The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-13

position. (Applause.) II Is you of the North
who are to show these Rebels that you are not
only mighty TO do battle, but to check all per-
hdious counsels.
We want men in Office who are true to the
interests of the Government-not the sneaks
who have hastened back from the Rebel ranks;
not men who, like Andrew johnson, have
perinred themselves, and proven false TO their
trust, which he so wantonly violates. ZAP
plause.) We are resolute to do all we can, but
we want your moral support; we want your
press; we want your Congressional legislation.
We want the military who trespassed on the
sacred soil of the South. Let all the old Rebel
military organizations be kept up as before, to
await the summons of their perf1ious command
ers. Let them raise money for monu-
ments, but really for the purchase of arms.
(Thank Heaven General Sheridan has lately
is coming when we shall be triumphant. We
can wait. (Applause.) We are not dlsconso-
late. have sacrificed very many social ties
during the last four years. (Some one here cried
out, ,"H0w about Andy at Ind.anapolisy) He said
he was treated right. (vociferous applause.) If
! had been there l would have carried shil-
lelah.
There eau be no two respectable parties at q
juncture like the present. man must sustain
the loyal Congress, or else the irresoute, bun
Cling President. In other words, he must be print
lively Union or disunlOn. (Applause.) To one
OF these issues he must at once commit himself.
II there be a tame conservative before me to-
night, most cordially invite him to accompany
me on my return South, and If he does not re-
turn a radical Republican in fortnight he is
too atrant Rebel to be capable of conversion.
(Applauee.) must confess that about a
year ago confded too much in the Southern
element TO believe that they would so wilfully
and SO completely dishonor their PLEDGES. You
must make loyalty respectable by making It a
vital, dominant power. Assemble and make felt
your mastery, ana 1T VIII hold out tor all time
10 come. (Applause.) | know what is going
on South. / know how they are seeking to con-
summate their schemes. There can be, at
time like this, but one true conservatism, one
principle, or policy rather, which concerns us
and that is the radicalism which our enemies
hate so.
Read the official reports of the Memphis riots,
in which neeroes were butchered, negro women
ravished, and the property of loyal whites wan
tOnly destroyed, and to wha. conclusion did the
impartial committee arrive! Simply that con-
serva;lsm there meant that 10 the city of
Memphis no Union man was safe, except as de-
tended and sustained by a large military posse.
There is "a lesson at Mr.. Johnson's own door.
ABOUT the negroes l will say but a few
words. They are a quiet, sober, industrious
PEOPLE, grateful for what The Government ma
done Tor them, and patiently awaiting the hour
when they can stand shoulder to shoulder at
the polls with you 10 sustain the Government
against the Vaccinations of seditous men. In
my own State there are 20, 600 who have con-
tronted the Rebel ranks (applause); and 1
thank God that you may rest comfortably
assured that they will be as faithful with their
ballots as they have been with their bullets.
They should be denied the rights of citizenship
no longer. | have been told by come of the
members Of our recent Convention, that many
OF them cannot read nor write. l respond that
thousands Of the white voters of Louisiana are
likewise deficient.
look upon the colored man as infinitely more
respectable than those who enslaved him and
thIrsted Tor his blood. (Applause.) He is
stained with blood. (Applause.) l will take it
sooner than that OF the Rebel parasite, and
cling to IT with warmer and safer confidence,
and would Tpt into It a ballot sooner than into
oil 4 AVNn hat
your own protection, and to preserve that per-
feet national eqwpoise, North and South, the
time will soon come when every black must be
accorded bis right to suffrage. (Tremendous
applause.)
i say that every sterling loyal man in Louisi-
ana adheres unreservedly 70 Congress Jap
plause), and every lnyeteIate Rebel solely to
the President. Scarcely one in that delegation
here last August from Louisiana but has worn
the Rebel uniform, and would gladly DO 1t again.
Ah time and again have heard my loyal
brethren of the South lament the demise of the
noble Lincoln (applause) who never, never
dishonored a trust who loved his country, and
who never interpreted that country as meaning
its Southern section. l was appointed by the
late Conve ntion as one OF the delegates to visit
the tomb of Lincoln; but feel can serve better
my country by remaining here in Pennsylvania
10 fight your battles. (Applause.) Since | can
not therefore go, permit me to pay slight
tribute to his memory,
The speaker tn en- read the following lines of
poetry
swiftly o'er the skies OF Heaven sombre clouds Ill
And poignant chill OF horror o'er stricken people
crept.
In its booms outmoaned Nation. and sang requi-
From thousand plaintive beifries o'er a mighty
sacrifice.
Knelt in stress OF utter sorrow far too stOd for
Knelt and whispered benedictIons by saeramental
bierl
And It murmured long the query, "should this erin.
son stigma be-
Should the very Saal Of freemen likewise fld for
LibeItyl
Every Brutus his PhiIppi-and far deeper shall I
thrust
Deeper than his sad inteTment, this vie treason to
the dust"
With valor like to Luther's, reared he high his
noble hand,
Naiing up the Dlack mans charter on the temple OF
the land.
And from 1920, Luther, shouting up the fiery
Our great statesman caught and sped then, "Oh the
| battle Is the LOrdsW
Heir to all old Freedoms struggles grasped he then
Tintng all ofical vigor with phllanthrOpie grace.
Votive to nations standard pas ed he swiftly from
| its view,
To the freedom OF Heaven, bright with purer stars
and blue
Paled his stewards chair of Office fades tue eorteRe
But the Dation's choicey hOnored lives thro' all
| historic years
(Some one proposed three cheers for the
| memory of Abraham Lincoln, which were given
| with a will, the audience rising, and waving
hats and handkerchies.)
| The speaker then resumed:-Thls Is my trip
to Chicago. (Laughter) Did ever man belle
| himself as AndreW Johnson? False TO nis pre-