Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-08-29
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MONTPELIER, VT,
Wednesday Morning, August 80, 1866.

Wednesday Morning, August 80, 1866.
The Presidents Speech TO the
Philadelphia COnvc ntiOn.
1t is long since any one expected dignity, or
propriety, or temperatures of language, or
courtesy and respect for coordinate branches
of the government, IN any speech which the
apostate, who now occupies the White House,
might make to his friends or his enemies, and
no one has therefore been surprised, that the
vention should have been an ill-tempered,
rough, coarse diatribe, suited only for the
hustings, or bar-room audience. We print
this harangue in full that no one may fail to
see its naked deformty. Let it be borne in
mind, that Mr.. johnson was speaking to an
audience composed almost wholly of copper
heads and rebels,-men who, when he was
chosen Vice President, were fighting him on
one side of the line with ballots, and on the
other with bullets, men who were then starv
ing Union soldiers in Andersonville or in
copperhead newspapers justifylrg that fend-
ish atrocity, men who never wrote the name
of Andrew johnson except in company with
the grossest and most veuemous epithets, and
who never spoke of him except with the foul
est vituperation. l. was to euch an audi
ence,-all unwashed and unrspentant deny
ing that il had ever committed treason, or
done an act or said word for which it ough
| to ask pardon-sprnkled here and there with
| that meanest class of all mean politicians,
| the detested and detestable mercensries who
enlist under any banner w here there is prom
Use of pay and plunder, the foul and dirty
birds of prey that gather wherever they scent
| the CARCASS and the garbage-it was TO such
a crowd of toadles, funkies, tidewalters,
parasites, apostates, renegades, traitors, hypo-
critics, knaves and political prostisutes--the
unrepentant rebels being the most honest men
| in the assembly-that President johnson ad-
dressed his harangue. Great orators have
| been many times lifted by the inspiration OF
great occasion, and in the presence of hon
est friends and champions OF great cause,
to the utterance of grand, heroic, living
truths which the centuries Will never forget.
Andrew johnson, the apostate and the dema-
| gogue, in his ignorant cOnceit ioolsAy i'm
agining that snch an occasion and such an
audience greeted h.m, strutted before his
hatterers in the East Room Of the White
House. emptied his brain of its ideas and his
| liver of It's bile, in an address composed OF
vituperatye abuse of the party which elected
him and to which he owes all the ofhcia
consequence he now has, of the vainest and
silliest egotism, of the most foolish and ridicu
lous praise of the Philadelphia Convention
and of a most outrageous and Improve keC
insult to the Declaration Of Independence
the Constitution of the United States, an
the Proclamation OF Emancipation. Vainly
thinking that he uttered words which pos
terity would not willingly let die, he only
succeeded in moro conspicuously exhibiting
the unrelieved disgrace of his aEostacy, II
painting in still blacker characters the eVl
dence of his betrayal of freedom, and IN aid
ing to couple his name with the infamou
politicians who have q damned themselves t
everlasting fame
Leaving the political traitor, let US con
cider his speech. The President said, g w
- have seen hauging upon the verge of th'
"goveru ment as it were, a body called, or rOhic
- assumed to be, the Congress OF the Unite
''S States, but in fact Congress of only
part of the States Echoing this declara
tian the New York Ne,os says
8 If the Radical Congress have been guilt
of all these crimes against the Republic, 1t !
-. tba 81 nd i'm
potent in the future. At the next sessio
they should be confronted by The Executiy
authority and compelled to relinquish thei
usurped rower he should Interpose th
power be wieids, including, If necessary, tn
military power"
The New York Times speaks in the sam
strain when it says;
. Cone ress sets at defiance both the peopl
and the Constitution, and wantonly usurI
an authority to which neither North nc
South will peacefully submit ="
RAYMOND in his address to the PbIlade
phia Convention, speaking OF the legisatio
of Congress, counsels violence in this lar
guage;
No people has ever yet existed whose 10y
atty md faith such treatment, long continued
| would not ALLEVIATE and impair and the te
millions of Americans who live In the Sout
would be unworthy citizens OF free coui
try-degenerate sons of an heroic ancestry
unfit to become guardians of the rights an
liberties bequeathed to US by the fathers al
founders OF this republic-if they cou!d IL
cept with uncom planning su submissIveness tt
humilIations thus sought to be imposed upo
. them. Resentment of injustice Is alway
and everywhere. essential 10 freedom; al
} the spirit which prompted the States ar
Deople lately IN insurrection (but insurgen
, now no longer) to protest against the in
5 position of unjust and degrading condition
makes them all the more worthy to share
] the government of free commonwealth, ar
gives still frmer assurance OF the futu
S power and freedom of the Republic.
: We have copied the opinions of the su
por,ers and friends of the President IN th
s assault upon Congress, to disclose the spil
of hatred and the language of menace, COL
mon 10 both.
|. President johnson holds his Office by vi
e tue of his having been Vice President VIII
President Lincoln was assassinated. Not
, single State, now unrepresented in Congres
was represented in the electoral college whi
selected him as Vice President, and the We
> men who now are foremost in the Johns
o party. voted in the Sena te to exclude Tenn'
q see, Arkansas and Louisiana from that c.
}. leee. If the exclusion of the insurge
u S,ates from CONGRESS makes that body