The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-08

! t'ieo vi "HOSo ulflue dFCu rest upon tn6
horizon, and whose span embraces the
universe He who founded this great
scheme came into the world and found
man condemned under the law, and his
sentence was death. What was His ex-
ample! Instead of putting the world or
| even nation to death, He died upon the
cross, attesting, by His wounds and His
blood, that he died that mankind might
Give. Great applause.) fought traitors
and treasQ& In the South. [ opposed the
DaVises, the Toombs, the Slidells, and a
long list of others, which you can readily
fill without my repeating the names
Now, when [ turn round, at the other end
| OF the line tind men, care not by what
name you call them, who still stand
opposed to the restoration of the Union
OF these States. [ am free to say to you
that | am still in the field. (Great ap-
plause.) l am still fo- the preservation
Of the Union. [ am still in favor of this
great Government of ours going on, and
filing out its destiny. (Great applause
Voices-Giye US three names at the other
eDd.)
The President-I am called upon to
name three at the other end of the line
[ am talking to my friends and fellow
citizens, who are interested with me in
this Government, and am free to mention
to you the names of those whom / look
upon as being opposed to the fundamental
principles of this Government, and who
are laboring to pervert and destroy it
Voices. .tName them! Who are they ?")
The President-You ask me who they are
[ say Thaddeus Stevens, OF. Pennsylvania,
is one; say Mr.. Sumner, of the Senate,
is another, and Wendell Philips, is anoth-
er. Long continued applause.) (Yoices.
'Give it to ForneyH'') The President
In reply to that, l viii simply say that [
do not waste my ammunition upon dead
ducks. (Great laughter and applause 1
stand for my country. | stand for the
Constitution. There [ have always stood
from my advent to public life. They
may traduce, they may slander, they may
vituperate me, but let me gay to you, all
this has no influence upon me. ~,
Let me say further, that [ do not intend
to be ove1awed by real or pretended
friends, nor do [ intend to be bullied by
my enemies. Honest conviction is my
courage, the Constitution is my guide.
Is it usurpation to stand between the
| people and the encroachments of power,
because, In a conversation with a fellow
citizen who happened to be d Senator,
said that thought amendments to the
| Constitution ought not too frequently to be
| made that if it was continually tinkered
with, it would lose all its prestige and
| dignity, and the olG instrument would be
| lost sight of altogether in short time?
| And because, in the same conversation, /
happened to say that if it were amended
at all, such an amendment ought to be
adopted, il was charged that | was guilty
of usurpation of power that would have
cost a king lis head, in a certain period
of. English history. (Great laughter
From the same source the exclamation has
gone forth that they were trembling and
could not yield. Laughter.)
Yes, fellow-citizens, there is.an earth
quake coming there IS a ground-swelling
of popular Indignation. The American
people will speak, and, by their instinct,
if not otherwise, they will know who are
| their friends and who are their enemies.
| [ have endeavored to be true to the people
| in all the positions which have occupied,
and there is hardly position in this
| Government which ] have not at some
time filed. | suppose it will be said that
| this is vanity, but I may say that I have
been in all of them. Ihave been in both
branches of the State Legislature. ca
voice 'You commenced a tailor') =,
A gentleman behind me says [ began
a tailor. Yes, / did begin a tailor, and
that suggestion does not discomft me in
| the least, for when was tailor had
! the reputation of being a good one, and
| of making close fits, and was always pune
| tual to my customers and did good work.
| Voices. "We will patch up the Union
YET
! No, / do not want any patch work of it (;
| I want the original article restored. But
enough of this facetiousness. I know it
may be said. ':You are President, aud you
must not ia TX about these things" but,
my fellow citizens, | intend to talk the
truth, and when principle is involved,
when the existence of my country is in
peril. I hold it to be my duty to speak
what l think and what 1 feel, as lave
always done on former occasions.
I have said, it has been declared else
where chat have been guilty of usurra-
ton which would have cost king his
head, and in another place / have been
denounced for whitewashing. When and
| where did [ ever whitewash anything OF
| anybody? I have been an alderman of a
town, I have been in both branches of the
Legislature Of my State, l have been in both
Houses of the National Congress, / have
been at the head of. the Executive De
partment of my State, I have been Vice
President of the United States, and / an
/ NOW In tha nnsitinn which OCCUPY hefoFs