The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-10-25
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
Views of an Ex-Vioe President-Great
Speech Of Hannibal Hamlin,

Hon Hannibal Elanlin spoke in Phiadel-
phia on the issues Of the day. on Wednes-
day night The academy of Music was
filled by large and attentive audience.
Mr., Hamlin was received with immense
applause, the entire audience rising and
| giving him three cheers lie said
PRESIDENTIAL INSPIRATIONS.
/ ask any constitutional lawyer or states
man to point out the clause IL the coustitu-
ton that gives authority to the President to
appoint civil Governor 1t does not exist
He ought to have held ali these States in
military subj lection, and then submitted the
matter to Congress to our Congress |
concede to the President as commander of
the army aud navy, full power over the
| Government i'll It's military aspect bnt
deny. from first to last, any power in the
Executive to appoint civil Governors 1t
was high crime and misdemeanor Mel
ther had he any right to impose terms upon
the States That is our business, not his
and we will teach him so. Thank God
the people command the position and they
mean to command it. Applause. He
demanded certain conditions where did he
get his power will ask any man, any
good, sober, coumon sense mtu-for it is a
question that every one can resolve in his
own mind-where did the President get his
power to propose system of legislation for
the States on one side, aud to exclude them
from being heard on the other side AID.
plause will not discuss the question
whether the States were in the Union or
out of the Union it is not material to my
argument aud care not whether they
n e.. 4,
that they had done acts which deprived
them of every right they held under the
Constitution, might quote Andrew john
sou on this point if he were AN authority
worth gu ting laughter but it is not nee
essary, When the rebel States reuounced
their allegiance to the rightfu Government,
and set up SO called Government, they
lost every constitutional right they possessed
under our Government, and so did their
leaders, every one, except one and that was
the right to be hanged afterward. Laugh
ter and applause
Now this whole thing in my Judgment,
could have been settled at that time just as
easily as now. But the President chose to
assume this power of debating terms, aud
SO he went to the States and after much
controversy they all agreed to the terms he
proposed But he only represented one side
Of the controversy, and regard that exer-
else of power as a high crime aud misde
meanor. Applause. His theory has
been that these States lost none of their
rights that after using all the power with
i'll their command against the life Of our
Government, that they could come bacl, |
again with no peuitence and subject to no
penalties. But the fourth article of tue Con
stitution says that Congress shall guarantee
to each State republican form of
Government and again it saws that oa the |
application Of the Executive of a State, or of |
the Legislature il if it be in session. he may |
suppress insurrection or domestic violence
Now, taking the theory Of the President,
| arraign him upon his own hypothesis BV |
what authority, let me ask, do you attempt /
to invest Attorney General Heron. of Lou
lslana, man who stands reeklng with the |
blood of our friends-by what authority do |
you invest him with power over the Gov
ernOr of louisiana to assume The control of
the military power in that State? That was
a high crime and misdemeanor Applause
We stand appalled, at the awful massacre
which was induced 10y the kilograms OF the
Resident. Read aloug, aud who in all !
the broad land that is not stepped in parti
sansiip to the very lips, does not know and
admit that bat for the kilograms If the |
PresldeuL that awful massacre would never |
have occurred | again arraign bin for
| do not know precisely |
what may be the definition of the word |
misdemeanor, but it seems to me that a !
man tramping over the country, attempting |
To array the people against their represen-
tatlves, is guilty Of one. 1t was painful
spectacle aud we could sommon to our aid |
all our philosophy, but we could not forget |
the commentaries that wond be made over
the waters that it was the result of our iu-
s'itutious. They would not admit that All
ldlotIc Prince was the necessary result of
their form of Government It was only
unfortunately i'll Gods providence WI had
this man upon us 1t did not grow out of
our system OF government aud yet it sub
jects US to thai commentary abroad Again,
look at the manner III which your President
is attempting to control this Govern ment
by the corrupt Increase of Executive power,
by throwing out every man, however hon
est or capable, who could not degrade his
own manhood in his policy [Applause
There has been no crime committed in all
the annals of crime there has been no rul-
ing power from Nero, bloody though it was,
to the present day equal to the moral tur
p'tude that marks our president now APP
pIause. We stand appalled, when the naim
ed soldier or the honest man and patriot
citizen, who gave his means to support the
Government when The Government
needed support, are swept away
that copperhead, who supports MY
Policy, can take his place Applause !
The old man eloquent John Quincy Adams
Capplausel who said, ''in vlew of the de
geueracy OF the times. my soul sickens in
contemplation of the fact, that, in the de
scending scale Of degradation, there are
found willing men to earn their daily bread !
by their daily shame" We honor the la
boring man whose face is bronzed, and
whose hands are hardened with honest toll
We honor him beca use his labor is the basis
of prosperity Of our Government 1t builds
up the city, and sends out pioneers into the
wilderness to establish homes of thrift and
enterprise. We honor the man that shoveIs
dirt, but a0e deSpjSe the man that eats it.
Applause.
s4T The following paragraph seems to
demand some sort of attention from those |
1t incuipates
PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE FENIANs -
The SaadWSky Register states that in a speech |
In that city a few days ago the Hon. Jo
seph M. Root, late United States District
Attorney for Northern Ohio. said he CON
sidered he was not breaking official faith |
when he related one fact in regard to the
Administration and the Frnilns which oc
CURED during the Canalim excitement