Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-09-12

Grant.) l don't think be will attempt it,
nor that a pretext will be afforded. L
do not think the loyal people OF the
United States were ever before SO
united | do not think such vast
vote was ever before rolled up as you
will give in October next in your State.
Fellow citizens, I am glad TO have
thus acknowledged myheartfelt thanks
for the kindness you have displayed to
me throughout your loyal city, and to
your loyal Union League for its great
services.
Remarks Of Gen. SChenCk.
He announced himself as a member
of that body which Andrew Johnson
had denounced as hanging upon the
verge of the Government, and that
body dared to say to him and his mis-
cradle Man Friday Montgomery BlaIr)
that if they undertake to make two
Congresses, as had been intlmated,
there will be two sides to the question.
If the Congress that counted the votes
for and made Mr. Johnson Vice Presl-
dent of the United States was but ="
rump," what in the name of heaven is
that fag end of the ticket Of 1864 which
now undertakes to lord it over the
country? He who now denounced the
Union party was the man who had be
trayed them and gone over to the reb-
els in front while the Coppcrheads op
Grated in the rear; while the party de-
nounced was the same loyal Congress
that had successfully striven to sup
press the rebellion and maintain the
Integrity of the Government
A great deal had been said upon the
question Of the present status Of the
rebellious States, whether in or out Of
the Union He did not advocate fine
ly drawn decisions He had never be
ieved that they had succeeded in pla
cling themselves without the pale OF
the Union but as members of a com |
mon family we were justified, and only |
exercised right, in thrashing the un-
ruly members of that family. 1t did |
not follow that because man had |
committed crime he was exempt from |
punishment for the reason that, by that |
crime, he had separated himself from |
society. Then, too, in taking census /
of the population Of community, you
count the inmates Of prisons though |
they are not at liberty, and madmen, /
though these did not vote. So with /
the case Of the Southern States; they
stood as subdued, whipped, criminal
States, and before they are restored we
asked that sufficient security be given
for the future. Any other doctrine
would leave the inference that the late
war was but mere contest to deter
mine who was the strongest Mr. |
Johnson and those who act with him |
hold that the South Carolinian who has |.
had his pistol at our heads, the Alabam- /
ian who has raised his sword to smite /
US, has the same rights as are enjoyed !
by the man whose sword and pistol !
were used in the defence of the Govern |
ment We say to the South: What |
we ask Of you is, that you shall incor-
porate into the organic law Of the land
some three common things, and when
you have done that, we are ready to
receive you, just as we have received
Tennessee, which has complied with
these conditions. The first is that all
the men, women and children in your
domain shall occupy a position of com
mon equality with those of other parts
Of the country. They acknowledged
their willingness to give this, but we
insisted that it should be put down in
the bond. Second, we proposed to
them that a rebel in the South shall
not count two while there is only one
represented in the Government. We
asked no advantage of the North over
the South, but simple fairness; and
yet there were men calling themselves
Democrats who refused to agree to
that. Third, we proposed that the
debt contracted by our Government in
maintaining it shall never be repudia-
ted, and that the burdens incurred bv
the South in attempting to destroy
that Government shall not be paid. =
This was what Andrew Johnson him
self had taught, but the difference be-
tween him and the Republican party
was that the latter insisted that It
should be put in the bond.
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