The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-08-31
NIGHT REPORTS.
Gen. Banks Assailing President
johnson.
Gen. Grant Declared a Time
Server.
President Johnson in New York.
His Speech to the People.

| Boston, Aug. 30.--At radical mass meet
ing at Portland on Monday, Gen. Banks in,
timated that the President was a prospec,
tive traitor and Gen. Grant a time-server.-
| He said that the first act of the rebels after
Their accession to power would be to remove
| Grant from office and place one of THEN
own friends in his stead
| NEW YORK, Aug. 30-The banquet given
to the President last night was a splendid
affair Among those present were Grant,
tarragut, Seward, Wells and the Mexican
| ana Brazilian Ministers. Stewart, Aston and
some two hundred other citizens were pres
ent. The President spoke at great length.
He said i'll the course of his remarks that
| the government went to war for the
express purpose of preserving the Union of
these States; and the government had estab-
lshed the great fact that the States have not
! the power or the right, either by forcible or
peaceful means to separate from each other
But, he observed, Congress has practically
assumed, and up to the present time carried
out the doctrine that the government was
| dissolved and the States were out of the
Union. We denied their right to secede.
| even peaceably, and now we find that when
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practical return to the Union by senat,,.
representatives to Congress, there are men
III that body who, in violation of our great
chafler OF liberty, refuse to admit them
HE question is, viii we submit-wf1l the
american people submit to this. The issue
Is before you Ii we submit te this. we
give the lie direct to every position taken nv
Us since the commencement of the war Ha
asked, in the spirit of sonnd chris
tianify' and sound philosophy. if
we are prepared to AGAIN coo
one portion of the country arraionaa
against the other in deadly conflict or shall
we make every effort to unite the whole
country IN harmony and brotherly affeetionq
referring to the Philadelphia Convention be
SAID ting best evidence that can be shown of
loyalty are loyal professions and loyal actions
and when these gentlemen meet in Conven-
ton tren the North and from the Sontb
come forward and profess devotion to the
Union and Constitution and their actions
and professions correspond, who dare doubtl
When we have reached that point that ALI
confidence is lost in men, l tell you that your
government Is not as strong as rope of sand.
1t has no weight and will tumble to pieces
The adhesive power of the Government is
the confidence which the people put in each
other He said the South had accepted the |
arbltrament of the sword, and wanted to |
return to the Union again He did not |
want to see them come back deora-
led and debased, but wanted them to come
with all their manhood They have AGAIN
aiken up the Constitution and asked ito
avs to be enforced. What then was tho
'ause OF distrust or lack of confidence i,
hem There is nome He also said H..
zen Grant aud himself had fought for tba
Union at one end of the line and now tbax-
we're hghflng for it at the other end Grant
vas not In the field, but he was DOING eou.I
good service He said our three tbonsana
aliiions OF debt could be paid by a consol;-
ation OF our nationality and the people ana
ne Union OF the States In conclusion he
ald Inat the demonstration in New YorL