The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-09-07
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of Hon. VIM. Ill. Seward at Niagara
Falls, September 1, 1866.

Of Hon. VIM He seward at niagara
Falls, September L, 1866.
FELLOW Citizens Although we are
! 80 4L- ~~-5- tl-~ f'tss6U OF ~, xrvIlA,
l am sure that even here L can call
you neighbors You do not want a
speech from me. ("Yes, yes Ifyou
do, it is only to get up quarrel be-
tween the President of the United
States and myself, for / shall have to
tell you that, after the clear and lucid
exposition of the policy of the govern
ment, which may be called his policy,
or sour policy" since Abraham Lin
coin commenced it, and it has been
carried out since the Inauguration of
Andrew Johnson, after the exposition
he himself has given of it, want to
know, in Gods name, what use he has
for Secretary at all I? "a voice, ''do
you indorse it?") / will say frankly
that always indorse what is right,
and when you find my signature to a
paper l will not disavow it. When /
put my pen to paper / stand ready to
pay all the cost
Fellow citizens, you have heard the
President of the United States traduced
heard Abraham Lincoln denounced
within three months of his death by
the bullet of an assassin, worse, and
through larger portion of the United
States, than Andrew Johnson is now
denounced, for treason to the Consti-
tuition and the Government; and let
me ask you this: If, instead of bring
ing him here in safety day, to stand
before you and to vindicate, virtually
in the presence of the whole American
people, his life, his character, and his
policy, past, present, and future, he
had fallen on the way as Abraham
Lincoln did, do you think there is one
of you who has reviled him who would
not join in his praise, and be as ready,
to immortalize his fame and glory as
you have been to celebrate the virtues
of Lincoln? (Cheers.) This is it.
The only trouble with living Presi-
dent is that he lives The virtue of
dead one is that he is gone, and can
be praised with safety by those who
were incapable of appreciating his
virtues while he lived
The President has spoken to you
upon a topic have never opened, and
/ did think that / would never refer
to it, and that is, that he is charged.
and the members of his Cabinet and
political supporters are charged, with
deserving their party The charge is
that we have deserted our party, and
he has told you, and very properly
told you, that it is better in every
case to let parties go down the falls
than to let the country 60 to destruc-
ton. So it would not be very seri-
Gus offense if it had been committed.
But he also told you the truth when he
said that it is not possible to find a
word in the record upon which he was
nominated that has been falsifed by |
the record of his executive acts Did |
not they declare at Baltimore that the |
war must be continued until its cause |
was removed, and the Government |
triumphant in the restoration of the |
States And is not the war ended |
Have not the States been restored |
And where on earth is the cause of
the war? 1t has gone into the sepul-
chFe of the record of past ages. |
Cheers. But have deserted my
party? Let me call your attention to
my record on that subject. If you
will look back to the month of Octo-
Der, 1865, you will find there speech
made you, for when speak at Au
ourn l mean to speak to the people of
New York, and in that speech / told
'ur whole people that the President
If the United States, Andrew Johnson,
md with him, proposed TO accept
certain conditions and restore the
states to their rights as equals in the |
Union if they would do these things /: II
first, abolish the rebel debt; second, |
epeal their ordinances of secession
nd third, accept the amendment to ,