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' !: 'ii ; ia ;'i i i'.' tli. work tlr-v have
'l'int iti-' i i ui' lit which is
t -ivi i.-1 to l.ini who. I may : .iv,
!"'l th. fi-ivr.aaet.f, is almost wit bin
..throw c.f n si u-t - f the spot from
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ii".e tit v. u. j.-t it w com- i
1 ( A ; elan-- .. ) Lit th-j-e. tio'.is
' -I; wiacl, t Stat, s, :uel ia.livi.Inals,
- "1'it... i. , ji'i.l corpr rati ais l:ave
t .:i t .a: in .aniiiviiit a ph-iljies uf their
" tl I "i.ion be preserved, aiel let
iv i -.- ..-eo!np!i!,,l.
n:M-s i i;.
1 J cii;.p( tion .jt me refer to the
nl lav .wn State, Clod bless her
'")! which has pfrini'jle 1 for th.e
::'i"a ol this Union in the lichl and
o iar;N uf he nation, and which
straj-iU-i-i t.) renew her relations
hn
vern ii-ait, that were inter-
'';' 11 ''-'ailui Rebellion. She is now
; Cu jr to r.-new tho-e relations, and to
'- i""r .-iatul where she had ever stood
17'."'. until this I'Ubollioii broke out.
t,r-t rp!atise. ) Let me repeat the
'"' .'ai tliat that State has inscribed
r" the stone which she has deposited in
ni'iiuiinent of freedom which is being
''"d ia couniiemoration tf Waphinpcton.
' '.s sirujiglin;; to et back into the ITn
";. :esl to stand hy th sentiment which
'!.. re iiiscnWJ, nnj i-li is will'm"! to
in it. What is it? I was the s.-n--
: t which va enunciated by Iier dis
'rnshed son, the immortal, the illustri
Ji la.'kson. " Tiie Federal Union it
b' preserved." (Great applause")
t wvrc possible for that old man.
"'iuseUtue is now before me, and whose
prt.-ait is hi hind me in the Executive
'tlisi(;ll. nill wllOlO cortininiit tj l.,
....ru . . 1.III1IMII. i.T UIU,,
Pi"'vtd ia that monument in your vi-
;'y. to h eallt-1 forth from the prave,
' a vt r. possible? to communicate with
Yt cf t!u illustrious dead, and make
V .n . r,:ail,j tl(, pro:,ro?s Gf fuction atid
ii n .md treason, he would turn
'Z'?n .p,,nili nd he would rise, and
K"::.2 c,! tne habiliments of the tomb,
h.'1:'iu stand erect, and extend forth
; V. ann and finger, and reiterate that
'"nt, (,nce exprefised by him on a
;----:i..:.'.,lf,.l?ion "The Federal Un
V?.t!mM Erpi,crvod." ((Jreatap-
.,. 'UMi.Uh' 1:F.M!NI.s'KNck.S.
" iavo wiincssed what has transpir
:";..' i..- iUy. n 1833 whcn treason
s h.rv and infidelity tothefrov-
crnmont and Constitution of the United
States stalked forth in the land, it was
his power and inlhience that crushed the
serpent in his incipioncy- It was then
stopped, but only for a time. The same
Fpirit of dissatisfaction continues. There
wen; men disaffected to the Government,
both in the Noith an 1 in the South.
M.VVKKV.
There was, in a portion of the Union,
a jieeuiuir institution, of which pome com
plained, and to which others were attach
ed. 0:hj portion of our countrymen in
the South advocated that institution, while
another portion in the North opposed it.
EXTIIBIE l'Alilins.
The result was the formation of extreme
parties, one especially in the South, which
reached a point at which it was proposed
to dissolve the Union of the States for the
purpose, as was said, of securing and pre
serving that peculiar institution. There
was another portion of our countrymen
wlio were opposed to that institution, and
who went to .-uch an extreme that they
were wiliing to break up the Government
in older to get clear of that peculiar insti
tution of the South.
I say these tilings because I desire to
talk plainly an i in familiar phraseology.
I as.-nine nothing here to-day beyond the
p )rt:i( n ot :
i citizen: one who lias bet n
1 tea ur. ior las
his country and the preser
vation of the Constitution. (Immense
ch-enr: ) These two parties were array
ed ;.-a:n-t each other, and I stand here
be! '.-.re yon for the Union to-day, as I stood
in the Senate of the United States in 1SC0
and lSl.
in sii:: F!:V,VTK.
I met there those who were making
war upon the Conrtitution. and who wan
ted to disrupt the Government, and I de
nounced them in my place then and there,
and exposed their true character. I said
that those' who were cngiged in breaking
up the Union were traitors. I have never
ceased, on ail the proper occasions, to re- (
peat that sentiment, and as far as my eff
orts coul 1 go, I have endearvored to carry
it o'ir. (Gnat applause.) I have just
reniiik'd that there were two parties,
one of which was for destroying the Gov
ernment and seperatiug the Union, in or
der to preserve slavery, and the other for
breaking up the Government to destroy
slavery. True, the objects vvhieh they
sought to Hccoinplih were different, so
far as slavery was concerned, but they
agr- .-d ia the desire to break up the Gov
ernment, the precise thing to which I have
always been opposed, and whether disun-ioni-ts
come from the South or North, I
.-land now as I did then, vindicating the
anion of these States and the Constitution
of my country. (Tremendous applause. )
SKCK-ION'.
Rebellion and treason manifested them
selves in the South. I stood bv the Gov
einnient. I said then that I was for the
Union with slavery, I was for the Union
without slavery. In cidier alternative I
was for nij Government and its Constitu
tion. The Governin 'tit lias stretched forth
its s'rong arm, and with its physical pow
er it has put down treason in the field.
The section of the country w hich then ar
ray ed itself against the Government has
b- en put down by the strong arm. What
did we say when this treason originated ?
We said " No compromise ; you your
selves in the South can settle this question
in eight ami forty hours." I said again
and agaii and I repeat it now, " Disband
your armies in the South, acknowledge
the supremacy of the Constitution of the
United States, acknowledge the duty of
obedience to the laws, and the whole ques
tion is settled." (Applause.) What has
been done since ?
tiik r.KiiKi.uos ni snr.i.
Their armies have been disbanded, and
they come forward now in the proper spirit
and say, 41 We were mistaken. We made
an effort to carry outthe doctrine of Seces
sion and to dissolve this Union. In that
we have failed. We have traced this doc
trine to its logical and physical results,
and we find that we were mistaken. We
acknowledge the ltag of our country and
are willing to obey the Constitution
and to yield to the supremacy of the laws."
(Great applause.) Coining in that spirit,
I .-ay to them, " When you have complied
with the requirements cf the Constitution,
when you have yielded to the law, when
you have acknowledged your allegiance to
the Constitution, I will, so far as I can,
open the door of the Union to thoso who
had erred and strayed from the folds of
their fathers for a time. (Great applause.)
Who has suffered more by the Rebellion
than I have? I shall not repeat the sto
ry of the wrongs and sufferings inflicted
upon me ; but the spirit cf revenge is not
the spirit in which to deal with a wrong
ed people. I know there lias been a great
deal said about the exercise of the par
doning power, so far as your Executive is
conaexned.
THE LEADING TRAlTOltS.
There is no one who has labored with
more earnestness 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,) but while
conscious, leading and intelligent traitors
are to bo punished, should whole commu
nities and States and people be made to
submit to the penalty of death ? No, no.
I have perhaps as much asperity and
as much resentment as men ought to have,
but we must reason in great matters of
government about man as he is ; we must
conform our actions and our conduct to
the example of Ilim who founded our ho
ly religion, not that I wpuld make such a
comparison on this occasion in any perso
nal aspect.
ntKilNNIXG OF TIIK A DMIXISTKATIOX.
I came into this place under the Con
stitution of the country and by the appro
bation of the people, and what did I find ?
I found eicht millions of people who were
in fact condemned under the law, and the
penalty was death. Was I to yield to the
spir.it of revenge and resentment, and de
clare that they should all be annihilated
and destroyed ? 1 low different would
this have been from the example set by
the Holy Founder of our religion, the ex
tremities of whose divine arch rest upon
the horizon, and whose span embraces the
universe! He who founded this great
j scheme came into the world and found
j man condemned under the law, and his
j sentence was death. What was His ex-
ample ? Instead of putting the world, or
.; even a nation to death, lie died upon the
j cross, attesting, by His wounds and by
j His blood, that he died that mankind
might live. (Great applause.)
MASSES OF THE SOl'TH.
Let those who have erred repent, let
them acknowledge their allegiance, let
them become loyal, willing supporters and
defenders of our glorious Stars and Stripes
and of tho Constitution of cur country.
Iet the leaders, the conscious, intelligent
traitors le punished and be subjected to.
tie penalties of the law (applause), but
the great mass who have been foret-d into
the Rebehi jn in many instances, and in
others have been misled, I say clemency,
kindness, trust and confidence. (Great
applause. )
the rnF.sim-.vr's rosinos
My countrymen, when I look back over
the history of the Rebellion, I am not
vain when I ask you if 1 hnvo not given
as much evidence, of my devotion to the
Union as some who croak a great 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 recollect that I was some
times in places where the contest was
most difficult and the result most doubt
ful ; but almost before the smoke has pas
sed away, almost before the blood that
has been shed has done reeking, before
the bodies of the slain have passed through
the stages of decomposition, what do we
now find?
l'KF.SENT STATE OF AFFAIltS.
The Rebellion has bee n put down by
the strong arm of the Government in the
field, but is that the only way in which
you can have rebellion? Our struggle
was against an attempt to dissever the
Union, but almost before the smoke of
the battle-field has passed away, 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 inaugu
rated. We put down the former rebel
lion in order to prevent the separation of
tiie State?, to prevent them from- flying
off, and thereby changing the character of
our Government and weakening its pow
er, but when that struggle on our part has
been successful, and that attempt has
been put down, we find now an effort to
concentrate all power in the hands of a
few ut the Federal head, and thereby brin
about a consolidation of the'Government
which is equally objectionable with a sepa
ration. (Vociferous applause.) We find
that powers are assumed, and attempted
to be exercised, of a most extraordinary
character. It seems that Governments
may be revolutionized, Governments, at
least, may be changed without going
through the strife of battle. I lndieve it
is a fact attested in history that some
times revolutions most disastrous to the
people are effected without the shedding
of blood. The substance of your Gov
ernment may be taken away, while the
form and shadow remain to you. What
is now being proposed?
-We find that in point of fact nearly all
the powers of the Government ara assu
med by an irresponsible central directory,
which docs not even consult the legisla
tive or the Executive Department of the
Government ; by resolutions reported from
a committee, in wdiom it seems that prac
tically the legislative power of the Gov
ernment is now vested ; the great princi
ple cf the Constitution which authorizes
and empowers each branch of the Legisla
tive Department of the Senate and the
Ilause of Representatives to judge for
itself of the election returns and qualifiea-ti-.aie
of it3 own members has been virtu
ally taken away from the two branches of
the Legislative Department of the Gov
ernment, and conferred upon a committee
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 assumed that there
must be laws passed recognizing a State as
in the Union, or its practical relations to
the Union as restored, before the respec
tive Houses, under the Constitution, can
judge of the election returns and qualifica
tions of their own members. What a po
sition is that? You struggled for four
years to put down a rebellion ; you denied
in the beginning of the struggle that any
State could go out of the Union ; you said
that it had neither the right nor the pow
er to do so. The issue was made, and it
has been settled that the State had neither
the right nor the power to go nut cf the
Union ; with what consistency, after it
has been settled by the military arm of
the Government, and by the public judg
ment, that the States had no right to go
out of the Union, can any one now turn
round and assume that they are out, that
they shall not come in. I am free to say
to you, as your Executive, that I am not
prepared to take any such position.
(Great applause.) I said in the Senate,
at the very inception of this Rebellion,
that the States had no right to go out ; I
asserted too that they had no power to go
out ; that question has been settled, and
it being settled, I cannot turn around now
and give the lie direct to all I have pro
fessed, and all I have dene for the 1 ist
five years. (Applause.) When thoso who
rebelled comply with the Constitution ;
when tlwy give sufficient evidence of their
loyalty; when they show that they can
be trusted ; when they yield obedience to
the law that you and I acknowledge obe
dience to, I say extend to them tho right
hand of fellowship, and let peace and un
ion be restored. (Tremendous applause.)
PTII.t. IS THE HEM.
I fought traitors and treason in the
South. I opposed the Davises, the
Toombs, 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
thid men, 1 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 applause. I am still
for the preservation of the Union. 1 am
still in favor of this great Government of
our? going on and on, and filling out its
destiny. Great applause. Voices
Give us three names at the other end
TIIK NAMES AT '1 HE OlllEIi EM.
The President I am called upon to
name three at tho other end of the line.
I am talking to my friends and fcllow-cit-izens,
who are interested with me in this
Government, and I presume I am free to
mention to you the names of those whom
I look upon as being opposed to the fun
damcnlal principles of this Government,
and who are laboring to pervert and des
troy it. (Voices, "Name them !" "Who
are they ?") The 1 'resident You ask me
who they are. I say TiiaJdcm Sdvens, of
Pennsylvania, is one ; I say, Jfr. Stnuner,
of the Senate, is another, and Wcnddl
PInWps is another. Long continued ap
plause. (Voices, "Give it to Forney !")
The 1 'resident In reply to that-1 will
simply say I do nut waste my ammunition
uji'jn dead duels. Great laughter and
applause. I stand fur my country; I
stand for the Constitution- There I have
always placed my feet from my advent to
public life. They may tradure me, they
may slander, they may vituperate me,
but let me say to you, all this has no in
fluence upon me. Great applause.
NOT TO HE Hl. I.IJEI). .
Let me say further, that I do not intend
to be overawed by real or pretended friends,
nor do I mean to be bullied by my ene
mies. Tremendous applause. Honest
conviction is ray courage, the Constitu- !
tion is my guide. I know my country
men, that it has been insinuated, no, not
insinuated, it has been said directly in
high places that if such a usurpation of
power as I am charged with had been ex
ercised some two hundred years ago in a
particular reign, it would have cost an in
dividual his head. Great laughter. Of
what usurpation has Andrew Johnson
been guilty ? None. None.
Is it a usurpation to stand between the
people and the encroachments of power,
because, in a conversation with a fellow
citizen who happened to be a Senator, I
said that I thought amendments to the
Constitution ought not too frequently be
made ; that if it was continually tinkered
with it would loose all its prestige and
dignity, and the old instrument would be
lost sight of altogether in a short time,
and because in the same conversation I
happened to say that if it were amended at
all, such and such amendment ought to be
adopted, it was charged that I was guilty
of usurpation of power that would have
cost a king his head in a certain period of
English history. Great laughter. From
the same source the exclamation has gone
forth that they were in the midst of earth
quakes ; that they were trembling and
could not yield. Laughter.
JI IXJMENT OF THE rEOl'I.K.
Yes, fellow-citizens, there is an earth
quake corning; there is a ground swelling
of popular judgment and indignation.
Great applause. The American people
will speak, and, by their instinct if not
otherwise, they will know who are their
friends and who are their enemies, I have
endeavored to be true to the peeple in all
the positions which I have occupied, and
there is hardly a position in this Govern
ment which I have not at seme time fill
ed. I suppose it will be said that this is
vanity laughter, but I may say that I
have been in all of ihem. .1 have been
in both branches of the State Legislature.
A voice : " You commenced a tailor."'J
NO PATCH WOtlK.
The President A gentleman behind
me says that I began a tailor. Yes, I
did begin a tailor applause, and that
suggestion does not discomfit rns in the
least, for when I was a tailor 1 had the
reputation of being a good one, and cf
making close fits laughter, and I was
always punctual to my customers, and did
good work. Applause.
Voices- We will patch n the Union
yet.
The President No, I do not want any
patch work of it ; I want the original ar
ticle restored. Great applause.
I have said, it lias been declared else
where that 1 was guilty of usurpation
which would have ost a king his head,
and in another place I have been denoun
ced for whitewashing. When and where
did I ever whitewash anything or any
body ? I have been an alderman of a
town, I have been in both brandies of the
Legis'ature of my State, 1 have been in
both Houses of the National Congress, I
have been r.t the head of the Executive
Department of my State, I have been
Vice 1 'resident of the U nited States a ad
I am now in the position which 1 occupy
before you, and during all this career
where is the man and what portion of the
people is there who can say that Andrew
Johnson ever made a pledge which he did
not redeem, or that he ever made a prom
ise which he violated ? None. Now,
point out the man who can say that An
drew Johnson ever acted with infidelity
to the great mass of the people. (Great
applause.
KEHEAiUNG.
Men may talk about beheading and
about usurpation, but when I am behead
ed I want the American people to be the
witnesses. 1 do not want it by iauendoes
and indirect remarks; in high places, to be
suggested to men who have assassination
brooking in their bosoms, there is a fit
subject. Others have exclaimed that the
Presidential obstacle must be gotten out
of the way. What is that but a make
use of a strong word inciting to assassin
ation ? No doubt, I say, the intention
was to incite assassination, so the obsta
cle which the people had placed here could
lie got out of the way. Are the oppo
nents of this Government not yet satisfied ;
are those who want to destroy our insti
tutions and to change the character of the
Government, not satisfied with thequantity
of blood that has been shed ? Are they
not satisfied with one martyr in this place ?
Does not the blood of Lincoln appease
their venger.nce and is their thirst stiil un
slaked ? Co they still want more blood ?
Have they not honor and courage enough
to seek to obtain the end otherwise than
through and by the hand of an assassin ?
I am not afraid of an assassin attacking
me where one brave and courageous man
will attack another. I only dread him
in disguise, and where his footstep is
noiseless.
If they want blood let them have the
courage to striko like men. I know they
arc willing to wound, but afraid to striko.
If my blood is to be shed because I v indi
cate the Union, and insist on the preser
vation of this Government in its original
purity, let it be shed ; but let an altar to
the Union be first erected, and then, if
necessary, take me and lay me upon if,
and the blood that now warms and ani
mates my existence shall be poured out
as the last libation, as a tribute to the
Union of these States. Great applause.
Rut let the opponents of this Government
remember, wLen it is poured " out, that
"the blood of the martyrs is the seed of
the church." The Union will grow, and
it will increase in strength and power,
though it may be cemented and cleansed
in blood. I have already spoken to you
longer than I intended when I came out.
(Go en.)
OlNs-TITUTIoNAT. AMLND.MI'.iTS.
I merely intended to make my acknowl
edgments for the honor you have done me ;
but before I c lose, allow me to say a word
in regard to the question of amendments
to the Constitution cf the United States.
Shortly after I reached Washington for
the purpose of being inaugurated as Vice
President of the United States, I had a
conversation with Mr. Lincoln in regard
to the condition of affairs. We talked
particukuly in reference io matters in my
own State. I told him that we had cal
led a Convention, that wc had amended
the Constitution, and that we had abolish
ed slavery in that State, which was not
included in his Emancipation Proclama
tion All these things met hi approbation,
and he gave mc words of encouragement.
We talked th.n about affairs generally,
and 'upon the subject of amendments to
the Constitution of the United States ; he
said to me, " When the amendment of the
Constitution now proposed, is adopted by
three-fourths of the States, I am pretty
near done, or inched quite done in favor
of amending the Constitution if there was
one other adopted."
I asked him, What is that, Mr. Presi
dent? lie said, " I have labored to save
this Union. I have toiled during four
years ; I have been subjected to calumny
and inisrepr. scntatien. My great and
sole desire has been to preserve these
States intact under the Constitution as
thev were before." I asked him aaain
whiit amendment was that he proposed ?
"Why," said he, " i: is that there should
be an amendment addd to the Constitu
tion which would couipd the Stuff s te
send their Senators and Representatives
to the Congress of he United States."
Great applause. The idea was in his
mind that as a part of the doctrine of Se
cession, one of the means to break up
this Government was that the States', if
they saw proper, might withdraw their
Senators and Representatives, or refuse to
ticket them. He wanted even to remove
that difficulty by a constitutional amend
ment, compelling the States to send Sena
tors and Representatives to Congress.
Piut what do w-e now find .' Tho Con
stitution of the country, even that portion
of it which allows amendments to the or
ganic law, exnrtssly provides that no
State, without its consent, shall be depri
ved of its e qual suffrage in the Senate, and
it n!?o provides that each State shall have
at least one Representative in the House
of Representatives ; but yet the position
is taken that certain States shall not be
represented. We impose taxesupon them;
we send our tax gatherers into every re
gion and portion of the Stat-s.
These people, are lit subjects of the
Government for the collection of taxes,
but when they ask to participate in the
legislation of the country, they are met at
the door anil told no, you must pay taxes,
you must bear burdens of Government,
but you cannot participate ia its legisla
tion which is to alfect you through all
time to come. Is this justice, is it fair i
No, no.
I repeat I am for the Union. I am for
the preservation of all the States. I am
for admitting into the Councils of the na
tion all the representatives who are unmis
takably and unquestionably loyal. A
man who acknowledges allegiance to the
Government, and who swears to support
the Cou.-titution, must necessarily be loy
al. A man cannot take an oath in good
faith unlets he is loyal.
I know that some do not attach as much
importance to this point as I do, but I re
gard it as a fundamental one. The princi
ple that carried us through the revolution
was that there should be no taxation with
out representation. 1 hold to that princi
ple, which was laid down as fundamental
by our fathers. If it was good then it is
good now. If it was worth standing by
then, it is worth standing by now. It is
fundamental liiid should be observed as
lonii as free government lasts.
Tl 1 E C'ONSTI I I TK )S.
I am aware that in the midst of the
Rebellion it. was said by some that the
Constitution had been rolled up as a piece
of parchment and laid away ; that in time
of war and rebellion there was no Consti
tution. Wc know that sometimes, in
great necessity, under great emergencies,
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