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WENDELL

grammc-Thc President q Traitor and
General Grant no Bctter-Elow the
Undivided North Is to Run the
Machine"
The following is Wendell Phillips
speech, delivered ut Cooper Institute,
on the 25th ult:
The very first talk I would set the
reassembled Congress, before they look
at the amendment or utter the word re.
construction, is to impeach the rebel at
the White House. Loud cheers. Let
the territories of Louisiana and South
Carolina take care of themselves. We
are going to a tend to this machine
with the Government that belongto us.
[Applause. And the first process to
commence is to impeach the rebel who
has usurped the functions Of president
TCheers renewed. Rebel! Too digni-
fed designation. The great mobocrat
Of the White House. Applause. Yes;
does he want to mob in New Orleans
he ignores Gov, Wells. Does he want
to mob in Baltimore; he recognizes
Gov. Swan. Cheers. Law or no
law, State or no State, limited anthori'
ty or omnipotence, no matter which, o
mob is the result,
Impeach the mobocrat of the White
House; and the second step is-depose
him. Applause, And impeachment is
Of no value if, while it drags its length
through the Senate Chamber, the inn
peached party wiclds the navy and ar
my and the patronage Of the Govern
ment against the impeaching House
and judicial Senate. The moment the
Executive of the United States is i'm
peached, craftsmanship and the Con-
stitution and the necessities OF the hour
dictate that his place should be sup
piled applause -until the acIultta
restores him to office, or q condcmna-
ton subjects us to the choosing of o
new President and Vice President to
supply the places Of the dead and de
posed.
say, impeach the President and
while he is on trial %seuuester him.
What is the advantage? Then VIC run
the machine. Laughter, Then, the
undivided North--the loyal nation
managing its own Government, that re-
construction which l endeavor to DIES
,cribe to you commences at OF ce. The
moment that rebel hand leaves the
helm, New Orleans is safe for New
York capital and New York men. Ap-
plause. The moment the Senate OF
the United States breathes the breatl
of its own spirit into the Government
Massachusetts may remodel Louisiana
hot till then. But men say: "You
leopard the party, you emFarrass the
present situation Of affairs Gentle
men, the present defect in our Govern
ment is that when we have once accept
ed Il pivotal man, we have got to keep
him for four years. Andrew Johnson.
when once planted on this Government,
will stay four We rs.
la ordinary times, we should be
obliged to bear Andy till the 4th OF
March, 1869. But his treachery, his
collision with the rebels, his resistance
to the laws of Congress, the blood o.
New Orleans upon lis conscience, his
sin ariinst tie wl,ic essence and
spirit of the hour, enable us to remov,
him. Applause /, for one, am no.
for waiting two long years to comencc
this inevitable init alton reconstruction
of Southern territory. / am not fo'
waiting two years. while a rebc. in tlt
White House builds up the Southern
a%ristocracy, gives it strength, cohesion.
organization, prosperity, capital. am
not for waiting two years with the
States of the South in the Senate ano
House, on HamIin's principle, to ma
nipulate this Government into submis-
sion. The right and the power arc
ours, and ! would commence to-day by
seouestcring rebeIdom from the Gov
ernment, the control Of the Govern
mental machine by the nation. APP
plausc.
This ~ our only object. 1t seems to
me rs if the talk Of men on this ques
ton forgot the very essence Of the du'
" to which they were set. We arc
chopping logic; we are amusing with
empty words, while we are CONSTANT,
forgetting that our only and %indispensi
bic work is not yet even begun. Not
only that, we have not arranged the
machinery by which to begin it. We
have not removed the first obstacle to
it. Why, here is Gen. Grant, the
armed hand of the Government, and
men link his name with cpithets Of
honor. Why, Andy Johnson is res,
ponsible in primary sense for the
massacre at New Orleans: but in the
true sense, Ulysses S. Grant is rcspon-
sille also.
The most humiliating position occu-
pied to- lay by any honest mar on this
continent is occupied by Ulysses s..
Grant. Appi,uses and Kisses, and
cries of mo-" %"no." Well, You hiss
me. Have We conquered New Or
leans, or have We not? Does it belong
to us or to Jefferson Davis? a voice,
DAVIS" The theory is that it be.
lon ,s to lis. And if it does, whose
business is it to see that the streets OF
New Orleans are safe for every man
who has q right to walk under the flag
Whose business is it? Voices, Grant,
Johnson" The armed hand of the
Government, wreathed in tobacco
smoke, battles in the soft breezes Of
the lakes, while the national banner
clings in every Southern State to the
flagstaff, heavy with Union blood.
Applause.
Put our Zen Butler into the Licuten-
ant Generals position. Great ap-
plause. Give him the command Of the
forces Of the United States, and do you
believe New Orleans would have been
possible? No. never! Or ifhy some