The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-06-29
Speech of Hon. Andy johnson.

An enthusiastic reception was given to
Hon. Andy Johnson Of Tennessee On his
arrival in Cincinnati on Tuesday of last week,
TO which he responded in the following
speech:
FELLOW CITIZENS In reply to the cordial
welcome which has just been rendered to me,
through your chosen organ--in reply to What
has been said by the gentlemen chosen by
you to bid me welcome to Cincinnati-i have
not language adequate to express my feelings
of gratitude. | cannot find language to
thank you for the tender Of good fellowship
which has been made to lie on the present
occasion.
For myself feel that while am a citizen
of a Southern State--a citizen of the South
and of the State of Tennessee, | feel at the
sametime that am also citizen of the U.
States. Most cordially do respond to what
has been said in reference to the maintenance
of the Constitution of the United States. in
all its bearings, in all its principles therein
contained. The Constitution Of the United
States lays down the basis upon which the
Union of all the States of this Confederacy
can and may be maintained and preserved. If
it be literally and faithfully carried OUT
So far as | am concerned, feeling that ain a
citizen of the United States, | am willing to
| abide by that Constitution. am willing to
live under the Government that is built upon
and pcrpetuated upon the principles laid
down by the Constitution which was
formed by Washington and his compcers,
after coming from the heat and strife Of
bloody revolution.
| know that there has been much said
abolt the North, much said about the South.
am proud, here to-day, to hear the scnti-
mcnts and the language which have been
uttered in reference to the North and the
South, and the relations that exist between
these two sections. l am glad to hear it
said in such place as this that the pending
ditiicnllies-I might say the existing war
which are now upon this countrywide not
grow out of any luminosity to the local insti.
tuition Of any section. | am glad to be
assured that itgrows out of determination
to maintain the glorious principles upon
which the Government itself rests-the prn-
ciples contained in the Constitution-and at
the same time to rebukc and to bring back us
far as may be practicable. within the pale of
the Constitution. those individuals, or States
even, who have taken it upon themselves to
exercise a principle and doctrine at war with
all government, with all association-politi.
cal, moral and religious.
| mean the doctrine OF Secession, which is
neither more nor less than heresy-a funda.
mental error-a political absurdily, coming
in conflict with all organized government,
with everything that tends to preserve law
and order in the United States. or wherever
else the odious and abominable doctrine may
be attempted TO be exercised. | look upon
the doctrine of Secession as coming in con-
fict with all organism moral and social. -
| repeat, without regard to the peculiar insti-
tntions of the respective States composing
this Contederacy. without regard to any
Government that may be founded in the future
OF exists in the present, this odious doctrine
Of Secession should be crushed out, destroyed
and totally annhilated. No government can
stand, no religious. or moral, or social organi-
zaiion can stand where this doctrine is toler-
ated. 1t is disintergration universal dis
solyemsnt- making war upon everything