Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-09-23

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the President Of the United States dare to
ndmit that he belongs to the Soutberu race,
Is Of the Southern people, native OF South.
ern State, when have been denounced &c
traitor, a secessionist, and an enemy 10 my
county simply because desired that, peace
ably aud through compronise, our Southern
brethren should return to the Union which
their fathers and our fathers made in the
good old days Of the Republic ! But, listen
again:
81 love them"
What love traitors love rebels love
Southern Cjpperheadsl Laughter Why,
next he will take Northern Copperheads to his
bosom and, peradventure. may have lit
tie embrace myself then | Great laughter
Quien sabe Bot,
II love them, and will do all all in my
power"
Well being President be has a great deal
Of power. Lincoln had we know that. At
least | do, Laughter J.
"Wll do oil in my power to restore them to
that state Of happiness and prosperity which
they enjoped before the madness Of misguided
men, in whom they had reposed their confS
dence led them .asray 1T.
Tifat is precisely what the Democratic
party is after. He could not have hit it better
rIfthere is anything that can be done, on
my part, on correct principles of the Consti-
! tuion, TO promote these ends, be assured it
shall be done
And be assured, Andrew johnson that in so
far as you do 1t, on these principles, the Dem
ocratio party, one and undivided, will stand
by you Applause
Again: The institution of slavery" said
the President, sis gone. The former status
al, lol ka Oh
as wise men, must recognize so patent fact,
aud adapt ourselves to circumstances as they
surround us
Trae wisdom, that And accordingly the
Southern delegation responded ave are
willing 10 do so" The President replied, IL
believe you are Jacob Dolsou Cox Gays:
"Nol They have been unruly. They must be
chastised. They are bad boys, and they must
BE- kept out behind abe school-house, Rnd not
permitted TO enter Tor an indefinite period
Don't let them return again 1t is true, we
have punished them, and chastised them but
not enough" The President says: II be-
leve you ! believe when your faith is pledg
ed, it will be maintained in good faith" What
rebels maintain faitbl Whall traitors to defeat
whom we spent four thousand millions oil
dollars and a million of lives-through the
laundering of the Administration during the
| first years of the war, because they made it q
polit cal war, until Grant and Sherman took
hold and refused to carry it on for the benefit
OF the Republican party. Applause. What
maintain it in good fRith SO says the Presi
dent, and | stand behind him and at his back
Again. "All ask or desire of the South
Moth, East or West | am afraid be is get
ting into my sections again.) Laughter. l.
"is 10 be sustained in carrying out the prin-
cpies of the Constitution"
Well said Andrew johnson. stick to it
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 we're educated to love the Union and to
stand by the principles of the Constitution
Take them INTO your Cabinet, and then you
will be sustained in carrying out the prin-
cipes of the Constitution, and among the
most sacred Of them, Andrew johnson, be-
lieye me, are the writ of ha6eas corpus, and
the right of trial by jury.
"It is not to be denied adds the President
| that We have been great sufferers ON both
| sides good men have fallen, and much misery
is being endured as the necessary result OF
so gigantic contest. Why, then, can not We
come together and, around the common altar
Of our country, heal the wounds that have
been made
Again, that ia the purpose, the sole purpose
Of the Democratic party, and for that they
have been denounced are being denounced,
and will again be denounced, as { Rtors and
sympathizers with secession. Well, we have
the President OH our side, and we are the
loyal party now Laughter. We have the
army on our side now, and II is power II
La Al, 81
We have President who, instsad of saying
as Mr. Lincoln did to Fernando Wood, "We
stand BY our Generals, will not stand by
them when they are not right We have ~
President who, as 10 the case of General Slo
cum, waits for the mail, but reyokes
orders by telegraph, when he thinks they are
not right and proper, and constitutional.
| Applause. ..I
johnson has done wrong generous wrong, in
this matter of military commissions, and mil.
itary executions. But he is realizing to day
what heard when boy, and has been part
OF my political creed ever since, that man
to be an honest, thorough Democrat must
have been born one, and If he is born Demo
crat, though he may get out Of tho road some
times, there is a spirit Of magnetism about lie $
body which, like the needle that points to
the north pole, always brings him back again
Applause No wonder there has been q
convocation of the great lights of the Aboi,
ton party since this speech Of President John
son was made. No wonder there is q flock
ing to Washington City Of the leaders oil
A6olitionism, like harpies rushing to polluts
the feast OF harmony and peace which the
President proposes to set before the country.
Again Gays the President 49,
"Our country has been SCARED all over
Then, why can not we approach each other on
principles which are right in themselves aud
which will be productive Of good 10 alp
. "The day is not distant when we shall feel