(frit Obsett THURSDAY. HARCH I. 1866 Tanaka the Observer. Wm& Sabsitiptims. • $ 110 Oahe et 11rs imp Sabrethen. 11 1111 GUM a 'ha see Sabseribere..... . ..... --._ ig 00 Eir Allot tha man at 1M bametitla Stets -0e1• tastlea. es Ow all °tiara asst, campaign itaker4p. aim will be riashed at the tato at Ono Dollar tar alz swaths. es Mg Plata Its three matt & MAIM UPI4VINTIONII. Before the next - ism of the Observer appears, the two great political parties will have held their State Conventions, and plated the& nominees in the field for ammo,. Both aest at Harrisburg, and both will hold their seesions in the Hall of the Houma of Bepranotativen. The Democratic Convention convenes on Mon day, the sth inst. ; the Republic= on Wednesday following. the 7th. ' On the Democratic side the prominent candidates are Relater ClYiner, of 'Becks county, and Gen. Geo. W. Class. of Alle gheny. Mr. Clymer kat present a mem• tier of the State Sainte, the leader of the Democrats there, and in point of speaking talent undoubtedly the foremost man of that body. His personal appearance and manna's are remarkably prepessanhig. and he km become a general favorite alike with the Legislature and the people' of Harrisburg. He was a candidate for Governor in 1883, when the contest be• tween him and Mr. Witte ran so high as to defeat both, and terminated in the se lection of Judge Woodward as a compro mise nominee. Gen. Cass, residing in a red-hot Abolition district, has never, we baileys, held an official position, bat for many years he has taken an active part in our State politics. He was a delegate to the Chicago Convention, where he acted asspokaanan of the Pennsylvania mem bers, ant received their vote for the Vice Presidential nomination. Gen. Cass is•a leading and highly stmessful railroad man. _being at present President of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago line, and a heavy stockholder in several other roads; and has built np. by energy, prudence and shrewdness„ a magnificent fortune. The canvass between the sup• porters of these two gentlemen has gone on with oonsidembho vigor, and we deem it quite likely that, as in 1863, neither will be able to secure rotes enough to nomi- Wale, and that wane compromise man, like Judge Packer, of Carbon, will be ae. looted. In many respects we think such a result desirable—cot because we have the slightest personal objection to either of the two eminent gentlemen named, but beanie from motives both of party and general Policy it is better that some person be placed in the field who is known nut to have been an aspirant for the pleas, and whose identity with public questions may not have been so prominent, during ,• the last four years. • . The boding Republican candidates are Gen. John W. Geary, of Cumberland ; Gen. (paper) J. K Moorhead, of All.. gbeny ; and Hen. W. W. Ketcham. of Luzern& John Cessna, the puny and contemptible Bedford renegacie, has been working hard to secure the place, and has received the endonoinent of one or two counties in the vicinity of his residence, bat the Republicans seem to have no more respect for him than his former associates, and his prospects are io exceedingly lim ited that we hardly feel warranted in speaking of him as a candidate. We would crave no better sport than to see little John in the field, but our Republican Mends do not appear disposed to glint us the favor. Moorhead is a member of Con grass, and has committed himself to negro Mbar, which will spoil his chances for nomination, it he ever had any. The contest mainly lies between Geary and Ketchum, with a decided leaning in favor of the farmer. He is the favorite of Csii eron and Forney, (who are now working as harmoniously .together as if they had never abused one another like two pick pockets.) has been endorsed by most of the strong Republican counties, and will in all piobability secure the nomination on the first ballot. RC is a man of very - limited talent, notwithstanding thecarions official positions his ambition and L weaning self-conceit have secured for and - his wintery record is all that him any strength as a candidate. WSW 111211111111111•11 SIPS •S. We publish in this issue a complete rev pert of the speech delivered by President Inhume, on the 22/1 inst., in response to the calls of the citizens of the District, who enlarged his veto of the "Prostheses' Bureau," and Negro Boarding Rouse and Ice Oam Saloon bill. The version tele -usphed 'by the. Associated Press, and pub Baked in most of the papers. was full of lemonades, and those who have not bad the opportunity of seeing the revised speeeli,. will find it of interest to peruse the copy we present. Nothing which his oammed AWN ell elms of the war has ' given vise to so many vatic d opinions, and so much . wide-eptiai • excitement as this plain and bold eipreadon of the Fred dest's views. The Democrats, to a man, heartily endorse it, while the Radials, forgetting their past daderations of the neesedty of standing by the " Govern ment" undue alleiraunstances, are nearly as umaissosis in denouncing it. There was never. exactly such a speech as this mad* by. a Presiding, and this is because time was never just such a man in the Presidentb chair as Kr. Johnsoe. In singling out the names of leading arida• timbal and denouncing them as imitate, hi provokes their indigestion and exposes his breed to their deadliest shafts. Their first ay IN that it is not dignified in a iheibleat thus to address the people.-- Peebepe this is bus. But when they heard the homely sayings and stories of his pre: dassaar, they never regarded them as undignified ; nor would these words • be so emesideve4 if they had been uttered * Mr. Lincoln, It startles as all to h e y sash perattnalitia in a heeidential span*. Bet, we vasember: that' he looks on the Ilea be demoulami precisely as he looks lin DS,* mad Toombs, and Slide'!, and tie others whom he lames among .the Statham rebels. We hive not head Of say eats who thinks It undignified for him he rig as helps opposed the Davis.., gad Tamable', and Blidells. and a long Use aiE ethers and from his point of via. prebehly ahem quitopmgar to collide AM mem of Radian rebels With Sou*. ern rebels. The 'tins is in the fact that these men have been denouncing him as a traitor, have been flinging their incendi ary speeches broadcast among' the people. acid they never disamod that „they Kadin the White House isnan reislyto usetheir own weapons, and'thist, too, with a nation to back him. A few weeks aga,Thaddeus Stevens. the most influential member of Congress, arraigned him for remarks made in a private conversation with Senator Dixon, and was :insolent enough to sug gest thistihrerPresident desservedeheedz.' ing for expreseng his opinions. t' -When the leader of the House of Represents vei, speaking in, his official capacity. thus 4enks to the President the most or dinary rights of a citizen, he la justified in practically neer' ling his rights in st pretty strong form.ft ie *duty whielilo. John son owed to the union cause, to dieehiase the iTionntry of a deception industriously practiced upon it by the Republican party; anit, we do not weft see horihe could have done it effectually in any other. way. For the last six months that patty hashes* using his name and prestige to enable them to carry the elections, and thexi pre aiming on the result of these election:, to overawe him into eubmission to their poliey. Their' aitoganee in Ckingreis rests on the fact that they have carried ail the Northern State elections, which thiiy hold over the bead of the President as , w proof of endorsement by the people ; yehen, in truth, salient the aid of Ake President's name, the Northern majorities would havnbeen against them. It 41 necessary that this dishonest game of playing the President's popular influence Against his official influence should be stopped. All the fall elections were carried by this stratagem, and as seen as Congress met these elections. were flouted in the Presi dent's Lice as a proof that the Republican party, is too strong "for him to cope with. The same game was attempted, the other day, by the Republican Convention in -Connecticut. It was repeated by the Re publican Ginvention of Indiana'. Three conventions affect to endorse both the President and Congress, They mean to lay stress on the former; while the election is pending, and to point to the latter after It is over, as the Arne interpretition of the result; thus using the President u,a sort of drum to beat up recruits to , 'fight against him. It is not necessary to recapittilate a speech that every one will -read, - nor to ball attention to the danger of assassina tion with winch the President is threat ened by his and his country's enemies. The greater portion of Mr. Johnson's re• marks is directed to urging the idea that obedience 'to the Constitution is all that Is essential to the national salvation. The Radicals will understand by these declar ations that the. President has opened an aggressiie war- upon them, and it -will be persisted in till the Northern end of the rebellion is as badly whipped as its coun terpart. He stands to-day in the attitude of a patriot, exerting himself to stem the torrent of Radicalism which threatens to sweep over and ruin the best interests of the country. And the people, as a people, appreciate his efforts, and are rallying to aseistance. Petty party cries and tricks are for the time forgotten. The choice is between - the President and a whole Dukes ind the Radicals and a broken Union— between the President struggling to op hold the Constitution, end the Radicals who would overturn the Constitution— and it is not difficult to prognosticate where will rest the victory. " Tea following are the Senators who voted to sustain the President's veto.— .They number; eighteen . in all, eight of whom .are Republicans. A ; 1 the Demo. crate sustained the veto, and all the Re publicans opposed it except the few here named. Ids related that when the 'Pres ident's . message was delivered, Senator Johnson, of Maryland, was in Baltimore. Ee was telegraphed to, and at onoe started for Washington on a locomotive ; rode forty miles in forty-Ine minutes; reached the Senate Chamber and east his vote to sustain the veto : - • Backelew, Dens.. P#.; Cowan. Rep., Pa.; Davis, Dem., Ky.; Dixon, Rep., Conn.; Doolittle, Rep.; Wis ; Guthrie, Dem., Hendricks, Dem, nd ; Johnson. Dem., Md.; McDougall. Dem., Cal ; Morgan, Rep.., N. Y.;, Nesmith. Dens.; Oregon ; Norton, Rep., Minn.: Riddle; Dem., Del.; Saulsbury, 'Dem., Del.; Stewart, Rep., Nevada; Stockton. Dem., N. J.; Van Winkle, Rep., W. Va.; • Wiley, Rep, W. Va. 17221 The Cincinnati Zipsirer; referring to this vote, sees in it an instanoe of deserted political retribution. The disunion Radi cals, two or three years since, in order to gratify their malevnlenee - and hate against Virginia. divided it, against the consent of the State, and in plain violation of the Constitution, which re TIM!' such consent before it authorisis a division. On Tues day, the Senators from this bogus State, Messrs. Van Winkle and Willey, created by the Radicals, were in their seats, and helped to sustain the President!, veto.— Without them the Senate at the time would hare consisted of but forty-eight members, and the Radical vote of thirty . two would have *tied the bill over the' veto. Thus an outrageous act re .'" to Plague the perpetrators. Other similar retributions are in store." Axesra the signs of the times may, be noticed the fact that Henry Ward Beecher endorses the Presidaiit's policy, including the veto of the Freedmen' pureau - bill. He stated in his address, in Brooklin, last week, that for k thirty years be had agitated for the deetruction *of slavery, but, that having been accomplfrhed; he ,Faa new for complete restoration of the Union. It I. manifest that if men . like ßeecher leave the Republican party. Ste vens, wilt not have s corporal's guard' t his bult in the House of Representatiiesi which enc• oeedi the present one. TM President is reported by the.Traine to have declared to a party whaapplied for an official appointment that-16'04dd not have it Without the condition of giv ing in his adhersucs to his policy in all. is parts, and palms requirement will be made in all future onses of appoint-, mint to aloe titular his adininistniion. Good. Let him not only insist that those skiving official posltlem .bisrosAtor shall be of the right _faith, but that all now in office are put to the mane test. The day of equivocation has gone by. Those irho are , cot for Yr. Johnson are *dolt him, and have aso.right tabs peasioners on his bounty* h. Tl—iul.mto.t.)ll4:, The Wields express Intense Indipa• Lion arrili the intimation of the !resident that healed been threatened lth rue: stes4on if t he hood tis, wi of their naMisires!` 'bey deny the tirathOf eneh a threat, endyidienle the President's furs. tet -As peiopie read the folloWing, and judge for theauselres whether the Presi • dent luis good ground for WI - belief or not : ' Dr. Cheerer, in the prayer he delivered before hie usual political -harangue last'. Sunday evening,: besought God Almighty that, in case - our rulers (Meaning the President Lind his supporters) •"should persist in their.pnwent career of wicked ness, and ,rOusio to do unto others u they should be done by, He (God) would take them out of the way." What did Cheerer ,mean ? • • • • • • Wendell Phillips, who made a speech in Brooklyn reoently, to prove the Presi dent s rebel ands traitor, in the same addreds spoke significantly of Mr. John • son as "an obsteele to be removed." What did Phillips mean Thad. Stevens, in open Congress, Jan. 31st, declared the . President had made known bis opinions "in such i way that Centuries ago, had it been made to parlia ment by a British King, it would have cost him his head." What did Btevenii -mean ? Col. W. S. Hil!yet., formerly of General Grant's staff, in a speech recently deliv ered before a meeting of military men, said : _ • There was a cotuspiracy now hatching at Washington to depose the President. The argument was that Tennessee was not a opal State, and that Andrew Johnson. being a Tertnessean,was not eligible to the office. A joint resolution would nass Congress, declaring him a usurper. and all the horrors •of the French Revolution would follow. We mutt oppose this con spiracy and defeat it. thereby showing the enemies of the ljnion.botb in and Out of Congress. that those who fought for , its preservation still recognize the stars upon its banner. What does all this mean, if not that some desperate ends are proposed to get the President oat of the way f The men who deliberately propose to assaasinste States, end to deprive the country of the results of the war, will not hesitate to as sassinate men. The President did well to apprise the people of the temper of those who oppose his policy, and to say to them that their covert and open. threats will not Change tt. TU PRIVILIMED RACE. .The manner in which the President's veto message wakreceived . in Congress is thus deseribeet by the correspondent of the New York Herald Throughout the reading of the Execu tive document the utmost quiet aid inte rest prevailed. which was only broken at the conclusion of the reading.~ when the gen tlemenegalkiry commenad to applaud in so vociferous a manner, that the Chair ordered the galleries to be cleared. Among those Trim demonstrated their satisfaction Moat. iinphatically was a considerable squad - of soldiers, who• were not at all measured in their reprobation of the order - stifling their eatheolesatator the message of the President. While the Chair - was proceeding to remove the applauding element, faint hisses emanated from the rear of the gallery from a few individuals who evidently thought by so doing they would mollify the indignation of the Sen ate and retain their seats. The order to vacate was carried into effect; however. save in the sections occupied by ladle, and those allotted to negroes. The reputation of the Herald for vera city is not the best in the world, and we felt iomeirhat inclined to doubt its state meat relative to the partiality shown to the negroes, until we found it corroborated by the Philadelphia Age, a paper the as sertions of which we have nearly always found reliable., The Washington eorres pondeet of the latter paper, writing under date of February'l9rh, gives the following version of the story : The President's message to -the Senate to-day vetoing the Freedmens' Bureau bill' fell like a bombshell in the radical camp. As ; soon as it became known that it was in the Senate, crowds of members of the House of both, parties hurried over to bear it read. Shortly after three o'clock it was called tip and read from the Clerk's disk. and was listened to with profound attention. When it was concluded the white people in the galleries cheered loud ly and the negroes indulged in a torrent of hisses. The presiding officer' (Foster) ordered, the white gallery to be cleared, butt s dares toers not mama 0' TEllt CUT 1 , 11 STILL THUM LYME BwOugh and township elections have recently been held in several portions of our State, and have resulted in signal triumph for . the Democracy. In Pik °panty they made a clean sweep, except in ose.election district. where there was a split in the party ; and in Hollidaysburg the same fate befel the ad mates of negro auffrige; , Tyrone, Blair county, gives a Democratic majority of 33, and the shoddy majority at the local election in Johns town,Vambria county, last - week, was re: duped from 250 to an average of 70 votes; We have already chronicled _the Demo cratic victories in Lancaster and Reading, and, judging from the tone of many let ters received. we have no doubt that the epidemic will become general throughout •the State. • • - - The town elections in New York show the oommenoement of a Democratic re vival among the rural row% In Che• mung county we hare gained two. super visors, and in the township of Horseheads the whole Democratic ticket, with one oz. eepthin, was elected: This is the first in- Stance of the kind in three yearn, There are . not many actual changes In the re turns so far received froni other counties ; bat there are hatOmme gains everywhere. By fall these little springs of public sen timent will -have become a torrent, which will rweep sway the disunion majority the Rou!irt, of Bepresentativs. , D2ll4li i ii TOWAID lets 17ston.—The Su preme Court Of the United States, Mid Justice Chase alone dimen ti Erg, has decisled to resume the consideration of cases from the lately insurgent States, which, daring the rebellion, it was impracticable to hear. Thiaclecisiou is in effect *legal endorii went by the highest judicial tribunal in theland that the Southern States now OCCUPY their former position in the Union. In spite . Droll the efforts of the rescilu tiouarf fiction atlas North, we are drift ing slowly but surely back to the old Union. In the linguagt of the President, tbe Northern end of the Southern rebel— , lion "must get out of the way.", Public sentiment is rapidly assuming a more healthy tone„ and the people will triumph oral}fectlons that oppose the restore, Ocelot • , ". • THU NNW TODD AND TIM ntassD - While the petty RepßoliggiOrarnahl are Dearly ilkimgking . relforottaly at • the President's beeli; *Olivet leading or gans of public Opio4oo;pnbUshed in New York eity, arikishinost . 11-uslit, Mijrport ballot bland° iiiidgpeeelt..::ll4ls 4 / 4 tae is alone in outspoken denunciation, while the Wald, Herold, Mica , Expyssund, entlatiastioally endoise Eren the I.2lmer, which ksonsver hereto fore qui l ited in its sUpzurt i ed atjtmese. are demanded by ths radlosti. names np boldly ti • his dense': - We tenoinmiliOa to those Republicans in _this vicinity who were so ion& soared by the pointedness of Mr. Johnson's speeeh,-tlie-tollowing editorial from the letter .popor of Peter. day: ' - • ; • . The birthday of Washington was flt tingly,ohosen for popular demonstrations in' favor of the Union. That In this city was triumphant. That in Washington, equally enthsitiastio. was even more sty nificant, for there the President himself uttered "thoughts that breatheand words that burn." That great effnet of wisdom and patriotism will Secure, for him the gratitude of his own countr y and itte ap. probation of the world. When 'this _woo , derful speech has been attentively read and thoroughly digested br i the Arnericau people. President Johnson Will be. as firmly estahlished in their confidence and affections as the most popular of his'Pre decessors. There is not a, point toadied in the speech that does not find respon'se in Union-loving hearts. It rebuke of 'trap tors arid demagogues is alike stem and deserved. The denunciation of -Slidell and Toombs for attempting to desire, the Union be rebellion, and of Stevens, Sum ner and Phillips, for resisting the work of reconstruction is as great es severe. The injustice and cruelty of Cangrees to Ten wises and her representatives is mad. so clear that ''all who run may reed." The inconsistency and absurdity : of declaring is we did, that stittes were cot out of the Union, and could not be token out, and after expending thousands of millions of dollars and deep rivers of blood to eats blieh that fact. to turn round and say that States are out of the Union, and shall not come in, is made as clear as the sun that brightened this morning: The lesson of duty towards' offending brethren w o ac knowledge their . offeasts and promise amendment, is eloquently and reverently impressed. The interview with President Lincoln. showing what were tbe views of the late President on the subject of Con stitutional amendments is full of instruc tion. The assurance found in every sentiment and sentence of this enlightened speech. that President Johnson adheres inflexibly to all the principles avowed during the rebellion ; that he reiterates his solemn oonviction that "treason la crime," and that official traitors should .be punished. and that the enemies of the Government are his enemies, and its, friends his friends,, is full of encouragement; and: wilt unite and invigorate a people upon Whoitejudg ment and patriotism he so confidently re pose*. 'His faith will save him and the country. Indeed, from the 224 day of February, 1866. the Union, with• all the stripes, ind stars by which it is embla zoned, is a fixed fiat. Tux Radicals, in their rage at the bold ness of the President's speech, have re vived the old stories, or his intemperance, and attribute the utterances made by.him the effects of liquor. This .. .assertion, however. has met - With a - prom pt quietus at the hands of the Wabhingtcn corr-s -pondent; of the Tribune, who writes to that paper as follows : &tine of the President's friends are tg, dar endeavoring to palliate the Pres'. dent's performance yesterday op the ground that he was under the influence of liquor c this, however, is without fowl, dation. The President, according to the accounts given by ;the most trustworthy witnesses. was entirely sober when he de livered his speech. The apology, is not available in this instance. We have only to say that if the Presi dent was intoxicated, be is the most sensi ble drunken man we have ever beard of. His speech coritaiva more genuine part. : otism and pratical goOd sense than the Radical leaders, all put together, have uttered in their soberest moMents., Tut Republicans now remind us of a candidate for constable when on an elec tioneering tramp. He agrees with every body he meets, and is in favor of whatevir the man he meets 'is in favor of. Thus the Republican Convention of Connecti cut passed, in substance s thee° two rem lutione : • 1: Resolved. That we heartily indorse President Johnson in his efforts t 9 bring the Southern States into.the Union. 2. Reseved, That we heartily indorse the efforts of the majority in Cortgress to keep them out., . . . The resolutions of which these are the pith, were the sort adopted previous to the President's speech.. We fear that since that effort the„PresOent , Will not have the honor of receiving any • mote endorsements. MR. Bowies. editor of the Springfield Republican, (Radice)) writes from Wash ington that "in the first struggle over the veto message Seward, Welles, Dennison and McCullough were . very active in its: favor—in fact; I think ere owe the veto te them. They might have pursuaded the President to let it become a law. and Dennison naturally stand .by their bread end butter, :as - they% have always done is the past:•:Btaaiton, Harlan and Speed were opposed to the veto, but Speed was mild in opposition. Harlan and Stanton were. outspoken, and noti the question mooted is—will they leave the Cabinet?" Not nal : eas they are kicked out, we suspect, whiclalt is hopid Will be before another week names by.. Noszos.—The Dania:Tan* voter! of Mill Creek township will meet In °suns for the notalantion of local officers, on Bstardsl i March 10th. 1860. it two o'clock ‘ 'at the Town Half - MANY DISNOCILAte. ' Literary. , The March number of the Atlantic Monthly contains a highly Interesting article entitled Aa Amazonian Pio-Ric."'life the nest of a series, and is written by, Mrs. Aguish, who accompanied Petit Agassis on his Scientific expedition to Brasil, and is in full Sympathy with his eathusiutio smuts. Chas. Roadie's story. '" Griffith Own," Ipossessee a visor and vivacity that rank it among the very befit. serials of the day. -The atrilting pans from Hawthorne's lion Books; the story of Dr. ?ohms, one of remarkable *deity toii. Mire and charming grace of style; and Mrs. Store's suggeattve Chimney Corner Discourses ars ;matinee& Mrs. Child giver is "P,o4ir Ohba" a sad ;vinare if the inevitablewpqa of slavery. as it ;wadi* be. twidassacktnetti. The Tribune M 014141,4. New .TosbwikiN, here issued a list et the Mum soldiers harlot at Anderserels, copied tress the official recnid in the Surgeon's oboe To perilous whp first Mends or rebutter- In the South, it will be an inver c ebledoenuneat. The pries is limb , live eon Peterson's Magazine ''for Musk bee been treated. It contains a large mount of ex cellent wetter. fresh sad of the beet quelity, • es always. We regard thisas= as if any, inferior to I War ke publies slam 01' the MOM sled: Speech of President Johnson. HE OWES A PLAIT DEOLPARATION OF HIS VIEWS. STANDS. ON - ‘s STITUO,INAL t: II D.:I • . f !ling RADICALS S 11QiI TRiIIVLS AS: , An immense mass meeting to militia the tellaittentinpolicy wattscidinerover:ttheutre, Wasittagton-City, on the 02d, at which the Or3eMnetat dpithkera ,irerellelontgomery .(assiembeasaddaseistlAcuthbatt).,LUfadise-, Ohm. C1e51,1 1 449:. (1))194101 P 11 1 ;., 'ptiblioan ;) A. J. „Itogerc,et New Jersey, (Dem. ;) Senator Ilendricks, of toeless, (Dem ;) and Senator Willey;-of Weit • Vb.' &is, (Rep.) At the elesomf the meeting I procession. wea, formed, and proceeded to the open specs Is front of the North peTtioo of theiveutive 'Mansion, where thousands of. people had dongregated. The' tiominittietit ,pointed for the purpose entered the White House and delivered to the President the resolutions issitipted by ;the rutting.' 'Mean while there was mash: from the baud outside, . _ One of the ,Marshals sppesre I on the rail near the carriage-wey, awl ; immunised that . :the President would' area address the Uses bier. Shea after shout went-SP fronsihou-' 'sands of throats. •The President triton there after mode-hie apiiesiinee, anti Met with an enthusiastic .reception,, amid bump and the waving of bite. There were mills of "order," a nd quiet hiving been partisily restored, the Pretident spoke al followi:-„ , • . Fawn/ Cuisine presume'i have a tight tiarldress you as snob, I comet. ten , der to you my sincere thanks for the appro bation espoused by your committee is their personal address, and in the resolutleas sats mitted by them, as' having been adopted t$ the meeting Which' has been heldin this eitf. to-day: These resolutions, as I undamand them, are complimentary to the.policy which hisheen adopted by the Administration, and which has been steadily pursued Mum I earns into power, lem free to say to yon on this • occasion, that it is extremely gratifying to me to know that so large a portion of my fel- low citizens approve and endorse the policy which has teen adopted, and which it is my intention shall be carried out. [Great ap plause] That policy's one which is intended to restore all the States tolbeir original refs-' liens to the Federal Government of the Visited States. 'lRllntrWed tropism's.] This seems to ma a day peculiarly appropriate for such manifestation. It lathe day thit gave birth. to that man wbo,• more perhaps than any other, founded tabs gitiernment, It is the day thst gave birth -to the • Father of oar Country. - It.3s the day that gave birth 1, bleu that presided over that which framed the Constitution antler which all the States entered, and to this glorious Confedsraoy subh a day is peculiarly appropriate for the endorsement of a volley whose °Neat is the restoration of the Union of the States as it deldflned by the lather of his Country. [Applause ] Washington, whose name this city bears, Is embalmed in the hearts of all• who love free government- Washington, the language of his eulogist, -.vas first in war, first in pose. lad first in the hearts of his countrymen. No people can &aim no nation can appropriate him. His reputation is commensurate with the civilized world. wi lds Rains is the comnton•piSperty of all those who love free government. To day I had the pleasure of ei vfftt' from those persons who hue been devoting their efforts to thei Vas pletion; of the monument which is being *rimiest to his name. • I• was proud to meet them, and, eo far as I could: to give them my influence and countenance in aid of the work they have tmdertaken. Thai monument which is being erected* him whom I may say: founded the government. is almost within r throw of the spot from which I ad • dress you. Let it be-completed. [Applause.] I Let those various blocks which the States and individuals and associations and corporations hive put in that monument is pledges of their love for this Union be preserved. and let the work be avomplished. In this con nection let me refer to the blisok from my own State, God bless her I r[Applaase] which Ass straggled for the preservation of this Union, in the field and in the councils of the nation, and which is sow struggling to renew her r!.• tattoos with this government that were inter rupted by a fearful rebellion. She is now struggling to renew these religious, and to take her stand where she had ever stood since 1796 until this rebellion broke out. prom applinse ] Let me 'repeat the sentiment that that State has Inscribed upon the stoat which she has deposited in that monument of free dom which is being raised, i n commemoration of Wastlington: She is 'struggling to get back into-the Union, and to stud by the sen - !Assent which Is thereori inscribed. and she is willing to sustain it. What is it ? It is the sentiment which was enunciated by her distinguished son, the lin • mortal, the illustrions'lncltsen. "The Peden! Union—it must be preserved." [Great ap plause.] If it were possible for that old man, 'those statue s'an4l before fee and whose por trait is behind me, Is the Dxecutive Mission, sod whitse sentiment is thus preserved in that. ,monnatent - hr your vicinity, to be called firth from the grave ; 'or If ft were possible to ova. municate - with the spirit of the illustrious dead, and etals.blm understand the progress of 'notion and of rebellion And treason. he would turn over in his coffin, and'eltakieg off the habiliments of tbi,:tomb. would again stand. erect and reiterate that • sentiment originally expressed by him on a memorable occasion. "-The Federal Union—it 'met lie presemeed s " [Great 'applause.] We' have witnessed what has transpired since hie day. In 11338; whet trealon, and treachery, and infidelity to the Government and Constitution ef-the United States stalked forth in the hind; it was his power and influence that crushed the serpent its iii ineipieue. The movement was then stopped, but only for a time. The same spirit of disaffection continued. There yore men d:oieffeeted to the Government both in the North and in the South. There was in a portion'Of the Union s peculiar institution' of which some complained, and to: which others were were attached One portion of our, countrymen in the South sustained that Md. tution. while another portion is the North opposed it. The result was the formation of extreme parties. one especially in the South which resehei a point at which it was pre pared to dissolve the Union of the States, for the purpose...lM was said, .of securing and preserving that peculiar inititution. There was another p trtionrcf our countrymen Who were opposed td Its and who went to such an extreme that they-were willing to break up the govtromeatin order' to get rid of that siltation' whisk use peculiar to the South. I ay these eking, 'bevies I desire to talk Vain fusilier phraseology. I assume nothing here to di' beyond thi position of a citizen—one who has bean pleading for hie country and the preservation of the Constitu • tion. [lmmense cheering ], These two por tions were arrayed against each other, and I stand hers before you for the, Union to day, as I stood in the Senate of the United - State! for, the Nitta In 1860 and 1881. 1 inettheri those who were making war upon the Consti. tution—tbose who wanted to break and des. troy-the governatedf—andl 'dmonaited them l in my place. then sad there; and exttased their true character.- I said. hat these men who were engaged the work of breaking nO I the government .we traitors. I hire never loused ,otrall- proper occasions to repeat that sentiment, and, as far as my efforts could go, I hive andeirrored . to carry It out - [(best applause.] I have just remarked that there *ve:two parties, one of which was for des troying, the giiiitialment and separating the :iition in ordes to preserve slavery, , and the other.for -breaking up 'the government ii - order to deitroy enemy, True, the objets Lwhich they sought to accomplish were differ'- mit, so far as slavery was concerned, but they agreed in OM desire to break pp thesorer*. went, the thine to which T hive' iltraft• been -ojppneed. and whether disunionist, comeliest the Unfit or from the North.- I stard slow. V :Idld theis mindiestieg.thitinion of OM Bhdle and the ,Conatitatten of my. country. [Tre mendous appianse.] Whey., rebellion or tied ettameetreeled iteelf in the Smith s k_etood by the 'government.' I said thin that was for tinfoii- with" or I ' was for die Doha without divert. , -4 either elternotive -r irafbr my gOtetlllllo VI its Centst 'Thu gtererniemathlioilretelasid forth its strong . andmitk Its 1 W4 pdown stheloysl,Noo t , ‘-i!I 4 Which then arrayed Itself *Wert the Neileest Government has been pot down by thielleollit arm. What did we say when this treason or • I iginated ? "No ocmpromiste" _You yourselves hkthe South elm 'rule ti le queilien in eight add folly bones. I said *rein and again, and I nisteial. it nemr--,diebard Wane armies in the donth;'acknalwirdee the supremacy of the Constiktitiotief the United State!, acknowledge tea Wily ot",ob4ien co to the laws. and the whole question is Fettled. [threat. applauae ] What has been dune since their * T rete; hive been disbanded, and they come now in a props spirit and say—" We are mislthen ; we ade an effort to carry out the doctrine of sea sloe and to dissolve this Union, aid we . .. Ballet We lave carried- 'hie &writ e do. a logical results, end we find that we ate mistaken. We acknowledge the Gig of our country, and are willing to obey the Cenet?- tattioa sad to yield to the supremacy of the Uwe:" [Great applause. Coming in that elPieit, I say to them*--" W en you have corn. plied with the requirement' ,of the Constita• Lion, when you have yielded to the law, when you have aeknowledged elleglmece to theCen- stitntion. I will, so far as I can; open the door of the Unicin to those 'who have erred and strayed feem,the fold of their fathers for a time." [great anaemic] Who hats suffered • more by the rebellion then I have f I shall not 'repeat the story. of the wrongs and suffer ings inflicted upon me ; but the spirit of te mp is not the spirit in which to deal with a' whole people. I know there his been a great deal said nbout the exercise of the pardoning Power. Bo far as your Executive Is concerned there is no one who has labored with more earneeteets than myself to have the principal, intelligent and conscious traitors brought to justice, the law vindicated, and the great. fact judicially established that treason is a crime. (Applause] Bat while lumina that leading and Intelligent traitors should be punished, should whole simmunitios, and States, and people be nide to submit to the penalty of ' death ? ' No. no ! I have perhaps is much t asperity and as much resent meat In my nature , as men °neat° have: but we must reaion'in great matters of government about men is ha. Is. We must conform our salons and mar conduct to the simple of Him who founded one holy ,religion. Not that I would make such" a comparison on this occasion in any personal aspect. I came into thit place under the Constitution of the country and by the approbation of the people, and what did I find? -Mend eight millions of people who were in fact condemned under the law, and the penalty was death. Was Ito yield to the spirit of revenge and resentment, and declare that, they all should be annihilated• and des troyed? How different wcu'd this have been from the example set by the holy founder of our religion, thir extreme points of whose di vine arch rests upon the horisan, and-whose spate embraces the universe ; he who founded this great scheme came into the world and found man condemned under the law, and hie sentence was death Whet was his example? Instead of condemning the world or even a nation to death, He died upon the Cross, at -testing by His wounds and Ills blood that He died that mankind might live. Let those who have erred repent—let them acknowledge their allegiance—let them beoome loyal, willing supporters and defenders of our glorious stars and stripes, and of the Constitution of our country—let the leaders, the conecious, intel. ligent traitors, be punished and subjected to the penalties of the law; [Applause.] but to the great mesa, who have been forced into this rebellion, in many instances, and in ethers have been misled, I say extend leni ency, kindness. trust and confidence. [Great applause.] My countrymen, when I look back over the history of the rebellion; I trust Lam net. vain when I ask you if I have not eves as much evidence of my devotion to the Haien; as,. acme wittecreak ogreat deal about It.. When I look back over the battle fields of the rebellion, I think of the many brave men in whose company I was. I cannot but recol lect that I was some times in places where the contest was most difficult and the reentemost doubtfcd. But almost before the smoke had paned away, almost before the blood that has been shed has sunk into the earth—before the bodiespf the slain had passed to their native dust—what do era stow find ? The rebellion has been put down by the strong arm of the government in the field but is that the only way in which you can have rebellion! One struggle was against the pttempt to dissever the Union ; but almost befeiosthe smoke of the battle field' has passed Tway—before our brave men have all returned to their homes and renewed the ties of affection and love to their wives and their children, we find almost another rebellion inaugurated. We put down the former rebellion in order to% prevent. the separstioo,of the ewes. to prevent them from, flying off, and thereby changing the character f our government and weakening its power. But when that struggle on our part has been sucpeestul, 'and that attempt Pas been'put down, we find now an effort to concentrate all powerin the Lends of the few at thaFederal head. and thereby bring about a consolidation of the government, which iii equally , objec tionable with a separation. [Vociferous ap plause.] We, - find that powers are assumed' and attempted to be exercised of a most ex traordinary character. It seems that govern ciente maybe rovolutionired—governments st least may be changed without going through the strife of battle. I believe it a fact attested in history that sometimes revolutions most dis astrous to a people are effected without the 'shedding of blood. The substance of your 'government may be taken sear while the form and shadow remain to you.. What is now be. ing proposed ? We find that is point of fact nearly all the powers of the government are assumed by an Irresponsible central directory, which does not even consult the legislative or executive departments of the government.— By resolutions reported from . a committee in whom it seems that practically the legislative power of the government is vested.that ;rest principle of the Constitution which authorises and empowers each branch of the legislative department, • the Senate and the Rouse of Representatives, to fudge for itself of the e'ections, returns and qualification of its own members, hes been virtually tette away from the two bray ekes cil i ate legislative department; of the govetennent, and conferred upon a joint commit tee,who must report before either House Can act under the Constitution as to accepting the members who are to take their seats as component parts of the respective bodies.— By this rule it is mistimed that there must be laws missed recognising a State as being in the Union, or its practical relations to the Union as restored, before the respective Douses under the Constitution can judge of the elec tions, returns and qualifications of their own members. What a pesitioa is that? You struggled for four years to put down a rebel lion. Yon denied at the beginring of the struggle that any State could go out of the Union. Yon said that it had neither the right nor the power to do so. The Usue was made and it has been settled that the States had neither the right nor the power to go out of the Union. - With what consistency, after it tub been settled by the iiilitary arm .of the government and by the pnblio judgment that the States had no right to go out of the Union, can any one now turn round and assume that they are out, and that they Atoll not come in ? I am free to say to you as year Executive that Ism not prepared to take any such position. [Great applane ] I said in the Senate in the very inceytion of this rebellion that the States had no right to go out ; I aesseted. too,• that they had no power to go ant. That question has bean settled. and is being settled ; I caw not turn around now awl give the lie direct to all that I hive professed. sad all I have done for the last five yeari. [Applause ]. When those who rebelled comply with the Con stitution, when they give eutlioient evidence of loyalty. when they show that they can be trusted, when they yield obedience to the law that yon.and I acknowledge. I say...stand to them the right hand of fellowship, and let peace and union be restored. [Tremendous .applause ] I fought! trtors and treason in the Smith. A opposed the Devise'. the Toombaes. the Slidells. and a long list of Others, which you can readily fill without my repeating the names. Now, when I turn round and at the other end of the line find man—l care not by what name you call them —who still stand opposed to the restoration, of the Union of these States, I am free to say to you that I' am still in-the field. [Great ap plane.] I am still for the preservation of the Union, lem still is favor of this filet Oovernmest of,ottrs going on and filling out Its destiny. [Great applause.] Voices—Gist us three of theseusstee at tint <Abet end. ' The Presiding-el sm tailed upon to name three at the other eared' Outline, lam talk • ing to my friends and fellow oltis , ne who are interested with'eni tn. this government, And I peons* Ism free to mention to you the names ettli t kpwlqitnil loot - upon as' Nan 'pried EMI I I to the funddiseetal principles of this men,.and who are laboriag to &to r ~ 114 11. Voices—Name them _who are The President You alb me 1 ,1 0 - 1 1 '' I say, Thaddgue Stevens. of ; I say Mr Sumner, of the Seiu,, other, and Wendell Phillip s i s me t ,. continued applause,] • Voices—Give it to Pettey. 'Pb. President—ln reply to 0,,, L p'y say I do not waste my ammo* %laid ducks. - [Great laughter sad al I stand for my country, I stand fee etitation. There I hare Cupp from my - advent into pubtle traduce, they may 'loader, they rate me, but let me lay to you in t hi as loduenee upon me. [ ( kelt 4 photo me say further, that I do not 61 4 4, overawed by real or preleuded .114 I mean to berbull'ed by my sae34 l. m en t ions applause.) Honest cow my courage. The Constitutioa is ! I knew; my countrymen, that it by cinusted; it hen been said dhow, places, that If such a , usurpatioa of I am charged with had bee" ezr two hundred years-age, in a pen would have cost an Inditidat [Great laughter.] Of what no.. Andrew Johnson been guilty? g, Is it a usurpation to stand hetet.' t aid the encroachment of rover? in a ooneeristfon with a fellow viii happened to be a Senator. I said tki amendments to the Constitution ou t be so frequent; that if it was tampered with it would lose its pi dignity, and the,old instrument won sight of altogether in a shnrt time cause In the same coorcroation I sly that if it were anfinded at all, , such - on imesathent ought to be e a, was charged that twas guily of la lion of power thiat'would have mitt head in a certain period of Eagliek [Great laughter.] From the same, exo:stnation has gone forth that tt the midst of earthquakes, that trembling end eonld not yieki. Yen, fellow citizens, there is it coming ; there is a grand swelling 0 1 judgment and indignation. [Greet et Tee American people will 'peak, and' ibetinot, if not otherwise. they will are their friends and who are ebeit I have endeavored to be true to the all_ the positions which I have weal therdis hardly a position in this p which I have not at some time that pose it will be said that this is rutty , ter ;] but I may SS/ that I bare them, and I have been Intoth the tate Legislature. A Voice—Yon commenced a tailor. The President—A gentleman . bel says that I began a tailor. Yes, Idi a tailor (applause). and that Super not disturb me is the least, for whet tailor, I hid the reputatio bei one, and making close fits. av I was always )urectual to my dil good work. [Applause.] . Voices—We wilt patch up the Ifni The President—No. I do not patchwork about W. I want the or ale restored. [Great applause.] of this rallery. I know it may i are President, and you must no t these things; but, my fellow citire t to talk the truth, and when primp volved, when the existence of alto in peril, I hold it to be my dqty what I think and what I feel, at Int dons on former oocasions. [Great I have said it has been declared that I was guilty of usurpation have cost a king his bead, and place I have been dammed for Hi int." When and where did I gib thing or anybody ? I have been an of a town; I hive been in both brt Legislature of my State; I have Houses of the National Congress; at the bend of the Executive Dept my State; I nave been Vice Preside United States, and I am now In the which I occupy before you, and di this time where is the and ebt .ortion of the .people who can es] drew Johnson ever made a pledge did not redeem. or that be ever mad is. Which he violated. None: Note. 'me to the man who can say that Johnson ever acted with infidelity tor mass of the people. [Great apple, may talc about beheading and "abut Lion, but when I am beheaded, I American people to be the witness. t it done by inuendoes and . marks in high places, to be suggest who have assassination brooding bosoms. Others" have exclaimed presidential obstacle most be p the way. What is that but (I Mei strong word) inciting to umssinui the opponents of the Government at isfied T Are these who want to institutions, and to change the our Government, not yet 'slim quantity of blood that has beta they not satisfied with one mart place ? Does not the blood of pease tteir vengeance and their their thirst still uesaliated? Do want more blood? Rave they not courage enough to seek to obtain , erwise than by the hand of the a am not afraid of an usassin att where one brave and coursgeoos attack another. I only dread kin guised and where his footstep is , If they want blood, let them base to strike like men. I kaow they it to wound, yet afraid to strike." If is to be shed because I vindicate and insist on the preservation of t meat io its original purity, let it et an altar to the Union be first then, if necessary, take me and le) it, and the blood that now wants mates my existence shall be poured, last libatiOn as a tribute to the Uni States. [Great applause.] But let nente of this Government remembr it its found out that the blood of tl 4, the seed of the church, " ti wilt grow, and it will continue to strength and power, though it my ted and cleansed in. blood. I spoken to yon longer than I Wm. came out. ["00 on.") I merely to make my acknowledgments for you base done me; but, before I , me to , s'ily a word in regard to thr RP:iendmt nth to Atte Constitution of States Shortly after I reached fur the purpose of being it:mum President of the United States, I versation with Mr. Lincoln in re Condition of affairs. We talked in reference to matters in my of told him that we called a convent had amended the Censtitutioe; t abolished slavery in that State, wit included in his emencipstion All these things met his approi gave me words of encouramt then about affairs generally subject, of amendments to the 1 the United Steam He mid to uo amendment of the Constitution is adopted by three-fourths of am pretty near don or, indeed, in favor of amending the Constitnt was one more adopted." I asked! is that, -Me President?" Ile s 0 labored to preserve this Union. , during the four years I have to ealatiny and miarepresentati and sole desire has beep to Btatea intact-under the Coast' were before." I asked him President, what amendment is , would propose?" "Why," .that there shen'd be an amends. the Censtitation'which would el States to send their Senators sad tally's to the Congress oldie [Great applause The Idea vat that as a part of the doct , ins one of the means to break op meat was that .the States, if ti' might withdraw their Senators tatives, or refuse to elect thew. even to remove that difficulty by timid amendment oompelliog ,' send Senator. and Represented greets. But whatdo we nor dad? collation of the Kited States, a" lion of it which allows a mend:Deal sante law, expressly provides tit without Its consent, shall be dept suffrage, and it also provides tit shall have at hut one Represt Lime of Representative.; 1411) tion is taken that certain State represented. We impose lases' we send our tap-gatherers faro and portion of the Stites. Tie subjects of pesensuent for as
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