The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-02-17

| a large audience assembled at the Academy
of Music, in Brooklyn, New York, last Tues
day night, to hear Wendell Phillips set forth
the programme of the Radical party. He
made telling speech, if we may judge from
the applause bestowed upon him. The fol-
lowing extracts will give the reader an idea
of it:
JEFF. DAVIS.
| When James l. sent Raleigh to the scat
| fold, it did not stir colder horror through a
large part of the civilized world than in
America would be stirred to-day if, after an
imprisonment OF dozen months, jefferson
| Davis was sent to the scaffold. Now, | am
for Cancellation. My magnaniuity in its true
sense, with all respect, is as broad as his
Henry Ward Beecher's] know as well as
he does that Jefferson Davis cannot be hung,
won't be banished, and can't be converted
! Laughter.
! THE PRESIDENT HEADS THE SOUTHERN HOSTS.
| But you will say tile President also agrees
in this theory Of the South and of General
| Howard. The campaign Of Virginia was
fought against the rebel representative Lee.
The present campaign is fought against An
drew johnson, who leads the hosts of the
! Confederacy. Applause. The question has
shifted from the camp into the forum; it has
shifted from the cannon into ideas; and the
great momentous discrimination needed,to-day
is where the party lines run. Camps fight
well when they are drawn up opposite each
other; the difficulty is when they are mixed.
| The difficulty of the present moment is that
men are confused as to where the lines run
| will tell you my idea. Grant headed the
Northern hosts; Lee the Southern. Lee has
been whipped, and the battle settled To-
day Congress heads the Northern host, and
Andrew johnson the South. Loud and con-
tinued applause. And until you awaken the
| North to stand behind Congress and enhearten
and encourage it to recognize its own leader
| ship and that Of its enemy, the State is not
safe for moment. Congress had been any
months looking to party which said ''We
believe in universal suffrage, in the rights of
the negro, in his right to land and to justice;
but Mr.. johnson don't dream for moment
that we ever will oppose YOU" You know
how the South ruled lis for fifty years by
simply saying: 81 am willing to break" The
President had up to the present ruled Con-
gress in the same way, but at last Congress
had turned and said ''We are willing to
break Now comes our second trial Does
the President dare to bring to bear upon Con-
|
/ he does. we shall see whether 1866 is to do
what no year in the history of this country
has ever done. Show US Congress thai
could stand erect against President of its
own party. A Wing Congress did once
stand firm against Democratic President
but never in the history of the Government
| was Congress able to stand up against a
President OF It's own party. That work has
now to be accomplished, or the idea Of the
North is to be sacrificed for the time being.
THE PRESIDENT A TRAITOR.
We have crusoed South Carolina, and now
the President means to crush Massachusetts
We'll, we accept the war. If he succeeds he
shall write his name higher than that of Burr
or Arnold, for Che treason to which they at
temp, ed and failed in he carried; but we will
write it side by side with them-the traitor
tat tried and failed We win. Loud ant
long continued applause