The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-22
THE CAMPAIGN.
Grand Mass Meeting at
National Hall.
SPEECH OF SENATOR CREswELL,
OF MARYLAND.


ING TELEGRAPHI
Notwlths yandlng the extreme incemency of
the weather, National Hall was nearly filed by
an enthusiastic audience last evening, to listen
TO the able discourses of Senator Creswell and
others.
The Satterlee Band was in attendance, and
enhvened the occasion by discoursing popular
airs. As the gentlemen appeared upon the
platform they we're Justify cheered. Ex-Gov-
ernor Pollock presided, and made a stirring
speech, appealing to the people to stand by
Congress and ratify the Constitutional amend
ment.
He then introduced the Hon. J. A. j. Cres-
WELL United States Senator from Maryland
Senator Creswell came forward and after the
applause had subsided, spoke as follows:-
Fellow-Citizens OF Pennsy ylvania:-I feel it to be
altogether work tor me to attempt to stir your
enthusiasm to higher pitch than that to when
II has already attained. Having recently spent
several days iii your grand city of Philadelphia
i was satisfied then that the cause we all have
so dearly at heart was in your hands entirely
safe. i felt assured that when the occasion
came for you to speak your own sentiments
through the ballot-boy, there would be no doubt
with regard to the result. / saw your people
on one occasion assembled in mass that to me
was almost terrific; and, although noted in the
newspapers as one of the speakers on that occa-
sion felt that nobody without energy and power
could speak to such masses as / saw assembled
on Broad street. / thought 1t became me that
evening to retire to my nome aud wait for a
future occasion. That occasion is presented to
me tonight, and feel proud an opportunity IS
given me, who has been battling during the
whole OF this long, protracted, and cruel war,
IN a State where every Union man hnds bitter
Rebel to oppose him (applause)-to appear
before an audience Of Phlladephians, who,
during the war, have made a record so glorious
that no time, however long, can efface. (Ap-
plause.) 1t is my privilege, therefore, to address
you, and feeling it to be duty to respond to the
call OF your committee, am here before you to-
night. (Applause.) | hope shall not be deemed a
disreputable character by the President of the
United States when inform you that am not
only member OF the present Congress- but that
| was also member of the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress (applause), and am proud to be able to
say that on no occasion, during any session of
either Of those bodies, can my vote be found
recorded in any other company than that of
the noble representatives you sent from Phila-
delphia, and especially will my name be found
beside that gentleman (reterring to Mr. Kelley)
who has been in the last two or three Con-
gresses, ana whom you in this Congress have
chosen TO be your standard-bcarer. To him
personally | owe a debt OF gratitude. and |
should feel myself an migrate did not avail
myself OF every opportunity TO appear before the
citizens OF Philadelphia to express my per-
sonal gratitude as the gratitude OF the Union
men OF Maryland. In the days of our uncer-
tainty, when we knew not from day to day what
event might occur to overturn the government
OF our State and subject us to Rebel rule such
as that which now prevails in the unrecon-
structed States, never, never called upon Judge
Kelley to come to my assistance, but that assist
ance was not promptly rendered. (Applause.)
He has battled side by side with me with slave
holding Rebeliion side by side with me in the
great contest in 1868 for emancipation. ZAP
plause.) Tonight we are called upon to discuss
other questions than those that were presented
during the war, involving, as believe, questions
as momentOuS as any that the American people
have been called upon to decide before. Not
with hSta SlNtppn months have
the surrender of Lees army, Notwithstanding
the great army which the American people sent
into the field to protect their rights has been
disbanded, and the soldiers have returned home
and become citizens, we find In this land thai
we are Tar from enjoying the security and the
blessings OF peace which the soldiers and the
sailors have achieved. They crushed armed re
bellion wherever it appeared. They struck from
the hands of every Rebel soldier the musket thai
he had raised against the old flag OF the re
public (applause); and yet tonight we ar
called upon to speak in thunder tones, with thu
VieW 50 far as we may IN that manner, to seCur
to ourselves the results Of that great contest
When the army was disbanded we thought W
had secured the fruits OF the war. We though
that the questions in issue had been decided b.
the bayonet. And why have they not ? Smpl
because the American people have been subecte
to another treason-Kebels tonight are OF
ganized the same as they we're during the war
and all we find different IN the contest is that the
have a new leader, and that, instead of havin
the headquarters at Richmond, their leade
i
my own opinion there is no difference IN poin
OF political fact or morality between the persol
of Jefferson Davis and the person of Andre'
Johnson. (Applause.) If anything, | wOul
denounce Andrew johnson more than JEFF
DAVIS. The one may claim that he battle
against those whom he considered hls enemies
but the other cannot deny that he wages wa
against the men who were his friends. (A'
plause.) And tonight we see announced i'll Oh
papers that he has given over to Mr.. Valandi!
ham, OF Ohio. the right TO declare his prime
pies, that he never upheld the Republican part
II these are his principles, th en- ask you no
could he accept from the hands OF the Repu'
lican party a nomination for the second otlC
in the Gift of the people and stand during tn
great contest shoulder to shoulder with OF
great martyred chief, Abraham Lincoln
CHEERS
When the war closed responsible duty vi
imposed upon Congress. The Thirty-ninth Co
gress met under such difficulties as the count
HAD never before experienced. We were callC
upon to pass upon issues more momentous thG
ever before submitted to an assembly of Anne
can people. We found eleven States and Il
people lying at our teet-as Mr.. Johnson hil
self declGres-without State government, wi
but snort time before had been waging war t
the destruction of our dearest institutions. Y
found those people in an attitude that requir
of us careful consideration of their conditio
with q view to the restoration of their form
relations TO the general Government, and
felt that, banishing all mereimalice, that, lay
aside all mere party or personal consideration
il was our duty to pass upon that people in SUI
manner a. that through all time this Uni
should be secured and this people should
saved from the future horrors of civil WI
IAnnlause) With no view or desire
antagonize the President Of the Unit
states but, on the contrary, we assert
that the disposition on the part of majority
the members OF both Houses, II II were possi
In ARia