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


and in demanding, as their orftors and news
papers do, that the Southern States, which
are now ready to return 10 the Union, and to
yield obedience and fidelity to the ConstituS
ton OF the United States, and in insisting
that they shall be kept out for ten, twenty or
thirty years, or for an indefinite period they
are dsloyal men and let the cry now befAst.
ened upon them Applause II twas mat-
ter Of repoach and opprobrium to Democrats
that they opposed tle late Administration,
let IL be equally reproachfu to those who now
oppose the President in his effone TO return
! the Southern States TO their constitutional
rights. Bat they ara disloyal upon higher
| principles than that OF opposing the Admin.
| iAration. Whoever is for overthrowiug the
Consultation, for destroying for violating it,
/ is disloyal The only true loyalty, If the word
could appropriately be used under re publican
! fotm Of government, is obedience to the Con-
! stitution of the United States, the iuudameu-
tai law ofths land BY that test they are dis
loyal TAppIause. To-day they are oppos-
| ed to tbe return OF the Southern States You
soldiers of the 9th and OF other regiments
within my hesring-you of the three months
volunteers-whnt went you forth for Z What
were yon tod was to be the object OF your.
enlistment 1t was to break down the mill
tary power of the South, and to enforce the
! Constitutiou aud the laws which had been VIC.
! lated You never would have enlisted had you
been told that the object Of the war was to
overthrow the Constitution and establish a
permauent military monarchy. How stand
we now The military power OF the South
is broken down, the Southern Coniederacy
has vanished into thin air. Jefferson Davis
! is prisoner ia Fortress Monroe, and there
is not an armed foe to the Government OF the
United States from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON
Where stand the Democrats They tell
you, with General Sherman, that there are no
rebels now, and that you must trust the pee-
Pile of the South. Applause. They tell you
i with President johnson, that the people Of the
| South are honorable men, and that when they
promise in the future, fidelity to the Consti>
tuition and obedience to the laws of the lano,
they are to be trusted. What says the Pres.
dent am not here as his special advocate
and never, never while that sun rolls through
the heavens, will be his advocate until he
has restored the ha6eds corpus and trial by
jury, thus subordinating The military to the
civil authorities Of the land, We must have
no more military commissions, for the trial of
citizens-no more military murder OF citi-
zans, such as was committed the other day
in the city of Columbus-no sentences at ali
by the order Of military commissions, which
as Henry Winter Davis says, are organized to
convict. en- confident that to-day, the
President regrets what has been, done in this
particular, aud would exclaim with Lady
Macbeth, in the play: .... ra
"out damned spot"
| But is there. Yet in so far as the policy
of the President is correct IN SO far as be
stands on anu by the principles Of the Con.
stituton, above all, so far as he is for the m.
mediate restoration of the Southern States to
the Union, am determined to stand by him,
and believe that is the purpose of the Dsn>
ocratic party OF the Union. 1t he will but IN Ike
4 good, by acts. the utterances of his on the
eleventh day of this month-ony FIVE days
sgo-he will have the support of the men
who we're Union men before he and were
born, and whose children will be Union men
for generations to come Applause Hear
him In addressing the Southern delegation
IN the city Of Washington, he said
"Yes, the issue was made by the Sonth
against the Government, aud the Government
has trunphed and the South, true To its an.
cient instincts OF lrAnkness aud manly
honor ... ....
Imagine such sentiment coming
from the lips of Jacob Dolson Cox, or Robert
C. ScAenck, to say nothing OF the lesser lights
of the Abolition party Why what is that
but rank disloyalty sympathy with secessionl
Arrest Mr.. johnson Why is not some mill.
tary commissions forthwith "organizsd to
convict" him2 Judge Advocates, do you hear
that ? Execute him, execute him. APP
pause. ...-.l.r. vail -iw
"The South, true to its ancient instincts of
N anly honor comes forth and processes its
willingness to abide the result of the decision
in good faith"
SO says Andrew Johnson. And yet that
South which is true to those noble instincts
aud willing to return to the Union-that
South, to accommodate Mr.. Cox, and Mr.
Schenck and Mr.. Sherman, and others like
| them, must be kept ont OF the Union for thirty
years, until the negroes ofthe South, through
the Freedmen's Bureau, can be educated up
10 that high point of civilzation-abo~
, olition voting Applause.
THE FREEDNESs BUREAU.
Freedmeus Bureau Well, we had bu.
reaa OF State, OF War, of the Navy, audofthe
Treasury, in good old Democratic times to ad.
minister the Government for the benefit of
white men, but now we have this new tangled
thing, the Bareau OF Freedmen, to take es>
pecial care OF the negroes the chief of which
in little while, II the party that now con-
trolls the country keeps in power, willseek ad.
mittance to the council of the President as a
Cabinet minister Freedmens Bureau
What does it mean RatioDs which belong
to the soldiers, food, clothing, shelter from the
weather, all that you give your families--four
millions of negroes to be, provided with these
: things and not only that but to be instructed
by some Massachusetts schoolmarm in the al
phabet and rule of three, laughter and you
to be taxed for it-taxed 10 support four mil