The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1866-08-29
Policy Of the President.


had of the will and power of the North
is the following speech which we to-day
give to the epublic from the President of
the United States. The remarks were
made on Saturday last in response to the
presentation of the proceedings of the
Convention by Hon. Rcverdy johnson,
as the Chairman Of the Committee ap-
pointed for the purpose. Gen. Grant
was present on the occasion, and it may
be regarded as significant endorsement
of the policy of Andrew johnson that he
was not less warm in his greetings and
congratulations to the many members Of
the several delegations present, than his
great chief The language of Mr.. John
son means peace to distracted country,
the restoration Of civil power, and the
determination at al hazards to put down
Radical power.
Mr.. President: We are before you, a
committee of the National Union Con-
vention. which met at Philadelphia on
Tuesday, the 18th instant, charged with
the duty representing you with an au-
thentic copy of its proceedings. Before
placing it into your hands you will per-
init Us to congratulate you that, in the
object for which the Convention was
called; in the enthusiasm with which, in
every State and Territory, the call was
responded to; in the unbroken harmony
of its deliberations; in the unaninity
with which the principles it has declared
were adopted and more especially, in
the patriotic and constitutional charac-
ter Of the principles themselves, we are,
confident that you and the country Will
find gratifying and cheering evidence
that there exist among the people pub
lie sentiment which renders an early and
complete restoration Of the Union, as es-
tablished by the Constitution, certain
and inevitable.
Party faction, seeking the continuance
of its misrule, may momentarily delay it,
but the principle of political liberty for
which our fathers successfully contended,
and to secure which they adopted the
Constitution, are so glaringly inconsis
tent with the condition in which the
country has been placed by such nisrule,
that it will not be permitted a much
longer duration.
We wish, Mr.. President, you could
have personally witnessed the spirit of
concord and brotherly affection which
animated every member of the Conven-
ton.
Great as your confidence has ever been
in the intelligence and patriotism fyour
fellow-citizcns, in their deep devotion to
the Union, and in their presentdetcrmin-
alton to reinstate and maintain it, that
confidence would have been positive
conviction if you could have seen and
heard all that was done and said upon
1he occasion every heart was evidently |
full of Joy ; every eye beamed with pa
triotic animation despondency gaveplace |
to assurance that our late civil strife end |
ed, the blissful reign ofpeace, under the
protection, not of arms, but of the Con-
stitution ard Laws, to be in every part Of
our land checrfully acknowledged, and |
in perfect faith obeyed-you would not
have doubted that the recurrence Of dan
gerous domestic insurrection in the fu-
ture is not to be apprehended. If you
could have seen, sir, the men Of South
Carolina and Massachusetts, coming into
the Convention on the first day Of its
meeting, hand in hand, with the raptu.
rous applause Of the whole body, awak-
ened by heartfelt qualification at the
event, filling the eyes of thousands with
tears ofjoy, which they neither could
nor desired to suppress, you would have
felt as persons present felt, that the time
had arrived when all sectional and other
perilous dissensionS had ceased, and that
nothing would be heard in the future but
the voice Of harmony, proclaiming deVo-
zion to common country-of pride of
being bound together by common
Union, existing and protected by forms
Of Government proved by experience to
be eminently fitted for the exigencles OF
either war or peace.
In the principles announced by the
Convention, and in the feeling there
manifested, we have every assurance that
harmony throughout our land will soon
prevail. We know that in former days,
as was eloquently declared by Webster,
the nations most gifted statesman, Mas
sachusetts and South Carolina went .
"shoulder to shoulder through the ReVo-
luton and stood hand and hand round !
the administration of Washington, and
felt his own great arm lean on them for
support" So will they again with like
unanimlty, devotion, and power stand |
round your administration, and cause
you to feel that you may also lean on
them for support. In the proceedings,