The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-27
WESTINGHOUSE BIRTHDAY


We have already printed the speeches
of President Johnson and Secretary
Seward, in commemoration of WASH
ington's birthday. We now find room
for the following doings in Washington
on Thursday: 9't sa'fe n '7''' ~
r 80 u SPEECH OF s. s. cox. .,r
The first speaker at Growers theatre
was s. S. Cox, a very humorous gentle
man, who has New England on the
brain, and who apparently is ever eager
to speak that he may hit the descend
ants of the Puritansa rap. He said that
| the President had done we'll, and would
be sustained by the people, and that to-
night when Secretary Seward speaks in
! New York, they would hear voice
| from New York. He would advise the
| Clerks in the Departments MOTTO be too
noisy in attacking the President, for
they would be soon looked after.
After Mr.. Cox came the resolutions,
and loudly were they applauded. Then
Judge Kinney, and Mr.. Cox, who had
INDUCED in little side '.spatN as to
whether the meeting was one of the citi-
zens of the District or of the Union, fra
ternized, shook hands,, and mutually
| dSIccu w ODDpS0 uCSIo Su1ituSC anu W
establish q national party. ElF H..
| SPEECH OF MONTGOMERY BLAIR.
| Montgomery Blair next spoke his
piece,n which was rehash of the old
story that the radicals of the North are
more dangerous than the recently sub
dued rebels. The white people of the
North should not allow the blacks ofthe
South to devour the sustenance of the
| Va hnx rannl,aI f,l
when there should be a cessation of Sec
tional feelings. Every great President
has had occasion to check the party
spirit of those who elevated him. Abra-
ham Lincoln put his foot on this exclu-
sion which these men endeavOr to fas-
ten upon the country. Every one who,
can see, can see that we are hurrying to
q war of the races. This meeting augurs
well for the country.
SPEECH OF SENATOR HENDRICKS
Senator Hendricks made the best
speech of the day, but he was very eau
tious in indorsing the President--as all
of the Democratic leaders are. He ex-
pected to sustain Andrew johnson so
far as he is in the right, and no further,
but he believed on this present question
Andrew johnson was right. He knew
that Andrew Johnson offered q res0lu-
ton that the war should be prosecuted
to restore the Union, and no further, and
that resolution had been his guide. The
question is now shall Andrew Johnson
swerve from doctrine to which he is
committed? He knew that there was
lion in the path, but there was power
in the people which could move it.
SPEECH OF GREEN CLAY SMITH.
Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky,
treated the audience to border state
harangue. He WAS especially severe on
the negro suffrage bill, which he had
voted against because the people of this
District did ffbt want it. The white
man and negro were different in all their
instincts and haracteristics--made so
by God Almighty-and Thad Stevens
could not make the races equal, ZAP
planse.) He was in favor of giving the
negro all his rights, of life, to labor, &c.
He would challenge any three dozen Of
the extreme men to do as much for the
black man as he had done. Applause
He wished that he had letter from
black man, in which he says: Please
tell those radical men in Congress If
they want to have our Threats cut to
pieces to vote to send them to the bal
lot box tomorrow" He would tell us
that he would do all he could for he
black man, but not to give him the
right to vote. He would put them in
country by themselves. (Applause.l
He was opposed to war, but he would
say to Louis Napoleon, IF you don't
take Macmillan out of Mexico, you
will find million of men to move him
out aud settle up old scores with Eng
land. (Applause) Within the last
week the issue has been made, and the |
President, in the veto which made the
issue, says that the war was at an end.
The Congress had hurled back defiance,
saying that the states cannot be admit |
ted into elthe Union except through |
them. The issue had been made, and |
they came here to cheer the Executive,
aud uphold him when assaulted by Thad.
Stevens and Charles Sumner. hs i
SPEECH OF HON. Al. ROGERS OF Nj.
Representative Rogers of New Jersey !
next made his bow, and INDUCED in !
true-blue Democratic harangue of the |
Camden and Amboy strife. He would |
support Andrew Johnson, because
Andrew Johnson was supporting the
Union, but he claimed charity for our |
southern brethren, 10y. y VI tlaor
SCENE NOT In THE PROGRAMME
General Monk of Indiana, who is in
Hancock's corps, was called for but re-
fused In bad English to speak because
Mr.. Rogers had denounced the war. As
he turned toward his seat some one
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