The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-10-15


,hurch. whether he was a sinner once aud
II he las been Sinner, do you therefore
ienv him the right TO unite with You
No. these questions are not asked, anu ~
With regard to this matter OF loyalty ~
and senators, ana mem-
hers of the Electoral College. Any man
who to-day "a in favor Of supporting the
Constitution, who Is Tor maintaining Wy
Union, for obeying the laws aud submit
ting 70 the Fcdeval authOrity--that man Y
loyal In the proper sense OF the word, u,
indeed. IL be applicable In any sense I'D
Republican governments .,
"ue who comes Ms q Representatives
says the PRESIDENT, having the qualihea-
ti6ns prescribed BY the Constitution NOT
by Congrpss-"to iit him 20 take a seat ~
either Of the 0eliboratlye bodies which
constitute the National Legislaiuge, ~. nus ~
NECESSARILY, according to the intendment OF
the Constitution be q loyal man, willing 10
abide by, and devoted 10 the Union aud
the Consultation OF the States.'
That Is the only quail inoatiOn OF loyalty
thot ever Justly or properly was known In
the .iind. ! am aware that we nave had
other tests within the last four or five years.
To he loyal, man must swear that Aba-
ham Lincoln was the greatest statesman,
and thp .truest patriot that ever lived. To
bc disloyai. it was only necessary 10 CEN
sure any act of his administration, and
Democrats were pursued, prosecuted, ar
rested. imprisoned tried by military COM
missions cNiled. thrown into Oasties, or
murdered, because they we're not loyal IN
the sensc of party, which party had been
the peculiar advocates for years OF lrce
speech and n free press. The President
proceeds:
can NOT be for the UniOn-hc can not ac-
knowledge obedience to all the laws, unless
he IL loyal
Agreed. Then LOYALTY in the Bcprcsci-
tatiVes who are to'be sent from the South
consists in being for the Constitution. being
for the Union. and acknowledging obedl-
ence TO all the laws Good! That Is sound
DemOcrutic doctrine-jHst precisely what
we proclain. and any man who occupies
that position to-day Is a loyal man, whether
he be a citizen of Ohio or of South Caro-
lima. And there is no other docrne upon
which we can ever hope to have lasting
modification in the United States. Upon
any other they will be as Hungary until
the Emperor of Austria was OBLIGED to
give to llungarians the fun rights OF Aus
trian subjects; ~ Poland Is to-day, and has
been for n century; and as Ireland. glori-
ous, noble old Ireland, has been for five
hundred years; but, thank God AS she
will not be for many years longer-mder
British rule.
And further SAYS the Presldcnt--and this
clinches the point which | make-"When
the people send sUch men In good faith,
they are entitled TO representation through
hem.n
| stand upon the doctrine of the Presi-
dent. am not his partisan. and do not
support him as such. | am Democrat
and ever intend to be--a 'Democrat," with
out prefix or ailix. Yes; for one, Mt least
| mean to be, by your consent, n member
of Il cOnventiOn--a national convention-to
nominate Democratic candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President in 1868 though
that convention should be no larger than u
county convention; and for one, mean to
east niy vote for those Democratic candi-
dates though they should receive no more
votes than James G.. Birney in 1874. Let
the men who talk about disbanding the
Democratic party; about its being dead,
with whom ~the wish is father TO the
thought.r) let them take notice that there
arc two millions of men, who were born in
that party, whose children have been bap-
tizel in 1t. and who mean to sustain it, at
every hazard, as long as they shalt live
[Applause.]
have said that the President has now a
policy which every Democrat endorses
1t is our duty to support him earnestly and
cordially i'm carrying ont that policy-tht
policy of immediate restoration to ful
Federal relations ofall the States, so that
we shall have Union, not of six anC
twenty. but of thirty-siN States. Now Il
so happens that the very issue of tonight
was the issue six years ago. When last
addressed you from this very spot, in 1860
what was the question? Mr.. Lincoln eX-
pressed it in his inaugural-"the terms o
intercourse between the North and thC
South.n 1t differs now only in so far as the
status of the question has been changed by
the long an dbloodywar which has iHterveI
ed. We then debated In public assembling,
upon what terms of intercourse the Nortl
and South should live together. At thai
time the extreme men of the Soutl
were claiming that they coulC
not remain in the same Union with the
North and the West, unless they had guar
antees to protect them in the enjoyment o
their slave property, over and above wha
the old Constitution had given them; anC
now, after this long period of bloody auC
devastating warfare, what is the question
''The terms Of.intercourse "still; and party
of extreme men here in the North, cOntroll'
ed by Congress, are claiming that they cal
not live with the people of the South, un'
less they have new and additional guaran'
tees to protect the North against the South
lest one of these days they rise up and con
quer the North.
Hear Lincoln in his inaugural:
"Suppose you go to war. You can no
fight always; and when, after much loss OIL
both sides and no gain on either, you ceas
lighting, the old identical questions as t.
the terms of intercourse, are upon you"
Now, heard that | remember that es
pecial sentence. Standing in the eastern
portico of the Capitol, under that magnifi
cent statue of Christopher Columbus, ehis
eled out of solid marble, unhappily not by
an American, but an Italian artist, | list
ened to those words, rs they fell from hi
lips, aud they but confirmed me in tn
course of public conduct which had pre-
scribed for myself--because 1t was the pro
found and solemn conviction of my inmOs
soul that il war could settle nothing, II a
the end of the fight, the ''oId identical ques
tions" We're TO remain for adjustment, the
reason, and religion. and humanity, am
every material, moral and political interes
of the country, required that they shoul
be adjusted without war ut all.
TO BE CONTINUED
BdS-A clever political jer d'espTft appears /
the Indianapolis Herald, tnat vii. probably sur
yiye the passing interest in the elections. IL Is