Wednesday, December 20, 1865 — The daily dispatch
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He proceeded to assume that Congress should
control the freedmen, for if left to take care of
themselves their present condition would be
worse than bondage or the horrors of Ander
sonville. He made light of the ratification of
the constitutional amendment abolishing
slavery, by the Southern State Legislatures,
which he denounced as illegal and delusive,
and declared that this was not a white man's
government, and looked upon Chief Justice