Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-27
COLUMBUS, OHIO, THURSDAY MORNING
QDtlp Statesrlrarl,
THE WANDERING RADICALS.
Speech of Jack kHamiltOn-Assault mp
on General Grant ParsOn Brown
low EtedivIVus. aiLb 'iE.' 1ni D" 7'P'

The itinerant Radicals spoke this morn
ing in the big tent recently occupied by
the fighting men of the Union army and
navy, toa mixed crowd of all sexes and
colors. The respectable portion of the sup
porters of the Congressional policy Of re-
organization, as embodied In the Constitu-
tional Amendment, fr0wned upon the meet
ing and abseLted themselves therefrom.
The audience was consequently unimport
aut both in character and numbers. Jack
Hamilton was the first speaker, and said
but little that he has not said before except
that the ultra radicalism of the Reserve re-
ilected itself in his address and rendered
him more reckless than ordinary. He rid
iculed the Philadelphia Union Convention,
and said that Governor Orr, when he en-
tered that Convention arm-in-arm with the
delegates from Massachusetts, felt more in
clined to say" God damn the Government
of Massachusetts," than "God save it," He
denounced tile temporizing policy Of Com
gress and of Northern politicians, but de-
clared his belief that at the next session
the members who were willing to ignore
suffrage this summer, if returned to Wash
inetOn, would impeach the President, take
hold of the governments of the rebel States,
appoint all their officers of every kind, and
send a sufficient force of armed men into
those States to compel obedience, and to
rule them with an iron hand. He knew
Congress had neglected TO do this last ses-
sion, but the questions were new before the
people then, and hence the hesitation Of
their representatives. When they return
TO Washington the elections will have
strengthened their hands, and they will do
justice to the loyal South; they will confer
suffrage on every loyal man, white or black,
IN the suhjugated States, and disfranchise
all the rebel whites, and will sends force
there sufficient to enforce it. The novel
feature of HamiltOn's speech, however, and
of those who succeeded him, was an inn
piled assault upon General Grant, drawn
out apparently by some information which
has reached the miscegens respecting his
position, and the utterance of threats aginst
that distinguished General. After declar-
ing that the President must and will be
impeacted and brought TO trial before the
Senate, upon the reassembling of Congress,
he thus fOreshadOwed the commencement
OF the second civil war. "What then?"
am asked. can tell you part of it. The
President, who holds that this Is not the
Congress of the United States, but only a
fraction of it, will refuse to accept service
of the writ of impeachment; the Senate
will declare that Andrew johnson, being
lulDCdClCus Gtll IlO ICAClCloC LlC
functions of the Office of President of the
United States until he shall have been
tried and acquitted. Under the Constitu-
tiou the presiding officer of the Senate will
become the Acting President of the Unit
ed States, and all officers of the Govern
memt, civil, military aud naval, will be
called upon, and it will be their duty to
give ear and heed to him, and to obey his
orders, What then? Why, then, if An
drew Johnson should call upon his friends
to aihcre to him, it will be question for
the intelligence, patriotism and love Of
liberty of this great people to determine
whether they will sustain their Consttu-
tion, their laws and their Government, or
whether they will be supple tools in the
hands of tyrant and q usurper. Loud
and long applause.l And If any military
commander, no matter if he be the highest
in position and reputation, shall respond to
Johnson's call and suffer himself to be
used by him, he will find that he will then
have to encounter the whole power of the
people of this great West, and he will be
unmade even more speedily than he has
been made. [Applause.l 49,. ..-,,.
At the close of Hamilton's remarks, the
Chairman of the meeting introduced Judge
Sherwood, of Texas, when short, bald
soiled shirt. lifted his head above the edge
of the platform, and proceeded to deliver
an address-speaiihg very much through
his nose, and mailing all his points to the
pine table in front Of him with blows of his
fist. He assailed Congress for having failed
to come to time on the negro question; but
declared that the people would have it, and
nothing else. They had not minced mat
ters at Philadelphia, and would have split
that Convention ten times over before they
would have given up the demand for negro
suffrage. He considered that in view of
their former ill-treatment, a negro ought
to have three votes to white mans one.
[Cheers and cries of 'sRight p "That's it
exactly."l The usurping President must
and will be impeached! And if he should
resist impeachment, he, and any officer
or soldier whom he might induce to stand
by him., would be guilty Of high treason,
and should be tried and hanged. Loud
applause.l IfJanother civil war is TO come,
the North will not wait for the generals to
he McClellanized, or the politicians to be
Sewardized before they begin. The South
ern loyalists had given three hundred
thousand men for the last civil war, and
they would here pledge themselves to give
six hundred thousand for the next. 1t Is
rumored that Andy johnson can corrupt
Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan,
and make sort of coup dietat on Congress;
but if he attempt it he will arouse the
power of the North, aud If they leave him
his life they will leave him nothing else
except his old goose and press board.
Laughter and enthusiastic applause.l Tlb
Ga. .Parson Brownlow was next introduced,
and only spoke a few words, ycrowding
into them, however, the accustomed pro-
family and vulgarity, which sound the
more revolving when coming from one ap-
lparently on the verge of the grave. lie
announced that since he left the Cod
forsaken State of Kentucky he had found
everything going right. He was in favor
of keeping the cotton States out of the
Union, of holding them In subsection, and
never ilettinga mothers son OF them in.
He believed he should live 10 fight by his
friends for fifteen years to come; but he
should go off tomorrow, he thought. If
they kept their books correctly on the 9TH
er side, the folks there would find baI-
anGe in his favor; for he had never been a
rebel or voted degraded ticket, Il He bad
fought the rebels with JEFF. Davis at their
head, and lie was ready now to fight them
with Andrew johnson at their head. He
believed johnson would never pardon jeff.
Davis, because he was afraid he would run
against him. for the next Presidency. He
pthbiiDht the President and his friends must
have been startled by the storm from
Maine; but when they heard from Ohio
and Pennsylvania they would think there
was the devil to pay, % i''i' '''ilai 5i'
J" NJ TTbe other speakers were a Mr.. Thomas
and ,sHow are youuHunnicut.p The latter
indulged In much profanity, declared that
~ onv rahel went to heaven he wanted to