accomplished. Mir. Eggleston replied to this that there was an implied guaranty in the speedy ad- mission of Tennessee after her Legislature had ratified the amendment, and that he thought the party with which he acted would be nearly unit in the admission of other late rebel States, as soon as they had complied with the conditions exaoted from Tennessee.
 The President said he hoped this would prove to be true, but he feared there would be strong opposition to such a policy, from the extreme Radicals. MT. Eggleston said he felt little doubt on the subject. There might be some opposition from Messrs. Sumner and Ste vens, but it was good characteristic of Mir. Stevens that if he couldn't get what he wanted he would take the best he could get
 sYes." said the President, "that's true of Stevens, and always liked him for it "a practical man, though he seems to me to be working in the wrong direction" The President repeated the hope that tho South would be admitted to represen- tation on the adoption of tho amendment. It was useless, he said, to discuss the pro- priety or impropriety of the conditions embraced in that measure. It had been agreed upon, and all he could now ask was that the guaranty of representation upon that basis should be faithfully kept by the
 party that had offered it. He expressed
 regret and surprise that so few members
 of Congress had called upon him since the
 opening of the session.
 MT. Eggleston replied that he did not
 think members of Congress should carry
 their antagonism so far as that. He be-
 lieved in fighting out old political battles
 before the people, and thought that oppo- sition to the views of the President ought
 not to deter members from conferring
 with the executive, or consulting him on
 business matters.
 The President concurred in this view exactly. He would like to have men of all political complexions to call on him
 could possibly come of such an inter- change of views, and great deal of good might come of it. Now that the quarrel had been settled, as most people thought, there was certainly no reason why Sena- tors and Representatives should so sedu- Iously avoid him.
 The conversation was concluded by Mir. Eggleston inquiring about the Mexican
 question.
 The President replied that it didn't
 look as favorable as he had hoped to have 1t, but still he thought all would be we'll Josh Billings on Robin Red-Breast. The red brestid robbing is bird muchly dotted onto by seminary girls and potts.
 Gentlemen farmers also encurridge the robbing becoz he swallereted insez when he can't get no sno or anything else to eat.
 But practiclc farmers and fruit grow ists begin to don't see it. was oncst a gentleman farmist. 1 am not so gentle as l was. go for real farming, making my pile of manoor and raisin things to eat. I used to listen for the robbing's
 mating lay and his evening carol, but found out that he singed only to se-
 duce female robbings and that where
 he ct five insex he ct quarts of cher ries, strawberries, currents, raspberries,
 and cetrer, and then pitcht into the
 mellerst Bartlett pairs. l found that my fruit crop agreed too
 we'll with MT. robbinges crop.
 His warbling to his female friends at evening didn't pay for his gobbling choice fruit all day.
 And so, my. friends, when the swete
 red-brest gets fat on the eggspensive
 produks of northern gardings and
 fiocks southward to fill unsentimental
 pot pies, bid them adoo without
 regret.
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