New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-24
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NEW YORK, sept IL, 1866.
The grand demonstration approving the policy
Of Andrew johnson for the restoration of the
Union. in this city last evening, @as without eNs
ception the most enthusiastic and imposing meet
ing that has ever been held here.
There were six stands erected at Union Square,
the main one being the largest and handsomest
that waseyer erected for public meeting in this
CITY, TWAS thirtysix feet front, twenty-four feet
deep, and forty.three feet high and was canopied
with dome of blue, studded with stars Of gilt;
on top of the dome was an elegant eagle. Flags
in profession and tastefully draped formed the
sides of the stand; and another thing which we.
have never had at a public open air meeting was
gas TIE committee had the main tapped mme-
diately n front Of the stand, aad in consequences
we had splendid light. Surrounding the stand,
immediately beneath the cgraise at the top, were
various mottoes &nd extracts from the speeches OF
President johnson. In short the main stand vas
never .equalled IN this city for size and beauty,
therefore l have given y0u = particular descrip'
ton OF it.
Union Square was as light as day. Six large
calcium lights and the various colored cheEaioal
preparations constantly kept burning, made the
sceneyas viewed from the main stand perfectly
grand. The crowd was so dense that it swayed
to and fro with almest the slightest movement
twenty-five thousand people were certainly there,
and with one voice gaveSheir enthusiastic and
heartyapproval of all thatwas said and done in
support of the only true pclicy, for he Festcra-
ton Of the Union.
New York city spoke, and spoke in earnest,
severely condemning tue unjust, unconstitutional
and positively wicked course of the radical mem
bers of Congress in endeayering to create strife
between brothers by refusing representation, ex-
cept upon conditions which cannot be accepted,
to ten States which form part Of this Union.
After the prelimnaries were gone through with
Gen. John A. Dix was elected chairman, and on
being introduced delivered very beautiful end
stirring address.
Patriotic and noble speeches wore made by
other eminent citizens from North and South, IN
Guiding Gov. Parsons, Of Alabama, Judge Evans,
Of Texas, but regret that the quotation Of them
would engthen this letter too much; but in brief
they all in spirit and word were in favor of con
stitutiona rights to all sections of our country,
and probablycannot be betterset forth in synop-
sis than by the following resolutions conveying {
sense of the meeting, and whichwere Endorsed by
one emphatic, enthusiastic "ayea"
T2esoloed, That we select this, the anniversary
of the day George Washington and his compatriots
affixed their names to the Constitution of the
| United States, aEal appropriate day for the adop
ton and ratification OF the declaration of prnci-
pies proclaimed by the National Union convention
composed of delegates from every State and dis
trct and Territory of the American Republic,
which assembled in the city Of Pb 'adelphih on
the l4h of August last.
Resolved, That tie charities of life, the pre-
cepts Of our religion, and q wise pHglic policy,
dictate as the first and paramount duty of every
American citizen, to cid in healing the wounds
and subGaing the passions Of civil war, and re-
storing the Urion of these States SO that in the
day OF peril, whether from commercial disaster or
foreign wEr, orr national securities anG public
credit may remain unmpaired, and the national
flag mailt med by thewhole united American
people.
RasoEred That we regas1 it as the great felicity
and chief distinction of 6he American people,
hat +'ley are COVE. ned by written Constitution,
which is the supreme law Of the land and that
the coordinate branches of the federal govern
ment. the legislative, tue executive and the judi
cial, have no powers except those derived rom
that INSTRUMENT, VILE the declaration by the ma,
orty of tbe present Congress, that the late civil
war has invested them with $he Irresponsible 4
powers of mi'i+ery c0nquerorg, and that they
recognize no rules except those by which the
cOnquers1g sovereigns of Europe have been
accustomed to tyfannize over subJugated nations,
is abhorrent to every lover Of constitutional gov
ernment, and if aequesced in will reduce six mil
liors of American citizens to the condition of
subjugated aliens, and convert ten States INTO ten
Polands, ten Hungaries, or ten lrelands.
Resozoed, That the unquesttoned constitutional
right of each branchof Congress to determine the
qualifications Of its own members, enables it to |
protect the national legislature from disloyal or
treacherous senators andrepresentattves, whether
from the South, North, East or West; but the |
of the right of majority in Congress |
to defy an Interchangeable mandate of the Constitu-
ton, and utterly deprive States of their senators
and the people of their representatives, is reYolu
tionary and subversive of our institutions.
Resoloea,, That Congress, by an act defining
treason and its penalties, expressly conferred
upon the President of the United States the right
to exempt from punishment, by proclamation of
amnesty and pardon, those who had committed
acts OF treason or resisted the authority of the |
United States; that in compliance with the au-
thority SO conferred, President johnson, at the !
end of the civil war, issued proclamation of am
nesty and pardon, which, under the laws of ma
tons and the common law of the land, rehabiii- |
tated the Southern people included in its proyis- |
ions in all their rights and that to disregard this
solemn amnesty, which in all civilized nations |
would be deemed an . oblivion to all ofenses,'' |
to persist ia their acknowledgment, taxation with
out presentation threatened confscation, and |
the imposition of every badge of servitude, is an
outrage on humanity and violation of the ma |
tional honor
ResolUed, That the precise and clearly defined |
issue now before the American people is, whether |
they will elect a Congress that will respect the I
imperative commands of the Constitution, as to |
senators, representatives and Presidential cleo
tors or whether they will continue Congressional |
~ power WHICH gives no guarantee Jnat
it will not, by conditions precedent that multiply
with the exigencies Of party, not only indefinitely
exclude States from the Union, but overthrow our
form of government itself.
ResolQed, That we are profoundly grateful that
Andrew johnson, in his high Office untempted by
the profer from Congress Of almost despotic
power, has maintained that love for the Constitu-
ton of our fathers which characterizes the true
American citizen; and that, in his mastery state T
papers and familiar conversations with the peo-
pie, he has demonstrated that he not only com
prehends the Constitution, but that true to his
oath of office, he VIII preserve, protect and de-
fend it.
The display of fireworks was magnificent, one
of the pieces representing the Goddess of Liberty
standing between the North and South, and va
rious other very elegant designs.
To sum it all up, the great mass meetiny held in
the city of New York on the 18th of Septemboe,
1866 the anniversary of the signing of the Consti
tuition of the United States, was magnificent sue
cess inevery single particular, and will convince
not few people of the other stripe that New
York is awake to the interests of the WHOLE
country, and will not be found wanting in YER
dict in favor of "One country, one constitution,
one destiny.n EYES AND EARS.