President Johnson And Sumner

The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald is respensible for the following : " A rioli interview took place between the President and Senator Sumner on the evening after the Message was read in Congress. Itlasted for several hours. Thero were ttiree or four persons present. Sumner is represented as having been very nervous. Souie of these present thonght he would go into a fit at two or three different periods of the consultation. At any rate bis actions justifiud the application of the term o! being a monomaniac in regard to the negro Fioding hirnself uuablo to move the President, he fiually broke out as follows : " ' Mr. President, I notiee that tho white rebels dovvu iu Alabama and other looulitiés in the SouLh are talkiutr very strong against the Union, aod de nouncing it in strong terma; enn you do souiethiiig to put a stop to it ?' '' The President coolly replied : ' I see, Mr Sumner, that the white rebels in Boston are talking r.gainst the Union. Can't you put a stop to it there ?' " Tuis confused the Senator fur a short time, but after twisting iu his seat for a short time he again broke out as followa; 'Mr. Johnson, the reporta from the South show that the white rebels in almost every section are insulting the ireedmen. Don't you think that Congress ought to do soinething to correct tbis evil ? ' " The President, with a siguificant wink to the other gentlemen present replied : ' Mr. Sumner, 1 notice, by the papers that the white rebels in Cincinnati have been recently insulting white people tliere and knocking down one or two. Cau't Congress do soinething to correct that evil ? ' " It is needless to add that the slay ot tho Massacbusotts negro monomaniac at the White House was of short duratiou after that thrust."