The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-27

i In his recent speech at Auburn, Secretar,
SEWARD said that the plan Of reconstruction
which is now called the Presidents plan, il
not new plan. 1t was the plan which pre-
sented itself, when Mr.. LINCOLN appointed
ANDY JOHNSON, Provisional Governor O.
Tennessee, and on which the National Gov
ernment had been operating to bring bacl
the people and the States in rebellion from
that time to the present, and which would be
pressed to its final accomplishment.
We make below couple of extracts from
the speech as reported in full, which we com
mend to the consideration of the Copperhead
leaders who profess to be the peculiar sup.
porters of President JoHSsoss administra.
tom
The plan of reconciliation we are pursuing
has given us two great national advances in
this progress Of moral and physical elevation,
which are now to be made fast and firmly
fixed. First, it secures voluntary abolition
OF slavery by every State which has been en-
gagged IN insurrection; and secondly. it mus.
secure and does secure an effectnal adoption
| by the late slave States themselves OF the
| amendment of the Federal Constitution which
| declares that neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except for crime, shall ever here
| after exist in any part Of the United States.
Applause The people who have so stead
| ily adhered to the true path of Democratic
progress and civilization through all the Sc
ductons of peace. and through 80 MANY diff
culties and at such fearful cost in war. will
| now have new inducements and encourage
ments to persevere in that path until they
shall have successfully reduced to a verify
the sublime assertion of the political equality
of all men, which the founders in their Dec
laration laid down as the true basis of Amer
lean Union. Prolonged applause
1t is certain that the plan of reconstruction
which | have thus largely explained, must
and will be adopted. [Applause. 1t NAV.
however, be hlndered or Mastered. How can
Il ne kindered? You are yourselves aware of
the answer when you fasten upon any violent.
factous or seditious exhibition Of passion or
discomfort in any of the lately rebellions
states, and argue from il the failure of the
plan. You argue justly. Every turbulent
and factious person in the lately insurrection.
airy States is resisting, hindering and delaying
the work OF restoration to the extent of his
abiiity- But the case is precisely the same
with ourselves. Manifestations Of donht.
distrust, crimnatlon, contempt or defiance in
the loyal States are equally injurious. and
equally tend to delay the work Of reconcilia-
ton.
How, then, shall it be fastened? reply.
virtually, in the language of the President
IN the spirit of the constitution and in har.
mony not only with our politics, but with our
rehgion-" We must trust each other" TAp.
plause-l Can we not trust each other? Once
We were friends: We have since been enc
mics. We are friends again. [Renewed ap-
plause1 But, whether in friendship or in
enmity, IN peace or in war, we are and can
be nothing else to each other than brethren.
Loud applause.
rREsfDEsr JOHNSON.
Some of you fear that the President NAV
be too lenient to those Southern leaders who
plunged the country into the calamities OF
ciyil war. Except those Of YOU who have
been MANNED or bereaved, has any of you suf.
fered more of wrong insults and insolence AT
the hands of these leaders than he has. Can
we not forget where he can forgive? Are
you aware that his terms Of amnesty to of
Tenders ara Sas more rigorous than those
which were offered bv Abraham Lincoln !?
Have you ever seen the majesty of law more
hrmiy maintained than it has been bv him in
the exercise of discriminating clemencv9
lAppla'.se.I Some of you seem to have been
slightly disturbed by professions of demon.
strations of favor toward the President, made
BY parties who have heretofore opposed his
Administration, as we'll as the Administration
of his predecessor.
And you ask: May not the President vet
prove uniaithful to us? For myself. | laid
aside partsanship, if had any, in 1851. when
the salvation of the country demanded that
sacrifice. 1t is not, therefore. my purpose to
descend to mere partisanship now. Andrew
johnson laid aside, | am sure, whatever Of
partisanship he had at the same time. (Ap-
plause. That noble act d.i not allow. but.
on the other hand. 1t forbade, eolusion by
the friends of the Union with opponents Of
the policies of the war and of reconciIat;on
which the Government has fonnd il necessary
10 pursue. Duty requires absolute and un
compromising fidelity to the supporter &c
those policies, whosoever and Of whatsoever
party they may be- (Appause. Andrew
Johnson has practiced that fidelity against
the violence of enemies, to the sacrifice of
his fortune, the hazard of his liberty. and
even the peril of his life Enthusiastic
cheering. The same fidelity is still identified
with the success of those policies, and. of
course, is necessary to the achievement of
their magnificent ends. loud applause
Why should he now abandon those policies,
and desert time honored and favored supor
tiers, merely because the dawning success of
our efforts has compelled former opponents
to approve and accept them? [Renewed
applause.
Patriotism and loyalty equally, however
require that fidelity in this case shall be mu
tual. Be We faithful, therefore, on your part,
and although the security | offer is unneces-
sary and superfuous, yet | viii guarantee
fidelity on his part. [Renewed cheering.
They who hitherto opposed the President,
but now profess to support hun. either are
sincere or insincere. Time must prove which
is the fact If they are sincere, who that has
loyal heart must not rejoice in their late
though not too long conversion? If they are
insincere, are We either less sagacious, or
have we less ability now than heretofore to
counteract treachery to the national cause?
Perhaps you fear the integrity of the man.
| confess, with q full sense Of my accountable
ity, that among all the public men whom
have ever met, or with whom have been as
sociated or connected, in this or any other
country, no one has seemed to me to be more
wholly free from personal caprice and selfish
ambition than Andrew Johnson-none to be
more purely and exclusively moved in public
action by love of country and good will to
mankind.
The PAPER TRADE OF ENGLAxD.-The i'm.
ports Of paper in England are increasing, but
not rapidly. The official returns report 92,-