The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-04-27
= Speech inf Mr.. KassOn


,~. tFron the Iowa State. Register, April 1sth.I
Hon. john A. .kasson having returned
from . journey eastward q few hours pre-.
yious to the meeting on Sunday in Court
House Square, was requested to address
/ the audience. snd, responded in a brief
but eloquent nanncr.a After abiding to
the personal grief which he and nearly
all the people felt Oh account of she death
of President Liocoln, be said he could
sooner pardon the coward who shot him
from behind in the midst Of his family,
for that act, even, than he could for the
falsehood implied in his shout of SIC
sempeJ tyrannis as he escaped. Lincoln
)atyraut! Does atyraut weep for indi-
vidual sufferipg and loss, As he had seen
Lincoln do2 Does a tyrsnt reach down
his hand of power TO raise up 10 the nat
ural; rights Of ms , b God q lowly and neg
lccted TsccI Does tyrant overflow with
pardons to the convicted? ~esI
FHethen proceeded to give instances
Of his personal kindness TO Others, and
Showing his mcrciful administration Of
law, and finally turned to speak Of his
successor, as follows: ..s.5'.
You would always feel anxiety touch
ing a new leader charged with the ad-
minst-ation Of public affairs. Tx. anxi.
ETY. is doubled by the presence of great
crisis in the nations history and life
In the midst of the storm, while the
winds yet howl around the Ship of State,
although apparently escaping the break
crs, We see the experienced pilot struck
down from his place By an assassin. A
new pilot takes the helm, and your anxi.
cites are readily renewed. feel it my
duty to say something on this subject,
because have known him personally for
some years, and because in my judg ment
the character Of his participation in the
Inauguration ceremonies on the 4th of
March last has been publicly Yisrepre-
sented. He has been charged 10 tho
papers with havicg been intoxicated on
that day; and in the presence of that
high ceremony, wss present during
the latter part of the ceremony, and when
he wa. sworn into Office. He stood so
6rm and moved 50 freely during his
speech, as to utterly preclude the idea
that the disconnected character Of his
speech, the appropriateness Of parts Of
it, perhaps, to the occasiony were owing
to an intoxicated condition. The charge
was rsshly made and has had too widc a
circulation. | protested against it on
the evening of that day, and 10 the pres.
ence OF an esteemed member Of Mr.. Lin
coin Cabinet, who confirmed my opinoin
by an emphatic declaration that be went
up TO him after he was sworn 10, and
spoke with him, and that he was as sober
as he himself was at the moment OF ad
dressing me. The truth ia my friends,
that Mr.. johnson, as we all had heard
had suffered a severe illpess in Tennes
see, and his fever had hardly left him in
time to enable him to reach Washington
for the inauguration. He was still e Oh
FRUSTRATED on his arrival there, go much
30, that his irregular mental sction was
noticed BY his friends I need not tell
you whst effect : liberal guiinisAs treat
ment ia fever produces upon the nervous
organisation, and especially upon the
brain The Vice President, suffering
j from, tho recent loss Of one "a 3o the
army, another sons life slmoss 6liTed
I Of. 4 SOP 10 law just dead leaviS eIdow
and children to his care, prostrel ! With
SICK ness aud rsised by the usual I6nedie'
| applied 10 this region, 1.-The Vice Presi-
q dsut under such circumstances should
have been p,rdoned, not 'maligusd, for
1 speech instinct ID every word with de-
voted loyalty and patriotism, bus more
fitted for the hustings before an election
than for tho solemn and impcsin1 m
aud presence 10 which Is ives uttl
| Ny fellow citizens, lot rs hsj
and give eop6dspce % the new =