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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