Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1866-02-08
The Position Of Pfesi.
dent johnson.
An Important Speech to the
Montana Delegation.
A Notice to Ambitious Politicians.


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Mr.. fSSkf addressed the President, on
behalf Of the delegation, in an appropriat,
speecb, to which the pre,idept replied n,
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the delegation to his message:
GENTLEMEN: Il Is no ordinary pleasure 70,
me to meet you here on this occasion aud to
hear the sentiments you have announced. To
receive so large and respectable q body Of In.
telligent gentlemen from that remote region
of the country from when YOU come Il ex
| tremely gratifying to me. In response, sir.
Undressing Mr.. Pinncy,l to tho eloquent
manner In which you have expressed the
sentiments and feelings Of those YOU repre.
sent on this occasion, L might content my self
with simply returning my thanks for your
kind expressions. But you have made some
illusions to which, under the circumstances
which surround us, 1 cannot be Indifferent.
| You have alluded TO the great PRINCIPLES of
our Government having been enumerated by
me in a paper sent n short time since To In
| Congress Of the United States. ..
The declaration BY mo of those PRINCIPLES
was not the result Of impulse, II was the re-.
suit Of a thorough and calm confederation Of
those great truths which lie nj the founda.
tions Of all free governments. Those who
understood those truths, and have laid them
down as their guide. cannot fail To under.
stand the doctrines epunciated in the mes.
sage. tits not necessary To inouire whether
they emanate from this man or that man,
Those who understand and believe in those
PRINCIPLES, no matter from what standpoint
they look at them, viii find themselves inyol.
UNFAIRLY, and imperceptibIy il may be. but
SURELY coming together In all great struggles
that nav take place in regard 10 them; while
those who disciaim them. who are willing 10
repudiate them and set them At naueht. will
be found disiptegratiug and travelling In a
divergent direction. For thi, reason there
NAV be MANY now coming together without
any previous concert or Arrangement. hui
imnerceptibIy. because thew aSree on tbe
same rrca. PRINCIPLES.
| think gentlemen. there IL M one who
can mistake the gresSx-sardinal nrinoinlss
that are laid down in that message Tbey
eomprebend and embrace the PRINCIPLES unon
which the Goyernmept rests, and upon which,
to be successful. IL must be admipistered.
care not by what name the party admins.
tering the Government may be denominated
| the Union marty. the Republican marty
the Democrats party, or what not-uo party
can administer the Government sueeessfully
unless II Is administered upon the Rreat
principles laid down in that paper. You
would meet with about the same success in
attempting to carry on the Government upop
| any other PRINCIPLES than those which are
found in the Constitution as YOU would ifyou
should take hold of n niece of machinery that
| had been constructed and trained to run har.
mopiously in one direction, and attempt, by
reverse action, to run Il in the opposite
direction.
saw again that I think no one can mis-.
take The dootripes Of that message, II |,
yery easy for persons TO misropresent IL and
to make assertions that this that. or tht
other had taken Mace or will take Mace
hut I think l NAV be permitted to saw II
Won on this occasion TINT. taxing nil nv nm
tecedents. going back to INV advent int,
political life, and continuing down to III,
present time. the rreat cardinal principle,
set forth in that paper have been nv con.
slant and unerrinR guide. After having
gone so far. II is impossible for me to turn
and take a different direction. Thew will be
nv guide from this time onward. and those
who understand them may know where
shall always be found when principle is in.
yolyed.
Here let me say to you. In order to disa.
buse the public mind as far as Il il possible
for an individual to do so, that nv public
career is well. nigh done. The sand of nv
political glass has we'll nigh run out. If
were disposed to refer TO myself I NIGH
trace nv career back to the log cabin. Their
an alderman and n MAYOR In n village. then
through both branches of the State LegisIa.
ture. then for ten consecutive wears in III,
National House of Representative, then
through the gubernatorial chair To the Sen.
ate Of the United States. then provisional
governor. with a slight participation in mill
tary affairs, then vice President, and now IL
the position occupy before you; and nov
in this position, II can be instrumental II
restoring the Government Of the Unitet
States, in restoring to their true position il
the Union those States whose relations to tn,
National Government have been for a tim,
interrupted by one of the most gigantic re
bellions that ever occurred in the world, 8,
that we can proclaim once more that we ar,
a united people, l shall feel that the measure
of INV ambition has been allied. and allied I,
any who are en7ious and Jealous of homo
and position, I shall be prepared to max,
them ms polite A bow MS I know how. apt
thank them to take the place / have occu
Died, for nv mission will have been fulfilled
AIN saving this. In the performance of m,
duty, and In response to the encouragement,
YOU have given me, I feel that / am in con
dition not to be arrogant, not to feel impe