The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-03-10
The Point of the Cooper Institute
' Meeting.

Inc meetlnS Ol Ine TcpeutuuI hcpuD'
licans at the Cooper Institute, on Thurs
day evening, was everything we wished
and anticipated. 1t was full in numbers
excellent in character, and pertinent in
it's proceedings. The gem Of the eve
ming was the address, which, but for a
few sentences interspersed here and
there, as if to show it had a Republican
origin, we could easily have believed
was prepared by Democrats of the
purest water. In respect to negro sut-
frage in the States, and especially in
the District of Columbia, it has our
appreciation, quite as warm and deci-
ded as is the condemnation it meets
from journals like the. Evening Post
The opening address Of Mr. Cutting
was we'll enough, although it contained
nothing new And the elaborate speech
of Mr.. Seward was evidently addressed,
not the audience before him, but to
those here or in Europe who would
read him in type. That is the case
with most of what Mr.. Seward says in
speeches. For the people under his
eyes he cares little. He tiatters himself
always that he speaks to posterity.
Hence the calm, unirritating, peaceful,
roseate tone of his latter efforts. is,
perhaps, proper enough that the Sec
retary Of State addresses readers in
EurOpE quite as much as listeners in
New York.
But the point of the meeting is, that
the respectable Republican gentlemen
who inspired, controlled, sanctioned or
attended it, have Endorsed Mr., johnson
in his fight with the Radicals in Con-
gress, who number one hundred and
nine in the House, and at least thirty
in the Senate! They have, in effect,
given sanction and approval to what
the President uttered in Washington
while the meeting at the Cooper lnst-
tute was at its height! They have
proclaimed the present Congress to be
Il Rump Congress, and the Radicals,
to the number we have named, to be
Disunionists, as we have been labelling
them for some months. They have,
by the address put forth at the meeting,
pledged to the President their support,
if he veto the negro suffrage bill for the
District of Columbia, and have under
taken to sustain the Southern States in
their claim to be the arbiters of their
own fate in respect to negro voting
They declare Forney, d. ID. Sumner,
Stevens and Phillips, no better than
Davis, Toombs, Slidell and Benjimin!
After such hearty profession OF
devotion to Mr.. johnson as these gen.
tlemen manifested on Thursday eve
ming, VIC are little curious to see how
they meet the malignant tmendacity and
venemous vitupcration Ofthe President
for his speech on the same evening,
which was 50 ready and copious from
the tongues of conspicuous Radicals.
What will the Times say to the mon
strous imputations of the Tribune or
the sneaking intimations of the Evening
Post9 If the repentant Republicans
who thronged the Cooper Institute
have the manliness to face this torrent
of abuse and calumny now pouring out
on Mr.. Johnson, we shall entertain for
them added respect and faith. But il
they hesitate to encounter 30 deadly O
fire, We can offer them security behind
the solid column of Democrats who
have endured more danger in behalfo
Constitution than threatens now; and
when these rcgenerate men are accus
toned somewhat to the perils which fl
deity to the Union commands us tt
face who are Its real upholders, we ma.
advance our new recruits to the post o
honor.-N. y. World. ' .'