The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07
Lord Brougham on American Affairs

Lord Brougham in answer to toast Civ
en- at the banquet of the Prince of Wales,
uttered the following eloquent remarks in
relation to American affairs:
If my voice could reach across the Atlantic
it would tell our kinsmen that their best friends
those who have been their advocates through
good report and through bad report, now pray
and beseech them to use the victory which, by
great courage, great perseverance and no little
military skill. they have gained, in mercy as
well as in justice cheers that they should
not stain the scaffold with the blood of their
prisoners-l cheers that they should remem.
Der that those prisoners whom they call rebels
were treated by them as warriors-(c cheers l.
that truces were made with them, agreements
made with them, submission received from
them, and that they ought not to think of rem
dering their cause, which is now triumphant
hateful as well as triumphant. by splitting the
blood OF those captives they have now in their
power. Loud cheers. Their Government.
consists OF men Of great ability. Mr.. johnson.
the President has the merit of having raised
himself from the humblest position in the
world, having educated himself teaching him.
self to read and afterward teaching himself to
write, making himself, not, indeed, scholar.
like my right honorable friend (Mr. Gladstone).
yet well informed man on all ordinary cues.
lions; and has raised himself step by step to the
highest position in the country. He is a man
personally fitted to succeed in office that ad.
mirable person whose murder all Europe so
sincerely lamented-Lc heersG let it be seen that
he has also succeeded to his merciful and lust
disposition. LCheers. 1 say merciful and
just; merciful as well as just, and just because
merciful; aye, and useful to themselves as well
as merclful and just; for it is only by pursu-
ing such course that they will prove them
selves equal to the crisis of their countrys fate,
and pei form that work which now remains for
mem 10 40 IN restoring harmony and union in
that great continent. Cheers. hope these
words will reach the other side of the Atlantic,
wnlcn, they may rely on it, speak the sense of
all England and of all Europe on this great and
important question. Loud cheers.
Gen. Blair on the Suffrage Ones.
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Gen. FRANK BLAIR, in his speech in st,
Louis on the 22d, heartily sustained the
Presidents plan of reconstruction. On
the question of suffrage be said
Every State in the Union has. heretofore
without question from any quarter, decided
who should exercise the right of suffrage
within its borders. The States always con-
trolled that question. Rhode Island excludes
large part of its foreign population by a pron.
erty qualification. An Irishman or German
no matter what his other qualifications. cannot
vote unless he owns a certain amount of real
estate III hnode lsian0-and they would have
TO cut it up very small to afford any large vot-
ing population. Laughter. He cannot ex.
ercise the franchise in the State of Rhode IL
land and Providence Plantations. Who has ever
questioned the right of Rhode Island. small
as she is, or any other State, to maintain it's re-
strictions upon the elective franchise. But now
some men say the revolted States, those States
that have been in rebellion, where certain men
have usurped power, that said States subjected
themselves to a certain condition of inferiori-
ty and that they cannot now return to the I'm
ion except the Congress of the United States
first prescribe who shall be electors in those
States. Andrew johnson has put his foot on
that proposition (cheers), and Andrew john
son was compelled to put his foot upon it, if
Constitution of the United States, which he
swore to execute when he took the oath of
office, he must put his foot on any such propo-
sition.