Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-23
FROM WASHINGTON
TREMENDOUS MASS-MEETING!
The People Endorsing the President!
the PRESIDENT MAKES ASPEEcR

Dougall, Montgomery Blair, and many other persons
of local distinction. series of resolutions sixteen
in number, land long enough for two or three stump
speeches adopted unanimously, the gist of the
whole being contained in the following:
Resoved, That the letter, and more especially the
spirit, of Federal Constitution aims to counteract
the natural tendency to Capitalization of power IN
the hands of the General Government; that every
indication of breach through the barrier thus pro-
vided should be watched with the utmost vigilance
and be resisted with the most uncompromslng deter
minaton at its earliest manifestations; that we have
therefore witnessed with the utmost alarm the recent
reckless disregard of constitutional restraint on the
part of the governing majorties in both branches OF
Congress indicating public danger quite as great
as that from which we have so recently been deliv-
ered and with hearts overlooking with JOY and graft
TIDE we hail the recent cent veto meHage q Predent
mist revolution, thus tar shalt thou go and no
farther"
The demonstration an imposing one in point
of numbers and besides the immense audience in the
theatre, two or three stands were erected outside
from which several of the speakers addressed the
thronging mutitudes
The resolutions presented to the President by
4 committee appointed by the meeting after it had
adjourned. After the committee had presented the
resolutions. the President proceeded to address a
large crowd assembled at the Executive Mansion.
There cries of order" and quiet being par
tally restored, the President spoke as follows:
Feylo,c Citizeps-For presume have the right to
address you SUCH and to this committee who have
conducted organized this meeting far. have to
tender my sincere thanks for the compliment and
appreciation manifested in their personal address to
myself and in the resolutions they have adopted.
At this point hreman,S procession attracted the
attention of portion of the crowd and created such
disturbance that the President was unable to pro-
ceed for several minutes. Mr.. Kendall, chairman of
the committee in vain endeavored to restore order,
ceedcd in making himself heard, by bringing the
crowd to something like silence.
The President then proceeded:
Felloto Cftizens-I was about to tender my thanks
to the Committee who waited upon and presented
with the resolutions adopted on this occasion
resolutions as understand complementary to the pol
icy pursued by this Administration since it came into
power am free to to you on this occasion that
extremely gratifying to me to know that large
the policy that has been adopted and is intended to
| be carried out. [Applause.l
| That policy has been one which was intended to
restore the glorious Union of the States to their orr
| cinal relations to the Government of the United
| states. Prolonged applause.
This seems to he day peculiarly appropriated for
such manifestations. The day that gave birth TO hun
| who founded this Government. The Father Of His
Country; of him who stood at that period at the head
| OF the government when all these States entered
The firemen's procession again succeeded in crea-
ting sufficient disturbance to make the President
able to be heard
The President, good humoredly, remarked-Don't
interfere with them; they right and always were
| lie said-continuing his address-This day, say,
j. peculiarly appropriate to endorse the restoration
| his Country. Washington whose name this city
bears is embalmed in the heart of all who love free
"a fSe Apd re
was first in peace, first in war; and first in the hearts
of his cOuntrymen. No people can claim him for no
nation can appropriate him.
His reputation and life are the common inheritance
of all who love free government l. to-day. had the
OF the c Nato3fi
| efforts to complete the monument erected to his
memory. | was glad TO meet them, and so far as
could, to give them my humble influence. A monu-
lHent is being erected to him who founded the Gov
crnment, almost within stones throw of the spot
from which L address you. Let 1t be completed.
Let the pledges which all these State associations
and corporations have placed in that monument OF
their faith and love for this Union be preserved Let
it be completed, and in this connection let me refer
to the motto upon the stone sent from my own State
Which has struggled for the preservation of the
| Union, in the field and in the councils OF
the nation; struggling, in consequence OF the in
terrupon that has taken place in her relations with
the Federal Government, grow ing out of the rebel
Ion, but struggling to recover her relations with the
-5 and to take her stand where she has
| 10 be placed in that monument of freedom and in
commcmoration of Washington, stand by that SEN
| timent, aud she is now willing to stand by 1t.
| Ii was the sentiment enuncated by the immortal
| tndrew Jackson-"The Fedora! Union-It must be
preserved. vivid shouts of applause The Federal
| Were it possible to have the OLD man, whose
statue is now before me and whose portrait is
]
! inscribed on the stone deposited in the monument
| were it possible to communicate with the illus
| trious Dead and he could be informed Of mode to
understand the working and progress of faction re:
helion ana treason the bones of the cid man would
| would extend that long arm and finger of his; be
| would reiterate that glorious sentiment, The
Federal Union must be, preserved, applause,
aud could he be informed of and made to understand
| the progress and working of faction, rebellion and
treason, the old man would turn over in his grave
| Laughter and cheers.l He would rise and shake of
| "a habJllmpOtS tOmb |.
ing his long, bony finger, would reiterate the sent
iaent ne once spoke: The Federal Union-it must be
| preserved" But we and witness what has trans
pred since his day. We remember what he did in
1888, when treason, treachery and infdeliy to the
| Government and Constitution of the United State!
| then stalked forth.
1t was his power and influence that then crushed
the treason in its infancy It was then stopped only
| Tor time. The spirit continued there were men
disappointed to the Government both North and
south. We had peculiar institutions OF which some
complained and TO which others were attached One
portion Of our countrymen advocated that inStitu-
| ton in the South: another opposed it in the
North and it resulted in creating two extremes
| One in the South reached the point at which they
| we're prepared to dissolve the Government of the
United States, and secure and preserve their peculiar
want to be understood. There was another portion
ofour countrymen who were opposed to this peculiar
institution in the South, and who went to the ex
treme of being willing to break up the Government
to get clear of it. Applause
am talking to you to-day in the common phrase
and assume to be nothing but citizen and one who
has been fighting for the Constitution and to preserve
the Government These two parties have been ar
rayed against each other, and stand before you to
day as did in the Senate in 1860 in the presence
those who are making war on the Constitution, and
who wanted to disrupt the Government, to denounce
as did them IN my place. those who were so engaged
as traitors. have never ceased 10 repeat. and fa
as efforts could 60 to carry out the sentiments ther
have already remarked that there were two par
| ues-one Tor destroying the Government to preserU
slavery and the otheE for RI breaking up the Govern
nlent to destroy slavery. The objects to be accom-
p!lShed were different 1t is true, so far az slavery
concerned but they agreed in one thing and that wa
| the breaking up of the Government.
] They agreed in the destruction of the Government
the precise thing which have always stood up t
oppose, whether the disunonis from the Souti
| OF from the North. stand now where [ did then t.
vindicate the Union of these States and the Consti
tuition of the country. Applause:
By & sad
the Union with slavery, or was for the Union with
out slavery. IN either alternative, was for m.
| Government and the Constitution. tApplause.l TIT
Government has stretched forth its strong arm ant
Nth its physical power has put down treason in thu
field YES the section of country which has arrayec
itself against Tic government has been put down BY
tla Government itself. .
nromse-we settle this question WIZ ne Souti
armies acknowledge the Constitution of the Unitel
states and obey the laws and the whole question il
settled. Well, their armies have been abandoned.
y hey come forward now in spirit of magnanimit!
and say; We were mistaken-we made an effort Il
carry out the doctrine of secession and dissolve tn
|
thing to its logical and physical consequences andre
suits: we now again come forward and acknowledge
the flag of country and obedience to the COnsti
tuition and the supremacy of the laws" lCheers.
l say then when you have yielded to the law; whel
you acknowledge your allegiance to the Government
] am ready to open the doors of the Union and re
store you to your old relations to the Government
our fathers. Prolonged applause.l
Who. 4 ask. has suffered more for the Union thar
! hayeI shall not now repeat the wrongs suffer
ings inflicted upon me- but 1t is not the way to dea
with a whole people, in the spirit of revenge.
| know much has been said about the exercise @
the pardOning power SO far as the Executive is con
| cerned. There is who has labored harder thai
have, to have the principal, conspicuous and intel
ligent traitors brought to justce-to have the lay
indicated and the great fact indicated that Treason
| is crime, than l who stand before you to-day
| Yet, while conscious, intelligent traitors are to b
| punished should whole States. communities and PEG
| pie be made to submit to and bear the penalty Q
| death? have, perhaps, as much hostility and a
| much resentment as man ought to have, but W
should conform our action and our conduct to tn
example Of Him who founded our holy religion-no
| that should lken this to it, or bring any compari
| son, for [ am not going to detain you Ions