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and support Congress, may rely with
absolute certainty, (Applause. He
insists that those conquered but still
REASONABLY disposed States are In the
kUnion, as of old, and therefore entitled
to be Immediately represented in both
houses Of Congress; and he ventures
to arraign that noble body as not only
colit,llnacious but guilty of despotic
usurpation in refusing their admission
without additional safeguards rs to theil
loyalty; yet he has not announced by
proclamation either that the war is end.
ed, or that peace is restored, but con
times to hold those States in subjuga-
ton to his will as commandments CHIEF
of the army and navy under the wal
power, suspending, even to this hour
the writ of habeas corpus. And thus
he condemns himself out of his own
mouth, and fully vindicates the action
of Congress-a Congress which, on the
score of intelligence, ability, moral
worth, exalted patriotism, reverence fol
justice and love of impartial liberty has
never been equalled since the formation
of the American government. cloud
applause. 9.aa1 {it.ii -in sH ro.l A.
The usurpation on his part in at
tempting to bully Congress into a ser
vile acquiesence to his imperious de-
mand, for it is constitutionally prerog-
ative of that body alone to decide when
and how the States may be admitted
into the Union, and it will not surren-
der that prerogative at the bidding OF
an accidental occupant Of the Presi-
dental chair, even though all the pow
ers of hell rally to his support
Cheers For whatever Of violence
or tumult or division may grow out OF
this high handed procedure, the dread
responsibility ENTHUSIASTICALLY upon
his own head, and he will be held to a
strict accountability by, an indignant
and betrayed nation. In putting his
veto to the bill enlarging the means
and powers of that bene6cent and truly
patriotic and christian department, the
Freedmen's Bureau, he has indeed exer-
cised a right accorded to him by the
Constitution, but the animus which per-
vades that veto, the sophistry which
characterizes it, will be perceived and
pondered by the overwhelming masses
of the humane, loyal, and patriotic men
and women of the land, who, in their
turn, will put an etfectual veto upon
him and his pretensions. Renewed
applause. .....
If there is any disregard of the Con
stitution, any disunionism, in spirit
and design, any wish to prevent and
overturn our free Government, it is not
on the part of those who are execrated
and abhOrred for their unswerving 10y
atty by the Southern rebels and their
Northern sympathizers. but on his part
who is now receiving the plaudits of
those rebels and sympathizcrs univer-
sally. (Cheers.) Who constituted
the great body of the crowd who
marched to the White House on Thurs
day last and drew from him that speech,
which, for its indecency, bombast, ma.
lignity, and reasonable leanings, there
are no words fully to characterize, and
for which, as for other weighty reas-
ons, he ought to be indicted by that
grand inquest, the United States House
of Representatives, tried by the Senate,
and, for the peace and safety of the
country, dismissed from office? Loud
applause. Who constituted that au-
dience? Why, as every loyal man in
Washington knows, rebels and their
copherhead abettors, almost to man---
the low, the vile, and the desperate.
Prominent among them were Mcssrs.
Aiken and Clampitt, counsel for the
murderess accomplice of Booth, Mrs.
Surratt; next, COyle, of the National
Intelligencer, comprising many seces-
sion snakes in one coil; Thomas B.
Florence, of the so-called Constitution
al Union, a reasonable sheet and a
reasonable editor too notorious to
need further description; next, ex-
Mayor Berrett, Of Fort Lafayette, and
many others equally disloyal; and
these were the hackers. of President
johnson, rending. the air with their ju-
bilant shouts as he made that harangue
which, as it circulates through the land,
is filing all rebeldom with satanic jubi-
lation, and all cOpperdom with hope of
victory. When the bottOmless pit is in
full chorus, it is not for saints or good
men to join in the tune. Loud ap-
plause.) Take that speech where you
may, if the brutal, the drunken, the Sc
ditious, the negro-hating, the tyranni-
cal in spirit and design are there, it will
receive their unanimous applause, and
If unhappily here and there there are
those who are not of that stamp, who
also approve of that speech, then SO
much the worse for them, and the more
inexcusable and inexplicable is their
conduct. s3----
FALLEN LUcIPER. I
Who else has gone over to the enemy
in a manner to cover with disastrous
eclipse his world fame, the friend Of
freedom, and rs the announcer Of his
/" irrepressible conflict" and the "high.
er law" You have seen the telegram
of William II. Seward let me read it
Z" New York, Feb. %, 1856. 1t is oil
right and safe Tthis IS a telegram "a
President johnson after the delivery 81
that infamous speech. The Union Il
restored and the country saved. The
Presidents speech is triumphant and
the country will be happy. Signed
VIM. H. Seward" How art thou fal
len, o, Lucifer, son Of the morning
(Applause. It had been, far bettel
| for thee to have died beneath the stabi
! OF the assassin Payne, than to have sur