Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-03-07
Garrison on the Rampage.

The late speech of W. L. Garrison on
President Johnson is published We
make the following extracts in order to
| illustrate the bitterness with which Radi-
calism pursues him:
THE ISSUE BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND
CONGRESS
On this point of reconstruction Presi-
dent Johnson takes issue with Congrass
and with the loyal people of the country,
upon whose sanction and support Con-
gress may rely with absolute certainty.
(Applause He insists that those con-
quered but reasonably disposed States
are in the Union as of old, and therefore
entitled to be Immediately represented
in both Houses of Congress. He VEN
lures to brand that noble body (Con-
gres) as not only contumacious but
guilty Of despotic usrrpation in refusing
their admission, without additional guar
antees as to their loyalty. Yet he has
net announced, by proclamation, either
that the war has ended, or that peace
is restored. He continues TO hold
those States in subsection to his will,
as Commander-in-chief Of the army
and navy, under the war power,
suspending even to this very hour
the writ Of habeas corpus. Thus he con-
demns himself out of his own mouth, and
fully indicates the action Of Congress;
q Congress which on the score Of inteni-
gence, ability, moral worth, exalted pa
triotism, respect for justice, and love of
impartial liberty, has never been equaled
since the formation Of the American Gov
eminent Applause, cries of that's so,
together with Kisses The usurpation
is on his own part in attempting to bully
Congress into servile acquiescence to his
imperious demand, for it is the constitu-
tional prerogative of that body alone 70
decide when and how States may be taken
into the Union, and it will not surrende.
that prerogatiye at the bidding Of an &C
cidental occupant Of the Presidential
chair, even though the powers of hell
rally to his support For whatever Of
violence, of tumult, or confusion may
grow out of his high handed order, the
dread responsibility will rest exclusively
upon his own head, aud he will be held
70 strict accountability by an indignant
and betrayed nation.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
Who constituted the great body Of the
crowd that marched to the White House
on Thursday last, and drew from him
that speech, which, for its indecency,
bcmbast, malignity, and reasonable
leaning there are no words fifty TO char
aeterize, and for which, with other
weighty reasons, he ought to be indicted
by that grand inquest, the United States
! House of Representatives, tried BY the
Senate, and, for the peace and safety Of
the country dismissed from Officer [ Loud
and long applause That mob was con-
stituted, as every 10y al man in Washing
ton knows, Of rebels and their copper
head abettors, almost to man. the low,
the vile and the desperate. These were
the hackers Of Andrew johnson, rending
the air with their jubilant shouts, as he
made that harrangae which, as it circu-
lates through the land, is filing all reb-
eldom with Satanic jubilation, and all
Copperkesddom with hope Of victory.
When the bottomless pit is in full cho-
rus, II Is not for sons Of good men to JON
in tune. daughter and applause Take
that spsech where you may, If the brutal,
the drunken, the seditious, the negro
hating, the tyrauuical 10 spirit and de-