The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-05 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SALISBURY RACES—FRIDAY.
HANDICAP PLATE of 50 sovs, for 3-yr-olds and upwards ;
certain penalties. Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. J. B. Starky's Tattoo, by Rataplan Fandango,
aged, 7st 101 b
Mr. Brayley's Mongrel, 4 yrs, 7st 1
.......................... ay.
(inc "..(87.1bAedxatniras)) 1
(Murray 2
Duke of Beaufort's Crytheia, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (Cannon) 3
Mr. Howard's Discretion, 4 yrs, Est 101 - (Scorey 0
Mr. Hope's Signet, 3 yrs, Est 71b (car. Est 91b) ...(Page) 0
Mr. Lapidist's The Vocalist, 3 yrs, Est 41b (Peppier) 0
Mr. T. Stephenson's Statesman, 3 yrs, Est 101 b (Darling) 0
Mr. Sherring's Holkar, 4 yrs, sst 81b (car. 6st) (Curtis) 0
Mr. Marshall's Wild Dove, 3 yrs, sst 71b (F. Webb) 0
Betting-6 to son Crytheia, sto 1 agst Discre-
tion, 8 to 1 each agst Mongrel and King Chris-
tian, 10 to 1 agst Wild Dove, 20 to 1 agst Hol-
kar, and 50 to 1 agst Tattoo. After a tedious delay
at the post, Tattoo got away in advance, followed by Mon-
grel, Crytheia, and Statesman for the first quarter of a mile,
when Mongrel momentarily got her head in front, but
"Tattoo resumed the lead, retaining it to the end, and won
easily by two lengths ; the favourite beaten a similar dis-
tance from the second. Statesman a bad fourth, Signet
fifth, and Discretion last. King Christian was weighed
for by Whitehorn, and went to the post, but breaking away
he ran the course, and then bolting out of it, threw the boy,
who, however, was uninjured, but the horse was with-
drawn.

The LONGFORD CASTLE STAKES of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, and
5 only if declared ; for two-year-old colts, Bst 101 b; fillies,
Bst 61b ; certain allowances. Half a mile. 14 subs, 3of
whom paid 5 sovs each.
Mr. Hugh Smith's Seville, by St. Albans—Donna Maria
Bst lib
(Cannon) 1
Lord Ailesbury's Capt. Kidd, Bst 51b (Challoner) 2
Betting-6 to 4on Seville, who made all the running,
and won easily by a length.
The STONEHENGE PLATE of 50 sovs, for two-year-olds ;
colts, Bst 10lb; fillies, Bst 61b ; the winner to be sold for
50 sovs. Half a mile.
Mr. J. B. Starkey's F Sharp, by Orlando—Torment,
Bst 61b ...(Jones) 1
Marquis of Hastings's Romney, Bst 101 b (Cannon) 2
Mr. Woolcott's Distaff, 3st 61b (Challoner) 3
Mr. G. 3/lather's f by Prime Minister—Sharp Practice,
Bst 61b (Payne) 4
Mr. W. Day's Miss Fanny, Bst 61b (J. Goater) 5
Betting-7 to 2oa Romney, 100 to 15 agst the Prime
Minister filly, 8 to 1 agst Miss Fanny, and 10 to 1 agst any
other. After going about 100 yards F Sharp took up the
running, followed by the Prime Minister filly, who gave
way before half the distance had been run to the favourite,
but never being able to reach F. Sharp, Mr. Starkey's filly
won easily by a neck; two lengths separated the second
and third. The winner was sold to Mr. J. Barber for 140
guineas.
- - -

TILE WILTON PARK STAKES of 10 sous each, with 50 added,
for two-year-olds; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 61b; win-
ners extra. Three quarters of a mile. 23 subs.
Mr. Woolcott's Avron, by Glenmasson—Nettle, Bst 101 b
(F. Adams) 1
Duke of Beaufort's Vendetta, Bst 101 b (EL Day) 2
Sir F. Johnstone's Charles 11., Bst 101 b (Parry) 3
Mr. Alfred's c by Big Ben—Lady Wild, Bst 101 b

(J. Adams) 0
Mr. W. Day's Lady Lena, Bst 61b (Clement) 0
Mr. Giubelei's Charade, Bst 61b (Storey) 0
Marquis of Hastings's Prodigal, Bst 101 b (Cannon) 0
Mr. Padwick's Vallambrosa, Bst 61b (J. Goater) 0
Prince de Soltykoff's Bounceaway, Bst 101 b (in. 41b ex.)
(J. Mann) 0
Betting-2 to 1 agst Avron, 3to 1 each agst Prodigal
and Bounceaway, and 100 to 8 agst Charles 11. Prodigal
made the running, attended by Bounceaway and the favou-
rite for half the distance, when Avron came out full of
running, and, drawing away on rising the hill, ran home
an easy winner by a length and a half ; Charles 11. beaten
a length for second place. Prodigal was fourth, close up ;
Charade fifth, and Bounceaway next. The others whipped
in by Lady Lena.

The SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY PLATE of 25 soy; added
to a sweepstakes of 5 sous each, for two-year-olds and

upwards ; weight for age, with penalties and selling
allowances. Three quarters of a mile.
Mr. Alfred Day's Humphrey Davy, by Fazzoletto—Betty
Humphries, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (£2O) (Lavis) 1
Lord Westmoreland's f by Vedette Nunnery, 2 yrs
sst 71b (£2O) (Kenyon) 2
Mr. Bell's Opposition, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (.£2O) (J. Mann) 3
Mr. Brayley's Chicken Hazard, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (£2O)
(Cannon) 4
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Betting-6 to son Chicken Hazard, 2to 1 agst Opposi-
tion, and sto 1 bar two. The running was made by the
Vedette filly till within two distances from hone, when
she was headed by Humphrey Davy, who carried on the
running to the end, and won cleverly by a length. Oppo-
sition finished two lengths in the rear of the second ;
Chicken Hazard beaten off. The winner bought by Mr.
Littler for 70gs.
THE LONGLEAT STAKES, a handicap, of 10 sovs each, 5 ft,
with 50 added ; for three-year-olds and upwards ; win-
ners extra. One mile and a half. 17 subs.

Mr. E. Brayley's Pelios, by Pelion—dam by Bay Middle-

ton, 5 yrs, fst 21b
Mr. .B. Starky's Tattoo, aged, 7st (S. Adams) 2
Captain G. Day's Stinger, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Kenyon) 0

Betting-7 to 4on Stinger, 2to 1 agst Pelios, and 10 to
1 agst Tattoo. Pelios cut out the work at a good pace for
a mile, when the favourite bolted out of the course at tho
turn. Pelios was not afterwards headed, and won by two
lengths.
THE QUEEN'S PLATE of 100 guineas ; 3-yr-olds, ist 81b ;
four, 9st 71b ; five, lOst 21b ; six and upwards, lOst 41b.
Three miles.

Marquis of Hastings's The Duke, by Stockwell—Bay
Celia, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Cannon) w.o.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
DERBY.
2to 1 agst Lord Lyon (offered)
3to 1 agst Rustic (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Leybourne (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's lot (taken)

PROGRAMME OF BATH AND SOMERSET
MEETING.

TrESDAY,XIAT B.—The LANSDOWNiTRIAL STAKES of 5 sovs
each, with 50 added ; three year olds, 7st 31b; four, Bst
8113 ; five and upwards, 9st ; mares allowed 31b ; the
winner to be sold for £6OO ; if for £4OO, allowed 31b ;
if not to be sold, 71b extra. 1 mile.
The SELLING STAKES of 3 sovs each, with 25 added ; two
year olds, ist ; three, 9st ; four, five, and upwards, 9st
101 b; selling, &c., allowances; straight half-mile.
To close and name as above.

First year of the FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sovs
each, with 50 added, for two year olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ;
fillies and geldings, Bst 71b ; untried horses or mares al-
lowed 31b, but only one allowance ; second to save his
stake ; straight half-mile. 83 subs.
F by St. Albans —Cantine Faux Pas (31b)
(31b) Cauthleen (31b)
Seville (31b) Flamingo (31b)
F by the Dupe —, Lady Tempest (31b)
Blanche Man of Ross
Ophicleide (31b) F by Dundee—Blanche of
Vauban Middlebie (31b)
Lady Hester (31b) The Hatter
Rinderpest (31b) Helter-skelter
Prairie Flower (31b) Littleport (31b)
Olinda, (31b) Verulam.
Glacier (31b) The Minster (31b)
C by General Williams or Opoponax (31b)
YellowJack—Waterwitch Arundel
(31b) The Exile
Torbay Distaff
Stolen Kisses Transformed (31b)_
Silence C by Muscovite—Melody
Antipodes (31b) Lady Rose (31b)
C by Wild Dayrell—Kil- Little Ben (31b)
meny C by Marsyas--Miss Erskine
Cby Musjid —Miss Aldcroft (31b)
The Hermit C by Lord of the Isles—Re-
Coldstream (31b) connaissance (31b) (wrong
The Rescue (31b) nom.)
La Maudite F by Parmesan—Harlequin's
Spangle (31b) dam (31b)
Tom Thumb (31b) Stapenhill (31b)
Viscount St. Albans Harpenden (31b)
Miss Middleton Land Tax (31b)
Watchman Stradbroke (31b)
Prima Donna (31b) Bounceaway
Walton Feodor
Nancy (31b) Cellina
Van Amburgh Kidderminster
Nunquam Dormio F by Wild Dayrell—Emily
Cby Chanticleer— Mermaid (31b)
Great Gun (31b) Somerlad (31b)
C by Diophantus—Lincoln's Adam Bede
Inn (31b) Laverne,
Alcazar 31b Distin
Prodigal (31b) F by Promised Land—Tri-
Whirligig (31b) bute (31b)
Lupa (31b) Polden Hill (31b)
Earl of Essex (31b) C by Dundee—Augusta(3lb)
Novice Will Scarlett (paid)
Sweet Home (31b) Plunder (31b) (paid)
Charles 11. (31b) Gardenia (31b) (dead)
The :COUNTY MEMBERS' PLATE (Handicap) of 50 BOYS ;
winner of any handicap after May 3, at ten a.m., 51b
extra. 1 mile.

Age st lb Age et lb
... 5 812 1 76
I°3
a 8 10 Nidderdale ... 4 8
6
ofLGyemthan i the... Sea ... 6 9 4 Jackc-ein
ss-tDbeagm-Green 34
Troublesome •••
8 2 Drum ... ... 3 6 ,
... a ,
Stockinger
5 712 Goojerat ... ... 36 6
Pelios(in.slb ex.) ... . _
Lady Florence ... 4 6 4,
.... 4 8 2 Clatford ... ... 3 6 7
Siberia ...
Provisor
Raven ... ••
47 4 Slender ... .
3 6 0
::: 3 66
22
4 5 19
Mongrel ...
Be,rtio ... ••• 3 7 2 • and ••• ''• -
... 3 7 1 Briga Hazard
..
... 3 a 1..
Kingmaker
Cairngorm
.. 3 5 10
Tattoo (inc. 51b ex.)
:::.
1 77
41
R:t t Chickener
••• 0 ' Lecturer ... ... 37 0 Isabella, ...
... o 5 7
Viceroy ... ... 4 7 0 Bitter Sweet
... 3'-' 5 7
Comet 6 7 0 Stinger ...
a 7 1 Grace Clitheroe . n 5
••• •••
,t;
The BEAUFORT CUP, value 300 sovs, by subscription of 10
Sous each the rest ins cie ; Vireo ear olds, i s four
sist 101 b; five, 9st 41b ;pis and aged,y 9st 61b ; mand g
allowed 41b; pure Barbs, Turkish, or Arabian horses,
allowed 321 b; horses foaled in America or the British
Colonies allowed 71b; horses which have never won ,
above the value of 53 sovs, or received 100 sovs, includ-
ing their own stake, as second in any country, shall be
allowed weight in these proportions :—three year olds,
41b ; four, 91b ; five, 111 b ; six and aged, 211 b ; the win-
ners of the Derby or Doncaster St. Ledger, Ascot, Good-
wood, or Doncaster cups, within an interval of two
years. both Goodwood cup days included, 71b; of two or
more of the above stakes and prizes, 101 b extra; the

to start at the mile-post and
riles and a-half.) 38 subs.
Friday, 4 yrs
Effervescence, 3 yrs
Eltham, 4 yrs.
East Lancashire, 6 yrs
•
Eakring, 3 yrs
John Davis, 5 yrs
Gomera, 4 yrs
Cambuscan, 5 yrs
Salpinctes, 4 yrs
Nightwatch, 4 yrs
Elland, 4 yrs
lon, 3 yrs
D.V., 3 yrs
Moulsey, 5 yrs (paid)
Gladiateur, 4 years (paid)
Regalia, 4 yrs (paid)
Privateer, 5 yrs (paid)
Sydmonton, 4 yrs (paid)

second to receive 25 sous ;
go once round (about two r
Christmas Carol, 4 yrs
Lord Zetland, 5 yrs
Todleben, 4 yrs
Dalby, 5 yrs
Scamander, 6 yrs
Breadalbane, 4 yrs
Tambourine, 3 yrs
Mail Train, 5 yrs
Ackworth, 5 yrs
Blue Riband, 3 yrs
Fair Rosamond, 3 yrs
Queen Mary, 3 yrs
Miner, 5 yrs
The Primate, 3 yrs
Ambition, 3 yrs
Pearl Diver, 5 yrs
Wild Agnes, 4 yrs
Nu, 4 yrs
Farce, 6 yrs
Captain Greatrix subscriber, but did not name.
Second Year of the FOURTEENTH BIENNIAL STARES of 10
soya each, with 50 added, for three year olds ; colts, Bst
101 b ; fillies and geldings, Bst 71b ; untried horses or
mares allowed 31b ; second to save his stake ; one mile
and a half. 69 subs.
F by Leamington—Splitvote
C by Kingston—Ombra(3lb)
Ischia
Malibran (31b)
Exeter
Stoic (31b)
F by Westminster—Wood-
craft's dam (wrong nom.)
Peer
Little Mary (31b)
Cotillon (31b)
Scots Fusilier
Duchess of Newcastle (31b)
Qui Vive (31b)
Ceylon
Rodomonte (31b)
Jolly Dog (31b)
The Spy
Salisbury
Sylph (31b)
The Masson (31b)
The Oracle
Queen Mary (31b)
Kate Dayrell
Novice (31b)
Cecrops
Custaloga (31b)
Retrousse (31b)
King Hal (31b)
Sparkle
The Opposition
Cranford
&dim
Leah (31b)
Killiecrankie
Mirella
Florida
The BATH HANDICAP of 10
8 o'clock the evening befo
for 3-yr-olds and upwards ;
April 26, at 10 a.m., 51b ; of
extra. One mile. 35 subs.

Rose Cheri
Tommy (31b)
Eppio (31b)
Elf
Lochiel
St. Sophia (31b)
Robin Hood (31b)
Conservative
Mr Pitt
Toth°
Maid of Lorn
C by Promised Land—Gold-
finder's dam (31b)
General Lee (31b)
Brother to Guerilla
Edith
Gladiator
Monk of Avon
El Ole
Fby Gunboat—Lady Emily
(31
Lac (31b)
Freedom
Qui va la
Volunteer
Tinder (31b)
F (31
b) by Trumpeter Styria
The Sharper
The Crease (31b)
Kinglake
Lassitude
Accountant
Lady Sophie
Lady Audley (paid)
Experience (dead)

sovs each, sft if declared by
)re running, with 100 added,
; winner of any handicap after
E two or more handicaps, 101 b

Age st lb
Raglan 6 9 4
Copenhagen ... 5 8 10
Lytham ... 5 8 7
The Grinder ... 4 8 7
Godmersham 4 8 6
Troublesome a 8 4
Muezzin 6 8 4
Kangaroo ... 4 8 2
Siberia
Tennyson
Guluara ... 5 7 7
Juliet
Bradamante ... 5 7 4
Lord Douglas ... 5 7 0
Viceroy
Chapel Royal ... 3 612
Discretion
John of the Isles ... 3 6 7
Gong
WEDNESDAY —THE KELSTON STAKES of 5 sovs each, with
40 added ; three-year olds, 7st 10Ib ; four, Bst 81b ; five,
six, and aged, 9st ; m and g allowed 31b; maiden four-
year olds, allowed 31b; maiden five-year olds and up-
wards, allowed 121 b ; selling allowance; &c. ; straight
half-mile.

Age st lb
Her Ladyship ... 3 6 6
Wild Bee ... 4 6 6
Retrousse ... ... 3 6 5
Lansdown ... 4 6 4
Brigand ... 4 6 4
Contraband ... 4 6 4
Black Prince, by
Voltigeur ... 3 6 3
Ethelred ... ... 4 6 0
Drum ... ... 3 513
Custaloga (inc 51b

extra) ... 3 5 12
Saucy 80y... ... 3 5 9
Elegance ... ... 3 5 9
Bitter Sweet ... 3 5 7
Stinger ... ... 3 5 7
Opposition... ... 3 5 7
Gladiator ... ... 3 (paid)

To close and name by 9 o'clock the evening before

running.
THE DODLNGTON STARES (Handicap) of 5 sovs each, with
50 added, for three-year olds and upwards ; winner to be
sold for £5O, &c. ; T.Y.C.

To close and name on Monday evening, at 9 o'clock.

The weights to be published after the first day's racing.:
THE WELTER STAKES (Handicap) of 5 sovs each, with 50
added, for three-year olds and upwards; gentlemen
riders; jockeys, 61b extra ; winner of any race after May
3, at 10 a.m., 31b ; of any handicap race, 71b extra ; once
round and a distance. 12 subs.
• Ago st lb Age st lb
Pelios (inc. 71b ex.) 5 12 1 Target 4 9 10
Ethelred ... ... 5 11 12 Love-letter • ... 4 t 8
Gomera ... 4 11 1 Black Prince ... 3 9 7
Lord Zetland ... 51012 G by Young Mel-
Bertie 3 10 8 bourne—Flutter 5 9 3
Drum ... ... 3 10 4 Latitude ... 4 9 0
Life Guardsman 3 10 3
Tho WESTON STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 50 added, for
two year olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies and geldings, Bst
71b; the produce of untried horses or mares allowed 31b;
if both, 51b ; winner of any one stake of 200 sovs value
31b; 400 sovs 51b extra. Straight half mile. 54 subs.
Man of Ross
F by Dundee -Blanche of
Middlebie
Stockstill (31b)
Miss Bateman
C by Muscovite—Melody
Lady Rose
Littleplort (31b)
Friponnier (31b)
Ailesbury (31b)
Highland Sister
Bounceaway
Moleskin (31b)
Stapenhill (klb)
Land Tax (31b)
Cellina
Arundel
Libertine
The General (31b)
Fairfield
Harpenden (31b)
Seville (31b)
Capt. Kidd (51b)
Alice (31b)
Distin
Mystery
C by Promised Land—Pal-
mistry
Confessional
Bonnie Doon (31b) (paid)

Ben Nevis (31b)
Rinderpest (31b)
C by Trumpeter—Tuftiloe
(31b)
Stoke ley (31b)
Dick Tuspin (51b)
Satyr
Ruthven
La Maudite (h b)
F by Lambton - Lord Dur-
.

ham's dam
The Rescue
Viscount St. Albans (31b)
C by Vedette—Bianca. Ca-
pella (31b)
C by Vedette— Glenochty
Odin
Young Lord (31b)
Secrecy (31b)
C by Rataplan—Amanda
C by Do Clare—Maid of
Kent (31b)
Lupa (31b)
The Duchess
Vigor
Venom (31b)
Sweet Home (31b)
Freemason (31b)
Charles 11. (31b)
Conde
Catherine

The SOMERSETSH/RE STAKES of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and 5
only if declared on or before Tuesday, May 1, with 100
added ; second to receive 50 sovs, and the third to save
his stake; winner of any handicap amounting to 500
sovs after April 26, at ten a.m., 71b ; of any other handi-
cap with public money added, 51b extra ; penalties accu-
mulative ; two miles and a distance. 65 subs, 45
declared.
The highest weight accept
raised to Bst 121 b, and the ot _
Age st lb' Age st lb
Miner ... 5 812 Miss Hobble ... 4 6 8
Buckfoot 5 8 4 Staghound 3 6 8
Nightwatch 48 1 Lansdown... „, 4 6 6
Sandal ... 5 711 Black Prince ... 3 6 4
Pintail (in. 71b ex) 57 11 Lady Florence 46 4
Watchbox... 4 7 5 School Girl 4 6 0
Endsleigh 4 7 2 Haphazard 3 5 12
Filbert ... 4 7 2 Tambourine, 3 510
Lord Zetland 5 7 0 Stinger 3 5 9
Life Guardsman 3 6 9 Whalebone ,„ 3 5 9
The BADMINTON STAKES of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100
added ; 2-yr olds, 6st 101 b ; 3, Bst 51b ; 4, Bst 121 b ; five
and upwards, 9st 21b; m and g allowed 31b; winner of
any stake amounting to 100 sovs in 1865 or 1866, 31b; of
300 sovs 51b; of 600 sovs, 121 b extra ; maiden three year
olds allowed 61b; four and upwards, 141 b extra ; T.Y.O.
(straight half mile.) 20 subs.
Crytheia, 6 yrs Qui Viva, 3 yrs
Mr. Pitt, 3 yrs IFriponnier, 2 yrs
Einderpest, 2 yrs Miss Hobbie, 4 yrs
Bertie, 3 yrs Ozone, 3 yrs
Vespasian, 3 yrs ' Cranbury, 5 yrs
Cairngorm, 3 yrs i Lady Audley, 3 yrs
Princess Dagmar, 4 yrs lAlice, 2 yrs
King Hal, 3 yrs Gladiator, 3 yrs
Atalante, 2 yrs Queen of Trumps, aged
Nimble, 3 yrs (paid)
Lute, 2 yrs
The DYRHAM PARK HANDICAP of 100 sovs ; winner of any
afterhandicap
(a
May 3,
a mile,atten and a h
a.m., 7lao.
blextra. Once round
and a distance

ng being Bst 101 b, it has been
ters in proportion.

Age st lb
S taghound 3 6 8
Stockbridge ... 3 6 7
Nidderdale ... 4 6 7
The Monk of Avon 3 6 2
Lady Florence 4 6 0
Brigand ... ... 4 6 0
Elegance ... ... 3 5 12
Rattler ... ... 3 510
Beckhampton 3 5 9
Grace Clitheroo ...- 3 5 7
Bitter Sweet ... 3 5 7
Stinger ... ... 35 7

Age st lb
Raglan ... 6 8 12
Lysander ... ... 4 8 10
The Beadle ... 5 8 8
Pearl Diver ... 6 8 7
Todleben 4 8 0
Siberia ...4 7 12
Endsleigh ... 4 7 7
Provisor ... 4 7 4
Bertie 3 7
Kingmaker ... 3 6 13
Princess Dagmar... 4 6 12
Life Guardsman ... 3 6 11
Lecturer• . 3 6 10,
RAILWAY AItRANGEMENTS:—The Great Western Rail way
Company will run a special train from Bath for Loudon on
Wednesday at 6.30 p.m. ; another at 7.30 p.m. ; and the
regular fast train at 8 p.m.

YORK SPRING MEETING, 1866.
THURSDAY, May 10.--THE STAND STAKES of 5 sots each,
with 5C added, for two-yrs-old, ist, three, 9st, four, lOst
31b, five and upwards, lOst 81b ; m and g allowed 31b ;
the winner to be sold for £lOO, if entered to be sold for
£75 allowed 41b, if for £6O 91b, if for ZlO 141 b ; to be put
up by auction after the race, and any overplus over sell-
ing price to be divided between the owner of the second
horso and the race fund. T.Y.C.

To close and name to the Clerk of the Course on Wed-
nesday, the 9th of May, between the hours of six and eight
o'clock in the evening, at 54, Stonegato.
The YORKSHIRE HUNT PLATE of 50 sovs given by the
York Race Committee, for horses that have been regu-
larly hunted with any established pack of hounds in
Yorkshire ; four-yrs-old, list ; five, list 91b ; six and
aged, 12st ; thorough-bred horses to carry 101 b extra ;
the winner of a fiat race value 50 sovs to carry 71b, twice
50, or 100, 121 b extra ; no horse to have been in a public
training stable since the Ist of January, 1866. Certifi-
cates of thvliorses having been regularly hunted, signed

by the Master of the Hounds, to be produced before start-
ing; to be ridden by Gentlemen, members of a racing
or fox-hunting club, or by farmers occupying one hun-
dred acres of land, or their sons; any number of horses
the property of the same owner may start for this plate.
Entrance 1 soy, to go to the fund. Two miles.
Mr V. Arthur's Poetess, 5 yrs
Mr R. Barker's b g Fullsail, by Elcot (h-b) 5 yrs
Mr J. B. Booth's br g Barometer, by "Weatherbit, out of

Beckey Sharpe, 4 yrs
Mr Bower's b g Redpole, by Fandango, 6 yrs
Sir G. Cholmley's ch g Highflyer, by Orpheus, dam by
Barnacles (h-b) 6 yrs
ch g My Friend, by Codrington, dam by Orpheus
(h-b) 3 yrs
ch m Tigress, by Codrington, dam by Young
Comus (h-b) 6 yrs
Mr Coulson's Rosslyn, by Annandale, out of a half-bred

. • _
mare, aged
Mr Darley's b m Maid of Kent, by Elcot, dam, Hop-
picker, by Orlando (h-b) aged
Mr W. 11. Fewson na b f Earwig, by Spoonstealer, dam
by Young Langar (h-b) 4 yrs
Mr Hall's ch c Bolero, by Fandango, out of The Lawyer's
dam (h-b) 4 yrs
Mr Joseph Herod's bl m Miss Menkin (h-b) 5 yrs
Mr Holiday's Owstwick (h-b) 6 yrs
ch m sister to Owstwick (h-b) 5 yrs
Mr H Lambert's b m Mischief (h b) 5 yrs
Mr J. Lumsden's b g Banasford, by Shafto, out of Yellow
Diamond's dam (h-b) 4 yrs
Mr W. Ma.sterman's b g Our Jim (late Castle Espio) 5 yrs
Mr F. A. Millbank's ch g Comus, 6 yrs
b g Rathronan (h-b) aged
Mr J. Nalton's The General, by Orpheus (h b) 6 yrs
Mr G. Ringrose's ch f Lady Sykes (h-b) 4 yrs
Mr G. Simpson's ch g Arsenal, by Woolwich, dam by Red-
shank (h-b) 5 yrs
Mr John Simpson's b g Volunteer, by Fugleman, dam by
Melbourne (h-b) 5 yrs
br f Helen, by Fugleman, dam by Melbourne
(h-b) 4 yrs
Sir C: Slingsby's b g St Clair by De Clare, out of Velocity

(h-b) 5 frs - -
br m by St Lawrence, dam half-bred aged
Major Stapyltou's Southern Cross, by Jeremy Diddler

(h-b) aged
Mr V. Surtee's Cragsman (h b) aged
Mr G. S. Thompson's br m Bandana, supposed to be got
by Fazzoletto, out of a half-bred mare, 5 yrs
Mr S. Topliss's br m The Market Girl (11 b), 5 yth
Mr H. Vyner's Fly-by-Night (h b), aged
- b m Miss Taft (Li b), aged
THE CRAVEN STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 50 added, for
three yrs old, 7st, four, Bst 71b, five, 9st, six and aged
9st 31b ; m and g allowed 31b ; a winner of 100 SOTS at
any one time to carry 61b, twice, or 200 SOTS 101 b extra ;
the second horse to;receive back his stake ; ono mile. (9
subs).
Mr. G. B. Cornish's b c Punster, 3 yrs
Mr. Dawson's Stabber, 3 yrs
Mr. Fobert's b g Wise Man, 3 yrs
Mr. Haig's ch c Cranmore, 3 yrs
Mr. J. Osborne's ch c Theobald, 3 yrs
Mr. H. Robinson's br c Hanover, by Saunterer, out of
Olivia, by The Cure, 3 yrs
Lord Stamford's Archimedes, 4 yrs
Major Stapylton's Red Earl, 4 yrs
Lord Zetland's ch c Pedant (late Alumnus) 3 yrs
THE ZETLAiD STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 50 added, for
two-yrs-old colts, Bst 101 b, fillies and geldings, Bst 61b ;
a winner once before starting to carry 41b, twice, or a
stake amounting to 200 sovs, 71b extra; beaten horses al-

lowed 21b ; the owner of the second horse to receive back
his stake. T.Y.C. five furlongs, 44 yards (22 subs).
Mr. Carey's Tinted Venus, by Leamington, dam, Exhibi-
tion, by Fazzoletto, out of Victorious's dam
Mr. R. Chilton's bl f Gulnare, by Musjid, out of Rosamond,

. _
by Voltigeur
Mr. Crawley's b c Tom Thumb
Lord Falmouth's Artesia

Capt. Gray's b c Louis of Ilesse
Mr T. M. Harrison's Sorcerer, by Fandango
Mr James Heath's Pea Blossom, by Y. Melbourne, out of

Twelfth Night, by Voltigeur
b f by Vedette, out of Alice Bray, by Venison.
Mr G. Hodgman's b c by Warlock, out of Slut
br f Variation, by Leamington—Vexatious's

dam -
Count F. de Lagrange's b f Nice, by Ventre St. Gris, out

of Nuncia (bred in France)
Capt. R. Lawley's b f Araminta, by Thormanby, out of
impetuous Bess
Mr Mackenzie's br c Thermometer, by Weatherbit Pera
b f Gentian, by Warlock, out of Jennala
Mr Masterman's bl or br c Honestish, brother to Honesty
Mr J. Palmer's ch c Liveryman
Mr Pardoe's Littleport
Mr C. Peck, jun.'s, Manuella
Mr J. Warneford, Rel-tub, by Leamington, out of
Princess Beatrice, by De Clare
Mr E. B. Watson's ch f Gipsey Queen
Lord Westmorland's bl c by Gibraltar, out of Orloff's dam
Mr York's Vandyke, by Amsterdam, out of Furbelow

The GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP of 200 sovs in specie,
added to a sweepstakes of 20 soya each, 10 ft, and only
5 if declared by noon, on April 3 ; the winner of any
handicap value £l,OOO after the weights are published
(March 28, at 10 a.m.) to carry 141 b ; of any handicap
value £5OO, 101 b; of any handicap value £2OO, 71b; of
any handicap value £lOO, or the second for one value
£l,OOO, 51b extra ; the second horse to receive £5O out Of
the stakes, and the winner to pay £3O towards the ex-
penses. Two miles, over the Old Course. 25 subs, 14
of whom pay 5 sovs each.
Age at lb
Regalia 4 9 0
Dalby ... 5 8 10
Brown Bread ... 4 8 0
Cathedral ... ... 5 8 7
Moulsey 5 8 7
I'intail ... 5 8 4
Windham 5 8 3
R-idcap 5 8 0
Raglan 6 7 13
Buckfoot 5 7 12
Friday ... 4 711
Lion ... ... 4 7 10
Salpinctes ... 4 7 10
Harry Brailsford ... 4 7 2
Watchbox ... 4 7 2
Bradamante ... 5 7 1
Treasure Trove 3 7 0
Ghillie Callum ... 5 7 0
Zenobia ... 4 6 9
The KNAVESDLIRE PLATE of 100 soya in specie, for 2 yrs
old, 7st, and three, Bst 12lb; m and g allowed 31b; maiden
2 yrs old allowed 31b ; maiden three
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Age st lb
St. Magnus ... 4 6 8
The Czar ... ... 3 6 5
Miss Haworth ... 3 6 5
Dubiety ... ... 4 6 4
Staghomad... 3 6 2
Aldcroft 5 6 0
Fitzroy ... ... 3 6 0
Miss Williams 3 5 13
Cranmore 3 5 12
Savernake 3 5 12
Hawkswell ... 3 5 11
El Cid ... ... 3 5 7
Dolan ... ... 3 5 7
Duty Free... 5 5 7
Black Prince ... 3 5 7
Dark Agnes ... 3 5 7
Cambuscan ... 5 paid
Success ... 4 paid
Esca ... 4 paid

Belmort, 2 yrs
Minna, 2 yrs
Stabber, 3 yrs
Flora, 3 yrs
Esmeralda, 2 yrs
Wentworth, 3 yrs
Venturesome, 3 yrs
Miss Williams, 3 yrs
Narino, 2 yrs
lona, 2 yrs
Treasure Trove, 3 yrs
Outcast (late Major), 3 yrs
Lidylike (late Snowflake), 2
yrs
The Admiral, 2 yrs
FRIDAY, MAY 11.—The TYRO STAKES, of 5 soya each,
with 50 added, for two yrs old colts, Bst 101 b, and fillies
and geldings, Bst 61b ; the winner to be sold for 103 sovs ;
if entered to be sold for 75 sovs allowed 31b; if for 50
sovs, 71b; if for 40 sov, 101 b; if for 30 sov, 141 b; to be
put up by auction immediately after the race, and any
surplus to be divided between the owner of the second
horse and the Race-fund. Half a mile.
To close and name by eight o'clock on Thursday
evening.
The CONSOLATION SCRAMBLE of 30 sov added to a Handi-
cap Sweepstakes of 5 soy each, for all ages; the second
to save his stake ; three-quarters of a mile.
To close and name by eight o'clock on Thursday even-
ing, and the weights to be declared the same night.
CITY PURSE of 50 soy added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov
each, for three yrs old, Bst ; four, 9st 21b ; five, 9st 81b ;
six and upwards, 9st 101 b ; m and g allowed 31b ; the
winner to be sold for 150 sovs ; if for 100 sovs, allowed
71b ; if for 80 soy, 141 b ; if for 50 sov, 211 b ; and if for
30 sov, 281 b. To be put up by auction immediately after
race, and any surplus to be divided between the second
horse and the Race-fund. T.Y.C.
To close and name by eight o'clock on Thursday
evening.
THE'EGLINTON STAKES of 10 sovs each, h ft with 50 added,
for two yr olds, 7st, and three Bst 121 b, f and g. allowed
31b ; a winner of a sweepstakes amounting to 200 sovs
to carry 71b of 100 sovs 51b, any other winner, 31b extra;
three yrs olds which have started three times without
winning allowed 51b, two yr olds which have started
twice without winning allowed 21b ; the second to re-
ceive back his stakes. T.Y.C. (10 subs.)
Tinted Venus, 2 yrs Liveryman, 2 yrs
Conde, 2 yrs Littleport, 2 Yrs
Nice, 2 yrs Warneford, 2 yrs
Thermometer, 2 yrs Vandyke, 2 yrs
The Nun, 2 yrs
THE LONDESBOROUGH CUP value 100 sovs in specie,
added to a Handicap Stakes of 5 sovs each, for three
yrs old and upwards ; the winners of any handicap of
100 sovs value, after the weights are declared (May 2,
at 11 a.m.) to carry 71b, of two of 100 sovs or ono of
200 soy 121 b extra ; no horse to carry more than 121 b
extra ; the second to receive 25 sov out of the stakes,
and the winner to pay 15 sovs towards expenses. T.Y.C.
(92 subs.)

Archery, 2 yrs
Festival, 2 yrs
Nimble, 3 yrs
Lute, 2 yrs
Virginia, 3 yrs
Chepstow, 3 yrs
Qui Vivo, 3 yrs
Hanover, 3 yrs
Lord Craven, 3 yrs
Prince of Wales, 3 yrs
Lady Eston, 2 yrs
Lady Audley, 3 yrs
Fat Bob, 2 yrs
Pedant (late Alumnus), 3
yrs

Age st lb
Queen of Trumps a 9 2
Genuna a 8 12
Sundeelah... ... 5 8 8
Troublesome ... a 8 8
Lytham ... 5 8 5
Exceller ... 4 7 13
Skylark ... 5 7 12
The Beadle 5 7 12
T halassius ... 4 7 8
Dawdle ... 5 7 6
Roderick Random... 4 7 4
Lady of Coverdale 4 7 3
Arkenside... ... 4 7 0
Treasure Trove ... 3 7 0
Holstein ... 4 7 0,

Age st lb
Qui Viva ... 3 7 0
Sisyphus ... ... 4 612
Persuasion ... 5 6 10
Arabia •.. ... 4 6 8
Rococo ..• 3 6 8
Missile ... ... 4 6 4
The Najd() 3 6 0
Terror ... ... 3 6 0
Miss Williams ... 3 510
Dark Agnes ... 3 5 10
Vigorous ... ... 3 5 7
Bachelor ... 3 5 7
Loughrea ... 5 5 7
Dean Swift 5 (pd.)

The FLYING DUTCHMAN'S HANDICAP of NO soy added to
a Sweepstakes of 15 soy each, 10ft, and only 5 if de-
clared by April 24, at noon ; the winner of any handi-
cap value 100 soy after the declaration of the weights
(April 18, at 10 a.m.) to carry 71b, of two or any handi-
cap value 1,000 soy 121 b; of the Great Northern or any
Handicap value 1000 soy 141 b extra ; no horse to carry
more than 111 b extra ; second horse to receive back his
stake, and the winner to pay 15 soy towards expenses.

One mile and a quarter (27
each).

The highest weight accept;
raised to Bst 121 b, and the otl
Age st lb
Lozenge ... ... 4 8 12
Raglan 6 8 10
Harry Brailsford ... 4 7 12
Holstein ... ... 4 7 1
Molly Carew ... 5 6 11
Castanet (in 71b ex.)
3 6 8
Missile ... 4 6 4

subs, 12 of whom pity 5 sow

ing being Bst 81b, It has been
Lers in proportion.

Age st lb
Chapel Royal 3 6 4
Caithness ... 3 5 13
Murillo 3 5 13
Bob Chambers 3 5 11
Duty Free 3' 5 11
Hebe ... 3 5 11
Flora ... ... 3 511
Dean Swift (pays ft)

PROGRAMME OF HARPENDEN RACES.
(To start at half-past one o'clock.)
FRIDAY, MAY 11.—THE TRIAL STAKES of 5 sovs each,
with 50 added ; the second to save his stake ; two-year
olds sst 71b, three Bst 51b, four, 9st 71b, five and upwards
9st 101 b; the winner to be sold for 200 sovs; if entered
for 500 sovs 71b, 1,000 141 b extra. One mile.
THE ROTHAMSTEAD STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ;
three-year olds Bst 31b, four 9st 121 b, five 10st 51b, six
and aged lOst 71b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ;
maiden three-year olds allowed 31b, four 61b, five and
upwards 101 b ; winners once 41b, of two or more races
71b extra ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs ; if entered
for 75 sovs allowed 71b, 50 141 b, 25 211 b. One mile and
a half.
THE WHEATHAMSTEAD STAKES of 5 SOPS each, with 50
added ; two-year olds 6st 121 b, three 9st 11b, four lOst
31b, five, six, and aged lOst 51b; mares allowed 51b,
geldings 31b ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs ; if en-
tered for 70 sovs allowed 51b, 40 101 b, 30141 b. T.Y.C.
A PLATE of 100 sovs ; four-year olds list 41b, five 12st,
six and aged 12st 71b ; half-breds belonging to farmers
allowed 71b ; the second to receive 10 sovs out of the
stakes. 2 miles.

Mistress O'Grady (h b) aged The Souter, aged
Briton, 6 yrs I
.. .

Dries (h 1.3), 4 yrs
Birthday, aged

Charley Grey, aged
Remnant, aged

Wild duchess, 5 yrs Vesta, 4 yrs
Bessie, 6 yrs Countersign, 5 yrs
Sequence, 5 yrs Devotee, 6 yrs
Belle of Kars, 4 yrs Taglioni, aged
The Abbot, 5 yrs Topthorn, aged
The SCURRY STAKES of 2 sovs each, with 25 added, for all
ages ; two-year-olds, 6st 71b ; three, -fist 71b ; four,
9st 31b ; five and upwards, 9st 61b ; the winner to be
sold for 50 soya ; if entered for 40 soya allowed 51b, 30
101 b, 20 141 b ; winners of any race of the day 71b extra.
T.Y.C.

The HARPENDEN HANDICAP of 10 sovs each, h ft, and three
only if declared, with 100 added ; the second to receive
20 sovs out of the stakes ; winners of 100 sovs after
April 26 (at ten a.m.) 71b extra; two miles. 23 subs,
six of whom pay 3 sovs each.

Age st lb
Buckfoot ... 5 9 0
Ethelred ... ... 5 8 7
Deerfoot ... 5 8 0
Boleno - ... 4 7 11
Kaupai (late Her-
schel). m
Quarantine
Musketeer...
Puebla

- Age st lb
Life Guardsman ... 3 7 2
Oscar ... ... 6 7 0
Basquine ... ... 4 6 13
The Soutar ... a 6 13
Hasketon Maid ... 3 6 6
Jessamine ... ... 3 6 3
Moss Rose—. ... 3 6 0
Slieve Came ... 3 6 0
Wildair ... ...3 510

...4 711
...5 7 4
...4 7 4
...4 7 4

A PLATE of 100 sovs (Handicap); winners of any han-
dicap after May 3 (at ten a.m.) 51b, or of the Harpenden
Handicap 71b extra ; the second to receive 10 sovs out
the plate. About one mile and a quarter.
Age st lb Age st lb
Durham ... 5 812 Dayrell ... 4 7 0
Pintail ... ... 5 810 Hasketon Maid ... 3 612
Olivia ... 5 8 1 Lydia ... ... 4 6 10
Rinaldo 4 8 1 Moss Rose ... 3 6 9
Kaupai 4 712 Jessamine ... ... 3 6 8
Musketeer... 4 7 12 Scarf 3 6 7
Quarantine 4 7 10 Slieve Came ... 3 6 7
Flight filly ... 4 7 6 Woolwich... 3 6 5
Her Ladyship ... 3 7 5 Glowworm ... 3 6 4
Betsy Copeland 6 7 4 Master Shutt ... 3 6 3
Basquine ... 4 7 3 Finale ... 3 6 3
Brimstone ... ... 3 7 2 Volhynia ... 3 6 0
cby Frogmore ... 4 7 0 Wildair ... 3 6 0
The TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES of 5 says each, with 100
added ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 71b ; winners of any
race value 100 sovs 51b, of two such races, 71b extra ;
the second to save his stake. T.Y.C. (four furlongs
and a half). 33 subs.

Evangeline
Hebrides
Merry Monarch
Vulcan
Chieftain
Pirate Chid
Red Cross Knight
Lady Pam
Ink
May-be filly
Ambush filly
Secrecy
Princess Alice
Variation
Palasin
Chiswick
Emeralder

Brother to Bayleaf
Golden Plower
Testy colt
Ammunition
Caessa filly
Stodare
Angelica
Macaroon
Laverna
Alice
Skiff
Belle of Cadiz
Topsail colt
General Kmety
Pevensey
Vandyke

The above races, where n 4
name and close on pr before
past seven o'clock in the eve:

of otherwise specified, are to
Thursday, May 10, by half-
ling.

President Johnson's Speech to the Soldiers

and Sailors.

The following is the text of President Johnson's speech
to the procession of soldiers and sailors :
It is not affectation in me to say that language is inade-
quate to convey the heartfelt feelings produced on this
occasion by your presence here, and by the presentation of
your sentiments as expressed by your representative in his
address, and in the resolutions which you have thought
proper to adopt. I confess that.in the peculiar position of
public affairs, your presence and address give encourage-
ment and confidence to my efforts to discharge the duties
incumbent upon me as chief magistrate of the republic,
and in what I have to say I shall address you in the
character of citizens, sailors, and soldiers. I shall speak to
you on those terms and on none other. I repeat my thanks
for the manifestation of your encouragement. (Applause.)
We are to-day involved in one of the most critical and
trying struggles that has occurred since this Government
came into existence. Nations, like individuals, must have
a beginning, must have a birth. Struggling into exist-
ence, a nation passes through its first trying ordeal. It is
not necessary for me now to carry your minds back to the
struggle when this nation was born. It is not necessary
for me to allude to the privations and hardships of those
who were engaged in that struggle to achieve the national
birth. It is not necessary to point to the blood shed and
the lives lost in accomplishing that result. The next
ordeal through which a nation has to pass is when
it is called upon to give evidence that it has strength,
capacity, and power to maintain itself among the
nations of the earth. In giving such evidence, we
passed through the war of 1812, and through the war
of Mexico, and we passed through all the struggles
that have since occurred up to the beginning of the
rebellion. This was our second ordeal. But a nation has
another test still to undergo, and that is to give evidence
to the nations of the earth, and to its own citizens, that it
has power to resist internal force, that it has strength
enough to put down treachery at home, and treason within
its own borders. (Cheers.) We have commenced that
ordeal, and I trust in God we will pass through it success-
fully. (Cheers.) I feel complimented by the allusion of
your representative to the fact that I stood in the Senate
in 1860 and 1861, when the nation was entering on the
third ordeal, and raised my voice and hand against trea-
son, treachery, and traitors at home. (Cheers and cries of
" Good.") I stand here to-day, holding to and maintain-
ing the same principles which I then enunciated. (Cheers.)
I stand here to-day opposing traitors and treason, whether
they be in the South or in the North. (Loud cheers.) I
stand here to-day as I then stood, using all my powers
mental and physical to preserve this nation in passing
through the third phase of its existence. The organised
forces and combined powers that recently stood arrayed
against us are disbanded and driven from the field. But
it does not follow that there are still no enemies against our
present form of government and our free institutions.
(Applause.) I then stood in the Senate of the United States
denying tho doctrine of separation and secession. I denied
then, as I deny now, that any State has the right of its
own will to separate itself from the other States, and
thereby to destroy the Union and break up the Government.
And I think I have given some evidence that I have been
sincere and in earnest. And now I want to know why it
is that the whole pack of slanderers and calumniators
and traducers have been barking and snapping at my
heels ? (Cheers.) Why is it that they array themselves
against me ? Is it because I stand on the side of the
people ? And when I say " the people," I include the sol-
diers and sailors. (Cheers.) Why is it that they are
arrayed in traducing, and villifying, and calumniating me?
Where were they during the rebellion ? (A voice—" At
home, in bed." (Laughter.) In the Senate I raised my
voice against it ; and when it was believed that it would
be to the interest of the nation, and would assist in putting
down the rebellion, did I not leave my place in the Senate
—a place of emolument, ease, and distinction—and take my
position where the enemy could be reached, and where
men's lives were in danger? (Cheers, and cries of "That's
so.") While I was thus exposed, personally and publicly,
and in every way, some of my present traducers and
calumniators were far removed from the foe, and were en-
joying ease and comfort. (Cheers and laughter.) But I
care not for them. I care not that slander, the foul whelp
of sin, has been turned loose against me. I care not for all
that; and let me tell youhere to-day, that, although pretty
well advanced in life, I feel that I shall live long enough
to live down the whole pack of traducers and slanderers.
(Applause.) They have turned the whole pack loose to
lower me in your estimation. (Voices : They cannot do
it.) Blanche, Tray, and Sweetheart, little dogs and all,
come along snapping and snarling at my heels. But I
heed them not. (Cheers.) The American people—citizens,
soldiers, and sailors, know that from my advent into public
life to the present moment, I have always stood unyield-
ingly and unwaveringly the advocate and defender of
their rights and interests. (Cheers.) We are in the
nation's third ordeal ; we are not yet through it. We
said that the States could not go out of the Union ; we
denied the doctrine of secession, and we have demon-
strated that we were right. We demonstrated it by the
strong arm; yes, the soldier* and sailors—God bless them !

—have demonstrated by their patriotic hearts and strong
arms, that States have not the power to leave the Union.
(Applause.) What followed ? The Confederate armies
were overpowered and disbanded, and there was a willing-
ness on the part of the people of those States to come
back, be obedient to the laws, and acknowledge the supre-
macy of the Constitution of our fathers. For what have
we passed through this third ordeal ? It was to esta-
blish the principle that no State had the power to break
up the Government ; it was to put down the rebellion.
The rebellion has been put down, and for what ? Was it
to destroy the States? (Voices, " Never !") For what
have all these lives been sacrificed, and all this treasure
expended ? Was it for the purpose of destroying States ?
No, it was for the purpose of preserving the States in the
Union of our fathers. (Cheers.) It was for that you
fought—it was for that I tried not to break up the Go-
vernment, but to put clown the rebellion and preserve the
Union of the States. That is what we have been con-
tending for, and to establish the fact that the nation can
lift itself above and beyond intestine foes, and treason
and traitors at home. When the rebellion in Massachu-
setts was put down, did that put Massachusetts out of the
Lnion and destroy the State? IN hen the rebellion in
Pennsylvania was put down, did that destroy the
State and put it out of the Union? So when the re-
cent great rebellion was put down and the Constitu-
tion and laws of the country restored, the States
engaged in it—the rebellion being crushed, the law
restored, and the Constitution acknowledged in them—
stand in the Union constituting a part of the glorious
and bright galaxy of States. (Loud cheers.) In passing
through the ordeal whet has been done in Tennessee
under the direction of my lamented predecessor ? He
commenced the work of restoration ; he succeeded before
I came here in restoring the relations which had existed
between Tennessee and the rest of the Union, with one ex-
ception, and that was the relation of representation. I
came to Washington, and under extraordinary circum-
stances succeeded to the presidential chair. What then ?
The Congress of the United States had adjourned without
prescribing any plan. I then proceeded as I had done in
my own State, under the direction of the Government, to
restore the other States. And how did we begin ? We
found that the people had no courts, and we said to the
judges, the district-attorneys, and the marshals, " Go down
and hold your courts ; the people need the tribunals of
justice to be opened." Was there anything wrong in that?
The courts were opened. What else? We locked out
and saw that the people down there had no mails ; they
had been interrupted and cut off by the operation of the
rebellion. We said to the Postmaster-General, "Let the
peeple have facilities for mail communication, and let
them again begin to understand what we all feel and think
—that we are one people." We looked out again and saw
that there was a blockade, that the custom-houses were
all closed. We said : " Open the doors of the custom-
houses and remove the blockade ; let trade and commerce
and the pursuits of peace be restored." And it was done.
We thus travelled on, step by Weep, opening custom-houses,
appointing collectors, establishing mail facilities, and
restoringall relations that had been interrupted by the rebel-
lion. Was there anything undertaken to be done here that
was not authorised by the Constitution; that was not jus-
tified by the great necessities of the case; that has not been
clearly consonant with the Constitution, and with the ge-
nius and spirit of our Government ? (Cheers.) What re-
mained to be done ? One other thing remained—to de-
monstrate to the civilised and pagan world that we had
passed successfully through the third ordeal of our na-
tional existence, and proved that our Government was
perpetual. A great principle was to be restored, which
was established in our revolution when our fathers were
contending against the power of Great Britain. What
was one of the principal causes of this complaint ? It was
that they were denied representation. They complained
of taxation without representation. (Cheers.) One of
the great principles laid down by our fathers, and which
fired their hearts, was that there should be no taxation
without representation. How, then, does the matter stand ?
Who has been usurping power ? Who has been defeating
the operation of the Constitution ? and what now remains
to be done to complete the restoration of these States to all
their former relations under the Federal Government, and
to finish the great ordeal through which we have been
passing ? It is to admit representation. (Cheers.) And
when we say admit representation, what do we mean ?
We mean representation in the constitution and law-abid-
ing sense, as was intended at the beginning of the Govern-
ment. The Constitution declares in express terms that
each House, the Senate and the House of Representatives,
each acting for itself, shall be the judge of the returns, elec-
tion, and qualifications of its own members. It is for each
house to settle that questionunder the Constitution and un-
der the solemn sanction of an oath. Andean we believe that
either House .would admit any member into its body to
participate in the legislation of the country -who was
not qualified and fit to sit in that body and participate in
its proceedings ? They have the power, not the two
houses, but each for itself. The Constitution further de-
clares that no State shall be deprived of its equal suffrage
in the Senate of the United States without its consent.
Then where do we stand ? All that is needed to finish
this great work of restoration is for the two houses respoc-
tively to determine the question.
" Oh !" but soon some one will say, "a traitor might come
in." The answer to that is, that each house must be the judge,
and, if a traitor presents himself, cannot either house know
that he is a traitor? (Applause.) And, if he is a traitor, can
they not kick him out of the door, and send him back, saying
to the people who sent him, "You must send us a loyal man."
(Cheers, and a voice, " That's logic.") Is there any diffi-
culty about that? (" No, no," and cheers.) If a traitor
presents himself to either house, cannot that house say to
him, " No, you cannotbe admitted into this body. Go back.
We will not deny your people the right of representation,
but they must send a loyal representative." (Cheers.) And
when the States do send loyal representatives, can you have
any better evidence of their fidelity to the Constitution
and the laws ? There is no one learned in the Constitution
and the laws who will say that if a traitor happens to get
into Congress that body cannot expel him after he gets in.
That makes assurance doubly sure, and conforms the ac-
tion of the Government to the Constitution of our fathers.
Hence, I say, let us stand by that Constitution ; and in
standing by it the covenant will be preserved. While I
have been contending against traitors and treason, and se-
cession and the dissolution of the Union, 1 have been
contending at the same time against the consolidation of
power here. (Cries of " Good !") I think the consolidation of
power here is equally dangerous with the separation of the
States. (Cheers.) The one would shatter us and might
run into anarchy, while the other would concentrate and
eventuate in monarchy. (Cheers, and cries of " Can't do
it!") Oh, but there is an idea abroad that one man can be
a despot, that one man can be a usurper ; but that a hun-
dred or two hundred men can not. Mr. Jefferson, the
apostle of liberty, .tells us, and so does common sense, that
tyranny and despotism can bo exercised by many more
vigorously and more tyrannically than by one. What
power has your President to be a tyrant ? What can he
do ? What can he originate ? Why, they say he exer-
cised the veto power. (Laughter.) What is the veto
power? (A voice—" To put down the nigger." Laugh-
ter.) Who is your President ? (Several Voices—" Andy
Johnson.") Is he not elected by the people through the
electoral colleges ? The President is nothing more than
the tribune of the people. His office is tribunal in its
character. In olden times, when tribunes were first
elected in the Roman Republic, they stood at the door of
the Roman Senate, which was then over-reaching on the
popular rights and putting the heel of power on the necks
of the people. The people chose a Tribune and placed
him at the door of the Senate, so that when that body ven-
tured an oppressive act he was ready with power to say,
" Veto, I forbid." Your President now is the Tribune of
the people. I thank God I am, and intend to assert the
power which the people have placed in me. (Cheers.)
Your President, standing here day after day and discharg-
ing his duty, is like a horse on a tread-wheel, and because
he dares differ in opinion in regard to public measures,
he must be denounced as a usurper and a tyrant. Can he
originate anything under the veto power ? I think the veto
power is conservative in its character and affirmative. All
that can be done by the veto power is to say when legislation is
improper, hasty, unwise, unconstitutional, " Stop action—
wait till this can be submitted to the people, and let them
consider whether it is right or wrong." (Applause.) That
is all there is in it ; hence I say that tyranny and power
can be exercised somewhere else than by the executive.
He is powerless. All that he can do is to check legislation,
to hold it in a state of abeyance till the people can con-
sider and understand what is being done then. What has
been done ? I have done what I believed the Constitution
required me to do. (Applause.) I have done what I be-
lieved duty and conscience required me to do. (Cheers.)
So believing, I intend to stick to my position, relying on
the judgment, the integrity, and the intelligence of the
masses of the American people, the soldiers and sailors ex-
pressly. (Cheers.) Then, for my life, I cannot see where
there is any tyranny. It is very easy to impugn motives,
and suspect the purest and best acts of a man's life. If
you come forward and propose a certain thing, your mo-
tives are suspected and condemned. And if you withhold
your opinion, you aro regarded as being opposed to the
matter ; so that it is very hard to move one way or the
other, so far as certain persons are concerned, on all ques-
tions pertaining to the interests of the great masses of the
American people, for in them is my hope for the salvation
of the country. lam with you, citizens, soldiers, and
sailors. Who has sacrificed or periled more than the
humble individual who addresses you ? Has not my all
been put on it—my life, my property—everything sacred
and dear to men has been staked upon it ; and can I now
be suspected of faltering at the close of this third ordeal of
the nation ? Where is he, in public or private life, who has
sacrificed more, or who has devoted more of his time and
energies to the accomplishment of the great end than I? And
I have done it from the promptings of my own heart and
conscience. I believe it was right. And with your
hearts, and your countenances, and your encouragement, I
shall go through on that line—(cheers and laughter)—and
when I come to talk about sailors and soldiers, aboiit this
to be done, and that to be done, all I want is for you to '
wait and see. So far as the future is concerned, wait and
see if I do not stand by you, although every other man
falter and fail. (Cheers.) I want to see measures of policy
brought forward which will advance the interests of the

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people, and of that portion of the people who constitute
the gallant and brave men who, in both branches of the
service, have upheld the national flag, and sustained the
country in the recent struggle. I thank you, gentlemen,
for the encouragement. I thank you for your countenance
on this occasion ! It cheers me on and gives me strength
to perform the work befora me. If we are true to our-
selves, if we are true to the Constitution, the day is not
far distant when this Government will be restored. Let
us go on and restore the Government. Let us enlarge the
area of our commerce and trade ; and let us not only in-
spire confidence at home, but respect abroad, by letting
the nation resume its career of prosperity and greatness.
I know that some will And fault with me and say I am
too lenient, too kind, and all that. If we were all to be
put to death or punished, or banished for one offence, cfr
for the second offence, and were to be lost or excluded
from society and communion with our fellow-ruenl
how many of us would be left ? I have felt when I have
done wrong and repented of it, that I was as sincere and
honest as he who had done no wrong at all. Then sr°
must reason with each other, and understand our nature,
and what is necessary to restore peace, and harmony,
and concord to a distracted and divided I)°°Ple;
In time of war it is right to burn villages, sac;
cities, and devastate fields, to lay waste a country, and
cripple and reduce the enemy. But in time of peace the
converse of that course is precisely the right one, and the
true policy of a nation is to rebuild its cities, restore its
villages, and let all the avocations of peace and prosPeritY;
be restored. I know there are some who have been 8'
home calculating during the war, and who bring to the
consideration of questions of peace, harmony, and the
avocations of civil life, all the feelings of resentment which
animated us when the excitement was running high.
take the brave men who sustained the flag on the fleldd
and on the wave, and you will find better feelings an,
better judgment on these questions than you will find
with those who have been sitting in the closet and never
smelled gunpowder. (Cheers.) Yes, from the private up
to the commanding general, they know better how to treat
the present circumstances than any of those closet patriots
and humanitarians. Then my countrymen,
citizens, soldiers and sailors, let us rejoice that peace 113 s
come. Let us rejoice that the relations of the States „„
about being restored. Let us make every effort We can
on proper principles to restore the relations which existedi
between the Federal Government and the States; and
thank God that peace is restored. I thank God that our
brave men can return to their families and homes and re-
sume their peaceful avocations. I thank God that the
baleful planet of fire and blood which a short time ago
was in the ascendant has been chased away by the benig-
nant star of peace. Now that the star of peace is
pended in the heavens, let us cultivate the earth and the
relations of peace—all those associations which apper-
tain to men in peace. The time is not distant 10°11:,
we can have a political millennium—political jubilee, and
when we can proclaim to all the nations of the earth t13,!1
we are again a united people, and that we have triumph'
antly passed through our third ordeal—have peace at home
and power to bid defiance to all the world. (Loud cheers')
Remember one thing, gentlemen, that in my past life!
though slanderers may misrepresent, none can say thati
ever deceived or betrayed him. It will be for you to see 11
the future who will redeem all his promises, and who w
be the most faithful. I thank you, gentlemen, for the Orli-
pliment you have paid me.
At the close of his remarks, the President and the 13°i011
were loudly and enthusiastically cheered. The President
was evidently gratified at his reception, and 10113111
thanked the vast audience for their courtesy, their 00;
couragement, and their support. The band perforlo.
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some more patriotic airs, and the immense crowd alt
persed.