Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-09-05
Remarks Of Hon. John Hutch

EELLON SAllLENS s"luls nGSLlu2 10 Nc-
signed by the Committee, who called it
Z be the opening Of the campaign il
the 18th Congressional District. 1t is {
pleasure to participate in its proceedings,
and a duty to obey your voice in presi'
ding over it-and you will accept my
thanks for the honor conferred.
The consequences for good or evil re
sulting from the elections soon to be held
in the loyal States, upon whichwa thrown
the responsible duty TO defend the
Government against treason and rebel
lion are likely to be more widespread and
far reaching than those which ordinarily
follow the result of elections in this our
try. 1t is not an over statement TO saw,
that the Importance of the political con.
test now going on in the nation, has had
no parallel in our political history, not
even the second election of the lamented
Lincoln. His reelection by a triumph.
ant majority, took the marrow out
of the military power of the rebellion,
and the success of the Union Republic
can ticket in this and other loyal States,
in the coming elections, will take the
political marrow out of the late rebels,
and set them upon those back seats
which Andrew Johnson once said they
should occupy-when the rebellion was
put down.
There would be no doubt about the re-
suit of elections this fall in n State, 8
majority of whose people were not rebels,
or in sympathy with them, if Andrew
johnson had been faithful to the loyal
men who trusted him and made him
Vice President, and to his own pledges,
publicly given. The loyal people of this
country are generous and confding, and
therefore they were slow to believe that
the President intended TO betray them,
and espouse the cause of the rebels. In
the light of recent facts, the Presidents
intention and purposes are 30 patent, that
he who runs may read and understand
them, and among true Union men there
will be no unbelieving Thomas-unless
his ''bread and butter depends upon his
unbelief. Some moralists have been SO
liberal as to say that circumstances might
be such that a person had better steal
than starVe-but in this age of charity
and beneyolence, where ''bread and but
ter can be had for the asking, there can
be no excuse for any Union man to follow
Andrew Johnson into the camp of trail
tors and Copperheads. President John
son keeps faith with the party that
elected him Vice President in the same
way that Judas Iscariot did with his Lord
and Master, and as Benedict Arnold did
with his country. He is unlike Judes in
this, Judas betrayed his Lord with kiss,
and Andrew Johnson betrays his party
with curses, for its representative men.
He is like Benedict Arnold in this. When
Arnold had consumated his treason he
went over with his baggage and the few
followers he had, to the enemies of the
cause he had betrayed, and so has An
drew johnson. Andrew johnson prom
ised to make treason odious and punish
it as the most henious of crimes, as it is,
but instead of this he has so exercised
his personal Influence and his preroga-
tive as President, as to make it respecta-
bic. He has pardoned unrepentant reb-
els. and put them upon the front seats of
power, over true Union men who adhere
to the faith he once professed. He prom
lsed the loyal colored u~nionists to be their
Moses, snd to lead them through the
Red Sea of struggle and servitude to a
future of liberty and peace. His policy
makes him their Pharaoh and will lead
them through the Red Sea of blood to a
of servitude, worse than English
v~Illenage or Russian serfdom, for the
freedmen of this country will be less pro-
tected in their natural rights, under the
policy of Andrew johnson, as defined
and declared recently at a Philadelphia
Convention, 1.-THE Philadelphia ConYen-
ton is to be held on Monday next, than
even the villains of England or surfs of
Russia in the last days of their barb arous
institutions, which monarchical enlight-
enment and civilization hsve destroyed.
Had Shakespeare lived at the present
day, he would have had no occasion to
resort to Yenomous animals and poison
.us roots, for a compound for his hell
broth in the witches cauldron, in the
play of Macbeth. He might have appro-
the ingredients of which the
johnson broth was made at Philadel-
pnia,. and which the President and his
psripatetic Secretary of State are now
out in homeopathics doses, on
their electioneering route to Chicago.
1t is a boast of the Johnson Democrats,
the proceedings of the johnson Con-
at Philadelphia was harmonious.
Why should they not be so The ma
of the Convention was made to
order in Washington, and before it was
sent to Philadelphia it was saturated
With the ~lubricating oil of Executive
patronage. The tenor of the policy of
.he President will be found in the testi-
nony of Alexander II. Stephens, before
he Congressional reconstruction case.
1t is briefly this: That the rebel states,
when the arms which they were using
% overthrow the North, were taken from
hem by the armies of Grant, Sherman
md Sheridan, they were legally and
JonstitutionalIy entitled to representa-
in the Congress of the q. s., both
u the Senate and House.
Ineed not stop to show that this is in
opposition to the Presidential
heory, put forth only a few months ago.
zen. G. will, no doubt, show this in the
peech he is to make. In other words
he johnson Democratic theory is, that
here is a back door to the Constitution
{ which se~cessionists and rebels may go
and if they fail to make good the
1ea of their going, there is a Constitu-
ional front door through which they
nay come back again, just as though
had happened.
How effectual will such a principle be
Or preventing secession and rebellion -?
bout as much 10 as a law would be to .
murder, that should enact as a
that the murderer should stop
1urdering, or that a thief shonld stop
And this is the way some men
ropose to make crime odious. Such a
will have some advocates. Men
re not apt to have a good opinion of the
aw that Furnishes crime they have com.
I do not blame Alexander II.
tephens, for holding that he has done
that will prevent his taking his
eat in the Senate. Those Democrats
tho hold that the people of the South
yere justified in their rebellion, are not
Inconsistent in supporting the Presidents
NoIoyaLman can consistently doit.
MI. a. spoke briefly of what Congress
done. He said it had done some
hings it ought not to have done, and
lad then left undone some things it
to have done. Upon the question
# the reconstruction, it had probably
lad done all that q majority of its mem.
,ers thought it could safely do in face
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