The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-09-09
VOTE against the President Policy.
The President and his Advisers.
Senator Sumner saws of

The President and his Advisers. .,-f
Senator Summer saws of
...--l... THE PRESIDENT, ,F ...s
With person Of ordinary sense and with {
heart, reconstruction would be easy. The
President is perverse, ig-headel, and brutal
HIS talent, such as it is, comes from pugnacity
or, as the Psychologists have it, combativeness
When aroused by jeff Davis in the Senate ht
was on the right SIDE and his temper gave t.
his arguments additional force. We all sym.
pathized with him then. . We did not know
how foolish and shallow he was, nor did we
see his prejudices Little did we think of the
evil he would do. l have often said that no
man in history has eyer done SO much evil TO
his country in the same time. 87 ya uo
General Butler says of i ,,ti 44ess.srs Cd.
be- SECRETARY SEWARD, sptr.rele
1t seems to me that there can be but one ex-
PLANTATION OF Stewards course-the determine
ton to ruin the Republican party because of
what seems to him its ingratitude in prefer
ring Mr. Lincoln. Seward holds that he was
the father OF our party, and one could easiiv
suppose the deep grief and modification which
being set aside might cause him.. Any other
theory would only lead to the conclusion that
Stewards intellect was wanting, because the
author Of the irrepressible conflict could new
er be SO stupid. The inevitable consequences
ofJohnson's course can't believe that Sew
ard fails to see, and # 50, why does he fail to
oppose the cause of the Executive, or with
draw himself from the Cabinet? f
yoE JUDGE BLACK, t,i-lJ .+5
know Black. have met him at the bar
knew him somewhat when he was in Bu-
chanans Cabinet. he is man Of decided re-
nlus-eTratlc, bold, and OF quick perceptions,
and with strong reliance upon his own powers.
he believes thoroughly in the unconstitution-
ahty OF the war and the consequent ileeality
Of every act of legislation growing out of il.
Not doubling on these points, he would have
no hesltancy in following his plans to their
logical SeOuen which wv ha af
that Congress was an illegal body, its acts with
out binding force or effect, and that it was the
duty OF the President to save the government
by an exercise of executive power and that
such action would be conservatives, and not re-
voiutlonary; and If he was in the government
1 believe he he would shape its course to that
end, under the full conviction that he was act
ing according to the Constitution and Cor the
best interests of the country. This with him
would be true conservatism. He looks upon
any other, and of course the congress ional re-
construction, as revolutionary and tending to
despotism. Upon his accession to the Cabi
net, should look for great peril to the coun-
try because there is no man so dangerous as he
Will be-actlng courageously in support of the
wrong under the conviction that he is in the
right. g3-t sF9ntgeJ - ssaai Y iqafsE9
Senator Wilson says of a a'al''l7.G. oa
THE BLAIR FAMILY, H'sh
The Blair family have great and bad influ.
snce over the President, They took him over
2 tnelr place after the 9Th of March, and treat
ID him with great kindness This brought
bout a certain intimacy between them, which
has been kept up. Their influence has been
disastrous in the extreme. The Blairs are
pest to the country.
Besides these there is legion of lesser dew
lis now in possession of the White House and
is oecupant-Tom Florence, Buckley ,Fernan.
10 Wood, and the rest. 1s4 asi o. irS' i3 tsfi