5 JANUARY 1867, Page 7

President Johnson has done the worst act yet reported of

him, In order to break the habit of inflicting corporal punishment on negroes, flogging was prohibited by military order throughout the South, but Mr. Johnson has repealed the rule as an unjustifiable interference with civil authority. Who can wonder that a negro convicted of petty larceny has already been sold by auction as a slave? It will, we fear, yet be necessary to risk a revolution by the forcible deposition of the President, whose notion obviously is that "the people is sovereign "—whenever it happens to agree with him.