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Personal.—Among the arrivals in our city
yesterday, wc notice (be names of Gen. Wood.
Commander of this Department, and family.
There are also several military gentlemen
whom we take to l>c his staff.
Minute ofPoints.
DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT AT MILL
KDGEVII.LE, OA., JUNE TERM. 1800.
[Continued.]
Cunningham )
Schley. )
The executors ofa guardian who died pos
sessed o^ specific property belonging to his
Petition from Richmond.
gijyOen. Grunt has given another 83,000 \ ward, cannot, before the expiration of twelve
toward the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal' months from their qualification, be compelled
Church in Washington, D. C. Doth he and by the Court of Ordinary, on petition of the
Chief Justice Chaso have consented to serve ward, (who had attained his majority) to
on the Board of Trustees. turn over to him such property by way of
— j partial settlement. Even if the Court of Or-
SF"Advices from Florida state that the * Jnary can exercise over suc h matters the
' prospect for crops, both of corn and cotton,
arc very discouraging. Corn may, with fa
vorable seasons, make a pretty (air average
but the cotton crop seems to lie almost hope
lessly in the grass in many portions of the
State.
“.Robert S. Fordo died suddenly at his
residence in Elizabethtown, Ky., a few days
since. Before the fall of Richmond, it will
he remembered, ho suffered a long imprison
ment for killing Mr. Dixon, of Columbus,
Ga., the Cierk of the Confederate House of
Representatives, in a street fight in that city.
’The most remarkable occurrence of
the season, says the Jackson, Miss., Clarion, is
tho receipt, by a gentleman in Grenada, of a
letter from Vicksburg, making inquiries con
cerning the ownership of one hundred and
eighty bales of cotton sent from Yalobusha
county three years ago, and sjill lying in
Vicksburg unclaimed.
So much for abolishing Treasury Agents!
“There’s Life in toe Old Land Yet.”
A grand tournament came off at Americus
last week, in which a largenumber of gallant
Knights entered the lists, all in appropriate
costumes. As these arc desponding times,
tho Knight of Despondency won the first
hpnor, and to him was accorded the distin.
guished privilege of crowning as Queen of
Love and Beauty, u very pretty friend of ours,
than whom no cue is more worthy of the
honor.
The “South Carolinian.”—A Correc
tion.'—Perceiving a notice in some of our ex
changes that the above journal had suspend
ed, and the report being apparently confirmed
by its failurfc tt> reach this office as usual, we
stated it as a fact, and expressed our regrets.
Wo are gratified to know, however, that it
was a mistake. The South Carolinian, which
had been published since the close of the war
at Charleston, only suspended for a few days
in order to get back to and fully establish
itself in its old home, Columbia, from which
point we aro in receipt of a late number that
is full of vitality, and gives promise of a long
and useful life. Brother DeFontainc has our
b^st wishes lor his success.
The Reconstruction Report.—We do
not know that there is a man, woman, or
child, white or black, within the range of our
circulation that will feel the slightest interest
in the doings of that Jacobin Club at Wash
ington, known as tho Reconstruction Com
mittee; but as their report is part and parcel
of the history of these eventful times, and
will serve to show to future generations of
freemen the dangerous usurpations through
which their country has passed unscathed,
on the one hand, or to n nation of slaves the
process by which they sunk to insignificance
and degradation, on tho other, wc give a
liberal synopsis of the document on our first
page. The report itself will fall still-born,
as few will read it, and, wc hope, for the
good of the country that its authors will die
With it.
same powers belongingto a Court of Chance-
ry, the executors cannot be called on before
the twelve months arc out; and then, not for
a partial, but only for a full and final settle
ment.—Judgment Affirmed.
Fish ) Statutory proceeding against
vs. [• tenant holding over—From
Van Winkle. ) Richmond.
Lumpkin, Cn. J.
1. The Juiy may consider the evidence of
an impeached witness: This proposition is
correct of itself; and is certainly so when
limited with the proviso that the evidence be
in harmony with truth, and corroborated by
other evidence.
2. A charge that an offer of rccision is not
too late it made within a reasonable time,
and that the intervening occurrence may be
considered on that question, is as favorable to
the party moving for the rccision, as he has
a right to ask.
3. So, also, is a charge that a trade in
duced by untrue representations is vitiated
This is going to the uttermost boundary of
the law%
4. Whereas no motion for a new trial has
been made in the Court below, the Supreme
Court will not pass upon the question wheth
er the verdict was contraiy to law, contraiy
to evidence, contrary to law and evidence,
contrary to the weight of evidence or con
trary to the charge of the Court. Judgment
Affirmed.
Sneads & L&llerstedt for Plaintiff in error.
Starnes & Johnson for Defendant
Jones 1
ts. > In Equity from Richmond.
Linton. S
Walker, J.
1. An answer founded on belief or informa
tion, may be overcome without two witness
es, or one yitness and corroborating circum
stances.
2. If goods are supplied to an administra
tor who represents estates which are two in
law but one in fact, the creditor is not bound
to show for which of the estates they were
furnished.
3. In this case there was some evidence
tending to establish that the effects of the
two estates had never been separated, and
therefore the charge of the Court on that
subject was not irrelevant.—Judgment Af
firmed.
Starnes for Plaintiff in error.
Lallerstcdt for Defendant.
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The Freshet of Last Week.—The
Columbus Enquirer of yesterday, says. “We
have verbal accounts of extensive overflows of
cultivated lands on tbc Chattahoochee, Fiint
and Alabama rivers, by the freshet of last
week. Some planters represent nearly the
whole of their grouuds overflowed—all of the
best they had planted. We hear this report
from a number of large plantations on the
Flint nr.d Chattahoochee rivers, and as these
were under water a great many others must
have been in the same condition. Where the
lands overflowed so late in the season were
planted in cotton, that crop must now be
abandoned for this year, and it will be late to
substitute even corn. We fear that immense
disaster has been occasioned by these late
rains, and that they have ruined the prospects
of very many .planters.”
WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE.
The annual catalogue and announcement of
this institution for the scholastic year, 1883—
1868, lias boon laid on our table. It is from
{fro Phoenix Publishing Houso in this city,
n:{il in typographical execution is a perfect
gem.
The list of pupils for the current year, as in
thccase'of all-other literary institutions in
the South, shows a sad falling-off from the
prosperity of the Wesleyan in former
days. The number now in attendance is but
111, including 30 ^’irregulars.” The College
is capable of affixing educational facilities
for three or tour times that numbeV, and wc
bop? to witness a rerigftl of its prosperity at
the opening ofthq coming session in Octo
ber. The College is <v monument that does
lasting credit tu'flio religious denomination
to which it is indebted for its origin and
chief support, and they oWc it to themselves
to come forward and sustain it liberally
. in this hour oi need. In ' whatever
else they may feel the necessity of economi
sing, this should be the lost. Our ail of
greatness ami prosperity as a people depends
moro upon the mental and moral enlighten-
rtient of tho youth of the land, female as well
as male, than upon uny other one thing in the
lino of human effort. Neglect this, and wc
Committee.
Washington, June 8tb, 1866.
The detailed report of tlie Committee on
Reconstruction was to daymade in each Ilouse
of Congress. They se t forth the reasons for
the conclusion to which they came in report
ing an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States and to the two bills with which
the public are already familiar. Speaking of
the condition of the Confederate States at
the close of the rebellion, tne Committee say
these States were in utter exhaustion and
without Governments. The President had
no power except to execute the laws of the
land as Chief Magistrate. The laws gave him
no authority over the subject of reorganiza
tion. By the Constitution he was Commander
in-Chief of the army and navy. It was his
duty under the law of nations and the army
regulations, to restore order, to preserve prop
erty and to protect the people against violence
from any quarter, until provision should be
made for their government. He might, as
President, assemble.Congress, and submit the
whole matter to the law-making power; or
he might continue military supervision and
control until Congress should assemble oi) its
regularly appointed day. As to tho Gover
nors appointed by tho President it could not
be contended that they posscssedHcpould ex
ercise any but military authority. xThcy had
no power to organize civil Governments, nor
to exercise any authority except that which
inhered in their persons under their commis
sions ; neither bad the President, as Com
mandcr-in-Chief,any other than military pow
er. But lie was in exclusive possession of the
millitary authority. It was for him to decide
how far he would exercise it, when and on
what terms he would withdraw it. He
might, perhaps, permit the people to assem
ble and to initiate local governments, and to
execute such local laws us they might choose
to form, not inconsistent with nor in opposi
tion to the laws of tbc United States, and,
satisfied they might safely be left to them
selves, he might withdraw the military forec
altogether and leave the people of any or all
of these States to govern themselves without
his interference.
The Committee, after speaking of the ori
gin and leading ^indictments of the war, say
it was waged as a civil war of gigantic mag
nitude. It was necessarily subject to all the
rules which, by the laws of nations, control a
contest of that character, and to all the legiti
mate consequences following it. One ot the
consequences was this: within the limits pre
scribed by humanity the conquered rebels
were at the mercy of their conquerors. The
Committee did not deem it necessary or
iroper to discuss the question whether the
ate Confederate States are still States of this
Union or can ever be otherwise. Grant this
profitless abstraction about which so many
words have been wasted, it by no means fol
lows that the people of those States may not
place themselves in a condition to abrogate
the powers and privileges incident to a State
of the Union, and deprive themselves of all
pretence to the right to exercise their power
and enjoy their privileges. The Committee
maintain no portion of the people of the
country, whether in a State, or Terri
tory, have the right, while remaining
on its soil, to withdraw from or reject the
authority of the United States.
They say it is quite evident, lrom all the
facts, and, indeed, from the whole mass of
testimony submitted by the President, that in
no instance was any regard paid to any other
consideration than obtaining immediate ad
mission to Congress under the barren form of
an election, in which no precautions were
taken to secure regularity ot proceedings or
the assent of the people. * No Constitution has
been legally adopted, except, perhaps, in the
State of Tennessee, and such elections as were
held were without authority of law. The
committee are accordingly forced to the con
clusion that the States referred to have not
Gerrit Smith Opposes the Trial of XIn.
Davis.—Gerrit Smith, in a letter to Chief
Justice Chase, says the courts have .no right
to try Jeff. Davis, and he hopes the Chief Jus
tice will hold that he has not. He closes his representrtion in Congress, unless all the rules
letter with tho following paragraph: I which have since the foundation of the Gov-
T , ., . . , ..... c .. . ernment been deemed essential in such cases
I have said wc must deal with the South m
c tizens, destroyed more than 230,000 loyal
sddiers. and imposed an increased national
bmlen of not less than $3,300,000, of which
seren or eight hundred millions have elready
been met and paid. From the time these
Ccnfederated States thus withdrew from their
representation in Congress and levied war
ngiinst the United States, the great mass of
ther people became and were insurgents and
trai ors, and all of them assumed and occu
pied the political, legal and practical rela
tion of enemies of the United States. This
posifion is established by acts ot Congress
and judicial decisions, and is recognized re
peatedly by the President in public procla-
mnmaions, documents and speeches.
Seond—TheStates thus confederated pros-
ecutec their war auainst the United States to
final a-bitrameut, and did not cease until all
their irmies were captured, their military
potferelestroycd, their civil officers, State and
Confederate, taken prisoners or put to flight,
every v -tige of State and Confederate Gov-
cmmeit obliterated, their territory overrun
and occupied by the Federal araiies, and their
people reduced to the condition of enemies
conque ci in war, entitled only by public
law to aich rights, privileges and conditions
as miglt be vouchsafed by the conqueror.
This josition is also established by judicial
decisions, and so recognized by the President
in pubic proclamations, documents and
speeches
Third—Having voluntarily deprived them
selves of representation in Congress for the
crirainai purpose of destroying the Federal
Union, ind having reduced themselves by the
act of lerying war, to tho condition of public
enemies, they have no right to complain of
tempo la ry exclusion from Congress; but on
the contrary, having voluntarily renounced
their right to representation, and disqualified
themselves by crime from participating in the
government, the burden now rests upon them,
before claiming to be reinstated In their pow
er, conditions to show that they are qualified
to resume Federal relations. In order to do
this, they must provo that theyjtove re-estab
lished, with the consent of the peoples, repub
lican firms of government, in harmony with
the Constitution and laws of the United
States; that all hostile purposes have ceased,
and should give adequate guarantees against
future treason and rebellion, which will prove
satisfactory to tlie Government against which
they rebelled, and by whose arms they were
subdued. . .
Fourth.—Having by this treasonable with
drawal from Congress, and by flagrant rebel
lion and wsr, forfeited all civil and political
rights undtr the Federal Constitution, they
can only berestorcd thereto by the permission
and authority of that constitutional power
agninst which they rebelled, and by which
they were subdued.
Fifth.—Tkese rebellious armies were con
quered by tlie people of'the .United States
acting through all the co-ordinate branches
of the Government, and not by the Executive
Department alone. The powers of Congress
arc not so rested in the President that he can
fix and regulate the terms of settlement and
confer Congressional representation upon con
quered rebels and traitors, nor can lie in any
way qualify enemies of the Government to
exercise its law-making power. The authori
ty to restore rebels to political power in the
Federal Government can be exercised only
with the concurrence of all the departments
in which political power is vested, and hence
the several proclamations of the President to
the people of the Confederate States cannot
be considered as extending beyond the pur
poses declared, and can only be regarded as
provisional permission by the Commander-
In-Chief of the army to do certain acts, the
validity whereof i* to be determined by the
Constitutional Government, and not solely by
the Executive power.
more staple foundation.
(Signed.) W. P. Fessendsn,
James S. Grimes,
Ira Harris,
J. H. Howard,
Geo. H. "Williams,
Tiiaddeus Stevens,
J ustin S. Morrill,
John A. Bingham,
Roscoe Conklino,
George L. Boltwkli..
The dissentients are Senator Reverdy John
son and Representatives Henry Grider and
Andrew J. Rogers.
XO TRIAL. TO TAKE PLACE
UNTIL OCTOBER.
: ODicinl Announcement of Jml
Underwood.
ADDRESS OF HON. JAMES T.
Ac. &c.
BRABx
Ac.
Tlie National Union Fair at 'Wash
ington.
placed themselves^ in a condition to claim p]casi [ nmdoQthdr own term s to partici-
tlie spirit of impartial justice. Wc must also
deal with iier in the spirit of great generosity
and great love. Wc must claim no,indemni-
shall be disregarded.
The committee then review at length the
condition and feeling of the Southern people,
saying, among other things, that the latter
ty for the past. We must exact no unncces- a right the privilege of participation
sary security for the (future. Wijmust sub
ject her to no changes and no disabilities
which are not indispensable. If the breaking
up ot her large lauded estates to parcel them
out to her white and black poor is not de
manded by her people, we must not insist up
on it. If, by putting the ballot in the hands
of blacks, it will not be necessary, in order to
save her, to withhold it for a season from her
whites who were involved in the guilt of the
war, then are there strong reasons why we
should not insist upon the probation. One
thing more. The South is poor, and the
North is still rich. Would it be too large an
expression of fraternal love to save the South
for some five or ten years from the imposition
of direct national taxes ?
With great regard, your friend,
Gerrit Smith.
Rinderpest among toe Radicals.—The
Northern papers speak lugubriously over tlie
illness of Triad. Stevens, and some apprehend
serious consequences. It is doubtful whether
his disease be the rinderpest, which is pre
vailing among the brute creation, or ossifica
tion of the heart. Some shrewd doctors re
gard “nigger on the brain” ns the probable
malady, combined with a lack of “iron” in
the blood. A contemporary suggests that
his constitution needs amendment.
XIr. Sumner, it is also said, is seriously ill,
his nervous system being again in a dreadful
condition. Wc hope he will go to France
again and try the moxa upon his spine; it
will no doubt do him a vast amount of good.
It is said that he never gets sleep except when
under the influence ol the most powerful nar
cotics. It is hardly to be wondered at:
“XIaobeth hath murdered sleep.”
Affhat. uf Thomasvillk.—A passenger
by the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad informs
the Savannah Advertiser that a rencontre
occurred in Thomasville on Thursday lost,
between Thomas J. Lightfoot and C. C. Rich
ardson, during which pistols and knives were
freely used and both parties severely, if not
mortally wounded. Richardson, a few
months since, was agent ot tlie Frecdmen’s
Bureau at that place, but was admitted to the
bar by Judge Hansell at the court at Val
dosta on Monday last
The Late Ovf.rflow.—The waters are
rapidly subsiding from the late freshet, and
the planters, wo learn, have gone to work
with a determination to save the remnant of
..... their crops. Immense damage has been done
*!" „” *''IV , m „Vto the corn crop, and tho cotton fields arc
shall never riss trom Ro yalty of humiliation with ‘’ and wceda . jf tbe prcscnt
ever, for a short time, the grass con be easily
subdued.—Moat. Mail, 12th.
Fish for Fuel.—The Cleveland Herald
states that the steamboats on Lake Eric use
fish for fuel. Sturgeons weighing sixty
pounds are thrown into the furneccs. and the
oil assists tlie combustion of the wood, twen
ty sturgeons being estimated as equal to a
cord of wood in the generation of heat.
highest type of the human race. We shall
continue to be the dependents of a bqjtcr
educated and more aspiring people, who
would make us hewers of wood and drawers
of water to themselves. Are we prepared to
subject our countrymen of the South to such
a vassalage 1 H' not, we must educate the
minds of the rising generation, teach them
independence of thought, self-reliance and
that great truth that the fate of every people
is in their own hands. Exeeltiori should be
the Southern motto, and in due time our in
fluence, which is now feared even while we
.ire powerless, will soon be felt and recog
nized, as it once was, as the grand arbiter of
American destiny. It is no time to talk
about economy when such vast interest
at stake and wc have any mean
port and advance them. Let prid
oi ! i\ :iy, tiic desire of wealth, everything ...
suli :. hut the immortal'! .'.nd. I pm. that | 1". • ..rst cotton bloom of the .hu-uii
hang* tho d< tiny of ;hi- world ind tli ■ still: was found on a plantation near Baton Rung'
weightier com < rn< < f tne w -rid to come. Saturday the 2d instant.
■ green with grass
and become, what the South once jvas, the bright, hot weather will only continue, liow-
Through by Daylight.—Wo arc indebted
to the courtesy of Capt. Williamson, of the
National Express, ! »ra copy of the Savannah
News and ■ Herald of yesterday, which came
through by the day train, arriving last even
ing. This looks like the revival of old times.
£5/”Jnclge Story's ->n, Wm. W. Story, now
u.i.ii t.cim 11n Rome, is one of the most promi-Jug of the
i.- at nil to sup- American sculptor*.’ An Englishman lat-ly
pride, t.i- loie offered him -'3,060 for one of nls marble-.
at once in the Government which, tor four
years, they sought to overthrow, while their
presses abound in abuse of the loyal States
and efforts are made to perpetuate the dead
ly hate and discord between the two sections
and to excite hostility against tlie Federal
Union: riHWtriiMlliMH
The report, which is a long one, concludes
as follows, which may be regarded os a sum
mary of the whole case:
The evidence of an intense hostility to the
Federal Union and an equally intense love of
tlie late Confederacy, by the war, is decisive.
While it appears that nearly all arc willing to
submit, at least, for the time being, to Feder
al authority, it is equally clear that the ruling
motive is a desire to obtain the advantages
which will be derived from a representation
in Congress. Officers of the Union army on
duty, and Northern men who go South to en
gage in business, are generally detested and
proscribed. Southern" men who adhered to
the Union are bitterly hated and heartlessly
persecuted. In some localities prosecutions
have been instituted in State Courts against
Union officers for acts done in the line of of
ficial duty, and similar prosecutions are threat
ened elsewhere as soon as tbe-United States
troops are removed. All such demonstrations
show a state of feeling against which it is un
mistakably necessary to guard. Tbe testimo
ny is conclusively that after the collapse of
tlie Confederacy the feeling of tl:c people of
the rebellious States was that of abject sub
mission. Having appealed to the tribunal of
uruis,.thcy had no hope except that; by the
magninimity of their conquerors, their lives
and possibly their property might have l>een
preserved. : Unfortunately, tlie general issue
of pardons to persons who had been promi
nent in the rebellion,, afid the feeling ot Jib'd
Ijncss and conciliation manifested by tlie Ex
ocufivie and generally indicated through the
Northern Press, liartthecffect to render whole
communities forgetful of the crime they bad
commit ted, defiant toward the Federal Gov
ernment, and regardless of their duty as citi
zens. The conciliatory measutes of the Gov-
emment'do not seem to have been met even
half way. Tbe bitterness and defiance ex
hibited toward tlie United States under such
circumstances, is without a parallel in the
history of the world. In return for our
leniency, we receive only an insolent assump
tion of'rights and privileges long since for
feited. The crime we have punished is
paraded as a virtue, alul tlie principles of Re
publican Government which we have vindi
cated at so terrible a cost, arc denounce^ as
unjust an J oppressive.
If we add to this evidence the fact that
although pi ace nal4 been declared by the
President, he hss not to this day deemed it
safe to restore the writ of haheat eorpun to 1 re
lieve the insurrectionary . States of -martial
law, nor to withdraw the troops from many
localities, and that’the Commanding Gener.il
deems an- increase of the army Indupi n-il 1-
to the preservation of order and the protec
tion of loyal and well-disposed people in the
South, the proof of a condition of feelin
hostile to the Union and dangerous to the
Government throughout - tho insurrectionary
States would seem to lie alarming.
We now .propose to re-state as briefly as
possible the general facts and princi
ple.- applicable to all tlie States recently In
rebt lliqn:
Firs:—Tli<- seats of Senators and Repre
sentatives from the so-called Confederate
States became \ acant in the year 1801, during
thcsecond se-ion of the thirty-sixth Congress,
by the voluntary withdrawal ol their incum
bents. with the sanction and by the direction
of tlieir respective States. This was done as
a hostile ac: against the Constitution and the
Government of the United States, with the
declared intent to overthrow the same by
forming a Southern Confederation. This
act oi declared hostility was speedily fol
lowed by an - g&niaation of the same States
with a O.iifedcr..ry m iiAii iive-1 and waged
v. ar ! y--a and ig..!- t-ir United Stales.
This war continue. ! more than four years,
wMtbin Which ; .-riod the i bel armies beseiged
the national capital, invaded the Joval States,
Sixth.—Tho question Dcioro Congress is
then, whether conquered enemies have then
the right and shall be permitted at tlieir own
jiate in making laws for their conquerors ?
Whether conquered rebels ntay change tlieir
theatre of operations from the battle-field
where they were defeated and overthrown to
the halls of Congress, and through this rep
resentation seize upon the Government which
they fought to destroy? Whether the Na
tional Treasury, the army of tlie nation, its
navy, its forts and arsenals, its whole civil
administration, its credit, its pensioners, the
widows and orphans of those who perished
in the war, the public honor, peace and safe
ty, shall all be turned over to tlie keeping of
its recent enemies, without delay, and with
out requiring such conditions as in the opin
ion of Congress the security of the country
and its institutions may demand.
Seventh. The History of mankind exhibits
no example of such madness and folly. The
instinct of self-preservation protests agninst
it. The surrender by Grant to Lee, and by
Sherman to Johnson woiikl have been disaster
of less magnitude, for new armies could have
been raised, new battles fought and the Gov
ernment raised the anti-coercion policy, which
under the pretext of avoiding bloodshed,
allowed the rebellion to take form and gath
er force, would be surpassed in infamy by the
matchless wickedness that would surrender
the halls ot Congress to those so recently in
reliellion until proper precaution shall have
been taken to secure the national safety.
Eighth. It has been shown in this report
and in the evidence admitted, no proof has
been afforded to Congress of a constituency
in any of the so-called Confederate States, un
less we expect the State of Tennessee, quali
fied to elect Senators and representatives in
Congress. No State Constitution or amend
ment to a State Constitution has had the sanc
tion pf the people. All the so-called legisla
tion of State conventions and Legislatures mis
been under military dictation.
If the President may at liis will and under
his own authority, whether as a military com
mander or chief executive, qualify persons to
appoint Senators and elect Representatives^
and empower others to appoint nnd elect
them, lie thereby practically controls the or
ganization of the Legislative Department.—
The constitutional form of Government is
thereby practically destroyed, and its powers
absorl>c<i in the Executive; and while your
committee do not for a moment impute to the
President any-such design, but cheerfully con
cede to him the most patriotic motives, they
cannot but look with alarm upon a precedent
so fraught with danger to tlie Repub’ic.
Nmtu—Tli*i necessity of providing ade
quate safeguards for the lnturc before restor
ing the insurrectionary States to ^participa
tion in tlie direction of public affairs, .is ap
parent froin the bitter hostility to the Gov
ernment dn j people of the Unit’cd States yet
existing throughout the conquered territory
is made incontestible by the testimony of
many witnesses and by undisputed facts.
Tenth—The conclusion of yonr Committee,
therefore, is,'that the to-called Confederate
Stiites are not at present entitled to reprdun-
tation iu the Congress of the United States:
that before allowing such representation; ade
quate security for future peace and safety
should be requested; that .this can 'only be
found in such changes of the organic laws as
shall determine the civil rights and privileges
of the citizens in all parts of this Republic
shall have representation on an equitable ba
sis, shall fix a stigma upon treason and protect
the loyal people agninst future claims for the
expenses incurred in support of the rebellion,
and for manumitted slave-, together with an
express grant of power in Congress to enforce
these provisions. To this end, they offer a
joint resolution for amending the Constitution
of the 'United State-*, and the two several
bills designated to carry the same into effect,
before referred to. Before closing this report,
your Committee beg leave tOj state that
the specific ' recommendations' submitted,
by them are the result of con
cession, after a long and careful comparison
of conilieting opinion-. Upon a question of
such magnitude, infinitely important as it is
to the future oftho Republic, it was not to be j
expected that nil shotlld think alike. Sensi
ble of the imperfections of the scheme, yonr
.SI’KECH FROM PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
Richmond. Ya., June G.—There was quite
a large attendance of spectators in the court
room this morning, including nearly all the
members of the Richmond bar.
Messrs. Reed, Brady, and Brown, conns
for Xrr. Davis, entered the court room about
10 o’clock, and awaited the opening of the
court.
About 10 3-4 oelock Judge Underwoo
took his seat and tlie court was opened bv
the crier.
After the lapse of Several minutes Judge
Underwood, addressing the Assistant Dis
trict-Attorney, said:
XIr. Ilennessy—We arc ready to hear from
you whenever it suits your convenience.
XIr. Ilennessy arose, and the counsel, law
yers, and spectators present all arose and
The President remarked that he came here
to-night merely to say a word in the cause of
humanity and to unite in the expression of
the gratitude of the nation for the nation’s
defenders. [Applause.] He did not come
prepared to make a speech, but 'simply to
give bis countenance and encouragement in
aid of the enterprise which the ladies had so
nobly undertaken. He appeared here with [ - W
no set phrase of speech and nicely-rounded forward to heur his response,
periods to play upon the car and to please but ^ r - Hennessy said :
for a moment. If there was a cause which speech of sir. hennessy.
more than another should engage tlieir sym- Mav it please your Honor, as the answers
pathies, it was that of orphans, especially of of the’ government to the questions propound-
those who lost their all and periled their lives ed by XIr. Reed yesterday are considered of
to save the Government. What nobler and some importance, I have written them out
better work could you be engaged in ? Ho and propose to read them to the Court
was proud that this great move should have Xlav it please your Honor, yesterday XIr
its origin here at the scat of the National, W. B. Reed, one of the counsel for Jefferson
Government. Davis, propounded certain questions to the
Woman, God bless her! has been Instni- Court and to me, which, in absence of Sir.
montal in the performance of great and noble Chandler, I at that time declined to answer,
acts in all periods of history, and it is not less XIr. Chandler is still absent, being, I regret to
becoming to them now tbiin in the time gone say, entirely prostrated by a recent severe
by. But it was not his intention to invite
his hearers to go back and review the new
made graves of the nefarious rebellion, nor
to excite angry feelings in connection with
the contest, nor to revive the scenes of the
battle-field,where brother was arrayed against
brother. No, no; God forbid, and relieve us
from tlxc repetition of such calamities. We to be suspended ?”
domestic calamity; but, as I promised that
I would proceed to-day to reply to the ques
tions of the leading gentlemen, I shall.
That gentleman correctly says that an in
dictment has been found in this court against
his client, XIr. Davis, and asks, “Is it to be
tried ?” “ Is it to be developed ?” or “ Is it
now rejoice that the land is no longer to be
drenched by fratricidal blood. He would
not reopen the wounds and make them bleed
afresh. That was the work of war and con
test and struggle, growing out of mistaken
apprehensions.
Yours, he said, is the work of peace, to
pour the balm, that the healing may take
place; and what is more proper to that end
than to take up the destitute orphans, and
thus educate and guide them, thus laying a
solid moral basis which may control them
throughout their future lives ? You will find
in these caskets precious gems, though now
dimmed by poverty. Talents and genius are
not confined to particular localities and
places. Lettliein be provided for and educa
ted, and you cannot fail to accomplish the
great end you have undertaken.
So far as I am instructed, I believe it is to
be tried, but it will not be possible to do so
at present, for a variety of reasons, some of
which I will proceed to give:
In the first place, XIr. Davis, although in
dicted in this court for high treason, is nof
now, and never has been in the custody ot
this court, but is held by the United States
government as a State prisoner, at- Fortress
XIonroc, under an order of the President,
signed by the Secretary of War.
In the second place, even if XIr. Davis were
in the custody of this court, it would not be
possible for the Attorney-General, in view of
his numerous and pressing engagements at
the close of the session, to come here and try
this case of great national importance, nor
could he be expected to do so.
In the third place, if XIr. Davis is in tho
You all remember the story of Cornelia j delicate state of health suggested by XIr.
the mother of the Gracchi, the. two greatest Reed, it would be nothing less than cruel at
Romans who ever lived, and who lost their j this hot and unhealthy season to expose him
lives in vindicating the great cause of the to the unavoidable fatigue of a protracted
tioonla A nnmlutF nC /liof InmiiniinA 1.» /l ! ^ .—1. 1. — _ _ 2 2a._1.1_
people. A number of distinguished ladies
in whose company she was, expatiated on
their fine dresses and accomplishments, and
the jewelry they wore, and other articles with
which they were decorated and adorned.
Cornelia attentively listened to each in turn,
and then, looking ont at the door, saw her
two boys running homeward from school.
Her checks flushed with matronly pride, and
clasping them, one on each side, site exclaim
ed: “These are my jewels 1” You, ladies,
can gather around you the orphans, the little
boys and girls, and say, these are our jewels.
This is your work, and no doubt it will be
well accomplished. Let woman be engaged
in this noble work; God Ness her! Yes,
woman can accomplish it if she will.
“None, none on earth’s above her,
As pure as thought as angjls are,
To see her is to love her.”
[Applause.] Go on, your efforts will
crowned with success.
One view is of war, the other of peace—
yes, peace. The other day, near this city—
and not only once, but several times—he
walked among the graves of the dead; and
when he passed along and looked at the head
boards, he saw the names of soldiers from
New York, Indiana and other State regiments
of the Federal army. There they sleep in
peace, the green sward growing upon their
graves. They were Federal soldiers. He
looked next on tlie other side, and what did
lie sec ? A. B., rebel soldier, belonging to
such a regiment. The strife had ended—the
contest closed. That was peace. When they
were in the field engaged in strife it was war.
Now they sleep in alternative graves while it
is peace. [Applause.] And let peace do its
work.
He trusted our country und Government
would bo blessed with peace, and that con
fidence and respect for one another every
where would be restored. [Applause.] And
that those warring and disturbing elements
which separated and divided us in the san
guinary conflict through which we passed
trial, which appears to be an inevitable re
sult from the array of counsel present and
prospective engaged for his defense.
Neither this court nor any of its officers
have any present control over tbe person of
XIr. Davis, and until they have it becomes
impossible for the District Attorney to say
when he will be tried. But I assure the gen
tlemen who represent XIr. Davis here that
the moment lie comes into the custody oi
this court they shall have full and prompt
notice when it is intended to try him. So
far as the District Attorney and his associ
ates are concerned, they may feel assured that
tho case will have a just and speedy trial,
without further barrier, let or hindrance.—
This I say for the special department of the
I court which I represent; but what the in-
| tentions of the government are in regard to
j the disposition of XIr. Davis, I am no further
be i instructed than what I have said.
I now move,, may it please your Honor,
that this court, as soon ns the business before
it is disposed of, adjourn until the first Tues
day in October next. By that time mo3t of the
heat of summer will have passed away. The
weather will then be cool and pleasant, and
should we have pleasure of seeing again
these learned gentlemen they will then be
more fitted for the arduous labors which their
profession constantly imposes upon them.—
In the meantime the “chrystilization process,”
referred to by the learned gentleman-yester
day, will be going on, and his client will be
enjoying the cool breezes of the sea at Fort
ress Monroe instead of inhaling the heated
and fetid atmosphere of a crowded court
room.
XIr. James T. Brady, of New York, one of
the counsel for XIr. Davis then said:
Winter, because it
hmond
wmytoore comfortable ia i.ummonci at g-
tune than in the summer. I think the rT*
- ■ i- mistaken in suppositu: :h it .
Monroe is not as comloitable a >■' • ■■
e m
in the summer I have foundtoe'
very refreshing. Jret -
Mr. Brady to tlie Judgc-But vety fi mi .
society your honor. (Lau'diter.! J *
Judtre
l nderwood (continuing a*
society is limited. Hovrever. the go°vemnJ.;
IS disposed-to extend every reasonable**?
ilege; and I am happy to know that the wi*
of tile prisoner is permitted to be with
and that his friends are permitted to viV
mm. The motion of vlie District-Attornl-
ts, therefore, granted. This Court wifi Jf
journ. not until November, but until the fir-
Tuesday in October, which time is preferrJ
ky the Chief-Justice and tho Attorney-Gc-
erai. The case will tLen. it not before v
disposed of.
At tlie conclusion of Judge Underwood'i
remarks the crowd dispersed, and soon
the Court adjourned.
From tho K Y. Time,
THE EUROPEAN C1USTS-THE Pr. \v
OI’PRUSSIA,
It may not be generally known that a”
along Prussia, under the lead of Bismarcl'
lias had other object*} in view beside
turi*!fnri’ol n rrrrrnM rl !L aL _ . i
territorial aggrandizement by the absorpti,;,
cf the Elbe Duchies —Schlcswig-Holstei-T
Ppliaoio ltoo W'liot WtA-ar if: -***•
Prussia has what mav almost be called-
hereditary plan for the future. She is dete'
mined to become a great naval as well«!
military power, in the northern centre of
Europe. As at present constituted, herteni-
torial limits confine her to the Baltic, i'j (
southern coast of which only is under her
rule. What Russia seeks by her meditated
advance tothe South, and by striving to pog.
ADDRESS OF MR. BRADY.
If your Honor please I did not expect to
say one word this morning in reference to the
case of XIr. Davis. But some of the sugges
tions contained in what my learned friend
has just read, make it proper for me to state
may pass away. He trusted, too, that the ; that if XIr. Davis be not technically subject to
asylum which it was proposed to establish your Honor’s jurisdiction, it is only because
might beextensive enough to bless all orphans,
Wc should not inquire what made them or
phans. Charity doth not thus behave. They
are human beings, and deserve your protec
tion, kindness and instruction.
The President thanked the ladies and
gentlemen for the compliment of inviting
him to be present. He should not have
liked to come as an intruder;“ but in an asso
ciation of tills kind he wa3 not sure that lie
would be an intruder. This was a cause in
which lie had a large amount of stock nnd
interest. (Laughter.), He knew how to ap
preciate nnd admire the efforts and motives of
the friends of organizations of this kind, and
so far» in him lay, physically, mentally,
pecuniarily, and intellectually, lie would g.vc
this great 'work his aid. (Applause.)
It is not his purpose to make any allusion
to politics or the condition of the country :
but as this assylum had been convened at the
seat of the General Government, at the me
tropolis of the nation, he trusted it would
take tlie character to a national orphan
asylum. If it is a misfortune to be an orphan
it ought to he our pride, as it is our duty, to
care.for him. He wished a great national
church could be provided, not bylaw, but
by the consent of thu American people,so that
in this church there could be a pew for every
orphan and a pew for even- loyal man from
every State. Let our religion be national,
and' this orphan asylum be national. Let
thcip be the cotitroling and supreme idea
which runs through all our national institu-
tlons.'
yUc President thanked the ladies and gen
tlemen for indulginghim in his desultory and
crude remarks. Under no circun:<tanees,
though he had long been in the liabit of pub
lie speaking,'bail it been his custom to pre
pare written , addresses. He bad always
thrown tluin 'off without preparation. 11c
always tried to -address himself to the brains
nnd sense of males and females, and not mere
ly to please the fancy. The work in which
thev were engaged was a reality, and should
have a lodgment in their minds nnd hearts.
It was not a mere idea. It was something
which would bear thinking about and act
ing on; something requiring effort, and not
mere profession. We know what can be
done in a great work of this kind. Then let
us consult our hearts free from anger, which
has existed in tliem tijo long. Let the breach
be healed, and let difficulties be done away,
that we may become a great and happy peo
ple. [Applause.] 1
Senator Wilson announced the inauguration
ceremonies ended.
As the President was leaving the building,
he was greeted with repeated applause, amid
the music of the band.
no copy of this indictment, so far as I am ad
vised, has ever been served upon him, nor
any list of witnesses, nor any other act done
of those which are required to be done by the
statute. It may be true that in this technical
sense he cannot now and never has been
amenable to your authority—but my brother,
Reed, stated yesterday that XIr. Davis, was not
claiming the benefits of any of these wants ot
forms, but on the contrary*that he was here,
to express from his own lips, speaking through
us, his ardent desire for an immediate trial;
and although it may be vety hot in Richmond
it is infinitely worse where he is now, and so
far as the convenience of counsel is concern
ed, they care nothing for that convenience,
impelled as they are by a sense of duty.—
From my own experience in the city of Rich
mond, whose hospitality I have enjoyed, cer
tainly, I would be happy to remain here eith
er through the heats of summer or the frosts
of winter.
We, the counsel of XIr. Davis, can only say
thaf iye arc entirely ready. We know'that
we cannot control the action of tire District
Attorney. We thank him for his polite re
sponse to our questions, and. of course, we
must now leave this question for such action
as the government may prefer or think uroper
to take.
Judge Underwood then said : *'
sess the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles
Prussia intends to obtain by tlie possession
of Schleswig and Holstein. Her main port!
of Dantzic and Stettin are dependent on t)..
free and unobstructed passage of the Soun i
and the Kattegat, and a small naval detach
ment in these narrows would completely slip
up the Prussian navy in the Baltic, and rea
der it useless for other service.
Hence it was that at the time of the pm.
)osed imperial union of Germany, as resolvti
jy the Parliament at Frankfort in 1849, tic
attempt to create a German fleet was nowhe.\
more loudly cheered,* more heartily indorsed,
and more energetically supported and assisted,
than among the people of Prussia. Upon the
collapse of the movement inaugurated a:
Frankfort, the two war vessels actually prt.
videdforthe “German navy” were seized b;
Prussia, and, it still on duty, are in her sc:
vice. But the idea of a “German Navy” had
taken root, not only among the people, but
the Government of Prussia. It was at once
obvious to them that the first and starting'
point should be a naval depot, and located s'
that'its usefulness should not be depender.
upon the ability of Prussia to keep the Sound
and the Kattegat open. The Prussian Got-
ernment entered, therefore, into negqtutioii
with Hanover, anti finally acquired, by pur
chase and session of jurisdiction, a port and
site suitable for a naval depot on the NortL
Sea, now called Jahdebusen, where for more
than ten years millions have been expended
to make it a safe harbor for the Prussian fleet,
a port of refuge in case of disaster, and a
depot of armament and supply in case of in
tended expeditions
The conquest of the Elbe Duchies, howev
er, "ave Prussia an increased opportunity to
realize its cherished object. Kiel is a splen
did harbor, said to be capable of holding the
largest fleet on the continent without being
overcrowded, and hence wc find that in the
Gastein Convention, a separate provision is
inserted as to Kiel in favor of Prussia. But
Kiel opens out on tlie Baltic, and is therefore
subject to the same drawbacks as the other
Prussian harbors to the east of it. Still, it
as a great improvement in the position ot
Prussia as a naval Power.
It is only the entire possession by Prussia
of the two Duchies Schleswig and Holstein,
by which she can ultimately achieve what
she wants. The boundary between Holstein
and Schleswig is tlie River Eider, entering
the North Sea at Tocnning, and being con
nected with the Baltic by the Eider Canal
from Rcndsburg to FiiedrichstadL This
Eider Canal, as at present built, is not what
it was projected once to become. During
tlie continuance of the Danish Sound duties
it was proposed to widen and deepen the
river, arid build' tbe Canal, so that all vessels
of any size may pass from the North Sea to
the Baltic, without paying duty tq Denmark
at Elsinore. The hostility, of the German
population of the Duchies to the Danes viewed
this project in the light ofa patriotic and pe
culiarly German undertaking. Money was
contributed, surveys made, preliminary work
done, and the canal, as at present existing
between Rcndsburg atd Friedrichstadt com
pleted, as a beginning for the greater work
of a grand, capacious ship canal between the
two oceans, when the capitalization of the
Sound dues and their consequent abolition
did away with the main cause for it, and it
has remained uncoiiiplctcd ever since.
We do not hesitate at all to say it, although
wc have nowhere as yet seen any definite in
dication ot such a purpose on the part of J
Prussia, that Bismarck is not forgetful of tie
traditional attempts of his Government to sc
cure for itself the position of a first-cla*
naval power in the Northern oceans of Europe
The hardy population of the Duchies is at
tached and inured to sea lite. The large mer
cantile marine of Hamburg, Lue'occk and
Bremen is recruited in the largest portion
from these Duchies. Go on board of an?
vessel of these three Hanseatic cities, and you
find that Holsteiners and Sclileswigers pre
dominate among their crew.. And the repu
tation for sea-faring qualities of the Hansel
tic mariner is unquestionably second to nose
Considering moreover the natural facilities
the river Eider offers for an uninterrupted
wa‘ er communication between tbe North Sea
and the Baltic, taking in view the eminent
location of Toenning or Friedrichstadt as i
naval depot on Prussian foil, in immediate
connection and communication by water it:
mil with the rest of the Prussian monarch!
and not a mere outpost, surrounded bv
eign territory, it is not- to be expected tbs*
Prussia would yield up such great prosper
tiyc advantages, promising to add so vast?
to her greatness as a military and naval Pd*
er, without a struggle, or at the bidding •
diplomatists assembled around the green ta
blc of an European Congress.
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and Charles Sumner arc both old bachelors.
They are wifalcss, and childless, at least so
— far as they will publicly admit. The acerbity
Committee .-ubmit to bougie--, a- .-ie bcs. ,i,g r dispositions i> easily accounted tor.
that they could agree upon, in the hope that A mu!1 w ho lias neither wife nor children-ed
its imperfections may be secured and its de-1 c j om mn jj e ■ a good legislator—at least he is
fidencies supplied by legislative wi-.lom, and t to il0 ■„-rjitrTirv and vindictive and cruel in
that when finally adopted it may tend to re- ol - power when placed in his hands.—
store peace and harmony to the country, and Exchange.
- speech of underwood.
It only remains for the court to say that the
District*Attorney has correctly represented
the views of the Government upon this mat
ter. The Chief Justice who is expected to
preside on this trial, 1ms named the first Tucs.
day in October as the time that will be most
convenient for him, and the Attorney Gene
ral In.s indicated that it would be utterly ini-
possiblfe for him uuder the pressure of his
many duties, now greatly increased by the |
troubles on the Northern frontier, to give, on I
so short notice, the attnntion to‘ this great
question which its importance demands. Un
der all the circumstances, the Court is -lis
posed to grant the motion of the District At
torney, and I think I may say to coun-el that
XIr. DaviS will, in all probability, at that time
be brought before the Court, unless his cas ■
shall in the meantime be- disposed of by tlie
Government, which is altogether possible.- It
is within the power of the President of the
United States to do what lie pleases in these
matter-, and I presume that ti e counsel for
XIr. Davis would probably find it for tlie in-
tcrest of their client to make application di
rectly to the Government; but this Court
would not feel justified in denying at this
time the application both of the Chief Jus
tice and of the Attorney General.
When this Court adjourns it will adjourn
not until the next term, which is in Novem
ber, but until the first Tuesday in October
next.
As is supposed from the array <-t counsel
on both sides that have been named, it will
be a long trial, in which great political and
constitutional questions are to be discussed
and settled—probably taking two months.
It would undoubtedly be much more com
fortable for counsel, as well as for XIr. Davis
himself, to have those months in the fail
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