The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-28
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.

ern sN sNmpathzers, but on his part VINO ls now
receiving the pIaudits of the Rebels and sympa-
thizers universally.
THB PREsIDENTs SPEECH.
Who constituted the great body of the crowd
that marched to the White House on Thursday
last and drew from him that speech, which for its
indecency, bombast, maligl lty, and reasonable
leaning, there are no words htly to characterize,
and for which, with other weehty reasons, he
ought To be indicted by that grand inquest, the
I'm ted States House OF Representatives, tried by
the Senate, and for the peace and safety OF the
country dismissed from office. loud aud long
applause.) That mob was constituted, as every
loyal man in Washington knows, of
Retels and their copperhead abettors, almost to
a man, the low, the vile and the desperate.
These we're the hackers of President Johnson
rending the air with their iubilant shouts, as he
made that harangue which, as il clrculates
through the land Is filling all rebeldom with
satanic jHbilation, and all copperheaddom with
hope of victory. When the bottomless pit is in
full chorus IL is not lor sons Of good men to oin
i'm tune. daughter and applause.) Take that
speech where you may, If the brutal, the drunken,
the sediLious, the negro-hatng, the tyrannical
in spirit and design are there, 1t Will receive
their unanimous applause.
If, unhappily. here and there, there are those
who are not of that stamp, who also approve
that speech, then somuch the worse for them,
and the more nexcusable and in eXplicabe is
their conduct. Listen to the New York World
the Ddily NeaCs, and the Herald the old trinity
described In the Scriptures as 'the world the
flesh. end the deviL' Mr. Garrison then read
passages from the editorials which have recently
appeared in these disreputable papers with re-
ference to the President and his late measures,
favoring the udlence with running comment.
HENRY j. RAYMOND WORSE THAN REBEL.
He next produced an extract from the Times,
which was received with vehement Kisses. He
then sad:-If you will pardon the bad grammar
for the sake of truth, let me say that the Times
is out OF Joint and Its editor deserves heavier
condemnation than any OF his secession assocl-
ates. He, alas has gone over to the enemy in
q manner which covers with disastrous eclipse
his old fame as friend to freedom and as the
announcer of the iIrepresslble conflict and the
higher law.
SECRETARY SEWARD A FALLEN LUoIFER.
You have seen the telegram sent by Mr..
SeNa ard to President Johnson, after the delivery
OF that infamous speech. ut is all right and
safe; the Union is restored, and the country
safe; the Presidents speech is triumphant, and
the country will be happy" (Hisses.) How
ant thou fallen, Lucfer, son of the morning.
1t had been tor better for thee to have died
beneath the stabs of the assassin Payne than to
have survived and forwarded such besotted
telegram to the Presidential leader OF the Rebel
and Copperhead forces OF the country. God
may forgive you, but betrayed people never
will.
MR.. BEEoHBR HAS COT OFF THE TRACK.
But what shall be said, or what shall be
thought of the lecture delivered here week
AGO by the gifted the eloquent (applause), be-
loved, warm-hearted, wellintentloned, but
strangely-outot- hc.way Pastor of Plymouth
Church-ot that portion OF it which spoke in
euloglstic terms OF President johnson, IN con.
nectlon with his veto of the Freedmens Bureau
Bill. happened to be in Washington when the
veto was read to Congress, and as soon as /
heard 1t l spewed 1t ont OF my mouth with unut-
terable disgust, for l don't train in company
with the New York World or James Gordon Ben
nett. ] only wish that Mr.. Beecher could have
heard, as did, the admirable speech by Senator
Trumbull in refutation of that veto-a speech
which showed that the President had either
grossly misconceived or wickedly misrepresented
every part of the Freedmen's Bureau bill. His
speech not only broke that veto in pieces, but
pulverized and blew it to the four winds of
heaven.
IMPARTIAL CRITICISM OF THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
Mr.. Garrison then proceeded to read over pas
sages from the Presidents speech on the 22d,
crlticizing them as he went along. He spoke
with Indignation of the Presidents attempt to
brand some of the noblest men our country can
boast of, whose loyalty is beyond all suspicion
or doubt, as ft to be named in the same category
with the Slidells and the Davises. With respect
to the remarks OF the President bearing upon
the possibility of his sharing the fate Of Charles
l OF England, he says:-'This artful attempt on
the part OF the President to assume to be in
danger OF his life, is, in my Judgment, simply
done for the purpose OF imperilllng the lives OF
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens, and men
OF that stamp.
THE PRESIDENTS MOTIVES AND ASPIRATIONS.
President johnson undertakes to stigmatize
Congress as seditious body, a disunion oody.
What is the meaning of this? 1t is to wake up
popular vengeance; it is to bring down upon
Congress the hatred and the wrath Of wild and
violent men. tell you we have not a sober man
In the Presidential chair, and such a man with
such habits does not know from day to dav, and
hour to hour, what he will do, and yet dares to
brand the Congress of the United States as dis
loyal, disunion body.
He means, II he dare, to perform coup detdl,
and either insist at the point of the bayonet upon
having those Southern Rebels put into both
Houses of Congress, or drive Congress out OF
the Capitol. I believe that the capital is in
greater danger now than it ever was. and were
not that LieutenantGeneral Grant is living,
it would be lost. So long as General Grant lives
and occupies his present position, perhaps his
tyrannical demand may not be made. (Applausel
Mr.. Garrison closed his lecture with an appeal
to the people of the State of New York to do
justice to the black man, and place him, with
regard to suffrage, on the same level with the
white man.