Year: 1865




r.rsd from So so to 81 q 50, as TO quality. Hog


see 6rmer, but not very active Prices ranged from


Hc to 1870 The total receipts are: 6,554 beeves l6
cows, $50 veals 20 TAI sheep and ambs and 10 lo
hoga


President johnson or Tn addeus Stevens
The Restoration or Destruction or the
South.


The visit to the White House on Monday last
Of a numerous delegation of citizens, represent.
ing nine Of the late insurgent States, was most
agreeable, interesting and important affair.
These visitors were presented to the President
as calling upon him "for the purpose of mani
testing the sincere regard and respect" they
entertained for him, and "to express their sin
cere determination to cooperate" with him Gin
whatever shall tend to promote the interests
and welfare of our common country" and fur
ther, to express their loyalty to the Union and
their confidence in his disposition to exercise
all the leniency toward the submissive South
(which can be commended by sound and ju-
dicious policy"


Thus frankly approached in behalf of the
Southern people, President johnson met this
delegation In the same frank and manly spirit
Reminding them Of bis course toward his
Southern brethren" when they were about to
plunge into the suicidal policy of armed rebel
lion; how be had pleaded with them to fight
their battles in the Union, and how he was met
with taunts and jeers, and scowls and threaten
ings and how his course has been vindicated
by the results Of the war, he now accepted
these Southern mon as saying to him,
eve made the issue; we set up the
institution Of slavery against the union
of the States; the arbitrament was the
sword Both the questions presented have
been settled against US, and we are prepared
to accept the issue" Recognizing them in
this capacity. the President, in the course of his
remarks, reminded them that slavery is gone,
that the status Of the negro has to be changed,
and that they must recognize the fact and
adapt themselves to circumstances. The dele
CATION responded, 1--WE are willing to do So"
The President believed them, and that every
pledge or promise they made would be faith
fully carried out. "It WILL" was the response.
The President then on all sides urged a gener-
GUS spirit of conciliatiOn, forgiveness and for
bearance, and promised that in this spirit,
guided by the landmarks of the constitution,
he should pursue the work before him.


Who can doubt that the effect of such meet
ing and such speech as this will be produc-
tive Of substantial and lasting good through
all the length and breadth of the Southf How
can such assurances Of Cancellation and good
will be resisteds The same fraternal spirit
prevailed at Mr.. Stewards reception Of these
Southern visitors, at which several members of
tho Cabinet were present; and thus all doubt
40 to the Southern policy of the administration
Is dispelled. 1t is the simple policy of accept
ing the submission of the late rebellious States
in good faith, and of restoring them to full
communion in the Union as quietly and as fast
as possible, in order that their vast agricultu-
raj resources and their great commercial sta
pies may be speedily made not only to repair
the desolation and dcstitution of the South but
to strengthen the national Treasury and to as
sist us Of the North in tightening the heavy
burden of our national debt.


This is the policy of President Johnson-the
policy Of restoring the disorganized Soutber0.
States to the Union, 10 law and order, industry
and trade. wealth sna preapeeity witho~t need
less less Of time. It is the peliey Of concilia-
don, forgiveHess and frssernity--the policy Of
the constitution, and sound, practical common
sense--the policy which attracts the Northern
democracy in spite of their copperhesd leaders,
and which holds the bulk Of the republicans to
the administration in spite Of their fanatical
boisterous and threatening Jacobin radicals.


Wendell Phillips presents the alternative Of
negro suffrage or repudiation Chief Justice
Chase mounts the hobby Of negro suffrage as
the head Of new Presidential party the
Boston Board of Trade write letter of instruc-
tions to President johnson on the virtues Of
negro suffrage and the dangers Of neglecting
1t Horace Greeley presents negro suffrage as
the infallible patent medicine, the magical pan
acea, the life pills and phenix bitters that alone
can save the country from its numerous all.
ments. But Thaddeus Stevens, the famous
Pennsylvania abolition oracle, giving negro
suffrage the 60 by, fatty proclaims the necessity
Of universal Southern conascation, In order to
escape the maelstrom Of reputation or uni
versal bankruptcy and universal ruin. He pro-
poses to reduce the Southern States to the
condition of Territories-to turn over the lands
Of their people to the auctioneer-to turn those
people out of the country dhe rebel whites), as
the Moors were turned out Of Spain, and to
rebuild on the basis Of the loyal black popula-
tion Such are the pernicious delusions Of abo-
ltion fansticism, and such are the elements
which will be combined against President john
son in the coming Congress.


What is the prOspectf The republicans in
both Houses have an overwhelming majority.
The party leaders In each house, including
Sumner, Wilson and Thaddeus Stevens, are
leading radicals; and, 20 far as their purposes
are foreshadowed, they are resolved on South
en negro suffrage, and strongly inclined to
Southern confiscation. But there are strong