Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-23
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G. L. VALLANDIGHAM,
Auglaize County, o.,
ON saturday, sept. I6, 1862 ION
SPEECH
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PRESIDENT JOHNSON AGAIN.


ing this delegation, says: .t'iIru1I O1Y.
.But, gentlemen, If know myself, asl
think IDOL know that am of the South
Why, what rebeli Laughter What!
the President of the United States dare to
admit that. he belongs to the Southern race,
is of the Southern people, a native OF
Southern State, when Ihaye been denounc-
ed as a traitor, a secessionist, and an enemy
to my country, simply because desired
that, peaceably and through compromise,
our Southern brethren should return to the
Union which their fathers and our fathers
made in,the good olddays of the Republic!
But, listen to this: .} .aau .r-raD
II love them." a. yU# g.r,I.,.-
Whatl love traitors! love rebels! love
Southern COpperheads! [Laughter.l Why,
next he will take Northern Copperheads to
his bosom; and, peradventure, lmay have
little embrace myself then [Great laugh
ter Q,aen sdbef But r-iyrI ..Il
ii love them, and will do all in my pow
er-" i y q fat.l Is l# ..IJr-. ...ILp.
Well, being President, he has great deal
of power. Lincoln had weknowthat. at
least LIDO. [Laughter.l .ia.a-. .o>r.,.l
"Will do all in my power to restore them
to that state of happiness and prosperity
which they enjoyed before the madness OF
misguided men, in whom IT, ey had reposed
their confidence, led them astray." vp.
That is precisely what the Democratic
party is after. He could not have hit it
better. ~ I.S'' .to. .stL. .sJ
"If there Is any thing that can be done,
on my part, on correct principles of the
Constitution, to promote these ends, be as
sured it shall be DONE" -. II 81 .I.
And be assured, Andrew johnson, that so
far as you do! it, on these principles, the
Democratic party, one and undivideds will
stand by you. Applause -. Id arxt q. ,
Again: "The institution of slavery" said
the President, sis gone. The former status
of the negroes had to be changed, and we,
as wise men, must recognize so patent fact,
and adapt ourselves to circumstances as
they surround u.s." 4 o. .dLrr- H -
True WISDOM. that! And accordingly
the Southern delegation responded 1--WE
are willing to do so." The President re-
Piled, ~ believe you are" Jacob Dolson
Cox saws: mol SThey have been unruly.
Theyr must be fehastised. They are bad
bows, and they must be kept behind the
school-house door, and not permitted to en-
ter for anindefinite period. Don'tle let them
return again. 1t is true, we have punished
them, and chastised them, but not enough" !"
| The President says: II believe you, l
believe when your faith is pledged, it will
be maintained in good faith" What! rebels
maintain faith! What traitors on whom
we spent four thousand millions of dollars
and a million of liyes-through the blund-
ering of the Administration duling the
first years of the war, because they made it
political war, until Grant and sherman
took hold and wouldn't carry it on for the
benefit OF the Republican party, lap.
plausel What maintain it in good faith
So says the President and stand behind
him and at his back. ( tApplause,] II. ~
Again: "All i ask or desire of the South,
North, East or West"-(I am afraid he is
getting into my section again.) Laugh
terl-+-Sis to be sustained in carrying out
the principles of the Constitution" .,f...
| Well saidg dgAndrewI Johnson; stick toi
Don't listen to Seward. DON'T hearken to
Stanton; get rid of them, and take back the
old supports of the Constitution-the men
who were educated to love the Union and
to stand BY the principles of the Constitu-
tion. Take them into your Cabinet, and
then YOU will be sustained ncarrying out
those principles of the Constitution, anc
especially one OF the most sacred OF the
principles of that tCOnstituti9n-the Writo
habeas corpus, and the right Of trial 10y jury
1T is not to be denied" adds the iPresi-
dent, ''that we have been great sufferers or
both sides; good men have fallen, and mucf
misery is being endured as the necessary
result of so gigantic contest, why, then
cannot we come together, and, around tn,
common altar of our country, heal tn
wounds that have been nader n,lr ..t
Again, that is the purpose, the sole pur
pose of the Democratic party, aud for tina
theylhave been denounced, are being de
nounced, and will again be denounced, a
traitors and sympathizers with secession
Well, we have got the President on ou
side, and we are the loyal party. I Laugh
ter. We have the army on our side now
andlit is power. If our Major General
don't come up to the work we have Pres
ident who, instead of saying as Mr.. Lincoln
didito Fernando Wood,. "We stand by ou
Generals, 1--WE have President who, whel
the General is not right, will not stand b.
him. We have aaPresident who, as In tn
case of General Slocum, doesn'twait for tn
mail, but revOkes orders by telegraph, whel
he doesn't think they are right and proper
and Constitutional. lApplause.]T ysry't
| ! johnson has donewrong, great wrong, II
this matter of military commissions, ant
military executions. But he Is realizing to
day what heard when boy, and has beei
a part of my political creed ever since, tina
a man to be an honest, thorough Democrat
must have been born one, and If he Is b0r
a Democrat, though he may get out OF tn
road, there is spirit of magnetism abOu
the body that, like the magnet that point
to the north pole, always brings him bac
again9 EApplause.l No wonder there ha
been cOnvocation of the great lights Z
the Abolition party since this speech of MI
Johnson's was made.e No wonder there is
docking to Washington City of the leader
of AbOlitionism, like wild beasts going
pollutel the feast of harmony and peac
which the President proposes to give 70 tn
country. .en0issiu0lCJ gluiili Tsyo
| Again says the President:
"Our country has been Scared all ovel
Then, why can not we approach each othe
ontprinciples which are rightin themselves
aud which win be productive of good
Rfhe day is not distantJwhen wa sha'
feel like some family that has had a dee
and desperate feud, the various members
l. which have Come together, and compare
the evils and sufferings they had infilcte
on each other, They had seen the infiuenc
II OF their error, and its result, and, governe
by a generous spirit Of Cancellation, the
had become mutually forbearlng' and for
giving, and return to their old habits [
fraternal Kindness, and become bette
friends than ever. Then let us c0nsiderths
Il the feid which alienated us has been settle
and adjusted to mutual satisfaction, this
we come together to be bound by firne
:. bonds Of love, respect and confidence tina
II ssThe North can not get along withot
III the South, nor the South without the Nortl
/ the East Without the West nor the Wei