The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-08-29
Hon. J.R. DooIittIc.


The distinguished Senator now at home
in Wisconsin delivered, a speech in Madi-
son, the other day, in which he said;
And fellow citizens, we must look up
on facts as they are. The present Con.
gress was elected in the midst of war and
confagration. They were elected as a
war Congress. 1t was the spirit of war
which breathed into it the breath of life;
and war they must have. And if it could
not be war upon the rebellion-for the
rebellion had given away, and it could
not be wreaked upon that-that war must
be waged upon their own Administration,
which they themselves elected and placed
in power. And from the beginning of
the session to the end, with unrelenting
hostility they have waged upon the Pres
idcnt and every man who assists the Pres
ident, including as humble q person as
myself among the number. But do you
suppose that the wasing Of this war up.
on Andrew Johnson-upon thatman who,
in the Senate of the United States, stood
like a rock and rolled back the mad waves
Of secession which dashed against him
cheers do you suppose that Andrew
johnson; who has suffered more for the
Union than all the men in the Congress
who denounce him. that Andrew John
son is, to be driven from the performance
of his high and sacred duty as q states.
man, as o man, as a Christian? 1t is to
DO supposed that BY the denunciations of
newspapers here in Wisconsin, or else
where, that faithful band who stood by
him in sunshine and in storm will falter
for an instant? 1 assure you: fellow citi-
zens, these men who make these denun-
Citations do not know the spirit that actu-
ated the men who stand by Andrew Jonn,
son. [Cheers.
How easy for me as an individual, to
have loated with the passing excitement
of the present houn to have avoided all
this denunciation. My term in the Sen
ate does not expire for some years to
come. How easy to have avoided all
this controversy, to have acted with this
dominant faction and party. But no
fellow citizens, | tell you, and l assure
you, it is as certain, in my judgment, as
God lives and reigns that unless the PEG.
pie in this country sustain Andrew John,
son now in his determined effort to sus.
tain this Union and to arrest tho mad ca.
%reeriof this wild tendency to contraliza.
ton, your constitutional liberties are en-.
gulphed in a vortex from which they viii,
never rise. CCheefs] That tendency i,
to ~despotism, the %despotism Of q tyranni
cal caucus-the meanest of all despotjsm.
from the days Of the seventy tyrantG
down. [Cheers.I There has occurred
this session, in relation to caucuses, il
Congress, that never occurred before il
the history Of the Government, and tina
is, that caucuses undertook to bind theil
members upon questions Of legislation
And yet these men have suffered them
selves to be led and bound hand ant
loot; ana many OF them-in the HousC
Of Representatives, against their judg
ment, have been led by ThaddcuS Ste
vens, and the men associated with him
to make this u~nwarrantable, unjustifable
this most devilish warfare upon Andrew
johnson. [Cheers. There is no spe
cies of dcnunciation in which these mer
have not INDUCED, and with which the
did not fill their newspapers from on
end of the country to the other. Their
is not a day, or there was''not q day somt
time since, when the newspapers did no
TEEN with the declarations that Andrew
johnson was "too inebriated, too lntoxi
Gated" that he was CONTINUALLY under
the influence Of intoxicating drinks, ant
unable to perform the duties of his Office
They charged upon him other thing
which I would blush in this presence t.
mention ; but they are just such illibera
connections and internal, infamous false
hoods as ever was .concocted by any fient
from fha internnI r%nciona TNbners