The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-08-31
What Andrew johnson Says Of the
Situation.

A correspondent of the New I ork
Tribune, recently " interviewed" Ex-
President johnson, at his home in
GreeneviIle, and from his report, we
make the fol- lowing extract.
MISTAKES or RECONSTRUCTION.
The Fx-Iresident has modified
none of those well-known positive
opinions about which he battled with
Congress. In a long conversation
with the IribHne's correspondent to-
day he announced his continued ad-
hesion to that famous policy upon
which he insisted with such pertinaci-
oy while in the White House, and
said he believed the time would come
when public opinion would say he
was in the right. lie still believed, he
said, that the States should not have
been punished as communities, but
that p few leading traitors should
have been tried and hung for their
crimes. As this was not done, the
next best thing was to have granted
general amnesty. He regarded it as
a grave mistake that the secession
question had not been determined by
-. courts after the war.
TIE AMENDMENTS.
c., ing of the constitutional
'oPc9h. It's, Mr.. johnson said it
nllelun,oi ,nne a,.ln1eo to resist them or Que8-
w., We t6cS,. o.lz;o ty. They are adopted
80: 80 ,1'T% ,Sroscribod torn, although, as
IL IL IN Ilo1idd-od - M suner contrary to
the spirit of the Con SllLI'lon' I % anu anu
they should be acquiesc> u - - - 80
such time as they were ch. H. IL -
the proper way. 1t was fC y ,II'9 10
ssid, to think the Supreme I ~
would ever pass upon them and I 'o
clare them not to be valid. They
aCepe q part OF the Constitution nOlo,
and as much 10 be Obeyed as any
other part, and 10 lcaS not lrOTth
tchi{e 10 raise any opinion about
IL en-.
CONGRESSIONAL USURPATION.
The President still holds that
the great future danger to the coun-
try lies in the usurpatiOn of power
bV Congress, and the centrihzation
i'm that branch of tho Government,
of functions belonging to the Execu-
tive, the Judiciary, and the state
Governments. He was particularly
severe on the present system Of in
ternal taxation, which he said was de-
stroyin0 public morals, and had d1-
vided the people into two classes
10 tax-payers, who sought to cheat
the Government out of all the tax
they could, and the tax-collectors,
who stole ali of the tax they dared
10, after they collected il. Fraud de-
faication and corruption were the
natural results of this system.
sT,e National Commercial COnVen-
tiOn.
The Baltimore papers are making out
a programme for the National CONNER
cia1 Convention in that city, almost as
hiah-sounding as Gilmore's announce
ment of the Worlds Jubilee at Boston
next year. The Advertiser, of last
Tuesday, very modestly says:
ssThe arrangements for the holding IL
this CITY. in Septembef next, of the Ma.
tional commercial Convention have
been nearly completed, and the 1ndlca
lions are that the event Will prove OnC
~. Great interest to the future commerce
of baltimore. Tho subjects for consld
oration by the Convention Will be: raul
N,,eV connections of the cities OF virgin
in Nvl.h the great West; educatlon
reutr;tl-liI water cOmInunlcdblohs oo
a. tvee1 lie Norsh and South; develop
soe,t of nc cold and silver mines II
tbe Pacific States and Territories Tn
enlal cement of the moro important hhe
Of canals in the United States, so as U
render them nayisable Tor Nesseis Pro
pelled by steam; encouragement u %
Seciprocal trade between the Chlte,
states and Brazil and the other Soutl
American States ;. continuous 4Iiou
Vvater-line communication west IroI
the Mississippi river along the Gui
~past to the Rio-G fande; settled pollc
{, ~e public interest in regard 10 th
IN 49,, u. '0u OF the Government lands
ois.,SslslS s Vater-line communicate
l ~ 5;ss;s-'npi river TO the Allan
from Inc NAis9iss-A erpnarallV: depart
tic Ocean railroads = '(,;,,SSr' ootios
ment OF commerce; An - ;r,r7r
tion interests; revenue refo.- time
nfty OF private property at sea Ia /
war; direct trade between southern
antic cities and Europe; river navlgu
ton: construction of leVees on and re
movaI OF Instructions frOm the mout
OF the Mississippi river; finances an
taxation including civil service reform
g.harges on passengers and freight traf
bv rail and water lines; to abolis
throughout the whole country ali j
censes imposed on commercial travellers
Improvement of sea-coast harborsi an
tole railroad facilities from the OhlO riVt
30 the central South taIes and sho
weights, and foreign Immigration. Ii
Convention viii hold its first session {
the 25th OF September. Dr. w ~. 60!
of Baltimore, is the Secretary OF u
Convention.
A newspaper in the South Sea
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