“There is one thing, however, that is making against the speedy return of quietness, not only in this State, but throughout the entire South, _and that is the Reconstruction policy of President Johnson_. It is doing more to unsettle this country than people who are not practical observers of its workings have any idea of. Before this policy was made known, the people were prepared to accept anything. They expected to be treated as rebels,--their leaders being punished, and the property of others confiscated. But the moment it was made known, all their assurance returned. Rebels have again become arrogant and exacting; Treason stalks through the land unabashed.” This testimony might be multiplied indefinitely. From city and country, from highway and by-way, there is but one voice. When, therefore, the President, in opprobrious terms, complains of Congress as interposing delay, I reply to him: “No, Sir, it is you, who, by unexpected and most perverse assumption, have put off the glad day of security and reconciliation, so much longed for. It is you who have inaugurated anew that malignant sectionalism, which, so long as it exists, will keep the Union divided in fact, if not in name. Sir, you are the Disunionist.” * * * * * Glance, if you please, at that Presidential policy--so constantly called “my policy”--now so vehemently pressed upon the country, and you will find that it pivots on at least two alarming blunders, as can be easily seen: _first_, in setting up the One Man Power as the source of jurisdiction over this great question; and, _secondly_, in using the One Man Power for the restoration of Rebels to place and influence, so that good Unionists, whether white or black, are rejected, and the Rebellion itself is revived in the new governments. Each of these assumptions is an enormous blunder. You see that I use a mild term to characterize such a double-headed usurpation. * * * * *