, 1866-08-24
Tammany and the Adm,bI,tra,,ou.

The Tammany Society OF New York cele6ra.
ted the Fourth, aud invited the President, Cab.
met, ETC., to participate. From the letters in
response to their invitations we quote;
President johnson wrote ..
The national tone and patriotic spirit of the
Invitation meet my hearty approval. They are
| indications Of growing public sentiment,
which, now that the bitter strife Of civil has
ceased, requires renewal of the pursuits OF
peace, return to the Constitution of our faith
ers, rigid adherence to its principles, increased
reverence for Its sacred obligations; a restored,
| invigorated, and permanent Union and fra
ternity of feeling that shall make us, as peo.
Pile, one and indissoluble. There can be, for the
patriot, no higher duty, no 1obler work, than
the obliteration Of the passions and prejudices
which, resulting from our late sanguinary con.
tict, have retarded reconciliation, aud prevent.
ed that complete restoration of all the States to
their constitutional relations with the Federal
Government, which is essential to the peace,
unity, strength, and prosperity of the nation.
Secretary Seward wrote
Irejoce with the Society that the conflict of
arms has ceased that the rebellion has been
crushed that the authority of the Government
has been vindicated, and that the Gag of the
UuOn now floats trium phantly over every foot
of national domain. On the other hand, mourn
with lhe Society that the perfect Union given to
US by our patriotic forefathers has not been en-.
tirely restOredi that eleven sovereign States
denied representation in the Federal Congress-
and are not recognized as coordinate parts in
the National Legislature. How strange all this! {!
We have killed dIsuniou outright and have
killed African slavery with it, aud yet we are
not completely reunited.
If did not feel assured that the American
people cannot suffer SO great and fatal a sole
cism to continue, should say many others
do, that we are at a crisis. Bnt l have uu-
bounded colfdence in the wisdom and virtue of
the American people. 1t is said in excuse of
the denial of representation, that the States and
their chosen representatives still continue to be
seditlOps and diSloyal. | ask is Tennessee dis
loyal? Is Arkansas seditious? Are the Sena>
tors and Representatives of either Of those
States dsloyal? desire, in this respect, that
each Of the two Houses of Congress will apply
the Constitutional test, with all the improve
ments Of legislation upon it, and thus admit
those States aud Representatives who are loyal,
and reject only those against whom the crime OF
disloyalty shall be established.
believe, with the Tammany Society, that the
Union was created to be perpetual; that the
States equal under the Constitution that
the restoration of the Union, by the recent war
ought TO be acknowledged and recognized by
all the del artments OF the Federal Government;
that spirit Of magnanimity and fraternity
should prevail iu all our councils; and that the
South having accepted OF the lessons Of the war
and reliuquished the here,ies of secession,
SHOULD just SO tar aud so fast she comes 10 the
attitude OF loyalty and in the persons Of loyal
and qualified representatives, be admitted to
her constitutional representation.
| want, henceorth and forever, no North, no
South, no East, no West. no divisions, and no
sections and no asses, but one united and har-
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