The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-30

doors are closed. About the last com mmuncaton
l had with the President of the United
States before we left Washington was that GER
tain gentleman, Alexander I. Ste wart and Rich.
ard ScheIl lappause) and others proposed that
we should dine at Delmonicos tonight
and he said to me, 81 mustn't be required to
make q speech there" (Laughter.) / told him
that / could speak for the Mayor and for the
ommittee, that he shouldn't be Obliged TO
speak any longer than he chose; and, said I,
when YOU get up, if you don't find that YOU have
more interest in making speech tnan tbey have
IN requiring you to make it, am mistaken.
That is the first Cabinet secret. Now, the second
is, that when this excursion, which 1t is con-
tlary to fact to say that it Is political, or that
it is recent or that it has any sinister design
against anybody lit is three months old, and
grew out of the fact that member Of the
Cabinet was invited TO speak at the laylng of
the cornerstone of the monument to Stephen
A. Douglas. And every member of the Cabinet
felt that the Nation and the World owed an
irredeemable debt to Stephen A. Douglas, and
the President said be would attenu, provided
that his Cabinet could attend with him. and so
it passed until night before last when the party
was gathered together and arrangements we're
made for the whole progress Of the excursion,
from Washington, through Baltimore, Phila-
delphia, New York, Buffalo, to Chicag D; and II
b. came necessary to select orators to address
the people, supposIng that we should he called
out on the wav and we appointed orators who
we're most acceptable to the people of the United
States TO speak tor US every ywhere-they were t.
speak and we were to SIT silent. And those ora
tors we're General Grant, of the arry cloud
laughter and applause), and Admiral FarraUut OF
the Navy. (Great applause.) But l am sorry
to tell you that our arrangement has failed alto
getEer. And now must tell you another secret.
Look at there, and there, and there (pointing
TO the arms of the States), and you will see the
coat-of-arms of the thirty-siX States OF this
Union. Just look there. | don't know whether
it is Alexander 7. Stewart or the Mayor; they
didn't know what they we're doing when they
put those there. In the month of April, 1861,
wnen Abraham L lincoln was just entering upon
the civil war, went to him with a device of
Mr. LeutZe, of your city-do you know him
("Yes.n) 1t has cost the Government SEQ to
get that device. What do you think it was? II
was Just exactly this same coats-of-arms.
(Cbeers.) What do you think was going to do
with it? We had called out seventy-hye thousand
soldiers to defend the Union and was going to
get that device printed; one copy of each was
to be given to Lieutcnant-General Grant and
another TO every soldier or sailor who should
enlist. And a good man would rather have
that diploma, with Abraham Lincoln's signature
on It, than have anything else What became
Of that? The newspaper press, which is so
literal, found il out, and Immediately it was
discovered that it would cost dollar for every
soldier, and there was row made; but the
numbers of the army rose from seventY-fVe
thousand to four hundred thousand and have
never seen anything more OF that device except
as one of the relics of what was never executed.
Now, after all, would it not be gold thing lust
to contribute together and raise the million of
dollars needed to give this diploma to every
soldier, and let every soldier have this design?
That is the third secret. l hope these Cabinet
secrets will be kept.
We came to Philadelphia the only city which
asked whether we would have formal or an
informal reception. | answered, "Jnst as they
city disor9 9anized and ungoverned-no' Mayor
no city authorities, no police; bat we found
the City so loyal so peaceful, so Jealous in the
cause OF the national restoration and of recon-
citation, that every man was q law unto HIM
sci; and said to myself, "Blessed is that city
that can dispense with a ruler.n (Cheers.J /
was reminded on that occasion OF q verse of
the celebrated John Mlton:-
Now let us sing, long live the king.
And Gipin long live he;
And when he next doth ride again,
May be there to see."
thought that it would be good sense, if not
rhyme, TO alter it so that it might read:-
"Long live my friend McAIichael,
And the President, long nve he:
And when we next do ride again,
May he be there to see."
('Shame on Philadelphia!") "a voice-"Gen-
tlemen, propose three cheers for the President
no, for Alderman" y (''Order!" "order!"
'order!n)
Mr.. Seward-Then we came here, and as we
came through the streets from the Battery we
looked and there were friends on the right, ana
Admiral Farragut noticed by the applause given
to him that there were friends on the LETT; Gene
raj Grant saw that there were friends up TO this
end of the street, and the President fJund them
up to that end; and we rose, and as we rose,
friends receded on our right and on our left, to
the south, to the north, and everywhere, except
that there was nobody under foot (Cheers. }
We know where those who have been enemies
Of the Republic were. They were under our
feet. | looked to see what General Grant did
under the apple tree of the AppomattoX. and
saw the one spirit that military man always
has, that is, that while he has friends on his
right and on his left he never will suffer pros
trate enemy to lie under his feet.