The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-14

witnessed before. Here we're four millions OF
happy people-the happiest people of the world |
plenty to eat, occupation, and habitation.
have seen cruelty, but, ask you, where
was there a great cruelty like this? You re-
member the English blowing the Sepoys from
the guns in Calcutta. But, where is there an
instance Of English cruelty equal TO the
consenng Of four millions OF colored people to
destruction. misery, and death? (Cheers Half
a million OF these men have already passed away.
Diseases have been introduced among them,
the Freedman's Bureau is a deception and a
snare to them, and yet they often ask the more
grog. And now we have a massacre in New
Orleans II was stated that there would be a
Convention called, and that the negroes would
be armed. There is BOutwells speech as
reported in the Globe; therefore Congress is
guilty OF this massacre, for political effect and
political purposes, and Andrew Johnson has
done his best to prevent 1t. (Cheers.) See
what this Congress has done. 1t has burst up
the Pacific Railroad. 1t has destroyed that
great line by destroying the main line. Do that,
and the branches will die. Irishmen were build
ing the road. Had niggers been employed there
they would have stopped to think. They would
not have done what they have, repealed and
re-enaCt again. Second, you know well as |
know, that they had it in their power to stop
the British goods from coming into the coun.
try. would have a resolution passed which
was passed by the Fenlans ReSOLued That we
never will again use anything OF British manu-
fac tuIe until Ireland is free. (Cheers.) | say
it is shame to ask these Irish patriots to wear
English cloths when their people are almost
starving at home. | saylt was shame in these
radicals who had the opportunity to shut out
these goods. For party purposes Chey have post
poned the question till November, and / am
very sorry to see Mr. Tnau. Stevens and John
Hogan, Esq, sleeping in the same trundle-bed
on the question OF tariff. (Mr. Hogan wear
Good, good) Then what is the action of Con-
gress in postponing the tariff? 1t is something
like this:-
Imagine the sheep of Missouri taken from Mis-
souri, carried to Erie, then brought over the
railroad to Philadelphia put aboard the ship,
sent three thousand miles across TO Liverpool,
pay the port charges there, send them to Man.
chester or Leeds, and work them up; bring the
goods back again to LIVERPOOL pay ten dollars
per ton TO an English ship to bring them back
to Philadelphia, carry them over the Pennsyl-
vania Central Railroad back to Missouri to give
the farmers shop cloths of British manufacture.
question, and yet there are those OF that party
who believe in that same thing, and they want
to introduce free trade into the country.
Now again l give you point tirst-when men
have thus reduced wages at the risk OF putting
white men out OF employment, why should we
give fifty millions to the MeXicans, and not
shilling 10 the Irish nationality? (Cheers.) And
yet these radicals had no money for the Irish
nationality, and | pronounce the Mexican
scheme the most gigantic scheme the world has
ever witnessed; and il the people return Thad.
Stevens from Lancaster, they will return a man
who spends the most OF his time at gaming
table.
What else did they do They introduced a bill
for the Freedmans Bureau-that made the
niger the pauper institution of the Southland
they tax the white man Tor this pauper institu-
ton.
Now they have cot the niger, maintain they
cannot destroy him.
What else have they done! They got the
Tennessee official to send despatch to the
Clerk OF the Senate, officially calling the Presi-
dent of the United States dead dog. Now,
then, the Senate received and the House en-
oorsed it, and Congress- as you know, asked
Tennessee to come in on that insulting despatch.
Now a name will kill q party. 1t was the
Copperhead name which they hurled at the
Democrats which killed them. 1t was the term
yankee Doodle" given to them by the English,
and which they accepted; Now see they are
apologizing tor that dead dog despatch.
Now, when you come to speak OF the party in
Congress, you may let it be known IN the future
as the dead-dog party. (Cheers.) "a voice.
"How about dead ducksTD That was only
other was a cold.6looded despatch an insult
to the President of the United States. Boutwell,
read the resolution. Now, then this is not the
spirit of l776. 1t was, what the Southerners
these radicals fight like Job. They were
ike a friend OF mine, who saved his life by
putting his breast.plate on behind. They are
doing all they can to bring on the red deed.
Now give us first the assistance to re-elect q
Congress which will give us American nation
ality, and then we will have an Irish nationality
afterwards. (Cheers.) For you must support
this Convention-it is going 10 be success, If
a halt dozen men will take themselves out.
(Voice-Turn out Adams irst.) Charles Francis
Adams don't think is much of an American,
and unless he does something to get those
prisoners out of Irish jails, he had better take
the back track and go home. (Hisses and
cheers.l You hear great talk about the dis
turbance here. There is no disturbance. There
is nothing but harmony among the members.
There are delegates from thirty-sx States, some
OF the best menin the country. There are five
or six men who are offensive to the mass OF the
people. l know them all personally, and If these
men would consent TO be shut out of that Con-
vention it would give us half million votes.
One of them has written splendid letter,
saying that II he Was offensive he would retire.
The letter has gone to the press, saying we W ant
nothing but goodwill and peace all over the
land, and therefore decline to be delegate of
this Convention. That man was Fernando Wood.
(Cheers.) l then went to work on my friend
Henry Clay Dean, and told him he had chance
TO do what was right, and he wrote letter de-
clinIng to be a delegate. Now there is Alexander
H. Stephens. He will not be present. Another
one from Georgia has declined. There Is only
one man LETT, and that Is Vallandigham. have
nothing against HIM at all. He means right.
He was an old friend OF mine. (Cheers.)
If these men leave the Convention it will give
us million of votes.
All of those who are in favor OF politely re-
questing Vallandigham TO remain outside, that
we may have million of votes say aye mo! no)
Because | know you are in earnest on this
occasion, and really believe Vallandigham is
a true man, and would not try to create any
want of harmony in the Convention. He will
do all he can; and I heard he also had retired
from the Convention. (So he ought.)
All those, say, in favor OF having harmony
through the Convention, manifest IL by saying
aye, (No-no-aye.)
We will now give three cheers, in conclusion,
for the Union COnstitution and Laws, for the