Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-05-10
to take, when much more extreme measures

TO take, when mucn mere extreme meas prea
Instead OF asking tha. they should be
imprisoned or hung as traitors, we only say
your sight is offensive; you are stencil in our
Unss G on to
Jersey Icheersl and live there, If those States
Wll permit you; or, II not, .you may go to
south Carolina, or worse place. We asE that
the corporations of Washington and George
town shall pass laws forever disfranchising
sncn rascals; that no man may vote In this
Uisuict VINO is guilty OF the greatest crime
treason-whtch includes the robbinR, mur-
dering, ina starving Of prisoners, stealing even
the very money sent to relieve them in the
hospitals, eliminating in the ASSASSINATION OF
the greatest and best man that washington
ever saw.
Thank God, Andrew Johnson succeeds him
q man whe, while he has great kindness Of
heart and urbanity OF manner, is man OF JUS
tice as well as OF mercy. He has suffered in
this rebellion--has known what 1t is to be
driven from his home and prosecuted; and we
know that he will give what the lrishman was
afraid of-and that's justice.
In reference to these men taking the oath,
and being permitted to stay here, would say;
Oaths with them) are but words. words but
wind, too feeble instruments to bind. Men
guilty Of such crimes as they have committed
punished, and after years of repentance in
sackoloth and ashes we may welcome them;
but not till then.
IThe band here played The Star SpaRgled
Banner."l
SPEECH OF N NJ. GAYLoR.
Chaplain N. nj. Gay lor, of Campbell Hos
pital, then addressed the audience, saying: /
came here to might not expectirg to be called
upon for speech. After supper 1 read the
call, and sand to myself: This is a righteous
Judgment; l will 60 down and see the people
act righteousness and so / came from the hos
pital. But my friends have pressed me into
the service. Now, beg of you, first OF AL, TO
unite with me in congratulation that the City
Council is committed to this movement. The
pledged them to 1t, and we will make them
carry 1t out. Wen hold them TO the bond,
every one of them.
It has gone abroad that the city government
of Washington was not sound on the goose,
and men have believed that there were a ma
iority OF two.taced men In the city government
who sympathiZed, to say the least, with the re-
bellion. II this was so, IL was the most dam
nable, disgraceful fact that could be told ef
them. Who should be loyal, unless the citi-
zens who owe their very life to the Govern
mentl Who should not be true IL not those
men who would be nothing, but for the gen.
eral Government at Washington Ofall in
CRATES upon whom the sun shines, of all
traitors, double-dyed, those are the worst who,
having fed upon the Government, lived on.
its benignant kindness, and grown fat upon il,
receiving special favors for them and their
kindred, yet, when there was peril, basely
went away and betrayed US.
Now in double sense these men deserve
your condemnation. There is great disttnc-
ton between the rebel OF Tennessee ana the
rebel of Washington or Maryland. Men In the
Southern States were called upon to resist
their township, their friends, their families,
their society, their neighbors, their church
and every stream contributing to the tide, they
were borne away against their judgment.
Your refined gentlemen OF Washington, who
are so choice in their tastes that they could no
endure the rabble democracy Of the North; the
friends of him who is now flying the wrath OF
an aroused nation, the price OF blood upon his
head, who will be caught, and, il caught, hung
this same Davis said, "the only way you can
tame spaniel is TO whip him." said this as
friends have been well whipped, and the latter
have humility of the spaniel. They will be
very quiet for a time; they would look loyal
and talk loyal on the same avenue; but let
some sharp detective follow their track, land he
would find them in little corteries lamenting
over the martyred Davis, bsmoaning over
tunity afforded, they would act disloyally, il
Isay, if you allow these men-these double
dyed traitors, who have no excuse under
Heaven but their own base and iniquitous
natures to remain here, you will cover your
selves and this city with disgrace. Resolve
that no man tainted with treason, or who has
been in any way in symphthy with the rebel
lion at any time, shall live here or hold office
with your Government. II you resolve this,
you can carry 1t out. And our friend will
have uttered, If not q fact of the present, a
prophecy Of the future, when he said that all
of us endorsed 1t.
After an eloquent speech by Captain ]. W.
Kicks, Of California the President OF the meet
ing, Mr.. Brown, read the resolutions adopted
by the Common Council, published yesterday
stating that two voted in the negative. Loud
and vehement calls were made for the names
of those who voted IL the negative, which were
given as MIR. Wright, OF the 7th Ward, and Mr..
Ward, of the 5th Ward. These were received
with groans and other marks Of disapprobation.
The names of the absences were then de-
manded, but not having them at hand the Presi-
affirmative, Messrs. Dudley, Davis, Kelly,
Larner. Ruff, Talbert, Ferguson, Wilson, and
Lloyd.
Boswell, of the Seventh Ward; addressed the
meeting. He was in favor Of peaceful mea-
sures, and would not counsel personal vio-
lence to returning rebels; but for one, he was
determined that they should not be permitted
to remain in our midst. They had lett Wash
ington at the commencement of the war of
their own free WILL and during last summer
had been ready to come in with Early and
sack and destroy the homes of loyal men.
Now that the power and integrity OF the Gov
ernment had been re.established, they were
Sinking back again to the enjoyment Of all
the rights and privileges of those who had re-
manned through much peril true to the cause
OF the Union. They should not be permitted
to come back. They were dangerous ele-
ment. Their return would be an insult to the
widows and orphans of the gallant dead, and
their presence polluting influence upon the
rising generation. But those who returned
were not the only ones to be looked after.
There were men living here who were well
coming the returning traitors with every mani
testation of friendship, and who clasped by
the hand the very men that less than one year
ago hoped to lay waste the homes of the
Union people of Washington. He might 60
at length to name parties who have renamed
in Washington, and Who should be watched
as closely as those YAS went South. So far as
Mr.. Wright was concerned, he hoped that the
people OF his ward would set the seal of con-
demnatlon upon him, and he would recon-
mend that he be requested to resign his seat in
the Board of Common Council, and that the
Secretary Of War be petitioned for his dimissal
from the position as one OF the chief employees
OF the washington Arsenal. II the Govern
ment dio not take notice Of the conduct of this
man, he (Mr. B would advise that body of
men 60 to his house and peaceably but firmly
notify him to leave the city.
At the conclusion of Justice Boswell's re-
marks, q resolution requesting MIR. Wright to
resign his place as member Of the Common
Council, was unanimously adopted.
A resolution requesting Mr.. Ward Of the
Fifth Ward to resign, was also adopted
Mr.. H. A. Pierce, of California, next ad-
dressed the meeting, and was followed by
Noble d. Larner, of the Third Ward, who was