The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-09-12
Secretary Seward at Niagara
-EEas OPT nSon OF the Radical
EParEy,


Now, my. friends, DO you want to hear me?
[Crics of Yes" Well first, l want TO
ask you question. After a clear eXpoSl,c
ton of the policy of the Government, OF
what may be called him Mr.. johnson s.
policy, or ''our policy, " and which may be
said to have taken its date IRON Abraham
Linco n--atter the clear exposition he his
himself given of that policy, want to know
in God name what u. e he has for Secretary
of St tie at all? Cheers and laughter "A
voice-"Will You indorse it?' Mr.. Sew
ard-I will and do indor!e it, and write my
name under it as many times as you WISH,
and when you find me principle ora policy
with my signature over it or under 1t, that
is NINE that is my paper; and L am ready
to pay all the costs. Cheers. Fellow
citizens, you have heard Andrew johnson,
the President of the United States, traduc-
ed. Now, | have heard Abraham Lincoln,
within three months Of his death, by the
pistol of the assassin, | heard him denoun
cd worse and over a larger portion OF the
United States than Andrew johnson IS de,
nounced for treason to the Coz tution ana
the government. Let me ask you if, instead
of bringing him safely here to-day TO stand
before YOU, aud to vindicae virtually before
tue whole American people his life, charac-
ter and policy, past, present and In the 1u-
ture, he had fallen on the way as Abraham
Linc,l did do you think there would be
one of his rcvilers that would not be us LOUD
in raising him to the pinnacal OF martyr
fame and glory as they are now III celebrat-
| ing the virtues and services OF Abraham
Lincoln? The only trouble with the living
President is that he lives. The fortune OF
a dead one is that he is gone, and can be
praised intensely by those who are lncapa'
BILE of appreciating his virtues and his WIS
DOM The President has spoken on q topic
| never ope and which did not think
would now open up, that he is charged, and
the members of his Cabinet are charged
with deserting their party. The charge is
that we deserted, our party but, as he has
told YOU very Justly, it is better in every
case to let party go down the Falls than lei
he country go to destruction. But he has
told YOU also the truth when he said it was
not possible to find word on the record or
which he was nominated which has not beer
fulfilled by the record OF his every act since
d d they not declare in Baltimore Tat thu
war should be conducted ill its final trl
umph and the restoration Of the ST. les, anc
the removal of the cause thereof forever?--
And is not the war ended, and are not tht
States being restored? And where Is tht
cause of the war to-day? 1t is gone int
the receptacle of the errors Of past es.-
But they say that have deserted my party
Let me call your attention to my record OF
the subject. If you look to my speech Q
October, 1S65--and whenever l speak Il
Auburn | mean it for all The people Of tn
St tie of New York-there told the who'll
people that the President Of the Unlte'
States, Andrew johnson. and | with him
had proposed the restoration OF the State
lately in rebellion as equ" States in tn
} Union if they would accept these condition
First, to abolish the rebel debt, renouncc tn
RIGHT of secession by their State constitu
tons, and accept the constitutional amend
, ment of the United S saboishing SLAYER
fo-ever. When these conditions wee CON
i Piled with the Union wuJld be restored.
, voted upon every pIa aform and performe
). every pledge and word that lgave-- cheers
: and in my February speech in New Yor
f | told you precisely the three condition
: and said that though heaven and cart
might piss away, yet the word that, Al
drew johnson pissed that the States shoul
| be restored on these conditions being cou
| plied with, must he fulfilled Cheers l.
!, And did you not accept it and ask yol
f members Of Congress to vote for 1t! to
Q them the same thing in March last. | triC
t to save that party from destruction. | trie
i to show them the way, straight and plai
q hut they were in the case of the travel
q who got bewlldered on his way. He W