Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1867-04-05


The passage Of Ike supplemental JW orer
March %. 1867, tie Presidents reto-
Mr. !Stccea's. speech on Confscation--
Premature jog among the rad'cals-
Washington Municipal election-Aa-
journmcat, etc.
Mr.. EDIToR.--I have not written you
since the convcning of the Fortieth Con
grcss: not because there has not been mat
tcrs of interest upon which several letters
might have been predicatcd but because
the session bid fair to be of so short dura-
ton that all I anticipated saying. could
have been compressed into single letter.
Several important measures have been
before congress. and among these, may
venture as first and foremost the act sup
elemental to the military reconstruction
bill This hill passed the House several
days ago, and was sent to the President:
and To dav, he entered it to the House where
it originated with his veto The veto is Il
rchaSh at the one submitted upon the Sher-
lnau bill, and is tame silly document.
state. fiat, and unpro.itahle.
The House to day passed it at once with
out debate over the veto III. to -. and in
the Senate the vote stood 30. to Z.
Thus You see Andrew Johuson is Of no
morc account than a squeezed lemon.
Hon. Geo. s. Boutwell, IN his seat to day
sud, that the people North and South 10y
al and dis!oya, black and white, had lost
confidence IN Andrew johnson in short,
that they all despised him. And this is
true.
During the past week Mr.. Stevens got oil
his great speech upon conliScation. 1t Is
mastery effort of the kind. but | need not
comment on it as You will set it in the pa
pers ere this reaches you. Mr.. S. started
ont to deliver the speech himself, but he
was to feeble, and Mr. Mcpherson the clerk
came to the rescue. aud read it from the
desk in clear manly tones, and with pow
cr of elocntion that made every sentence
tell. The speech is an admirable one, and
the doctrines it sets forth are true, and
the bill which Mr.. Stevens proposes ought
to have been a law long ago but it is now
too late. Perhaps it is well +; we shall see
II ideals hercabouts, have been quite
happy for week past, because of what
was reported TO have been free meeting
of blacks and whites in columbia South
Carolina 1t was said, that Wade Ilamp-
ton and others of Kindred ll mingled free
" aud with hrotherly sympathy. with the
reconstructed colorcd People. We looked
upon the meeting as indicative Of the near
approach of the millennium, when 10 and
behold our hopes are dashed ; for it turns
out that the negroes participating in this
meeting were black eopperheads. and that
the mass of the coored people OF South
Carolina Eavc no affinity or sympathy with
this class led by a purchased tool of the
chivalrv, one Nash mulatto. The old
rebels are not so easily converted. The
spirit of slavery does not die out with this
generation.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or
the Leopard his spots; then shall they who
are accustomed to do evil learn to do WELL
We are approaching our municipal cleo
ion which occursin jane. The two boards
of aldermen and councllmen are to be cho-
sen but the Mayor under the present law,
holds over till another year unless the law
is changed; and bill to change the stat
ute is now before congress 1t may or 1t
may not pass. With the colored vote we
can carry the city but it will be a barren
victory if Mayor Wallacli is left in power.
His veto may rende: nuSatory every salu-
tarv measure which the two boards may
enact. Congress shoald change the law at
once, and let us choose new Mayor but
that they will do SO, is not so certain.
The Forticth Congress has not AS yet ac,
copplshed much, and the wherefore OF its
meeting as it is SOON to adjourn till Decem-
ber. is not so apparent. The country look
ed for the impeachment of Andrew john
son or at least for an examination into the
alleged charges against him of high crimes
and misdemeanors All this the FOrtieth
Congress- leaves in state of uncertainty
and goes home not to meet again till No
ve,nber-perhaps December. And besides
this, there is u committee appointed to in-
yestisatc the corruptive cas-" of Collector