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President Johnson has taken, it is said, the most democratic

step of his reign. He has recalled General Palmer, the officer who " ran " the slaves out of Kentucky, from that State, and has restored its self-governing powers before slavery has been abolished. He probably trusts to the national vote, which in a few months will introduce an abolitionist clause into the Federal Constitution, but the act read by the light of his recent speeches suggests grave misgiving. It looks very much as if the President were striving only for Union, and was profoundly indifferent to the principle through which alone the Union can be preserved, and with which alone the Union is worth preserving.

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