The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-09-07

party which charges me with having
deserted it, voted upon that very plat
form, and approved every pledge I
then gave, and every word I uttered.
Cheers What did tell you ia the
month of May at Auburn, when / saw
the party was getting into contest.
and in the month of February. in New
York city, at the Cooper Institute |
told YOU precisely the same, that these
were our three conditions and though
heaven and earth shall pass away, yet
the word of Andrew Johnson, that the
States should be restored upon those
conditions, having been pledged,
should be fulfilled. Cheers. Your
members of Congress were asked to
vote for IT. / tried to save that
party from destruction, | showed
them the way 1t was plain and
direct l was going to use the illus
tration-perhaps L ought not to-of
the traveller who got bewildered on
his journey and was shown two roads,
one of which led to his destination
and the other in the opposite diree-
ton, and his decision finally was that
he had not good sense enough to take
either road; and so it is with Con-
gress. They take neither road. There
they are. Laughter and cheers l.
Where are they They say we. should
adhere to party. Ihave been a party
man. / have belonged to three or four
parties, and have been generally con-
sidered very consistent party man,
and the enemies of those parties have
generally thought me very effective
| one las never accused of instabili-
Is / know, as party man, that the
course of wisdom is to follow the
head of the party But there are 9
great many who differ from me; and
| if they think that, instead of follow
ing the nominated chosen head oil
their party, the way to make that par
ty successful is by following the tail
if they are such fools, they must take
the consequences. Cheers. l will
not follow the tail of a party. | am
no such fellow. Who is the head Of
their party in the State of New Y ork
A voice" Thad Stevens" Laugh
ter and cheers. l ask who is theil
head in the State of New York f: q A
voices Horace Greeley" Renewed
laughter and cheers. Very well. /
| mean to do party any good want
to make it successful Now / invite
them to put their head man in nomi
nation-and l do not agree with YOU
in your opinion of Mr.. Greeley by
any means. Laughter and cheers.
| want them to nominate the man they
intend to nominate for Governor O
the State of New Y ork to test thei
! principles, and in the election nov
/ some six weeks off, if he is not defeat
ed by majority of forty thousand
do not call me a prophet. Laughte
and cheers. a. p
Must | desert mygcOurse, my gov
eminent, and my country, to follow ;
party divided, distracted, weak, imbe
cile, vacillating and absurd, seeking
its own destruction /? / have done :
very different thing. We set the rail
way train on the track The cars wer,
all empty. 1t was under the guidanc,
of the conductor, Andrew Johnson
| All the privileged seats were offered tC
this party that complains of ''deser
! ton" They were the very first in
vited to enter, but no, they would no
enter And now, when they see it il
fast filling up with outsiders, and i:
passing by them, they say they have
been deserted by the conductor
| Laughter and cheers. Now [ want
to know who is the leader of their party
in the United States There is no par
| ty that can exist, stand, and live in tn,
U. S. that does not exist in every par
of it, in a state of peace, and not in ;
revolutionary condition. Who /:
| CneIf Ieisaui :: a tviec, s|Thad. Ste
vens. +" No, they viii not accept hin
as their leader. They offer you no in
dividual name. Their name is ''thC
Congress of the United States" anC
| Congress is a force that exists only
until the 4th of March next. The1
the party is to have no head whatever
because that Congress, so constituted
is gone, and the next lot will, in al
| probability, be in direct opposition tC
it; and | suppose in that event the
party will be gone too. Laughter
and cheers. That is the wisdom o.
| their partisanship.
Why, fellow citizens, | have known
something about what it costs to make
party successful. / have known
what it costs to create a party in the
United States of America that shall
take the control of the Government OF
the United States. Let me tell you
that you are seeing to-day the other
and most unpleasant experiment that
of great party that has controlled the
destiny and powers of the country and
saved it. lying down and destroying it.
self. That is what they propose to
do. | propose to have no lot nor
share in that thing, not because it
would be personally unwise, but because
the country requires your services apd
mine upon higher principles than the
success or durabilit y OF any party.
Cheers. ss..
Fellow citizens, in thus addressing
you have yielded against my judg-
ment to your wish to hear it. l think
the President satisfied your ear, and
that it is now your eye, filled with the
light of joy springing from all your
grateful emotions to the army and
navy, and then their illustrious repre-
sentatives, that is waiting to be graft
ged You want to see Gen Grant
cheers and Admiral Farragut
lcheers and Gen. Custer, and the
rest of them, and you are the best be-
haved people / have seen on this ex-
cursion for you have kindly and par
TALLY listened to me before seeing
them. Laughter and cheers. If
you are not satisfied with looking at
them, just ask Gen. Grant for speech
and he will give you an eloquent one.
[Cheers.
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