The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-09 00:00:00

THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.

Fellow-citizens—ln appearing before you this evening,
it is simply for the purpose of tendering to you my
thanks, my sincere thanks for this demonstration,
and for the approbation which you have mani-
fested on this occasion and on many occasions before.
Such approbation is peculiarly gratifying and encourag-
ing to 1113 under existing circumstances. All that will be
necessary is to persist in the support and maintenance of
correct principles, and the day is not distant when the
American people will satisfy you that the good work you
have commenced is right, as it will so prove in the end.
(Cheers.) I repeat my thanks-for your approbation of my
conduct as a public man and public servant.

The Secretary of the Navy was next called upon,
who gave

HIS SPEECH.

I thank you, gentlemen, for this compliment, which, I
suppose, is to the Administration and its policy, which we
one and all approve. (Cheers.) You need not expect any
remarks from me, for Ido not intend to make any. You
are one and all for the Union, I suppose, and for the esta:
blishment of the rights of the States. (Cheers,) These
are my views. (Cheers.)

Then came Mr. Secretary Stanton, of the War
Department, who had prepared a long written
oration, which he delivered to his hearers. lie
partly believed in the President and partly didn't,
and thought Congress was right, and that the " re-
" constructed" should be dealt with mercifully.
Regarding
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.

"By some," he said, "it was thought just and expedient
that the right of suffrage in the rebel States should be ac-
corded in some form to the coloured inhabitants of those
States, either as a universal rule, or to those qualified by
education, or by actual serVice as soldiers, who ventured
life for their Government. My own mind inclined to this
view, but after calm and full discussion, my judgment
yielded to the adverse arguments, resting upon the prac-

tical difficulties to bo encountered in such a measure, and
to the President's conviction that to prescribe the rule
of suffrage was not within the legitimate scope of his
power." _ _

So Mr. Secretary Stanton doesn't exactly know
whether he is in favour of negro suffrage or not ;
but if the Court knows herself, and she thinks she
do, then he isn't, unless the President is, but if the
President is, why, then, he is too.
Postmaster Denison and Secretary M'Culloch
also made speeches of no special importance.

Mn. SEWARD,
hopeful as ever, made a speech at Auburn, and
wound up as follows :
What, then, is my conclusion ? It is one, at least, that
will be permitted to harmonise with my past life. lam
hopeful—hopeful of the President, hopeful of the Congress,
hopeful of the National Union party, hopeful of the repre-
sented States, hopeful of the unrepresented States; above
all, hopeful of the whole people, and hopeful of the continued
favour of Almighty God. When I shall return hero from
the field of public service, and shall come to mingle once
more in your quiet and peaceful pursuits, I desire and hope
then to be able to look with renewed affection and pride
upon our beloved country. I hope that, then, while I remem-
ber how fearfully within our own time she has been beset,
besieged, and bested, I shall, nevertheless, be able to say
to all our enemies, at home as well as abroad—
" Compass her walls in solemn pomp—
Your eyes quite round her cast—
Count all her towers, and see if there
You find one stone displaced.' "
A SENSATIONAL REPORT.

Lieutenant-General Grant has received a despatch from
Major-General H. W. Hailed; in California, in which he
says that there is not a word of truth in the report that
Fort Goodwin has been captured by the Apaches, and the
garrison massacred. He denounces the report as alto-
gether sensational.