What the “Bird in the Air” Said.
By N. Y. Independent
THE Pope sent word to the late Council of Bishops at Baltimore, that they must look after the emancipated negroes. This letter of instructions was made public, contrary to the intention of the council. The action of the council is kept secret until it is approved by the Pope. But “the Bird” says that a plan was concocted, to which President Johnson is a party, to this general effect: The object is to bring the body of freedmen under the influence of the Church of Rome. As a means for this end, the President is to take the Freedmen’s Bureau out of the hands of Gen. Howard and the evangelicals, and give it to Gen. Rosecrans, who is a Romanist, and brother of one of the bishops, and who would be willing at least to be President of the United States. The three or four millions of dollars a year passing through the hands of the Bureau and its agents would supply handy change for all purposes bearing on the objects of all the parties—President, General, Bishops, Jesuits, and Pope.—N. Y. Independent.