The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-06-29


ar8 Ito HosuHnsalsbra that TIE bond.
hosasFa a. now. the only difference be. (
inr shai he poser rs been transfer
"a irum ths sonth 70 tho NORTH TAal
oue power came IL esatArt With The
Government. Ard Is waa put down by
force q arms TIE other power is rap
IDLY coming in contact wlih the Gov.
crnmcnt aud il or tie Government
musl &c down
After Discovering in this vein ior q
shor. time Mr. johnson returned e
President Grant, and referring t. The
war declared that 10 his opinion Gen.
Grant had no military ability lie was
a mere incident to the trAan, as bag
gage or ammunition train would be-
whole columns Of men we're massaored
aud thrown upon the rebellion. and
they crushed il cut bat he denied that
Grant possessed that master spirit with
which 10 Is credited when his friends
claim thai be terminated the war
Referring again TO the general condi-
ton Of the country, be thought the
only way IN which the Government
could BIO re-estsblished ON cons,itu
iionAl basis was by making tho South
ern States neuclus about which to
form il, Power would soon develop it,
self in the South, and the Northwest
would come ia and strike hands with it
as against the East and Protective Tar
lifts and kindred subjects He had no
hopos from the North, and in his
estimation there was much more in
what is called the Imperallst movement
than appeared upon the surface. Tn
less there was speedy change the Re.
public would be gone and we would
have either an imperialism, based upon
bonded aristocracy, or what would be
worse, anarchy, and then despotism
He viewed with horror the increasing
I'idea that all the power Of this Govern
ment should be conferred in Congress
and especially as the present occupant
OF the Executive chair had not force o
character to resist Congressional en-
croachments upon the Constitution
he thought, too, that danger was to b'
apprehended from the fact that issue.
Of no real importance to the eountr,
were now the main topics of discussion
upon the stump and elsewhere. Ii
the district, for instance, that he repre-
scented for ten years, they formerly dis
cussed the tariff and similar subjects
now it was nothing but Brownlowisu
and Radicalism, nor was it Of any ust
to talk about constitutional require
ments or constitu tionai obligations. Ii
his contests with Congress he woulC
search for the views Of the best minds
Of the republic upon any given subject
and present them only to have then
laughed at. Arguments that were con
elusive to the giant intellects of thu
country were sneered at and treatec
5 lightly by tho last and preceding Con
! gress.
: Mr.. johnson continued in this straii
at some length, and also had much I,
) say of the financial condition of tn
country which he thought deplorable
: With regard to the election in Tennes
/ see he is confident that Senter will b
, elected, and he predicts a complet
oyerturning Of the present politica
q condition OF that State. Brownlow, h
= says, is acting with him. He says h
d has no confidence whatever in Brown
i low, but the latter was shrewd enough
, to see the coming change Of sentimen
: in Tennessee, and he has taken adyan
tage Of it.