The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-12-28

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did he dare 70 waif until the Presi
dent had spoken TO the country In hi
annual message.
The Constitution Of the Unite,
States requires the President from tint
to time to give TO Congress the state O
the Union. Who has any right tC
presume that Tho President will no
furnish the information which his Con
st;tutional duty .requiresl He has o
his contol al the agencies which ar,
necessary. There is the able Cabinc
Yho surround him, with all the off
=; GERS ,apposnted' under them Tn
Postmasters, under the Postofico Dc
partmout--tke Treasury agents, un
der the Treasury Department. and al
most 100000 meu under the contro
OF the War Department In every par
:, of the "disatfectcd region, who can
bring TO the President information
from every quarter, of all the trans
actions that exist there. Why ! ask
had this assctiblage the right to pre-.
sumo that the President would not
furnish the information which the
Constitution required. Sir. we hrc
here, claiming to be the friends of the
date lamented President, and the
friends of him upon whom, by his
death, the resp Utilities ofpo, or has
fallen. We aided in their election.
They were nominated at Baltimore
amer the great experiment of recon.
struction had already begun. Mr..
Lincoln had already for months, for
almost year, been pursuing substan-
tally the same, policy of roconstruc.
ton which has since been followed by
his successor. Andrew johnson was
himself one of the agencies which
mad been employed by Mr.. Lincoln in
the State of Tennessee in the hope Of
restoring civil government there and
IL is under these circumstsnc 3, not
with the approval of ali men at Wash
iugton, but with the approval of the
great masses of the people of this
country, that Abraham Linc,ln was
rcnominatcd as President, aud that
Andrew johnson was nominated to he
Vice President of the United States,
and they were triumphantly indorsod
and sustained by the people and ]
tell Senators now, in my opinion--I
speak with all respect to other gen.
tlemen-thaf tie President ofhc UG
ted States ,oiU be sHsdainc,i, az tic vie,cs
he takes IA his message, bY Mc Peopfe Il
ofHis country, is as certain as tie rero- |,
iutions of TIC earth and it is our du- h
~ 10 act harmoniously with him, 10
sustain him, to hold up his hands, TO
strengthen his heart, to speak to him
words Of faith, friendship aud cour-
age, ,
Mr.. President, I know that in all
these Southern States there are {
thousand things TO give NJ pain, some l
times alarm, but Notwithstanding the
bad appearance which from time to I
time present itself in the midst of that
boiling caldron of passion and excite :
mcnt which the war has left still ra- I
giug there, the real progress which q
we have made has been most wonder II
ful. say TO you; Senators, il is my :
deliberate opinion, that il, when we I
: adjourned last spring,pn angel from 4
the skies could have come down here q
aud told us that at our meeting now I
our country would he in so hopeful u I
condition as j. is, we would not have ,
believed II; it would have been be.
yond our crcdcnce-bcyoud our be
lief. | am one Of those who look for. :
ward with hope, for | believe God G
rcigns and rules in the affairs ofman- /
kind. | look beyond the excitement A
of the hour and all the outbreak ing d
passion which sometimes shows itself :
in the South which leads them to +
make cnnctmcnts in their Lcuisla. !
lures which are disgraccml TO thom. .
selves, and can never he sanctioned /,
by the people of this country, aud
also in spite of all the excitement of
the North, l behold the future full of
confidence aud hope We have only |
TO come up like men, aud stand as the !
real friends OF the country aud the
Administration, and give to the poll
cy of the President fair and sub.
stantial trial, aud all will be we'll.
Mr. Fesscndcn-Mr, President, ] |
am very sorry that this debate has
sprung up. think it exceedingly
out of place, with regard to the man
ner in which il has been conducted,
and some of the topics which have
been spoken Of do not, in saying
this, wish to be considered as finding
fault with any gentleman because cv-
cry Seuator must Judge for himself as
to what is advisable for him to say,
and il is not for any other Senator to
arraign him ON that point. But il
sometimes happens that things which
are foreign TO the question, are said
which ought not to be suffered to pass
without little comment,
Now, sir, allow me to say that when
this resolution was first promulgated
in the newspapers as having been
agreed upon, approved it because |
sympathised with its object aud pur.
pose, did not examine il particu.
larly; but, looking simply ut what it
was designed for, it met my approba.
ton simply for this reason, hut his
question Of ho rcdimiaion, II yoE
please 10 call IL So--d is not ,rorfh
whiie ~ stand about ,ror,is--af hcsc
Confederate States So.cdiioL Gad al
the Questions connected wih hdf saL.
ject, coRccired 10 be Of minite ini-
poridace, requiring calm aud serious
consideration, aud ! believed that the
appointment of Committee, careful
ly selected by the two llouscS, to take
that subject into consideration, trd,
no, only cisc IA itsclt, bat da impcra.
tire duty resting on ho representative,
Of the pe9pie ia he i,ro branches ot