The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-09-27

0VN0iniheuV, anu inc hAino mon, out OF
whose hands we took the rebel mus.
kets, now want 10 use the ballot In or.
der to go in partnership with their
Democratic sympHthizers in the North
and control this country. They tried
assassination, and they have partially
succeeded. The man who ia elevated
to the Presidency by tho assassin's
shot, that maE said to tho American
people, only six days after Iincoln's
death, standing, SO Il werc, by the
corpse Of that great immortal, he said
to the Indiana delegation that LOYAL
men should rule this country. He
said that only loyal men should take
part in the work of reconstruction at
the South. lie said if there we're only
five thousand loyai men in State--if
there were only enough there to man
the ship Of Stato--thoy should control
the work OF reconstruction absolutely.
He said at that time that treason was
u crime. The American people say
that burglary, murder and arson are
crimes, and il man commits murder
you take his lite and confscate his
property. What will be said ofa man,
said he, who assassinatos nation
Andrew Johnson didn't answer that
question at the time, but he has answer.
ed it since. He said this. will tell
you what must be dOne with the man
who attempts TO assassinate thirty mill
ions Of people. lie must be elected to
Congress, and make laws for the ma
ton. That is what he says now, But
when he first became President he was
the most intensely loyal man in this
county. lie said some bitter things,
He said thai the large plantations of
rebels should be sold and divided into
small farms for poor and honest men.
He said at that time that rebels should
and must suffer all the penalties and
punishments due TO their crimes. He
said at that time that he was 10 favor
Of negro suffrage. He said in his let
ter TO Mr.. Sharkey that he wanted
him to introduce it into Mississippi;
and in answer to letters from the South
he said, reconstruct your governments,
but recollect that the government,
when reconstructed, must be submit
ted to Congress, and they must pass
upon it, Didn't he stand up before
negro regiment in Washington, when
they marched home from the war, and
tell them "this is your country just as
much as any body else's country?"-
Didn'. he tell those negroes that this
Government was based upon tho great
idea of human equality! Mr.. johnson
told that regiment that they bad helped
to defend their country, and that they
should be protected in their rights
Mr.. Johnson also himself proposed an
amendment TO the Constitution Of the
United States, whereby representation
should be based upon qualified voters;
and he said about the 10th of Febru-
ary, that although he didn't think any
amendment to the Constitution was
absolutely necessary, yet if it was TO
be amended it ought to be amended in
that very form; and he himself wrote
down the words Of that very amend.
mcnt, and those words are now incor-
porated in tho resolution passed by
Congress.
Now, that was Mr.. Johnson's record.
and l say here tonight, that it was o
loyal record. / say, however, that his
loyal record ends On the 10th day of
February, 1866. On the 22d of Feb
ruary he made his great speech in
Washington. On that day he named
three representative traitors of tho
South-Toombs, Slidell, and Davis;and
he also named three traitors at the north
Sumner, Stevens, and Phillips, and
said if there was no longer rebellion
| in the South, that there was one in the
North; that we now must put down the
very men vino put down the rebellion,
in order to have peace and security in
this country. That is what he discuss.
ed on the 22d of February. From that
moment the Union people lost conf
dence in Andrew johnson; from that
moment they commenced leaving him
by hundreds aud by thousands; from
that moment Union Congressman ceas-
ed to call upon him, ceased to speak to
him, and ceased to have any COM
merce or intercourse with him, what
ever Applause.] He grew worse
day by day. He vetoed the Freed
mems Bureau Bill, which was merely
a bill to see that the freedman got his
rights, and if the agents of that Bu-
reau were doing wrong, he had it in
his power to bring them to justice.
The next thing he did was to veto
the Civil Rights Bill, and l say thaS
there was never more outrageous
veto in this universe than vetoing q
bill which merely guaranteed to a man
what God gave him. He said that the
reason he vetoed it was because eleven
States were unreprosonted in Con-
gress, and he also said that out of for
ty-two bills he had only vetoed two.-
Well, then, if he vetoed them because
eleven States were unropresented, l
ask him, "Nr. Johnson, how did you
come to sign the other forty, the olev-
on States being unrcpresented| lap.
plause.
But / want to call your attention to
ono fact, and 1 say il to the eternal
and immortal glory of tho North, that
Mr.. Johnson, from the time that he
made the 22d of February speech,
gained no strength; that although he
had both his pockets full of Federal
Offices for the purpose of bribery and
of making other people as corrupt as
himself, he nevertheless, got only now
and then, ono poor, solitary miserable
excuse for man in the United States
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