The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-04
ONE MAN vs.. the NATION.
SHALL PREvA1Ly
HON. HANNIBAL HAMLIN ON THE
GREAT QUESTION.
His Grafton at the Academy Of
Music Last Evening.

ESPECIAL PnoNoaRAPHIo REPORT FOR THE RvEy-
INC TELEGRAPH
Last evening the Academy Of Music was filled
Dy large and enthusiastic audience, who had
Deen Grawn thitheE by the announcement of en-
address on the "Issue of the Day" by Hannibal
Hamln, the true patriot who was deserted by
his party that it might place Andre johnson
In power. The peculiar relation which Mr..
Hamlin bad sustained TO the Union partS and
the country gave great weight to his words, in
addition to that which his eloquence and un-
linching loyalty impaired.
Previous 10 the appearance of the orator of
the evening, Hermann's Satterlee Band dis
coursed patriotic airs to the evident satisfaction
of the audience.
few minutes after 8 O'Clock, the late Vice
President appeared, and was greeted with the
most enthusiastic applause. Isaac Hazlehurst,
ESQ. then stepped forward and introduced Mr..
Hamln in the following appropriate words:-
am grateful very grateful, for the position
| that enables me to introduce to this fair and
beautiful audience beautiful because it 10 fair,
| the noble champion OF true republican 5m,
whose name Is linked nearer than any other 70
| the grandeur and sadness of toe past, linked
with that OF our martyred President Lincoln.
| (Applause Our distinguished guest Is q tried,
| loyal American statesman (applause), the
| uoblest styfe of man, ard we welcome MIN to-
| night for his devotion to the republic. (Ap-
| plause.) We honor him because he has scorned
| the wrath and dehed the oppression OF power.
| (Applause.\ We welcome him also the
representative OF noble State that has unbarTed
the gates of the morn ne, and ushered In with
| the chorus of thirty thousand ireemen the sun
! Of American liberty. (Applause.) We welcome
| him TO this audience i'll the city OF the COnsu-
tutiCn, and have assured MIN that in this
| audience he will find none that can ever forget
! to love-ay, to lOve-the republic. (Applause.l
After the applause which greeted the mentioa
OF Dir. Hamiin's name had suDsided, he spoke
follows:-
These generous plaudits speak no uncertain
sound tapplauee); they come from the lips OF
men who wera loyal to our country (applarse),
| and they assure me that am tonight before
| ladies and gentlemen who stood by our
country in ITS dark and trying hour, when the
| cloud OF war hung over the land; anu 1t assures
| me that as they felt interest then IN its wei
fare, they are determined to be Consulted IN the
| settlement oi that conflict.
might better come, my friends, TONIGHT and
take q coal from the fires that are burning uDon
your affairs ana apply it to human lips, than
expect by aught that can say TO interest or
guide you along the rugged pathway OF duty in
the present crisis. | am surrounded here to-
night by tie loyal LEAGUE of Pennsylvania"
(appIause), whose deeds and whose devotion to
our common country are themes of praise III aoR
every loyal lip. tAppause) Iremember well,
but little more Than two years since, spent
| that memorable Sabbath with you which sue
ceeded that terrible conflict at GettY Ysburg, pain
tul yet gratifying IN lts results. Painful that SO
many OF our true and loyal men went down TO
theiI graves, but gratifying that tue backbone
of the Rebellion was there broken. (Applause.)
visited on that sacred day your churches,
where woman with her delicate Land and nicer
instincts, was devonng all her energies TO ale
viate the condition OF the wounded; and more
Christian service, in my Judgment. was never
! per ormed IN the churches than on that day.
(Applause.) We meet 70 night with no respon-
sibility upon our hands OF burying the dead and
caring for the wounded; but my friends, let me
tell you you never gathered wirhin the walls of
this temple, or elsewhere. with higher or more
mOmentous responsibilities resting upon you
than those that rest upon you tonight.
We fought this war through successfully. We
bore alott the banner of our country in 4 thou
saDG nights, and we have come here to counsel
with each otner what are the best modes of
securing the legitimate results OF all those
battles
We now have arrived at that point where YOU
yourseyes-1Ce the people OF the country are
10 determine upon what terms and upon what
conditions those who seeded TO destroy this
| Government shall be restored to participation
in it. (Applause.) | believe, my friends, that
you will sympathize with me when / say that,
at the earliest moment practicable, we Will well
cone them back, all the States of this Union.
! wish the time we're now, when they could
| resume their ancient position (applause); but
we dare not use the word careiully--we dare
not welcome them back upon anv other terms
than those that shall guarantee equal rights to
| every man. (Applause.)
/ IN the name OF three hundred thOusa nd men
| who went down 20 patriotic graves; by all rhe
| Obligations that owe to the loyal men in the
South who stood by our country in the hour Of
| trial: from every consideration that can Guide
us as statesmen we dare not bring the Rebel
| states back until we are satisfied That tins dread
iul struggle shall not again be hurled upon
those who come after us. (Applausp,)
| | wish II were now. | am tired of this long
| and constant struggle. | would welcome them
! with open arms; and in the language OF that
J great and good man-ay the mau who IN Your
! hearts holds hardly a second place to that of
! Washntton-"I would accept them, and treat
! them with charity for ain and malice TO OTards
| none." (Applause.) We have a right to ask
| that the men whose hands are red aud reckng
| with the blood OF our sons and brothers that
| went down 20 the gravc-we want the right to
ask and to demaud-is Il not our duty so to de-
mand ?--that we shall un0erstand that the con-
troversy when settled shall be so settled that
there shall be no disturbance in the future.
(Applause.)
than three hundred thousand men have gone
down to patriotic graves for you and me and
our triends.
Have we not contributed enough in the bill
/ lions OF mOney tOat we contributed from our
treasury to demqud that when the final settle
ment is made it shall be made uDon terms and
conditions that shall never be disturbedf (Ap-
| plause.) But We find the country In Woful
| condition. We are amazed, anu each man asks
the other, "Why is itW
When you strip the issues OF the present hour
of cXtTaneOus questions, you reduce l. TO IL
simple proposition which can BE- stated in a verv
| few words; and it is a proposition pPesen ed to
us of Executive usurpatiOn uOOn The one hand
and Congressional legislation upon the her.
(ApplauseD | know well that there are many
collateral issues and questions that arse. When
Won take them away, IL rs reduced TO a single
question OF executive ordinances and legislative