The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-08-02
Radical Meeting in Washington.

Buildings, Washington city, on THURSDAY
NIGHT. 10th ult., for the purpose OF de
nouncing the forthcoming National Con
yention and the policy Of the President
OF the United States. -.
General Robert G. Schenck, on being
chosen to preside, commenced his remarks
by saying that he appreciated the honor
done him all the, more because ne wei,
understood that the honor was confeIfeu
upon him because the soldiers ana sailors al or
and fellow-citizens who had fought lot
and stood by the Government, In lts tlme
of peril. recognized in him one who SYM
,atbized with them in every feeling con-
9ected with the discharge of it's duties.
II was because it had been his fortune to
.ro with them through something OF the
1eriIs of the. past five years; because,
standing there, he mourned with tnem mem
for those who were lost in the endeavor
to establish, as was so successfully done'
the. cause of human liberty and constltu-
tional rights in this country, and because
he stood there, also, to rejoice with the
Survivors, who were equally determined
that they would, by their voice and with
their hearts and with their hands, II ne
,o oessarv maintain all the fruits of their
victory. [Cheers.)
He then introduced Governor Hamil-
ton of Texas, who, after few introduc-
tory remarks, went on to say that the
character of the'question was emlnently
political. and he would ask, where was
The great power of the country ? 1t GER
Sainly was not the Executive. he was
but, the servant OF the law.making power;
he had no more right to say what should
he,done outside the law of the land than
anv other citizen, and he Mr.. Hamilten]
characterized the line OF pohcy OF the
President of the United States as the
foolish ebullition, of a private citlzen-Who
could hurt no one. He continued at
GREAT length in the same strain, euloglzed
fbe black race, and thanked God that the
bill Of rights passed in Congress in spite
of the Executive resistance. He was
loudlv condemnatory of all traitors, espe-
cially jeff. Davis, and all the rebels OF the
South. The public mind was familiar.
led with revolution, and itwould be well
that Congress should stillrremaln in ses-
sion and protect the interests OF the ma
tion against dangerous minority !,
The chairman, in announcing General
HOGAN. made a few Introductory remarks,
in the course of which he alluded to the
President as the gentleman who presided
at the White House on Southern affairs.
At the close of the war the rebels asked
what they should get, but now it was
what they shall have, and it would notoe
long until it would be, "What shall we
allow the - Yankees to have? The
amendment to the Constitution securing
liberty and equal rights to all, and most
Of all, equal rights of representation, ac-
cording to votes, to the people of all the
States throughout the land, lad been sub
mitted for ratification to the Legislatures
of the States. Tennessee had been at
work on that amendment, and her Sen
ate, some days since, by large majority,
rave their concurrence to it, to be incor-
0orated forever hereafter, as another
r norton of the charter of liberty, in the
great organic law of the land. But there
were difficulties in the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Tennessee Legislature.
He could not say now these difficulties
might have been increased, if not orlgl-
mated. by the manipulations of small pol
iticians here at Washington. That dill
Guilty had now ceased.
= General Logan was received with loud
applause. He said the questions that
were in discussion before the country now
were certainly of such o character as
would REQUIRE great thought and care on
+be mart Of the people. 1t seemed strange
that thew assembled together now, since
The war had closed, for the purpose OF
discussing the question as to what was
the proper mode or manner OF restorlng
the political relations that formerly ex-
listed between the people OF the States
and the General Government. Ii they
would only 90 back some three or four
years he believed they could find no man
in the land who claimed tc be a loyal man
while the war ragged from one end of the
land to the other, while blood flowed in
the land, and while they could hear the
wailings and weepings of widows and Or
nhans, who would attempt to raise dis
cussion as to the proper mode or manner
of restoring the Government should the
rebellion be put down. He had not heard,
nor did he during the war find one man
who claimed to be loyal and true to the
t4overnment who did not believe and ad-
gocate the idea that when the rebels drew
their sabres against this Government
that they, by that act of defiance to the
Government, it's authority and laws
claimed no further protection from 1t
He then went on to argue that it was
GREAT stretch of the magnanimity OF the
Federal Government not to kill all the
rebels when they had them in their pow
u: Rnt there was change in the land
now The Executive then wanted to be
the Moses leading the slaves from bond
age, but he [Logan] could not see it, Th'