Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-02


, slavery, the great apple of discord, they now.
, in returning, take up that Constitution IN
der which they always lived, and which they
established for themselves even, in separate
government. Where, then, is the cause for
distrUsE Where, then, is the cause for the
want Of confidence Is there any, T"No,
no."l
do not come here tonight TO apologize
for persons who have tried to destroy the
Government; and if every act of my life,
either in speeches or in practice, does not
disproYe the charge that / want to apologize
for them, then there is no use in a mans
having public record. (Cheers.) But 1
am one Of those who take the Southern peo-
pie with all their heresies and errors, admit
ting that in rebellion they did wrong. The
leaders cOerced thousands and thousands Of
honest men into the rebellion, who saw the
old flag flap in the breeze for the last time
with unfeigned sorrow, and welcomed it
again with joy and thanksgiving. The lead
ers betrayed and led the Southern people
astray upon this great doctrine of secession.
We have in the West a game called hammer
and anvil, and anvil and hammer, and while
DAVIS and others were talking about sepa-
ration in the South, there was another class,
! PHILLIPS, GARRISON, and men of that kind,
who were talking about dissolution in the
| North; and Of these extremes one was the
hammer and the other was the anvil, and
when the rebellion broke out one extreme
was carrying it out and now that 1t is sup
| pressed, the other class are still trying to
| give it life and effect. ] fought those in the
| South who commenced the rebellion, and
now l oppose those in the North who are
trying to break up the Union. (Cheers.) /
/ a for ba I oil thoca
who are opposed to the Union. (Great APP
plause) / am for the Union, the whole
| Union, and nothing but the Union. Re
newed cheering) / have helped my dis
| tinguished friend, General GRANT, to fight
| the rebels South, and l must not forget a
peculiar phrase, that he was going to fight
| it out on that line. Applause and laugh
| ter / was with him, and | did all that
could and when we whipped them at one
end Of the line, l want TO say to you that
am for whipping them at the other end Of
the line. GGreat laughter and applause.
/ thank God that if he is not in the field,
militarily speaking, thank God he is civilly
in the field on the other side. Cheers for
/ GRANT.
This is a contest and struggle for the
Union for the union of these States. APP
plause The North can't get along with
out the South, and the South can't get along
without the North. That's SC" and APP
plause / have heard an idea advanced
that if we let the Southern members of Con-
gress in they will control the Government
Do you want to be governed by rebels
| [Cries of never" "nO, nO."] We want to
let loyal men in shear, hear" and none
but loyal men. Good, good But,
ask here tonight in the face of this intelli-
LIT srloa. 10 IF
| the observation rest, that men coming in
from the South will control the country to-
its destruction? Taking the entire delega-
ton of the South, ffty-eight members, what
is it compared with the two hundred and
forty-two members of the rest of the Union?
| ["Good boy" Is it complimentary to the
| North to say we are afraid of them? Would
hthe free States let IN ifty-eight members
Ilfrom the South that we doubt, that we dis
/ trust that we have no confidence in? If
we bring them into the Government, these
| fiftv-eight representatives, are they to con-
troll the two-hundred and forty-two? There
| is no argument that the influence and talent
and the principles they can bring to bear
against us, placing them in the worst posi-
bic light A voice-the Sumner argument
can be a cause for alarm. We are repre-
sented as afraid Of these fifty-eight men,
afraid that they will repudiate our public
debt; that they can go into the Congress of
/ the United States under the most favorable
conditions they could require, the most
offensive conditions to us and could over
whelm a majority of hundred fifty to
hundred and eighty-La vOice-'ridi-
eulous" that these men are going to take
charge of the country. Why it is croaking
it is to excite your fears, to appeal to your
prejudice Consider the immense sums of
money tibet have been expended, the great
number of lives that have been lost, and the
blood that has been shed; that our bleeding
arteries have been stayed and tied up; that
commerce. and mechanical industry, and
agriculture, and all the pursuits Of peace
restored, and we are represented as towards
enough to clamor that if these ffty-eight
men men are admitted as the representatives
| of the South the Government is lost. We
are told that our people are afraid of the
South; that we are towards. (Cries of We
are not") Did they control you before the
rebellion commenced? Have they any more
power now than they had then? Letme say
! to this intelligent audience here tonight
am no prophet but predicted at different
times. in the beginning Of the late rebellion,
| what has been literally fulfilled. (Cries of
| ,'Thats sou told tine Southern people
| lvears ago, that whenever they attempted to
Ilbreak up this Union whenever they at
Il tempted to do that, even if they succeeded,
/ that the institution of slavery would be gone.
| Good, good.) Yes, sir, turning to Mr..
| SEwARD) you know that / made that argu-
ment to JEFF DAVIS. You will bear wit
ness to the position | then occupied.
Mr.. SEwARD-I guess so. (Applause.)
| Mr.. JoHNsoN-Yes, and you were among
the few that gave me encouragement. Zap
/ plause.) ! told them then that the institu-
ton Of slavery could not survive an attempt
to break up the Union. They thought diff
ferently. They put up stake; what was iR
1t was four millions of slaves, in which they
had invested their capital. Their invest
ment in the institution of slavery amounted
10 three thousand millions of dollars. This
they put uaat stake and said they could main
| tain it by separating these States. That was
the experiment; what are the facts of the
result? The Constitution still exists. (Great
| cheering.) The Union is still preserved.
| (Cheers) They have not succeeded in going
| ont. and the institution of slavery is gone.
| Hear, hear.) Since it has been gone they
have come up manfully and acknowledged
| the fact in their State conventions and organ
izations, and they ratify its fall now and for
| ever. Cheers l have got one other idea
right alongside of this. Applause and laugh
teri You have got about $4,000, 100000.
(''Thafs SOL How are you going to preserve
the credit of that? Will you tell me? Voices
-"You tell us."l How are you to preserve
the credit of this S3,000,0 100000? Yes, per-
haps when the account is made up your debt
will be found $1,000, 100000 or Sl,000,000
100000 Will you tell me how you are to
secure it, how the ultimate payment Of the
principal and interest of this sum is to be
secured? Is it by having the Government
disrupted. (Mr. STEWART and others-~No,
no.n) Is it by the division OF these States
1"No"l is it by separating this Union into
petty States ''Nop] Let me tell you
here Tonight, my New York friends, l tell
YOU that there is no way by which these
bonds can be ultimately paid, by which the
interest can be paid, by which the national
debt can be sustained but by the continuity
and perpetuity and by the complete union of
these States. Applause.l Let me tell you
who fall into this fallacy, and into this great
heresy, you will reap more bitter reward
than the Southern brethren have reaped in
putting their capital into slavery.
Mr. SEwARD-[ soto uooel-rhe Orgu-
meni,ua ad homiaeR. Good.
Mr.. JoHNsoN-Pardon me, do not ex-
aggerate understand this question. You