Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-14


bully, and made its legislation the counter
part Of that generous spirit which strike
the fallen foe.
| ii. From the composition Of the body
you might well infer its legislation. Revel
ling in the spirit Of war after peace hac
come, breathing bitterness instead Of broth
erhood, giving Teproaches for reconciliation
and penalties for pardon-( cheers a
once, before its session began, crossed swords
| with the humane and generous policy Of the
! President. From this spirit one might
! think ST. JAMES had this Congress in his
! mind when he said, From whence come
wars and fghtings among you? Come they
not hence even Of your lusts that war in your
ulsA5erss (Laughter.) Referring particu-
larly to Mr.. STEVENS, he warns them: IRE
sist the devil and he will flee from you.
Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purify
your hearts, We double mindedp Referring
to their conduct towards the South: " He
that speaketh evil of his brother speaketh
evil Of the law" Predicting their fate, he
says: "What is your life? 1t is even a
vapor that appeareth for a little time and
then vanisheth away p This body began
its wicked career in hidden caucus of oil
garchs TO foil the Presidents good work and
circumvent his plans. Determined to keep
out the eleven States, il recked not of the
commerce, industry, and happiness Of the
people. By its fruits let il be judged Men
do not gather grapes off thorns or figs off
thistles. Patriotism is not born of sectional
asrerities, nor does healing come from the
poignard's point in the brigand's hands !!
Let me pluck some of the fruit Of this Con-
gress whether it suits your taste or not,
you have to pay for the planting and nur-
ture
From the 4th Of December to the last of
July, there has been offered by the Radicals,
constitutional amendments, forty-tve; bills
and resolutions for keeping up disunion,
seyenty-three; bills and resolutions as to
the negro, exclusively, forty-nine. That
these were not all passed, is no credit Of tie
Congress; but proceeds from the feebleness
Of intellect, which could not frame coherent
parts TO the system Of destruction and ven
geance they designed. More than two
thousand pages of the Globe are taken up
with discussions about the negro question Of
suffrage and representation alone. So COM
mon became this negro-mania that the gal
leries were thronged with ignorant Africans,
hoping for the most impossible Utopias from
these 8oi-disaHt aHis Ses HOirs and member
from Illinois moved to set apart one day of
the week a. "white mans day" But Of
these hereafter. (Laughter.)
The measureless absurdity Of these lovers
of hate can find its parallel only in the
brutality Of their treatment Of the President.
He was Of their own creation. They found
him following the paths of their predeces-
sor Mr.. LINCOLN had, on the Sth Of De
cember, 1868, recognized and urged the
rebel States to restoration, beginning the
work in Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana.
ANDREW JOHNSON was ready to adapt to
peace the policy Of peace which Mr.. LIN
coin had promised in war. At once the
Radicals began 10 sap his efforts To do
this they placed every impediment in his
way. They have not been content to take
From every tree top. bark and part o the tim
Hacking the root that the air might drink the
sap;"
but, with the fury Of hurricane, they up
rooted the ancestral trees which gave the
sweetness and GOODNESS of their shade to the
fevered Southern people. (Cheers.) They
cast these mutilated trunks in his path.
These impediments were from many sources.
BY amendments of the Constitution, by res
olutions, Joint and concurrent; by legisla-
tive devices; by bureaus; by attempts to
curtail his powers Of appointment; by CHM
erical schemes as to equal rights; by war
test oaths and penalties; by infringing on
the rights of States and communities; by
elaborate and irritative systems Of force and
fraud for the blacks; by laws 10 enforce i'm
possible conditions; by engendering a wolf
ish lust in the land, to justify the atrocity
of this age. and so render impossible the
union of these States, for which twenty-six
hundred battles had been fought, for which
225,OOO soldiers had been killed, for which
100000 soldiers had been SCARED and maim-
ed, and for1which $4,000, 600 000) three thou
sand millions Of debt and five hundred mil
lions of taxes per annum are levied (Ap-
plause) To crown this capital iniquity of
earth and time, the written Constitution
made under the eye of the great WASHING
TON is passed through eight months Of cod
ding. The labOrs of MADISON, PINCKNEY,
SHERMAN, MASON, and men of that giant
mould, are tinkered by STEVENS, JULIAN,
BINGHAM. BRoMALL, ,SUSNER, STEWART, and
Wilson. Theconsummate glory Of our ances-
tors. the conscious will of thirty millions is
thus thached over with crudities by the
"uuadriminous activity" of the zealots, whose
philosophy is destruction, and whose re-
llHlOu Is IGhtAbta ANAtNSAe'y
The power which these zealOts obtained
by sectional collisions, they had used to en-
broil the States. The outrages committed
during the war upon the people Of the
North, in their persons property, and
presses-outrages upon men who strove to
sustain the Government and the Union, and
to mitigate and end the war by civilized
and rational methods, had made its leaders
T. Il fal.
"Perpetuate our power II will never do
10 have North and South unite again; for
then our days are numbered As we grew
into life by sundeIing the sections, 90 We
will die if their union be perfectedw Not
so, argued ANDREW JOHNSON. (Applause,) }
He had received other teaching. Have we
not his own resolution in the Senate, copied
from the CRITTENDEN RESOLUTION, which de-
clared that when the federal authority was
vindicated in the States recusant the war
should stop? He wished the States to be
conc" again in their old federal bond Of
"manv :" vet each State to preserve its
rights, dignity, and equality, unimpaired.
He held that no State or number OF States
could in any manner sever their connection
with the Federal Union. This, Congress
denied. II held the connection to be sun
Of the Constitution. He held that, war
having in vain attacked this connection, it
was wisdom to restore civil order, and give
harmony to the land where carnage had
prevailed. In his proclamation as to North
Carolina and other States, in his message, in
his vetoes in his speeches. the President has
held aloft the banner Of the nation. Cheers. J
The smoke raised around him by his foes
cannot obscure the starry glory Of its folds,
or the dignity and craftsmanship Of him
who bears that ensign.
Mark the difference between the conduct
Of the Executive and Congress. The Presi-
| dent, by open pardon, by public proclama--
] ton, bv unmistakable kindness, reiterated
! his published declarations on accepting the
/ position for Vice President. In his judg-
/ ment, secession in every form, whether by
! policy and force from within or without the
! Federal government should be suppressed
/ that the Union might be maintained. When
/ the Congress met it was under secret and
caucus control and with hypocri;ical pre-
/ tences. On the 4th Of December last the
Senate was called 20 order. Its chaplain
Rev. Mr. GRAY, gave glory to God that the
republic survived; that the desolation o
war had ceased, and the ground no longei
Z shook beneath the tread of armies; that tn,