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and you should not talk about such things. When princi-
ples are involved, my countrymen, when the existence of
my country is imperilled, I will act as I did on former occa-
sions and speak what I think. I was saying that I bad held
nearly all positions, from alderman, through both branches
of Congress, and who is there that will say Andrew John-
son ever made a pledge that ho did not redeem, or made a
promise he did not fulfil ? Who will say that he has
ever acted otherwise than iu fidelity to the great mass
of the people ? They may talk abcut beheading and usur-
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pation ; but when I am beheaded I want the American
people to wituessl do not want by innuendoes, by indirect
marks in high places to see the man who has assassination
brooding in his bosom exclaim, " This Presidential obstacle
must be gotten out of the way,",and I make use of a very
strong expression when I say that I have no doubt the in-
tention was to incite assassination and so get out of the

way the obstacle from place and power. *Whether by assas-
sination or not, there are individuals in this Government,
I doubt not, who want to destroy our institutions and
change the character of the Government. Are they not
satisfied with the blood which has been shed ? Does not
the murder of Lincoln 'appease the vengeance and wrath
of the opponents of this Government ? Are they still un-
slacked ? Do they still want more blood ? Have they
not got honour and courage enough to attain their objects
otherwise than by the hands of the assassin ? No, no ; I
am not afraid of assassins attacking me where a brave,
courageous man would attack another. I only dread him

when he would go in disguise, his footsteps noiseless. If it
is blood they want let them have courage to strike like

men. I know they are willing to wound, but they are
afraid to strike. (Applause.) If my blood is to be shed
because t vindicate the Union and the preservation of this
Government in its original purity and character, let it be
shod ; let an altar to the Uniou be erected, and then, if it
is necessary, take me and' lay me upon it, and the blood
that now warms and animates my existence shall bo poured
out as a fit liberation to the Union of these States. (Great
applause.) But let the opponents of the Government re-
member that when it is poured out " the blood of the
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men, this Union will grow—it will continue to increase in

strength and power though it may be cemented and sealed
with blood. I have talked longer now than I intended.

Lot me thank you for the honour you have done me.
The New York Times of the 24th, in referring to this
speech, says :

This city was flooded on Thursday evening with the most
extravagant and inflammatory reports concerning Presi-
dent Johnson's speech in Washington. Telegrams of this

character were freely circulated in the meeting at the Cooper
Institute and at General Grant's reception at the Loyal
League Club, on Union-square. Special pains were taken
to inform all that were accessible at both these gatherings
that the President had thrown himself openly into the
hands of the copperheads—that he harangued a mob of
whitewashed secessionists and rebels in Washington, re-
pudiating all connexion with the Union party, denouncing
in the most intemperate and vituperative style the recog-
nised leaders of that party in Congress and through the

country, and declaring his purpose to crush their schemes
of personal and party aggrandisement by force, if neces-
sary. It was declarod in these despatches that no Union
man in Washington even professed any longer to count

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upon his co-operation or sympathy in support of the prin-
ciples and measures of the Union organisation. Such re-
presentations had somewhat of the effect they were in-
tended to produce. They created a sentiment of anxiety
and apprehension lest the temper of the President, aroused
to a pitch of impatience by the insults and goads to which
he had been subjected, might have impelled him into a
position which would seriously weaken his hold upon the

confidence and support of the great body of the American
people. The perusal of his remarks in the morning jour-

nays of yesterday dispelled these apprehensions, and dis-

closed the real character of the machinery by which they
had been aroused.

ey yield obedience to the law, extend to them the right
hd of fellowship, and let peace and union be restored.
and cheers.) I have fought traitors and treason in the
outh ; I opposed the Davises and Toombses, the Slidells,
and a long list of others whose names I need not repeat ;
and now, when I turn round at the other end of the line, I
find men—l care not by what name you call them—(A
Voice : " Call them traitors")--who still stand opposed to
the restoration of the union of these States, and I am free
to say to you that I am still for the preservation of this
compact ; I am still for the preservation of the Union ; I
am still in favour of this great government of ours :going
on and following out its destiny. (A voice—" Give us the
names.") A gentleman calls fur their names. Well, sup-
pose I should give them. (A Voice—" 'We know them.")
I look upon them—l repeat it, as President or citizen—as
being as much opposed to the fundamental principlespf the
government and believe they are as much labouring to pre-
vent or destroy them as were the men who fought against
us. (A Voice—" What are the names ?") I say Thadde-as
Stevens, of Peunsylvania—(tremendous applause)—l say
Charles Sumner—(great applause)—l say Wendell Phil-
lips, and others of the same stripe, are among them. (A
Voice—" Give it to Forney.") Some gentleman in the

crowd says, " Give it to Forney." I have only just to say
that I do not waste my ammunition upon dead ducks.
(Laughter and applause.) I stand for my country,
I stand for the constitution, where I placed my feet' from
my entrance into public life. They may traduce me; they
may slander me, they may vituperate; but let me say to
yen that it has no effect upon me. (Cheers.) And let
me say in addition that I do not intend to be bullied by
my enemies. (Applause, and a cry, "The people will sus-
tain you.") I know, my countrymen, that it has been in-
sinuated, and not only insinuated, but said directly, the
intimation has been given in high places, that if such a
usurpation of power had been exercised 200 years ago in a
particular reign it would have cost a certain individual
his head. What usurpation has Andrew Johnson been
guilty of ? (None, none.) The usurpation I have been guilty
of has always been standing between the people and the
encroachments of power. And because I dared to say in a
conversation with a fellow-citizen, and a senator, too, that
I thought amendments to the constitution ought not to be
so frequent ; that their effect would be that it would lose
all its dignity ; that the oil instrument would be lost sight
of in a short time ; because Ihappeneci to say
that if it was
amended such and such amendments should be aa a
it was a usurpatsll-of power that would have cost a king
his head at a certain time. (Laughter and applau444 And
in connection with this subject it was explained the
same gentleman that we were in the midst of an earth-
quake, that he trembled and could not yield. (Laughter.)
Yes, there is an earthquake coming. There is a ground
swell coming of popular judgment andindignation. (That's
true.) The Amerlcan people will speak by their interests,
' and they will, knOw who are their friends and who their
enemies. What positions have 1 held under this Govern--
ruent ? Beginning with an alderman and running through
all branches of the Legislature. (A Voice—From a tailor
up.) Some gentleman says 1 have been a tailor. (Tremen-
dous applause.) Now thatdid not discomfit me in the least,
for when I used to be a tailor I had the reputation of being
a good one, and making close fits—(great laughter)—al-
, ways punctual with my customers and always did good
work. (A Voice—No-patchwork.) No, Ido not want any
patchwork. 1 want a whole suit. But I will pass by this
little facetiousness. My friend may say, you are President,

MR. SEWARD'S IMPRESSION OF BRITISH AMERICA.
The Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State for the
United States, made a tour of the British American Pro-
vinces with a party of friends, a few days ago, and before
leaving Canada he wrote the following statement of his
impressions :—" Hitherto, in common with most of my
countrymen, as I suppose, I have thought Canada, or to
speak more accurately, British America, a mere strip lying
north of the United States, easily detachable from the
parent state, but incapable of sustaining itself, and there-
fore, ultimately, nay, right so3n, to be taken on by the
Federal Union, without materially changing or affecting
its own condition or development. I have dropped m
the
opinion as a national conceit. I see in British Northro
America., stretching, as it does, across the continent, from
the shores of Labrador and Newfoundland to the Pacific,
zone,
and occupying a considerable belt of the temperate
lor:te zas,
and
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traversed equally with the United States by the k
enjoying the magnificent shores of the St. Lawrence,
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its thousands of islands in the rice.rands
iguo li
its wheat fields
enough for the seat of a great of p
the chase at the north, its
in the west, its broad range
inexhaustible
the most extensive now re-
inexhaustible lumber
globe
wealth. I find its inhabitants
lands—the
s—invaluable fisheries, and its
meninergetic, perfected by the Protestant
vigorous,
hardy;.' h constitutional liberty. I find them
religion and British
therefore, when I look at their extent
and of Great Britain,
jmyeeaatlionuliinsngdofisotthnuerbtehde United States as they
ought to be ; and,
and resources, I know that they can neither be conquered
by the former nor permanently held by the latter. They
will be independent, as they are already self-maintaining.
Having happily escaped the curse of slavery, they will
never submit themselves to the dominion of slaveholders,
which prevails in, and determines the character of, the
United States. They will be a Russia in the United
States, which to them will be France and England. Butt
they will be a Russia civilised and Protestant, and that
will be a very different Russia from that which fitltsl
southern Europe with terror, and by reason ofntehras,
supe-
riority they will he the more terrible to thedwe_
southern latitudes. The policy of the United
da States
while it is yet
propitiate and secure the alliance of Canada tesinfsthtoo
' the other band
young and incurious of its future.
the policy which vigorous, peren-
nip g Nag
infatuated one of rejecting and spurning
seeking
pursues is the
the United States aßcitluaplrlY.o
nial, and ever-growing Canada, while
imish to establish
feeble States out of decaying p, vinces on the
Mexico. I shall
notlive to see it, but the man 1 born who will seo
coast, and in the islands of
the United States mourn over
ultimate danger and down-
is only preparing the
way
Ytl stars must set, though many
thei
sthSiasr Gulfea di- of
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do u s folly, which
fall. All Southern political diatinish,:d splendour. But
times they rise again whiell
Polo remain for ever shining,
those which illuminate
tlendour."— Toronto Globe, Feb. 17.
for ever increasing
LONGEVITY
died at Invergordon at the advanced
an old pauper woman
EXTRAORDINARY.iIIP—On Sunday last
age of 112
as a native of RAlmuir‘•-•
two months
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years. Deceased moved about till within about
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