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I must submit for the time to evils I cannot remedy." Mr.Schurz expressed his conviction that General Brandon had "only put in print what a majority of the people say in more emphatic language." The report of Mr.Schurz was quoted even more triumphantly by the opponents of the President's policy than was General Grant's by its friends.

It was a somewhat singular train of circumstances that produced the two reports, while the sequel, so far as the authors were involved, was quite as remarkable as the contradictory character of the views set forth.

In the early summer (1865) when Mr.Johnson had yielded many of his preconceived views of reconstruction to the persuasions of Mr.Seward, but was still adhering tenaciously to some exactions which the Secretary of State deemed unwise if not cruel, it had occurred to the President to procure an accurate and intelligent report of the Southern situation by a man of capacity.

Mr.Johnson held at that particular time a middle ground, measuring from the original point of his extreme antagonism towards the Southern rebels to the subsequent point of his extreme antagonism towards the Northern Republicans.