Year: 1867

denIv .dd. four millions of ignorant and penniIss,
NEGROES 10 the voting OF the accession
Is and must ncreasingy become to favor Reputation
policy 10 secure the public creditor, our effort
20 extend the right Of suffrage for money rapidly ag.
grcgates in few hands; and whenever the uen VINO
hag interest in seeing that our national deD paid
shall have become out OF all proportion Few compared
with those who have Interest in It's repudiaton the
votes Of the many will carry it and the debt o. three
thousand millions will be struck out OF existence ~ bal
lots Just as rapidly utterly the similar aoanti In
vested in Southern negroes has been aoosnod asrng
the recent war under showers OF puiies Az ssss sns


That we are 10 have great napcial crssh this year
bold 70 be Inevitable, though deprecating ~ ana having
used every effort for ts avoidance To say that u can
be STAYED Of by any legislation, II the violated laws OF
trade and public economy call for IT, s TO assert that
It's level under the compulson Of Congress iona
enactment Perhaps for so violent disease TINS violent
ing his strength brandy long as he can increase
the dose daily he may get along in high gooo numof


3 we nave oS an
sooner or later the day will come In which brandy no
longer can siimuate nor can Tedeemabe promises 70
man will fit OF sickness, teaching him
that the laws Of temperance can only be violated
under fearful penaltios; and 10 the nation Will
come financial crash, teaching Il that pa
per Is only representative Of value not vaiee ITSELF
and thas inc only true securities TOT our PanC
to all constitutional restraints and thorough sys
tenn Of economy in all branches OF the public service



curtaments and dshonors which the recent Congress
has attempted to cast upon me for my unfinchng and
unalterabe, devotion TO constitutional oath and to
the interests Of the whole country according to my
best judgment and experience-I only sorry as re-
CARDS the ndgnities sought 10 be imposed on my high
office, but unmoved as regards myself Conscious OF
only having executed my duty-conscious OF being de.
usurpaton only because refusing 70 accept
unconstitutional powers and patronage-and satisfied
the day Of wiser thought and sounder estimate
cannot now be far distant, look with perfect con.
Gdence for my vindicalion to the justice OF that
future which am convinced cannot long be delayed.
Unless all the deceptiveuness all truth be


eun God has ceased 70 live tell you that the oI


fraud dominating the councils OF this distracted
country Congress cannot endure forever" The Presl
dent uttered this last sentence with great earnestness
and fire, his previous remarks having been delivered 10
calm grave earnest monotone which Is his habtual
form of expression.


II is perhaps but right to add that the foregoing is
report from memory Of remarks made by Mr. johnson
in extended conversation yesterday afternoon and
that the original did not take the form OF set Speech
here unavodaby given 70 IT, Il should also be added
points embraced in the report and attributed
exclusively to the President may have been more or
less suggested by ncreclona remarks Of the person
10 whom he speaking; but nothing has been here
set down to which the full assent OF Mr. johnson was
ven-aways provided, OF course, that his listener
understood him and remembers correctly