The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-27
Remarks of Secretary McCulIoch.

We yesterday morning published a
hr.oi synopsis OF Secretary McCulloch's
remarks made on the evening of the
221, in response to a serenade rendered
ta the President and his Cabinet The
t0lcWiug viii be found to be much
fuller and more satisfactory:
Fellow ClTzENs--My position in re-
ference TO the issues when are now en-
gazing public attention is not, apprC-
hend, Misunderstood by you. Cheers 7
J VIII aay, therefore, as ! suppose /
must say something, on this occasion,
that the general policy OF the Presi-
dent IN reference to the Southern
States and people recently in arms
against the Federal Government, has
commented itself to my deliberate
judgment Cheers And although
it bas been violently, and in some in
stances vindictlvely assailed, | have
conviction that II will be approved by
the people when they shall be allowed
TO pass judgment upon it. | suppose,
gentlemen, that none of us expected
that at the close of this great war, in
which much bad blood had been excl
ted, and more good blood had been
she'd we would have bright skies and
calm skies
We anticipated that at the close of
this war great questions would come up
for settlement, the discussion of which
would be likely to agitste this country,
to snake 1t from center to circumfer-
ence, but VIC know also that the people
had not been wanting in any previous
emergency, and we had confidence that
they would be prepared to cope with
and settle satisfactorily any questions
that might be presented Applause
"Ihat faith is strong with us now.
We have faith in the people, and faith
in that good Providence, which, having
led TINS nation through the Red Sea of
battle, IS not likely TO desert 1T now
that the dreadful passage has been &C,
complshed. Andrew Johnson's policy
IS straightforward, ineligible and prac-
t.csble, and if better policy can be
presented, one more in cOnsonance
with the principles of the Government,
and better calculated TO preserve the
supremacy of the Federal authority,
while il trenches not on the reserved
and legitimate rights of the States,
more just, humane and better fitted to
bind the people of this great country in
a common brotherhood, at the same
time it places just condemnation on
treason, and Vindicates the majesty Of
the law, If such policy can be pre-
3 nted, there is no man in the United
States who will more willingly embrace
it than Andy johnson. ( Hearty cheers
But until that better policy be pre-
sented he must be false to himself,
false to his record, and must, in fact,
cease TO be Andrew johnson, if he does
not adhere to his policy, and sink or
swim with it Cheers
ut Is pretty good evidence, after all,
gentlemen, of the correctness of his
policy, that Congress, after having been
in session nearly six long, weary
months, has been unable to present one
which they can agree upon as a substi-
tute. LCheers and laughter
at was once said, l think by John
Randolph, that, Of al tinkers, the Con-
sutution tinkers were the most to be
despised Cheers If the old man
could rise from hIs grave, what would
be say Of the present Congress, in
which every third man at least is a
Constitution tinker2 ICheers and
laughter.
But they are not wise enough to
amend that grand old instrument the
work Of their fathers, of the founders
Of the Republic, the glory of tn United
States and the admiration of the world.
TCheers
My fellow-citizens, there is but one
proposition that has been presented,
which stands even the ghost OF a chance
OF acceptance by the people Of the
North, snd that is the proposition bas-
ing representation on votes, and whose
fault IS It That that is not part Of the
Constitution today
"Why was it not submitted with the
amendment abohshing slavery Whose
fault was thati Was il the fault Of |
Andrew Johnson Fellow citizens, !
have only this TO say, I have desired |
and hoped for a continuance of this /
great Union party with which / have |
ever been identified but if its leaders |