The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-06

professions. He said he was the Moses of his
colored brethren. Well, be was dreadful poor
Noses. (Lauehter.) He had been raised rom
the depths TO the highest post on IN the land.
Mr.. Chandler had always understood johnson,
who had been made Pres dent by J. Wilkes
Booth and Jefferson Davis. new struggle had
been commenced. God works in a mysterious
way his wonders to per orm. He leo his chosen
people ior forty years through the promised
land. lie sent plaques upon mis- people, or,-
s,sely as he sends the plague on the country IN
the shape OF frog like Andy johnson now.
(Laughter.)
An election was soon coming off. They all
knew that Andrew johnson was ready to in
aueuTate a civil war to-day, and his policy bad
brought trouble on the land, but the election
conn he hoped and believed would urlve 1t all
on. (Here procession headed by the seventh
Ward Club, passed, with Haes, torches, ana
transparencies. They were all enveloped in the
smoke of the Roman candles that we're con-
stantly cracking all along the line The speaker
saw revolut on IN every face. He knew that
when the election came there would be a bonn
OF victory over all the land. The procession
Just passed showed Pennsylvania would do her
duty.
Senator Wilson concluded his remarks amid
enthusiastic cheering.
Speech OF Hon. Edward Mcpherson,
Senator Williams was followed by Hon. Ed ward
MCPheIson, OF Peunsy ylvania Clerk OF the House
Of Representatives, He said:-
Although long familiar with the politics of
this State, / esteem 1t fortunate that my first
opportunity to appear before a Phila1elphia
audience IS on this glorious occasion vi icL
must assure every Copperhead OF the triumph
OF the Republican party, ana that Mr. Hester
Clymer will be Knocked into obscurity We
don't Intend to asS people TO vote Andre ohm.
son down upon prejudces; we want to discuss
the question upon the merits OF the case.
Ii Andrew johnson succeeds, the American
people Will be handed over TO bondage more
infamous than that of slavery, which has dis.
praced this land tor two hundred wears We
QltV the ADMIN ira ion. Itc Dlnndigh-
ments; we trample under loot all the machIna-
lions CONGO cted in this city, and we tell John
son that when he comes back to Washington he
VIII meet such storm OF indignation as will
lIlghen his traitor soul.
/ am lot animated by any personal feeling
towards him. hate his public principles. il
is simply question whether the people of this
country are TO be banded over to unreppntant
Rebels, and we say emphatcally ana decidedly
that this shall never be.
Who are the loyal" men whom these men say
| they Will send TO Congress from the Rebel states
Alexander Stephens, an apostate Unionist; DICK
lay lor, vhO murdered Federal soldiers in colo
blood. These are specimens OF the '1oyal" meu
| mo Gated by the ''sllent Convention" which me
| the other day IN tn city. If the people o. thi
country who know the story OF thls war, de
| hhelately at the polls restore these men tC
| IoWer, they do not deserve to have the benefit
| OF iIee government
| Who gave Andrew johnson any control ovel
his question OF reconstruction? There is not
| line IN the Constitution giving him any sucl
| pow er. Any power OF that sort was given nIu
| by the people as military necessity, and wa
| Lot lusuuable OF night until rauded by th'
| people, and he has preferred to believe In hit
| uOctIine himself OF September last Tor he pu
| t on 1ecorG then, and by hts mouthpiece anC
| master, William II. Seward.
| When Mr. Lincoln, in 1861, went beyond hi.
| authority he asked the people to make It la ful
! and they did 20 through their Congre. S, by
| oint resolution of both Houses And so wheI
| Lee surrendered, the President undertook t,
| Joint Provisional Governors, but Andre
| johnson did not ask, as Lincoln did, to max,
| his illegal acton good. He insisted that Con
! gress should at once proceed to admit the Repre-
| sentativcs OF those RI bel States.
This illustrates the difference in the policy o
the two men. Lincoln tired TO 1--we anu act il
accordance with law; but Johnson lives an
| acts i'll defiance OF it. Mr.. Mcpherson con
| Iinued to discuss at length the constitutional
amendments, the right OF suffrage, the oasis O
| representation, and the three-fths principle O
| slave representation. He closed his remaIk k
amidst the lOudest and most enthusia, I'll
| cheering.
Mr.. Pearce, of Virginia, 8Ir. Edmond., G
| Rhode Island, and Cover or Hawley, Of Con
Iecucut, followed in brief speeches.