New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-13
REMARKS OF GREEN CLAY SMITH.


North and South, and that is your President.
{Cheers.) Trust him, and he will not fail you.
cloud cheering.)
REMARKS OF GREEN CLAY SMITH.
General Green Clay Smith, Of Kentucky, fol-
lowed and said Mr.. Cowan had asked very
pertinent question" Why the Union should not
be restorcdN' He was going to ask another per
tinent question-How is the restoration 70 ne 81
fected except by the policy of President ohnsoh
The radicals said the South were not ready lof
restoration, even since the war. II lhat was "Iv,
if they must wipe out all that had been done ne
asked them in all seriousness, must we nave az.
other revolution? And how would they SC. Apoh1
it? How would they accomplish better that winch
truth in history than that no country conio iive
where taxation did not carry representation. NO"
he held that there were men III Iiie 2ol't :" ~
ought not could not and never shouiu; py ils ~.
strnmentalitv become the representatives OF the
Tinted States in any legislative capacity On the
other hand, there were men who had been as true
IN the Union as the most ultra member, aye, truer
to the Union than the m los nira member VINO
aid not deserve representation was falsehOod on
liberty, a falsehood on the representative insttu
tions of America, and must die with the men who
preached it. (Cheers.) They would remember
the beautiful story told of the great and wise
King Solomon, how when the lady had lost her
child, which had been stolen by. the harlot, Solo
| mon said, Bring sword and cut the child in
two give half to one and half to the other" The
interposed "No, let the harlot have it,
but save its life" and Solomon said, That is
the mother" (Cheers.) So there were men at
the North who said, Let the Union slide;" and
there were men at the South who said, let the
Union Slide" but between them there stood
wisexand patriotic people, with Andrew johnson
at their thead, who said, No; let the Union be
preserved" Now, the harlots can't love in our
child of their own, by the eternal God, they shall
not steal ours. prolonged cheering.) There
were some ladies' who came to him for aid for the
freedmen. He gave them something, and told
| them to 20 up to Congress to Thaddeus Stevens.
They replied, "We have been there.n And how
much didiyou get? "Npt cent" daughter
! If these were the men who were TO save the
country why, I'll he he'd 10 say was that the mig;
gers had better get out of it. daughter and
cheers.) In conclusion the speaker declared that
if President johnson had violated his pledges, SC
had every member of his cabinet who adopted
his policy. The radicals might talk about i'm
peachments and treason, but Andrew johnson
was the Gibraltar of America, and every mar
who dashed his head against that rock would ge
his brains knocked out (Great cheering) Witt
all the power that had been offered to Presiden
Johnson within thelast few months-the army aDt
navy at his back, and the commanderin-chlef
thirty millions of the freedmen's bureau and thu
treasury at his disposal-Napoleon would not hav'
been patchwork to Johnson but all these thu
President had put behind his back. He aske'
them to give three cheers for the restoration o
the Union and for Andrew johnson, the chosel
leader Of the party. (Cheers.) He then move
the following resolution: p"
Resolved, That we are now. as heretofore ar
/ IDENTIFY attached to the Union of the States unde
the Constitution of the United States, and that W
have always held, and do now hold, that no Stat
ever had the right to secede, and that those tina
attempted to dos still remain States of the Unior
/ and are not in the condition of territories.
Resolved, That we have the utmost contdenc
in the ability, patriotism and integrity of Preside1
johnson, and that we approve and indorse his re
' storation policy. .-. -.r. ...
Resolved, That we are opposed to any attemE
A on the part of the general government to fore
q universal suffrage upon the people of any State {
a territory against the known will of the loyal PEI
= pie thereof, unconstitutional, impotic an
, unjust.
Resolved That all loyal members from any
the States duly elected and returned to the Coz
= gres5 of the United States, should be admitted
their seats without delay, after taking the oa'
: prescribed by Congress known as the test oath.
J. Resolved, That the gratitude of the America
s people is eminently due to our gallant soldie
who fought the battles for the suppression of tt
II rebellion and the preservation of the Union OF ii
d States.
l. The chairman put the resolutions which we
e carried by tornado of ayes, one solitary /" no
t being raised. The chairman declared that this so
e dissentient must either be rebel OF radical, al
d announced the resolutions carried unanimously.
N There were probably not less than four thousal
n weldressed and intelligent yeomen present at I
!, Inauguration of this definite policy to support
u President in his reconstruction policy. They fill
y up Broad street before the city hall, so that t
lie street cars temporarily stopped in their triI
?. and they were ever ready with applause. The
N was so quiet and the night was so calm that no
t. of the gas Jets in the gigantic star which blaz
I'd above the heads of the speakers were ext
&c gushed. The voices of The orators reached I
d. dullest man in that great crowd, and called fol
DIS applause from the crowded windows across
or square. The departments of the government WI
lr well represented by their clerks, and the radio
VS. by their closest friends, the colored people
ng large numbers. These latter applauded the sci
IS, ments of the speakers quite as vocferously
- their white brethren, who were supposed to kn
he better what the speakers were talking about
Iii meeting may be considered decided success
| it the first step towards the formation of L
will party