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Speech , of Hon. James Speed
He fore the Soullicrn Lojal
lsts' Convention.
Hon. James Speed was chosen perma
nent president ot the Southern Loyalists'
Convention, and upon taking the chair,
delivered the toliowing address:
Gentlemen of the Convention, Loyal
men f the Southern Stales here assembled:
I thank you most cordially for the com
pliment you have 'paid me in calling me
to preside over the deliberations of this
body. I feel that in selecting me for a
position so houoruble, you have overlooked
the claims of those who are more worthy
of and more competent to discharge the
duties of your presiding officer. I accept
the, post, however, and will endeavor to
discharge the duties of the office to the
best 'ot my ability. It has beso my good
fortune, gentlemen, to be the unwonhy
recipient of many honors under our Gov
ernment; but I feel in my heart that the
honor conferred on me this day by this
convention of voluntarily associated South
ern men, devoted, as they are, to the
welfare of their country, ad the advance
ment of freedom's cause, U the highest
honor that I have ever yet received.
Though with some, perhaps, this may
seem to be an unenviable position, yet I
feei as you feel, that we are assembled
here upon a grand, a momentous oceasiou,
and at a time ot great national moment.
Why are we here 1 Why is it that so
many of us have come from the far dis
tant portions of the country ? Why have
we come thus entirely of our own accord
and at our own expense, and not at the
suggestion and dictation of thoselo power
over us ? Why is it, I ask, that we are
here in thi3 good old city of Philadelphia,
and, above all, I ask you how and why is
it that when wo did reach this hospitable
city on yesterday, the loyal hearts of this
loyal people were etirred, and they turned
out almost by millions to greet us '! Why
this spectacle '( Did they come out upon
these streets simply to see men, frail men,
who are to day, and may not be to-morrow
? It may be that they greeted us
somewhat on personal grounds, but mainly
and chiefly it was because wo were the
representatives of a great truth.
It was not to us as individuals, but to
the prinsiplts we represent, that that wel
come was tendered. They turned out to
receive and greet us on personal grounds
somewhat. It wa because in our past
lives we had shown devotion to principle,
and because wo are here for the purpose
of renewing upon the altar of liberty,
among these loyal people, our pledges,
and declaring anew our purpose to stand
by the principles upon which the Gov
ernment is founded. I beg you, gentle
men, in the deliberations of this conven
tion, to bear this great fact jn luuit auj
let it control your thoughts and actions.
Let your words be brief, clear, outspoken,
but dignified and merci'ul. What prin
ciple is it, then, that we here represent?
Why is it that we received such an ovation
upon our arrival ? A.nd permit me hero
to call your attention to tho wonderful
transition which this country has under
gone but recently I Less than eighteen
months ago upon our soil were arrayed in
hostile attitude one million of men ; tho
passions which are consequent upon the
shedding of human blood swayed and
controlled alike individuals and communi
ties j the whole country was aroused and
eagerly listening for the first news from
the battle-fields, as struggle succeeded
struggle. Hut now that great army of
the Republic; that army which had
con&ecratcd itself to constitutional liberty
and the establishment of freedom that
noble band of patriots and warriors who
so faithfully performed the task assigned
them has ceased to exist in its military
character, and wc find its members now
here, riot in uniform, but as citizens,
undistinguished from their fellows in the
crowd, appealing to the ballot-box and
the regular, ordinary, peaceful agencies
of our Government fur the purpose of
accomplishing the remainder of the work
yet to be done.
The soldiers of our army, in common
with all good niea, have no desire ever to
see again a war within our country's
limits; and while at this time earnestly
desirous of peace, they do not ask for the
name without the substance; their hopes
arc based upon a peace that will be firm
and enduring, because founded upon
principles which have had their origin,
because of their truth, in the bosom of
God himself. Foremost among those
principles, and embodying them, is that
of equal justice, equal rights and equal
security to every human being within the
jurisdiction of the United States.
We Southern men, who have seen with
our own eyes this great sin of slavery,
which has boastingly been declared to be
the corner-stoue of republican institutions,
do know, not only because such is the
teaching of history, bu: because it is our
individual experience, that it must perish
from the face of the earth. We are here,
then, to represent that great principle,
and the country looks to us because of
that fact. ' . ... . j
Since this rebellion was suppressed a
convention has been held in thU city with
which neither you nor I could act. jl was
glad, however, to see it here ; for why did
it meetP It met partly because thj groat
cry came up from the South, "My consti
tutional rights and my natural rights are
denied me." The cry also came from the
black men of the South, "My constitu
tional and my natural rights aro denied
me." This great cry is earnestly and
sincerely made by two parties which are
directly antagonistic, the one to the other;
and two conventions have met here be
cause of these .outcries from the South.
Which-is right? That is , for the people
to determine. But upon that question,
if upon none other, speak out your minds,
and speak the truth as you know and feel
it. Speak out plainly as you feel for
your country, as you value the permanent
peace of your own land, and as ycu hope
to establish the foundations of this Gov
ernment. I tell you that unless you do
this there can be no peace.
Gentlemen, I have said that but a short
time ago a convention was held in this
city. That convention," io my mir.d,J
neglected to do" much that they could
have done for good, but it was not wholly
unmixed of good. That convention, as I
read its history, assembled here and simply
recorded nothing more in Quaker-like
silence and in abject submission, the com
mand of one man. That convention, at
the dictation of one man,-did what the
lojal Congress of the United States
refused to do. That Congress has reso
lutely and firmly refused to be the mere
recording secretary ot the occupant of the
White House, and tor that reason alone,
without reference, to the merits of the
question at issue, it is fully deserving of
your approving cheers. They have thought
for themselves, spoketi for themselves,
and stood up manfully against all sorts of
influences for that which they believed to
be right.
But though that convention by reason
of its pusillanimity has, as I believe, for
feited the good opinion of posterity, its
doings were not, as I have said, unmixed
ofgood. You all know, gentlemen, that
we have had in this country a proud old
defiant party, long tho ruler of the coun
try : quondam Democrat, quondam Cop
perhead. In my mind, the main difficulty
ot that party was that it has ever been
crusted all over with prejudice, thus keep
ing out the lights of truth and the lights
of day.
Among its other prejudices, for years
past it has taught that slavery was a di
vine institution ; that al! its instincts were
heavenly; that it was one of those things
that should not be discussed orsookeu of.
It was a household god. This was the
creed of this old defiant and proud party.
Well, the men of that party constituted a,
vast majority ot the 14th of August Con
vention. Now mark, gentlemen, in one
of the resolutions of that convention it is
distinctly stated that slavery is abolished,
aud must never be re-established. I ask
you whether this old Democratic party
has not struck its colors, and bowed in
humble submission to this Republican
principle?
There is some good accomplished there.
If nothing more, it certainly indicates the
march of events and the progress ot the
cause of human freedom. It bhows that
this crust of prejudice which has so long
kept out the light has at last been broken,
and the party has so far seen its way in
the right direction as to acknowledge the
fact that slavery w abolished and ought
not to be re established. But, fellow-citizens,
we of the Republican party, we of
the Union party, had gone farther than
that.
At the convention in Baltimore in 18G4,
which nominated Mr. Lincoln and Mr.
Johnson for the Presidency and the Vice
1 residency, it was announced that slavery
should be extirpated not abolished, but
extirpated taken out of our institutions
root and branch, body and soul, every
lineament and every fibre ot it. Mark,
gentlemen, the difference between the two
words ; to extirpate, not simply to cut off
this, that, or the other limb of the horri
ble monster, but to do away with not only
slavery, but all the incongruousunequal,
unrighteous consequences and incidents
resulting from slavery. What are they ?
In the first place, an unequal representa
tion. Does not slavery remain as long as
there is a man, no matter what his color
as long as there is a man unrepresented
in the Government? Does not tdavcry
remain as long as you can say to a man
because of his color, that he may or may
not stand the equal of his fellow man iu
your courts of justice 1
All these incidents ot slavery the great
Republican party pledged itself at Balti
more should be extirpated. And when
you, Southern men, who at that time were,
so to speak, in the prison house of the
South whon you heard that pledge, it
was the sweetest, surest note of hope that
had ever fallen upon your ears. And now
we, men of tho South, that were in that
almost hopeless condition we, men of
the South, now here in this good old city,
within hearing of the bell that first pro
claimed freedom to all the nations of the
world here, where the Declaration of
Independence was announced here, where
the Constitution of tha United States
sprang from the blood of. the Revolution
here, we men of the South, come to
conjure this nation, and the men who
made that declaration in Baltimore, in
God's name to fulfill it..
Gentlemen of the convention, there are
other subjects which ought iu my eitima-1
tion io come before and be considered by
the convention. I speak of course for
myself and myself alone, when I call your
attention to other subjects than that great
overshadowing question which should first
receive our attention.
la conclusion, the speaker intimated
that the Southern States would ere long
make a demand for compensation for their
emancipated slaves, lie continued as
follows :
When the State conventions of the
South assembled to reform their State
constitutions, they provided for the repu
diation of their rebel debt, but every
Southerner here knows with what reluc
tance the3 acted in that matter. It re
quired the positive commanj of the Pres
ident and all the powers ofwthe Govern
ment to exact that condition: But that
thing; can be repealed by State action ;
tKiij ean by State action undo what they
have done, and assume the payment of-a
debt which they have now, under coercion,
repudiated. ' Let' it be written do'wn iu
the fundamental law of the land, let the
people of this nation see that it is written
down in the fundamental law of the land,
that no money shall be paid, either North
or South, in compensation for efforts to
destroy this Government.
Upon these subjects, and particularly
upon the subject of equality and justice in
representation, I think, this convention
ought to speak out. ; These Southern men
complain that their constitutional and
natural rights are infringed. If they
complain without cause, it is for you to
declare the fact. It they ask more justice
than any should receive, do you deny it
to them. It they ask that the voting
power of a white -man in South Carolina
shall equal the voting power of two white
men in Pennsylvania, it is unjust on their
part, and you should hay so. If they ask
less than justice, give them full justice
If they ask more than justice, deny them
more than what they are justly entitled to.
. As for the disfranchisement of rebels
and enfranchisement of the black people,
that is a subject that will also come be
fore the con"entiou. Upon that subject,
gentlemen, all I have to say is, do nothing
in anger, hatred, ill will or revenge, but
do that which justice and right, mercy
and love, dictate ; for their work, and
their work only, endureth forever. Let
not love for this or that man, but love for
all mankind, be your guide ; let it be
your motive, and be in all your resolutions;
aud I tell you that such a course will be
far more effective in melting tha hearts
and touching the consciences of those that
oppose yov.than could any thing done in
hatred, ill will, or through any feeling of
revenge. I am" one of those who believe
that love for God and mau is the law, and
the ouly law, ot the world. And I be
lieve that the bad and the vile of this
world are more effectually rebuked by
love than they could be by any denuncia
tion or exhibition of passioi; or violence.
Abraham Lincoln.
The following reminiscences of Abraham
Lincoln are taken from Carpenter's new
book :
AS A DIPLOMATIST.
Upon the betrothal of the Prince of
Wales to the Princess Alexandra, Queen
Victoria sent a letter to each of the Euro
pean sovereigns, and also to President
Lincoln, announcing the fact. Lord Ly
ons, her embassador at Washington a
"bachelor," by the way requested an
audience of Mr. Lincoln, that he might
present this important document in per
son. At the time appointed he was re
ceived at the White House, in company
with Mr. Seward.
"May it please your Excellency," said
Lord Lyons, "I hold in my haud an auto
graph letter from my royal mistress,
Queen Victoria, which I have been com
manded to present to your Excellency.
In it she informs your Excellency tHat
her 8on, bis Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, is about to contract a matrimo
nial alliance with her Royal Highness the
Princess Alexandra o: Denmark.
After continuing in this strain for a few
minutes. Lord Lyons tendered the letter to
the President and awaited his reply. It
was short, simple and expressive, and con
sisted simply of the words :
"Lord Lyons, go thou and do likewise."
It is doubtful if an English ambassador
was ever addressed in this manner before,
and it would be interesting to learn what
success he met with in putting the reply in
diplomatic language when he reported it
to her Majesty.
ins simplicity. -
While paying a visit to Commodore
Porter at Fortress Monroe, on one occa
sion, an incident occurred, related by
Lieutenant Braine, one of the officers no
board the flagship, to my friend the Rev.
Mr. Ewer, of New York. , Noticing that
the banks ot the river were dotted with
the spring blossoms, the President said,
with tho manner of one asking a pcrsoual
favor : "Commodore, Tad is fond of flow
ers won't you let a couple of your men
take a boat and go with him for an hour
or tvyo along shore, and gather a few ?
It would be great gratification to him."
It all President Johnson's I's were
suffused with tears, what an insufferably
saliuous atmosphere ho would live in, to
ba sure ! - . . .
Xasby at tbe Pnlladelplila 11th
of August Convention.
Po3t-offjs Cosfedrit X Roads,
ia iu lue 01u.1t uv iventucKy,
- August 14, N3GG.
1'eace is into me I I hey spent many
happy periods in the course uv a eventful
life, but I never knowd what perfeck sat
isfaction wuz till now. The first week I
wuz married to myLooizer Jane it wuz
hevenly, fur independent uv tho other
bliates incident to the married stait, I be
leaved she wuz the undivided possessor uv
a farm, or rather her father wuz. wieh on
the old man's decease would be hern, "and
the prospek uv a lifetime with a amiable
well-built woman, with a farm hvx enough
to support me, with prudence on' her part,
wuz bliss itself, and I enjoyed it, with a
de gree of muchness rarely ekaled, until I
f ouud out the farm wuz kivered more deeply
with mortgages than it wuz ever likely to be
with crops, and my dream uv happin
busted. Sweet es wuz this week, it wuz
misery condensed when compared to the
season I hev just passed through.
I wuz a delegate to Philadelphia ! 1
wuzn't elected or nothin, and hedn't any
credentials, but the door uv the wigwam
I passed nevertheless. The door-keeper
wuz a old Dimokrat, and my breath help
ed me, my nose, which reely blossoms like
the lobster, wuz uv yoose, but I spect my
hevin a gray coat on, with a stand-up col
lar, with a brass star onto it, - wuz wat
finished the biznis. Tho Southern dele
gates fought shy uv me, but the Northern
ones, bless their souls, the minnit they
saw the star on the collar uv my gray
coat, couldn't do enuff for me. They ad
dressed me as Kernal and Gineral, and
sed, "this wuz trooly a unmerited honor,"
and paid for my drinks, and I succeeded
in borrowing a hundred and twenty dol
lar? of em the first day. I mita hev
doubled it, but the fellows wuz took in s )
easy ihat no Cnanceerin wuz required, and
it really wuz no amoozment.
The convenshun itself wuz the most
affectinist gathenn I ever wicnist. I had
a seat beside Randall, who wuz a manain
the concern, and I cood see it all. The
crowd rushed into the bildin and filled it,
when Randall desired attention. Ilebeiu
the Postmaster Giural, every one of em
dropped into his seat ez though he lied
bin shot, and there wuz the most perfeck
quiet I ever saw. Doolittle, who wuz the
Cheerman, winked at Randall, and nodded
hi3 head, when Randall announced that
tha delegates from South Karliny aud the
delegates from Massachu-its wood enter
arm in arm ' With a slow and measured
step they cum in, and at a signal from
Randall, the cheerio corumeust, and sich
cheerin ! Then Doolittle pulled out his
white haudkercher and applied it to his
eyes, and every delegate simultaneously
pulled out a white handkercher, and ap
plied it to his eyes.
To me, this wuz the proudest moment
uv my life, not that there wuz anything
partiki'erly inspiritin in the scene afore
me, for there wuzzent. Orr, from South
Karoliny, looked partikerly ashamed of
hisself, ez though he wuz going through
a highly nessary but extremely disgustin
sermony, and wuz determined to keep up
a stiff upper lip over it, and Couch looked
up to Orr ez tho he wuz afeerd uv him
and cz though he felt flattered by Orr's
condecension in walkin at all with sich a
humble individjooal. But to my eyes the
scene wuz siguificant. I looked into the
fucher and what did I see ez them two
men, one sneekin and tother ashamed uv
hisself, walked up that ainle ? What did
I see ? I saw the Democrisy restored to
its normal coudishun I saw the reunion
uv the two wings in fact, I ?aw the en
tire Dimokratic bird reunited. The North,
oue wing and the weakest ; Kentucky, the
beak, sharp, hungry and rapacious;
Southwest, the stroug, active wing ; Vir
inny, the legs and claws ; Ohio, the heart;
Pennsylvania, the stomach ; South Caro
lina, the tail feathers, and Noo Jersey the
balance of the bird. I saw these parts,
for five years .dissevered, come together,
holdin a nigger m one claw and post oCi
ses in the other, sayin, "Take em both
together, they go iu lots." ' I saw the old
Union the bold, shivalrous Southerner a
gnidin, controllin and directin the ma
chine, and assuming to hisself the places
uv honor, and the Dimokrat of the North
follerin like a puppy dog at his heels,
takin sich fat things ez he could snap up
the Southerner ashamed of his associa
tion, but forced to yooso em -the North
erner uncomfortable in his presence, but
tied to him by eclf-interest. I saw a
comin back the good old times when j
thirty-;our States met in convenshun and
let eleven rule em, and ez I contemplated
the scene I too wept, but it wuz in dead
earnest.
"Wat are you b'ubbcrin for ?" asked a
enthoosiastio delegate in froutuv me, who
was a swabbin his eyes, with a handker
cher. '
"I'm a postmaster," sez I, "and must
dp my dooty in this crisis. ' Wat are you
sheddin pearls for?" retorted I. "Are
you a postmaster?"
"No,", said he, "but I hope to be !" and
he swabbed away with reuewed vigor.
"Wat's the matter with the eyes uv all
the delegates ?" scz I.
"They've nil got post-offises iii em," sez
he, aud he worked away faster than ever.
TChil gittiu a fresh handkeroher (wich
I borrered from the hind coat pocket uv
a delegate near me. aud wich, by the way,
in my delirious joy, I forgot to say any
thing to him about it) I looked over tho
Convenshun, aud a?jin the teers welled uo
from my heart. My sole wuz full uud
overflowin, and I slopped over at the eye!.
There, before me, sat that hero Dick Tay
lor, and Cuth Bullitt, and there wuz the
NeL-cDS aud Yeadons, and the represen
tatives ut the first families uv the South,
and in Philadelphia at a Convention, with
all the leadiu Democrats uv the North,
ceptin Vallandigham and Wood, and they
wuz skulkin round within call, with their
watchiui eyes on the proceedins. Here
is, a. prospeck ! Here is fatnis ! Tho
President into our coufidenco I The Post
master a runniu the Convention! The
bands a playin Dixie and tho Star Span
gled Banuer alternitly, so that nobody
could, complain uv partiality, or tell reely
wich side the Convention wuz on, on wich
side it had been on in the past. Ah! my
too susceptible sole filled up agin, tho
teers started, but that veut wuznt enuff,
and I fell faintin onto the floor. Twenty
or thirty Northern delegates seed me fal
lin.and ketchin site uv the gray coat with
the brass star onto it, rushed to ketch me
and they bore me out of the wigwam.
Sod one : "Wat a techin scne ; overpow
ered by his feelins!" "Yes," sed anuth
er, "he deserves a apintment."
I didu't go back to the Convenshun,
coz I know'd it wont no yoose, and besides,
after all the teers that had been shed, the
members wringin their hakerchers onto
the floor, it wuz sloppy under foot. Con
ciliation and tenderness gushed out uv
em. I knowd it would be all right it
couldn't be otherwise. There wuz bonds
which held the members together and
prevented the possibility uv trouble.
Joh nson haviti a ambition to head a party,
must hev a party to head. The Northern
de!f-gashuo, which had formerly acted
with ihe Ablishnists, wouldn't do nothin
without the Democracy North, and both
on em combined couldn't do nothin with
out the Democracy South. The President
cood depend ou the Democracy North
coz he holds the offices; the Democracy
North cood depend on the PresiJent coz
he must have their votes ; the President
cood depend on the Democracy South coz
they want him to make a fight agin a
Ablishen Congris, which is a unconstitu
tionelly keepin uv em out aud preventia
em from wollopiu their niggers; the
Democracy South cood depend on tho
President coz he must hev their Repre
sentatives in their seats; to beat the Ab
lishnists in Congtis all cood depend on
all. each cood depend on the other, coz
each faction or ruther each stripe Led its
little axe to grind which it coodent do
without thd others to turn the griad-stonc.
The Southern delegates some on em
wuznt so well pleased. 'What in thun
der," sed one uv em, "did theymean by
piiin on tha agony over the Yanks wo
killed ? by pledgin us to give up the
ijee uv secesheu, and by pledgin ou us to"
pay the Nashnel Yankee debt?"
"Sh !" sed I, "easy over the rough pla
ces. 3Iy friend, they didn't mean it, or
ef they did,' we didn't. Is a oath so hard
io break ? Wood it trouble that eminent
patriot Breckenridge, after all the time he
swore to support the Constitution, to
sware to it wunst -more? and wood it
trouble him to break it any more thaq it
did in '61? Nay, verily. Dismiss them
gloomy thots. Vallandigham wuz kicked
out but a thousand mules, and all of em
old and experienced, coodn't kick him
out uv our service. Doolittle talked
Northern talk coz its a habit he got into
dourin the war, but he'll git over it.
Raymond will be on our side this year,
certain, for last year he wuz agin us, and
by the time he is ready to turn agin, he'll
be worn to so small a pint that he wont
ba worth hevin, and the Democrisy uv
the North wuz alluz ourn, and ef they
wuzzent, the offices Johnson hez ia reserve
will drav em like lode stun.
My deer sir, I wonst knowd a Irishman,
who wuz sence killed ia a Fenian raid,
employed as a artist in well diggin. It
wuz his lot to go to the bottom uv the
excavation and load the buckets with
earth. The dinner horn sounded, and he,
with the alakrity characteristic ot tha
race, sprang into the bucket and told eiu
to hist away, and they lusted, but ez they
his ted they amoozed themselves a uropia
earth into him. "Shtop !" said he; but
they didn't. "Shtop !" said he, "or be
irorra I'll cut the rope." My deer sir,
Randall and Doolittle, and Soward and
Johnson, aie a histin us out of the pit we
fell into in 18G0. Their little talk about
debts and slavery, and tich, is the earth
they'r droppin onto us for fun, but shell
we, like ijeots, cut the rope? . Nary!,
Let em hist, and when we are about on
the solid ground, we kin, ef wo desire,
turn and chuck em into the hole.
All went off satisfied the Northern
men, for they carriec home with em their
commishuns; I, feelin that my Postoffice
wuz sekoor, tor ef, with the show we've
got, wc can't re-elect Johnson, the glory
uv the Democracy hez departed, indeed.
Petroleum V. Nasby, p. m.
(wich means postmaster.)
The President's speech at Albany:
"I, I, I, I, I, I, me, me, me, me, me, me,
I, me, I, me, I, me, I me, me, I, me, I,
me, I, n, I.n