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TIIK 1'IIKHIDKNTS VI.AN At the moment when tlio Conquering armies of the United Suites were sweep ing over thfl land irresistibly, and when inu puwer oi 1110 vjoiueuoracy was uetntr tract ured, and when tlieir I'rcsiJent was fleeing and pursued by the cavalry of the United States, at that moment, in the spirit that starved our prisoners at Libhy, Belle Isle and Andersoi.villo, they raised tlio assassin hand of Booth against the great and good Lincoln, the lust rown- ing infamy of ilje war. And that raised 'the Vice-President of iho United States in'o power, and while 1 propose to deal wiJi all of his acts and opinions with that respect due to any. man in a high oflico, it will yet bo necessary lo examine thoso acts and opinions. IIo then deelar ed that treason Hhould bo mado odious and traitors should be punished. That declaration was made to every commit, too from every St.ito that visited him, and I need not tell this nudienco how that declaration thrilled every loyal heart. Every man said. 'Well' if w h.wn but Lincoln, wo hnv got Johnson, ami the Rebels will fare worso wltn him than with Lincoln " lie issued his prodi mation for a reward tor the principal ...... it i conspirators, lie retuscil to sanction the terms of .surrender by Sherman to Johnston, and it will bo quite material for us for a moment to consider what thoso terms were. (Jen. Sherman, anxious, as ho said, to pneificnto the country, agreed with Gen. Johnston that if he would surrender, the people of the Umfederato Slates should be restored to all their righls, civil and political, which they enjoyed before the will. That was one of the prinoip.il terms of the surrender. When tint surrender was known at Washington, and the capitulation considered, it was at once repudiated by every loyal man. What was it we had been fighting for? What h id we g lined if these terms were allow ed Andrew Johnson issiui 1 an order r .quiring that these terms of surrender should be set aside. Why'? Because it restored these Rebels to those rights which lead to a part in the Government of the United Slates ami thus rendered nugutorytho war in ivhioh wo have been engaged. Mark this, because wo want to see if after all the present policy of tlio Philadelphia Convention is to bo carried out. we have, not enacted ,he same terms of surrender. Tlio Govern ment or the United Stales had the right to name the terms upon which the South should be readmil led to the Union, and they would havo baon instantly and eagerly sub.-cribed ' to had they been ever so hard nnd severe. President Johnson lakes a power for which there is no warrant in the Constitution, that no State should oomo back until it pass ed the Constitutional Amendment abol ishing ' Slavery, nnd until it agreed to nnnul and make void its ordinances Of Secession. II those States, as 'is now claimcd.and all their righls in the Union, that is to say, if South O irolina had the same right as Massachusetts, ami if in exhibition that of right if Massachusetts men and South Carolina men were bound to march arm in arm for an exhibition any wherewhy did llio President un dertake lo put a condition upon the Southern Slates of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and other Rebellious Stales ! I was saying that if at tho moment that Pit'sidont Johnson issttod his order that these States should not bo allowed lo have nny other than a military govern ment until they passed certain acts ono ot which was to nullify tlio ordinance of Secession, nnd another to adopt the Constituional nmondnieiit abolishing Slavery tf at thnl time it was oompetent tor mo to make that order, I should put it that these States had been m rebellion lheii rights had been captured, and it wastorihuUuito lStatos td Say upon what terms they would tako tliem back. Now here in tho Constitution I can ualo!y challenge any ooilstluuionl lawyer in tho country to put his flilger upon a passago anywhere which gives tho Presi dent a rirfht to eay t a State in tho Union, do this or do that, or don't do this or do that, adopt this proposition or that proposition. President Johnson gave them orders as their chief executive because ho recognized that those Stales , . . , ' , , , ...r . . ' that had rebelled had a different position ' WAYNESBURGr, in tho oouutry from tlio loyal States Let mo repeat this, bcoauso upon this bangs the whole question. I nree if these revolted, rebellious Confederate States luvo ncVer lost any of their rights by tho war, or their past acts, if they have the saino rights that they had be fore tho war then no man has a right to keep out their representatives or to impose any condition Upon them, and therefore when gentlemen say to mo, 'Congress has no right to say what Mas sachusetts shall d .' I agree neither Congress nor tho President has any right to Bay what Massachusetts shall do, or Pennsylvania, or NewYork or omitlo do. But when Massachusetts rebels against the Government, and takes WiH; and afier four years or four months is subdued, after sho has to surrender because she cannot fight longer, aud lug bound hand and toot before tho power of the United States I will say that Mas sachusetts then hag lost her rights, and that she has to come under tho law of the conqueror, and can come back into the Union only when in the judgment of the loyal States it shall bo for the beiifllt of tho wholo country to receive her back. Congress came together in December, and for tho first time the President cnntiiiciated tho doctrine that these Stntes had a right to representation by loyal representatives. It always seemed to me that there was a fallacy in that slatemciit, that it was sophistry, and I have seen very many good, honest, loyal men that were stumbled by this argu ment, 'why won't Congress admit the loyal representatives in' tho Union, is it not wrong for Congress to keep out loyal men?' 'Suppose tho South is disloyal and tends loyal representatives, why should they not bti admitted V Suppose, my friend, you who havo a doubt upon this question suppose the loyal Slates should send disloyal men to the Congress of tho Unite 1 States? Will yon admit tho disloyal representative ? 'No. because lie misrepresents his constituency, and ho ought not to bo a Imitted. Suppose a disloyal constituency sends a loyal rep resentative, should he be admitted? No Why? Rucansu he misrepresents his constituency. Is it not perfectly an answer a pei feet one, .and not to be overcoiliu by any artifice that the right ot I'd preseutativo i not tho right ot the represenlators, but ot tho onstitunoy If the constituency is loyal, then it will hardly do to inquire into the constitu ency of th'i representative, an 1 therefore we all applaud llio answer of John Run dolph when askjd if he was old enough to come to Congress he eaid, "ask my constituents. " Therefore we are brought back to this if the constituency, in the first instance is loyal, they have a right to be represented but not by Rebels and it jiiitico was dono them ihey would not havo a mail of tho Rebels left to represent them. Applause lint it they aro disloyal it is no matter whom they ssud to represent them, because this year they will send loyal men, and having got established, next year thoy will send disloyal mon, saying : 'You have recognized our right to represen tation and you must admit these men.' Have the peoplo ot tho South such a love of the Union, lovo ot country, as to bo entitled to take part in the govern ment of the country ? That is tho ques tion. I assume that President Johnson believed that they were loyal nnd tha1 they had surrendered in good faith. What is surrendering in good faith? I suppose that o horse thief when he gets in Stale prison surrenders llio right of horso-stealing in good faith. He doesn't mean to steal any more until hogots out. Laughter They surrendered, not beeauso ihey wanted to,but becnlise they were obliged to; not for love of oouutry, but from tear; they surrendered because they were whipped and soundly whip ped, too. I think I do no discredit to President Johnson to say that I think ho was mistaken. Tho l8suo is now mado. When wo talk wllh anybody who claims to sup. port the policy of President Johnson, ho immediately tells us about tho Constitu. tion and the wisdom of our fathers, nnd that hois content to do ns our fathers did. So am I. What did our fathers do? I won't cite Massachusetts, tor sho wns always thought to bo rabid, but I will take the State of North Carolina, nnd at the end of the revolution1 what law did sho pass? She gave the Tory amnesty for all his past miesdemeanors.protootidii tor his life, liberty and property j but "ever torever should lie hrttfl any p,f j the government of tho Statu. I PA., WEDNESDAY, go back td llio wisdom of the fathers and every State in the Union at that day passed tlio same or similar orders, except South Carolina, and she let the Tory pack tako part in her government and the consequence is that she has nev er had a republican government to this day. It seems that heretofore, under the Constitution of the States, the Presi dent lias never before undertaken to nv a State was or was not fit to come back but by the laws ot Congress. Slates carved out of Western territory come in by laws ot Congress, and in the pur chase of Louisiana nobody doubted that it wns the right of Congress to recognize tho right ot taking States in the Union bj pmchaso or otherwise. TIIK Sl'llirr OK TIIK SOUTH THIS DUTY OK Tin: Noitrii. After reviewing the Constitutional Amendment, Gen. Butler said : I believe I have gone over all tho dif ficulty between the President and Con gross, and the question is as broad as the milky way .plain in every man's sight It addresses itself without sophistry nnd without glos, are yen willing to hav every man back when no man is safe from the mob in llio most civjhzed com munities in the Somh ? And when any man undertakes to m ike discussion with you, ask him if lie is in favor of what was dono at New-Orleans, read him Gen. Sheridan's letter again nnd sny "nro you willing to walk arm in nr with these men I" I trust tho time will soon como when the loyal 'men of the North and the loyal men of the Soutl can walk arm in arm through the Stncls of New-Orleans witiiout insult or dread then I am willing to receive back these men, but until that time I cannot call them brothers when they are ready to slab n:e under the filth rib. Until that lime shall come I say let the' President and Congress keep these men down in some form. 1 hedr it arid you eanot keep them down, yot c innot noram them. You it ust not tall; I tint to we, .or I know better have lime it Applause. Yon can have law and ttrJev, you can have it as safe i the streets nf New-Orleans. an in the streets of your own tr.wn,antl any man cm walk from one end to the 'other safe in life and property, not by locking arm in arm, but by locking something entirely tliJWent I am going to speak of a matter which is a trait in tho society of the South, ami also why they are easily governed. We hear it said every day that they are a high spirited people, and ought to be conciliated ; but ihis struck me ns n dis tinguishing trail that having tor about twenty years of my life been in the prac tice of criminal law, I havo seen hus bands pleading for wives, fathers for children, and children for parents, but I never saw mortal kneel to mortal. Yet when I was in New-Orleans it was an every day -occurrence that women, eplen didly dressed in silks and satins, would come into my ollloe nnd ask for favors on their bended knees. The cause, wa?, I suppose, that having always been ac customed to exact obedience nnd have favors nskod upon tho knees, when tho positions becamo changed and new mas ters appeared, they assumed tho position they had once taught as proper, and therefore I sny, talk not to me thai these peoplo cannot be subdued. If I have nny doubt' it is about this Convention to elect delegates to Con gress, and to override the North, and, forming a conjunction with them in the North, wo woiqd havo nil our woik to do over again. And Mr. Blair tells you that uii'ess they get yontrol ot the gov eminent in the manner propose, and tho wholo South is admitted, oivii war must rago again. Gov. Brownlow of Tennes see tells you that there is now an nt tempt in Tennessee to get hold of that Government, ami to overthrow tho con stitulion ofTehnessee, which disfranchises Rebels, so that they may eleett disloyal representatives to tho ncxl Congress. Therefore it becomes llio duty of every man to sustain Congress, in sustaining first tho Civil Rights bill which givos to everybody their rights in evory Stato, nnd sustain Congress in giving prolog tion to the negro, in holding thoso States where they are, and insisting that freo speech, a freo press, civil and religious liberty shall be guarrniitcod until a change oan be made. Sustain tho loyal men ot tlio 9onth. Sustain thorn though but. ten honest men can be found In a State, for ten men would have savod Sodom, nnd these States aro not milch worse than Sodcm, aud lot these ten righteous men save them. "Let its hate SEPTEMBER 19 1866. a Republican party in the South Lot us havo n party where freo speech can be heard and whenaloyal representative ot a loyal eonstitiienoy. comes to the doors of Congress wo will admit him Born in a Democratic State, nnd reared a Democrattaught it from my very youth up 1 felt myself obliged to up. hold the South in all its claims and all its exactions so long as it should remain under the Constitution. To do that. I sacrificed everything that I had ot political preferment. I stood almost in a very small minority with my fellow citizens, because the Constitution of the fathers seemed to me to givo them certain rights, and I therefore stood by those rights of tho South up to tho hour that they repudiated their obligations under tho Constitution, and attempted to secede from tho Union. And when they set asido the constitution, that re leased me from my obligations to thorn. They bcoomo my enemies in war and my friends in peaoo, when they return to the true principles of republican liberty and law. Therefore, my friends, my old Democratic friends, bo not nfraid of any idea Hint you will bo charged with any change of your parties. We have fought together in the Democratio party for many years we will fight four years more if necessary to savethu true demo cratio Government, where every man shall have a right to equality in nvery State. IIo who swerves from that principle, swerves from it because ho has not seen the course of events. The true democratic principle i equal rights to every man, and there is no such thing ns having an exception in' favor fit or against tho negrc equal lights to all men. After a sharp review of the platform ot the 1 Inladelplii i Convention, wherein lie cited the feeling ot the Rebels as exprcs. sod in their journals, to show its hypo crisy and falsehood, the general continu ed s Aim that is the way thoso men went to Philadelphia nnd sat silent felt, nnd nsono paper said, they did not cheer because it would bo said all the enihusi. -ism enmo from tho South, they did not respond "Aye" because it would bo said that the peoplo of the South passed tho vote, though tho real reason was that not a man of them dared go homo and say they helped pass this resolution. They call their Rebellion a great and glorious cause lost tor tho want of means; wo onll it a wiokoi rebellion crushed by force of arms, iliey speak ot the glorious dead and clotho their graves with flowers ; we speak of the rebels and traitors, kill ed in tho worst cause that mon ever fought for. That is tho difference be tween us, and are they in a condition to bo received back ? Let us go tognthor a moment. I havo given you evidence of the Philadelphia Convention wlilcll Was to leach us our political duty, and to show that tho South wns ready to frn ternizo, nnd I wns grieved more than I would like to express (oecauso I have ever had kindly personul relations with tho President of tho United States), when I heard of his saying to the com mitteo-tO Rovcrdy Joluison, rt man who when t was in Baltimore stood on tho fence for moro than a month, not knowing which wny to leap, until ho found that wo were considerable tho strongest on Federal Hill, and our guns pointed toward Ins house, I was griev ed, I hay, lo hear tho President sny that portion of Congress, not tho whole ongress, wore nttempling to usurp power, l should like to have stood be hind him and said, what nro von think. ng of ? That is a portion of Congress only because elected by a portion of the. States ; but this Congress is elected by precisely tho snmo persons that elect ed you aro you only a portion of n President? And if you "say this thing is to bo tried ovor ngiiin and tho rest of tha Slhtes como into Con gross, hadn't yon, boing elected by only a portion of tho people, bettor resign your place? And then if you gut elect cl on that issuo, I think you will bo nl. lowed to da pretty much as yott pltMse. lie knows, and I know, and you know, that theso eleven stales would have hanged him so quick nt tho beginning of the war Hint he would not have had tune to breathe Ii prayer; I havo never had occasion to say rtught against tho motives which aotnnte thoPrcsidont.butl do say that tttorti Is no viler abuse heap. u upon any man North or South than was was heaped upon Andrew Johnson,, nnd I used 10 glory In tho fact Hint he and I trained in the same company, nnd delt in tho sa.ne epithets, anf n'oiv that ho has booome the groat and good man, as the South lay, I feel quite encouraged ior myseit, that I may ut gome time be come quite a man. It only requires a little turning back upon my old friends ot the North. Wo see by the tone of the papers l' at thoso people are not r,.nl. I'..- ri.i .v..ujr reconstruction, i lioi'0 IS a a mass ot overwhelming evidence upon the subject. I for one do not believe that any portion ot this country is ready to portioipate in tlio Government of tho country, until any man ol any pan ot tho country has equal rights with every other man. And until that can bo dono in every portion of the Uuited States. Tlio Southern men, whether arrived at the common ago of man or not, knows that ho can go to any part of th6 North and speak his sentiments freely, and I do not want any part ot this country represented in Congress until you nnd I can go and arguo tlio principles of free government without fear ot the knito or pistol, or of being murdered by a mob. And when theso men ask mo how long I would keep them out, I sny keep them out Until tlio heavens melt with fervent heat until they will allow tree speech and free press throughout their land. And if it should not come iu this generation wo will swear our sons to keep them out until they become fit for epublican form of government. I now remember a man who came to me among tho first, in New-Orleans nnd took me by tho hand, and with tears ! his .eyes said : "I thank God you j havo come ; I bloss God that your flag waves over me ngatn- -Hie symbol ot justice and protection ot my country " and yet I have seen that man murdered inoold blood by the Chief of Police whom I had condemned ta death for the murder of a Union mnn, and only re frained trom hanging him because the act tojk plaeo before my arrival and I douoted my authority to execute him. That murdered mnn wns Dostle, the bet nnd purest Union until Unit ever tread the soil of Louisiana, tor lie periled his life, whon ho had no hope, in defence ot tho flag. 1 speak with ieuling, for ho was ono of my best nnd stauiichest advisers, nnd ami aided me by all means in his power- As long ns 1 had a com. mnnd, tho flag sheltered him and evory oilier man within my territory. And that that man should bo murdered with that flag flying over him not to him nc emblem of power and protec'ion and wo bo told that these men aro our broth. ersl Applause. The rattlesnake may bo a brother ot tho Copperhead but not miiienot mine! And what was his offense! Ho undertook to ossemblo with the Convention and discuss their rights ds we are assembled hero to-night aright guaranteed by the Constitution ot the United Stntes, and under tho pro tection of tho flag ; nnd I should liko to say to my old friend Gen. l'ix. you said "When nny one attempts to pull down the United Stntes flag shoot him on llio spot ;" but now whenever a man raises the .American' flag j on seenl to wont soino Thug to shoot him on tho spot. And you, Gen. Dix go to I'hlladolpuia and talk a' out your brethren 1 They are no br thren of mine Either their hearts or mino must chnngo belore I can givo them tho right hand of fellowship. Maj. Gen. Sheridan is not even a Repub licnn ; lis is a brnvo soldier before the war a Democrat remains bo now tor aught I know ; certainly he does not give any outward manifestations ot ohango of opinion. Ho makes a repre sentation to Gen. . Giant which 1 will rend lo yon ; and, by the by. I gee that threo of the Johnson papers do not print Ins telegram, tor no reason that I can see, except that it don't ngrro wiChl the eighth article In tho Philadelphia resolutions. TIIK NKW-dU'.MNg MU1IDKH. Tho wholo North was aroused by tha New-Oi leans massncre, following tip as it did the Memphis not. President Johnson telegraphs to Gen. Sheridan, putting whflt lawyors call leading ques tions to hitn to draw out a favorable an swer, lie dont send on to Gen. Sheri dan saying "Como tell us all about this not." He writes in this form t See dispatch ol Sheridan already publish ed' ' Now my friends, I hate fend to you, as yon see, the testimony unwillingly drawn out In answer, giving a gloBS over the tenor of tho disputed. The Presi dent's di-puU'h asked lor as kindly a re NO. 16. port sg possible of the affair. , I have read to you the tegtimony of one wbo is opposed to the Republican parly, but whose loyalty to the country is unques tioned, wherein he tells you that this was a itfaaacre anil ihutd'er, that the police shotdovf'n men even . 'while prisoners. They are' but Thugs and mOf defets, flfld they nro Johnsou men in good standing for coming back into the Uuioo. When the President asks Gen. Sheridan if the civil power i eoflioient' to lake care of these men ho answers t 'I should say emphatically they are not." This is after tho President hag issued his procla mation ot th Mb. ot August, that peace reigned and1 civil authority is sufficient for all citizen's. I am sorry to see that i'rY (tfo face of the tacts that Ilortoh the clergyman, Dostio the patriot, Hyer and others, are dead, and wounded-rteii' are coining North, with the testimony of all these unavenged1, with' lohiititti people unprotected so that they are' obliged to leave New-Orlcaus, that the President hag issued his proclamation that peaoe has been obtained throughout all the land and the civil courts are amplo to proloit lite nnd liberty. And in face of Gen. Sheridan's emphatic disavowal of the ability of the civil authorities to protect the citizens, the President, on the 18th of August, turns over every Union man in the South to the nier6y of the Thugs assassins anil njurdorers oi Lincoln mm isutHiu. e you renav to sav tnesa ...4 r a i . men Bhall sit in' Congress, make laws for you, havo to say whether youf debts Bhall bo pa?d 6'r go unpaid, wheth er bounties shall be paid to your soldiors pensions to your widows, or whether tho flag ot the United Stales shall bo npheld? To have a portion of the country in governmental relations to tho country whore no loyal man can speak, arid no loyal man can assemble 7 I have had soino private documents from another portion of tho Union. It wns because Texas had concluded to- eofne into the union that this proclamation of peace was: issued. A gentleman bor.t in a town in Ibis county formerly serving upon my staff as sent upon' nn inspection tour 10' Texas, nnd ho mado his report, and was iimiiwnn oraerea nome, because ho reported what he saw and in whnt condition ho saw things. Among oth er things-, what do you thin he eaw iu Houston, tho Capitol of Texas? A fireman's procession bearing a Confed erate flag reversed and leading a figure of a Goddess of Liberty personated by a young girl dressed in black and white, with chains about her wrists and ankles. Tho Goddess of Liberty in chains, in Texas I When the procession came to tho honso of a United States offloef where tho flag of the United States was flying, they saluted him with frroana and hisseff,a'nd hurled all mnriner of con tumely hpon him ; and that procession of ouf reconstructed brothers nassed on nnd foftfome reason some blur ovof that officer's eyes he allowed his flag to be insulted. All volunteer officers of tho army ore dii-efirged( but Pundof t'ike to say that there were, volunteer1 officers in the nrmy that would have out an end to that procession aye more never nave anowe.i it to start in the first place. He again reported that la nn average of oriO fifth of otir territory about ten murders a day were commit ted sinco the war, that they had a list of about 1.2U0, and tbey found skeletons ot some of them hanging upon tho trees every morffing. And this I had from a gentleman whose character for truth stands as gemd as any in ibis communi ty. No United States officer ean go in that portion of the country without an escort ami these men are to oomn back into our Govornment 1 I now de clare my'own feeling and belief, that if tills stato ot feeling continues it is not peace but War, and tho worst kind of war ; for it is war upon Unarmed men, women nnd children t and it no other remedy for Ihis state ot things can bo found, it this state of things cannot be altered, wo will march once more and woe to him who opposes. i i i . Ir has been customary since the close of the war to stylo it the bloodiest one in the history ot tho world t but the fo low ing paragraphs clipped trom our ex vhiingud, astound thoso who are not fa miliar with history : At the taking of Jerusalora, by Titus', 1,000,000 Jew died by slaughter and with fnmiflOi Muriiis, iri o'no slaughter of the Tett tons, near Aid; left 20,000. Chssius at One time slaughtered 37.- uuu innnonnnis oi soiencio, Probits put to death 700,000 GanftJ, upon reducing their country. Belisarhls once hud to kill 800,000 people to stop a revolution In the city of, Constantinople. , TheJJows of Antlooh got mnd at one time and killed over 100,000 of the otlu or Inlmpilants. At the three tlay'a bnttle of Chalons over 100,000 Huns wore killed, with proportionate numbers of tho Gauls and their allies. Gibbon estimates tlmt In the Various crusades five millions of Europeans lost their lives
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