Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-31
TelegramS to The Star.
TEE PRESIDENT INTERVIEWED.
Plain Talk on the Situation.
COLLISION OF IRON CLADS.
Over Four Hundred Lives Lost.
INDIAN WAR IN IDAHO
THE PRESIDENT INTERVIEWED.
What He Says OF the Political Sitna.
tiOn-lhe Danger Not Exagg Grated.

PHILADELPHIA, May 81 A correspondent
OF morning paper interviewed the President
at gettysburg yesterday. During the conver-
SatiOn the following was said:
You do not see cause for another conflict
OF arms in any present difficulties, Mr.. PreSi-
"There never was a time," said the Presi-
dent, when our good Providence was SO plain
ly leading us to peace and order and We had
less temptation to fly away. yet under
THE EVILS OF CAUCUS GOVERNMENT
which cOerceS the timid, the unWary and
often good men, We are now threatened with
meeting perhaps conflict; The direct agents
which brought on the rebellion were spirits Of
light compared TO the present fomenters of
national and general diScOrd. Slavery was
great material interest, vast property il you
will, at any rate the white people of the south
were educated TO believe so. They had that
material stake for their apology for war. But
TO disturb the country once more in the same
generation for nothing but political SpoiS in
which the masses of the people have no inter
est, is nothing less than
AN INTERNAL SCHEME"
Does 1t give you as much alarm as the let
ter OF Mr.. Key to the people of the south eX-
presses
IT gives NE no more personal alarm than
any other citizen; but l have learned to look
with apprehension on the growth of caucus
influence Ill America. am endowed with "A
trust which ! must discharge like a magIS-
tIate. MI Key did not eXaggerate the case
What did Mr.. Key mean, Mr.. President
when he said that
A BLOODY CONFLICT
might be impending over use
Il think you do not repeat what Key said
accurately said the President. He then gave
nearly the whole of the following passage from
Keys letter
Invited to the cabinet as southern man,
to see that justice was done to the south, re-
quired neither to apologize for my record nor
GtO diSOWn my political principles 1t is my
duty now to warn the people of the south of
the danger which threatens the country. No
man need hope that the schemes of the men
who have engineered the movement to unSeat
President Hayes can be carried out without a
bloody civil war"
THE PRESIDENT WILL DO HIS DUTY.
THAT was what Mr.. Key wrote" said the
President. Such schemes cannot be carried
Constitution of the United States. and will de-
liver the executive office in its integrity TO my
successor
You do not admit then that Congress has
any power TO dlSplace you from the Office -
They can inpeach me in the House of Rep
reSeniativeS and try NE i'm the Senate. There
| is DO other way in which will recognize any
attempt of Congress TO remove me. But [ do
not believe that the United States Senate has
fallen to that point where high-claSS demo
Gratis, like Bayard and Thurman, Gordon and
| Hill will agree to make the Senate a vehicle
| for carrying out the revolutionary edict of a
| party caucus by conviction OF impeach-
ment."
THE PRESIDENT COMPLIMENTS SOME SOUTH
ERN MEN.
The President cOmplimented Wade Hamp-
| ton and Gov; Nichols, saying that they had
| blacks, to the state and the Union, and added
| that the course of Alexander III. Stephens rec
commended him to his age and to history. The
| other evil from the Potter policy prevailing
than an attempt to impeach your" Yes; by
| getting large majority, say two-thirdS in
| both Houses of Congress they might attempt
| to decline cooperation with the Executive and
| bring on deadlock in affairs. Suppose Con
| greSS should recognize another person as
| President. That" said the President, would
| be the civil war Judge Key and Mr.. Stephens
referred to. should defend my office and the
independence of the Executive against any
intruder. want the people to see to what the
action of Congress tends. For that reason
Judge Key addressed his letter to the southern
people, that they might instruct their Con-
greSSmen so as to relieve those Congressman
from the restraints of a caucus power when
they arrive at Washington
A CHANGE OF SENTIMENT.
"1S the situation as bad as it was a week
ago?"
No; the vote in the House of Representa-.
tiveS yesterday when a date of adjournment
was set by large majority, showed that
public opinion had set i'm too powerfully for
the schemers, and that they had no willing
allegiance in very many patriotic democrats
Yet it is well for the people to keep vigilant on
this question"
DO you feel satisfied with your Cabinet?m
II think / have firStrate Cabinet. Mr..
Key would have been here to-day but for Off
cial duties. 1t is my desire to administer the
government kindly and wisely, but there Is a
point at which / must say Thus far shalt
thou 60 but no further"