The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-27 00:00:00

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and unmoved on its basis. This Government must be pre-
served. I will only say, in conclusion, that I hope all tho
people of this country in good faith and in the fulness of
their hearts will upon the principles which you have enun-
ciated here to-day of the maintenance of the Constitution,
and the preservation of the Union, lay aside every othez
feeling for the good of our common country, and with up-
lifted faces to heaven, swear by our God and upon our
altars that all else shall sink in the dust together rather
than that this glorious Union shall not be preserved.
(Great applause.) I am gratified to find the loyal sentinfor,t
of the country developing and manifesting itself in these
expressions. And now that the attempt to destroy the Go-
vernment has failed at one end of the line, I trust we shall
go on, determined to preserve the Union in its original purity
against all opposers. I thank you, gentlemen, for the colt:
pliment you have paid me, and I respond most cordially to
what has been said in your resolutions and address, and I
trust in God that the time will soon Mlle when we can •
meet under more favourable auspices than we now do.
Mr. Baldwin—Mr. President, as an assurance that we
represent the sentiment of the State, I beg leave of you to
introduce to you the members of the committee, and to
name the parts of the State from which they come, in order
that you may be satisfied that this is a fair representation
of all parts of Virginia. I introduce to you Mr. Keen, the
Senatorfrom Spottsylvania ; Mr. Joynes, the delegate from
Petersburg; Mr. Carter, the senator from the county of
Russell ; Mr. Marshall, the delegate from the county of
Fanquier ; Mr. Gray, the senator from the county of
Rockingham ; Mr. Pendleton, the delegate from the county
of Giles ; and Mr. Grattan, the delegate from the city of,
Richmond. We claim this to be a fair and equally dird..
tributed representation of the people of Virginia.
The gentlemen, as their names were mentioned, stepped
forward and shook the President by the hand.
The President added :-
1 mu happy to moot you, gentlemen. As I said to
another delegation the other day, I have no ambition and
no object beyond the restoration of this Government I
feel that I mu in a condition where I can afford to do right.
I have occupied during my career many different posts in
this Government. I started at ono of the humblest cabins
in the countrv,• and I have passed through the State Lo-
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position which I now occupy before you. .The climax, the
acme, the summit of my ambition has been fully reached.
If now I can only arrive at a point at which these States
are all restored, each having its representatives in the na-
tional councils with the Union restored, so that we can
once more proclaim peace and goodwill among the people
of the United States, it will be to me a happy day. I care
not what may be said in taunt or jeer—I care not what
may be insinuated; but I tell you that whenever I shall
have reached that point, the measure of my ambition will
have been filled, and more than filled. I have no object
beyond it. Oh, how proud and gratifying it would bo to
me to retire from this place feeling and knowing that I
had been instrumental in consummating this great and
glorious end ! (Great applause-)
The delegation then left the President's room, after
each delegate had again most cordially and warmly shaken
the President by the hand.

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