The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-18

woman 10 get one OF the men out oil prison.
Instead of doing so he put it in his pocket, and
said If they went back on him now he was going
to do the same on them. .rf .E
Caroline Haslam sworn-Know Boys; saw the
money divided at my house in New York; q
portion OF 1t was laid aside for Boys
The testimony here closed. Mason and John.
son (Roberts) we're held in $40 bail each to
answer the charge of burglary at the present
term OF Court. Boys was held in $4,000 bail to
answer the charge of being an accessory before
and after the fact.
JOHNSON AND CLYMER MEETING AT
NATIONAL GUARDS HALL.-At the meeting of
the Central Johnson-Clymer Club last night,
there was large attendance, owing TO the an.
nouncement that Hon. Alexander II. Stephens
would address the meeting H. Brunner, Esq,
presided.
Hon. H. B. Wright, in the absence of Mr..
Stephens, addressed the meeting. He referred
to the war and Its cost in blood and treasure as
securing the integrity of the Union. The people
OF the South are now ready to come back and
act in good faith. They have repudiated the
Confederate debt; they have acquiesced in the
abolishing OF slavery, and are ready to do all
that the Constitution requires, 1t is not our
duty to keep these people at arms length. We
fought Tor four years to keep the States in the
Union; why should we now seek to exclude
We must treat a fallen foe with some degree
OF magnanimity. (Cheers) radical party
assert that there is no forgiveness Tor traitors
Christ did not reach that doctrine from the
Cross The reasonable men OF the country must
now take this matter in hand, and show TO the
country that the North is ready to forgive.
The speaker was no apologist for the men OF the
South. He had denounced the Rebellion and
the people who were engaged in it. But the
war is over, and with 1t all the issues then
raised. (Cheers) We never can have an en-
during peace unless we treat the people of the
South as brethren.
Judge Moses of South Carolina, was the next
speaker. He had, he said, no apology to make
for South Carolina. If she did discharge the
first gun in The war, 1t was done openly, after
thirty years. notice to the General Government.
If wrong, her people acted under the belief
that they were lighting for the Constitution.
She fought Tor i've years, and having been
overcome she submitted, and was ready to
accept the result of the war. The people of
South Carolina, now knocking at the doors of
the two Houses at Washington for the admis-
sion of her representatives, are as loyal to the
Constitution as the people of Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts. (Cheers.) The South was
in peculiar position, according to the radical
doctrine. For four years the North fought 10
keep the South in; now they want another
at considerable length, discussing the state of
feeling among the people of the South. They
had suffered greatly during the four years of
the war; and almost every house was house
of mourning; but notwithstanding all their
losses, they we're ready now to return to their
allegiance, and in good faith support the Con-
stitutlon and the Union. No man in the North
could imagine the condition of the Southern
people, who, finding themselves overcome, were
spurncd by Congress when they presented
themselves as claimants to a participation in
the Government. o..
The radicals seemed to be actuated by desire
TO crush rather than to reconstruct, and hence
all the legislation at Washington was designed
to humiliate a people who, if wrong, at least
thought they were right Let the question be
transferred to the soldiers and sailors of both
sections; it could be determined in five days, and
that without prejudice to the rights of the people
of the North or the South. Although the
N ati oh ha6 h..aT inpu in fhp
ton of a war to subdue the South, the people
South were willing and had actually recognized
its binding force upon them, and had agreed to
provide their portion OF the amount. What
more could be required of them? They had
complied with every suggestion OF the President
OF the United States, and had in every way
showed their desire to once more become loyal
citizens of the United States.
Other speakers addressed the meeting.
Mr.. Stephens did not reach the hall, owing to
illness.