The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-17

Democratic sympathizers in the NORTH
and control this country. They tried
assassination, and they have partially
succeeded. The man who is elevated tc
the Presidency by the assassin's shot
that man said TO the Amer. ian people
only six days after Lincoln's death
standing, as 1t were, by the corpse OF
that great immortal, he 81 Id to the In.
o1ana delegation that loyal men should
rule this country. he said that only
loyal men should take part in the work
OF reconstruct on at the South. He
said If there were only five thousand
loyal men in State-if there were only
enough there to man the ship of State
they should control the work of recon-
structipn absolutely. He said at that
time that treason was a crime. The
American people say that burglary,
murder and arson are crimes, and if a
man commits murder you take his life
and contiscate his property. What will
pe said of a man, said he, who assas-
stnQteS nation! Andrew johnson
didn't answer that question at that
time, but he'has-answered itsince. He
said this: / viii tell you what must be
done with the man who attempts to as
sassinate thirty millions of people. He
must be elected to, Congress, and
make laws for the nation. That
is what ne says now. But when
he first became President he was the
most Intensely loyal manin the coun-
try. He said some bitter things. He
said that the large plantations of rebels
small farms 1or poor and hon
est men. He said at that time
that rebels should and must suffer all
the penalties and punishments due to
their crimes. He said at that time that
me was IN favor of negro suffrage. He
said in his letter to Mr.. Sharkey that he
wanted him to introduce it into Missis-
sipPi; and in answer to letters from the
South ne said, reconstruct your govern
lments, but recollect that the govern
ment, when reconstructed, must be sub
United to Congress, and they must pass
upon it. Didn't he stand up before IA
negro regiment in Washington, when
they were marching home from the
war, and tell them 9 this is your coun-
try just as much as anybody else's
country 21 Didn't he tell those negroes
that this government was based upon
the great idea ofhuman equality? Mr..
johnson also himself proposed an
amendment to. the constitution of
the United States, whereby representa-
ton should be based upon qualified
voters, and he said, about the 10Th of
February, that, although he didn't
think any amendment to the Constitu-
tlon was absolutely necessary, yet if it
was amended it ought to be amended
in that very form; and he himself wrote
down the words of that very amend
ment, and those words are now incorpo-
rated in the resolution passed by Con-
gress.
Now, that was Mr.. Johnson's record,
and l say here tonight that itwas a
loyal record. say. however, that his
loyal record ends on the 10th day of
February, 1865, On the 22d OF February
he made his great speech in Washing
ton. On .thatday he named three rep
resentative traitors of the South
Toombs, Slidel and Davis; and he also
named three traitors at the North
Sumner, Stevens and Phillips - and
said If there was no longer rebellion
in the South, that there was one in the
North; that we now must put down
the very men who put down the rebel
lion, in order to have peace and securi-
ty in this country. That is what he
discussed on the 22d of February. From
that moment the Union people lost
confidence in Andrew Johnson from
that moment they commenced leaving
him by hundreds and by thousands !;
from that moment Union congressman
ceased to call upon him, ceased to speak
% him, and ceased to have any COM
merce or intercourse with him what
ever.
Sometimes say TO myself, have we
always got 10 talk and reason, and
must the friends of liberty ever be on
the alert2 is the future never to grow
radiant and clondless2 Is the time
never to come when men will be will
ing to treat others as they wish to be
treated themselves? /? Must the sire
hand to the son forever the musllet and
the sword? Is the time never to come
when the shackles will fall from the
hHITngT1 family 7 toll
time win come. God Almighty with
his finger has written upon every hui
man heart that shining word pro-
gress 3" and the human race is
going forward upon the great shining
highway of political prosperity and
power. The time Is coming when there
VIII not be stain nor u spot upon our
flag, not shackle in this country; but
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, grand
people VIII be gathered within the
great temple of liberty, ceiled by the
hills and domed by Gods eternal blue.
[Applause. Iimplore and beseech the
Union men and the Union women of
this country, who stood by us in this
struggle, for Gods sake don't abandon
the struggle for which your fathers
and brothers died. / implore you to be
true to your country, and let those in
high places go IL they desire. 1t is their
privilege to disgrace themselves if they
WISH tDuGg II. We a1OllOW b19m, IL is our
own fault. Think of the hundreds of
millions of people that can live here.
Think of the great Valley of the AIissis-
sippi. Think ofthat civilization which
started away In that cradle of mankind
--in Asia, coming along over the Nile,
and the Euphrates, and the Tigris, and
extending over Greece and Rome, and
at last lighting up the grand forest of
the New World. Recollect that the
grand army of human progress SAYS
that there shall be no cessation of hos
tilitiss. until the purple of kingly
authority becomes a shFoud IGFeat APP
pldusel in which shall be wrapped the
corpse of tyranny, implore tonight
the Goddess OF Liberty to stay with us.
Let us remain forever beneath the
shadow of her wing. Where there is
no liberty the stars do not shine in the
heavens, and the light oil the sun is as
the blac@Sness of despair. But when
iibeftV hoYers above us every thing is
bright aud beautiful, the earth is COW
cred with flowers, the air is intoxicated
with perfume, and the human heart
throbs solemn psalm of praise to the
Great Being through whose creative
power the Goddess of Liberty came "a
dwell among mankind.
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