The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1866-03-09

HOuNGout hhVoI anu nuPPVEbVN hhH
Mutual trials and mutual sufferings
attach men to each other, They can.
not SO soon forget their devotion and
their trials. Tho cause that Joined
their sympathies will still hold them
together.
If il were possible for him to look
out fondly for the aid Of tho rebels, it
Is probable that they will hail n of
the most persistent, bitter and uucom-
promising foes of their fond but lost
Confederacy as their truest friend =
But if they, in, hot haste, can turn,
wanton-like, to their bitterest enemy,
he is not the mar to look on them rs
he does upon the soldiers of the Re-
public.
tell you he has but few friends
outside OF tho Union party. Some
men tell US that they would believe
those men who come back and take
tho oath to support the Government
True, l could believe them, but l
should couide more readily in the
love and obedience Of a Union man.
II is reasonable to suppose that a
man would love tho Union and Con-
stitution and President OF the United
States who had been absent for four
years doing al that he could TO de-
stroy tho Union and break it up is
it reasonable TO suppose that that man
would be more to be relied upon than
the man who had been acting for, and
doing all he could to serve the coun-
try. While | concede all that is right
to these men mon who have erred,
vet, "a q man, as q citizen, | have .
duty to perform and 50 help me God
| intend TO perform it to the best Of
my Judgment, and for the Govern
ment. Applause Presidents have
vetoed bills before. 1t has been com
mon scarcely an administration has
passed without the President vetoing
some bill. Why all this e%xultation
Have you not got u Froedman'S Bu-
reau at this time in operation. am
willing to hold up both hands and
swear that il this law is not sufficient
to protect and preserve tho rights Of
the freedmen, that Congress, General
Howard and tho President will fix up
oae that will do it. There is no get
ting around that, by going up and
embracing tho President. | know
the man orly last Friday ! left his
room, with his cabinet surrounding.
him in the White House. | tell you
that the destiny Of this nation lies to-
day in the hands of President John
son and the Congress of the United
States. There are three parties there.
There is what is called the extreme
radical party, with MessrS. Stevens
and Sumner at its head. Then there
are the Copperhoads, who maneuvro
like tn o secession Democrats in tho
Phirty-Sixth Congress, whose open
treason was so apparent that could
not sit on that side Of the House.
see that same spirit here that saw
there in 1861. Then thcro is the Ma
tional Union party, the. Republican
party proper, Of which Andrew John
son is the head. That party will con-
troll tho destinics OF the nation. Why
denounce this Congress- when to-day
there is more brain, more ability than
there has been before since the House
was first organized. We have got
mind and craftsmanship there. You
tell me that those men are going 10
pass laws that will bring on a conflict
between them and the President,
when they have it completely in
power to 20 along with their
business hsrmoniously. | tell you
that Congress and the President are
going TO fix everything right and
make it secure so that secession never
will win any more. Applause
Why donounee Congress- What
wrong has it done? | don't agree
with Mr. Stevens nor Mr.. Sumner on
this territorial dogma, that the State
roverts back to il territory, that it be.
a colony. | think tho Freed
mans Bureau bill was set a little too
deep. They may mako many propo-
that l think are wrong, but
ask you ,gontlelnon, when We are striv-
ny here, Ms | soc you are, doing all you
can for tho country, what need was
here for denouncing them and saying
hat some of them ought 10 be hungg
Is that the sort Of speech to harmo'
Ought not men to remember
hat Stevens and Summer might sud
Ienly think that some hanging might
not DO out of place somewhere else.
| am willing TO say that Thad. Sto-
yens is a hundred per cent. better
Than ho is represented TO be BY those
who do not know him. CApplause.
Who stood for the Government who
voted men and money! who stood oy
the administration Of Abraham Lin
coin during this struggle who aided
tho Government in crushing tho ro-
beIlion 2? Stevens and Sumner. l will
say for them that they arc at least en-
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