Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-03-07
More Delegations Pouring up
on the President.
They Speak aHd are Spoken 10.

Last Friday, March lst large Dele
CATION from Maryland, waited on the
President, presenting resolutions adopted
at meeting he'd at Baltimore on The
Goth ult.
The President after listening with pro-
found attention to the speech of Mr..
Cox, and after receiving the resolutions,
responded, adheripg firmly to bis recon
struclion policy. Here are some ex-
tracts of the Presidents speech
cannon make any formal speech in re.
ply F.: bGt IN response 10 what has been SAID
| will simply remark that my policy, TO
which you have alluded as before the coun.
try, was not announced the result of I'M
pulse, nor was il thrown out Tor any nd cup
tandum purpose. II was announced Ihe
result OF convictions alter mature cunsid-
ersiious, as a necessary construction OF The
principles upon which this Government
rests That policy, winch honestly regard
as being be besl for llIe country, will con-
Iinue before The people without he slight
al deviation, and Without beng swerVed
from on my part ] 10 cot sav this iu a
spIru ol menace or threat 20 anybody, bug
simply To give assurance that there shall
be no abandonment of, and no shrink IN q
from tia, policy because IL Is Believed that
the very existence and perpetuily of the
Government depend upon the maintenance
oi The principles which have thus been
enunciaIed.
With reference to the Radicals such
D. D. Forney, Sumner, Greedy and a
host OF lesser lights who are trying to
frighten him from his course By vile cpl
thets aud abuse, be Gays:
know that it has teel said, and no
doubt by many desIsuediy said that here
/ Is a President who was elected By parry.
/ and " hO on coming inro power, abandoned
Z that party that he has "TyIerzsd" MS
Administration that he has loIned The
/ Copperheads, and thiuga o. that kiad.
Those thugs have no influence upon me.
They fdIl Wholly TO dive me from Inc dis
charge OF my duty.
Again he refers to the disunionists OF
the North as fellows:
! am Tree 10 cay 10 you that il is not worth
while TO disguise the fact lha, ihe very
same spI;it which animated The rebe lion al
oae eud OF he line now exIsls al the oIher
Though these respective parties disagreed
in the object they wished TO accom- p,ish.
they agreed IN one thing, and that was, the
destruction OF the Government; and so far
as that point IS concerned, The one was as
cuipab.e Us The o,her. Box now, when re
f, bellIon Is pul down II we find an attempt
to change the character OF the Government.
, we must equally resist it. The attempt now
Is 10 consolidate, 10 concentrate power here .
II is The destruction o! The Government,
II is manifestation of The same spirit which
attempted TO break up the Government. !
sand opposed 10 both, STAND with yon for
The Government ,toF The ConsIisa iO0, tor the
supremacy OF the Law, and Tor obedience 10
the laws and the Constitution.
The Maryland Committee had scarcely
coae aelHded their hand-shaking when the del
egaies TO The Iron and Steel Convention
called on the President. They were from
Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, Georgia, Ken
lucky, Nsw-Iork, Illinois, Mississippi Ma
ryland. Vermont. Massa chusestts, Connec-
Iicut, Virginia, Michigan Delaware, Ohio
Missouri, and o:ber States Hon. ] K
Moorhead, OF Pennsylvania, accompanied
the de!e2 alion.
The President said that he was much
obliged 10 them for their visii, and thanked
them Tor the compliment oil calling upon
him. He sYmp 'Ihtzed 10 the utmost exlen
IN what they desired 10 perform in reference
TO increasing the happiness and promoting
the interests OF the working classes. His
whole life had been devoted to the work of
elevatins the condition of The working class
es- Every action of his lie had been in
consoBancs with that principle. Whether,
~ The means he had adopted, he had been
right, time would dscIde. He would say 10
Them that while they were here engaged in
their object, he hoped there was another
object IN which they were equally interest
ed-the thorough Restoration OF the Govern
meBl The iuli aud com pleie reconciia-
IIoUof The country ought 10 be a precursor
10 all movements-should be the fjrst object,