Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-09-04
The President in the North.


On Tuesday morning last, President
johnson aud several members of his Cabinet,
left Washington, en- route for Chicago, to at
tend the inaugural ceremonies of the monu-
ment IN honor OF the memory of the lamen-
ted Douglas. Ateach station persons were
congregated to pay their respects and every
where the President was received with MANS
festations of delight. At Annapolis juno
ton, Governor Swami, of Maryland, well
coined him to the State, and accompanied
the party to Baltimore. On arriving IN Bal
timore the excursionists were met by con-
mites of forty citizens, with the Mayor as
their chairman, aud escorted in open carriages
to the President street depot, for Philadel-
phia. Large crowds were gathered at both
railroad stations in Baltimore and on the line
of the procession to get view Of the excur-
sionists, who we're greeted by the waving of
hats aad handkerchief aud with deafening
cheers.
WILMINGTON, Del, August 2S-Here as
at other places on the line of the road, the
President has been greeted with hearty good
feeling, and was formally received. After
his brief remarks, the President, by request,
appeared on the rear platform, when the sur.
ging crowd pressed forward and many shook
/ his hand. The car and workshop windows
were crowded with. spectators, who we're re-
music was playing amidst the extraordinary
excitement.
PHILADELPHIA, August 29.-President
johnson arrived this afternoon, and was vel
coined by Colonel james Page in behalf of
the merchants and mechanics, irrespective OF
party, as the Chief Magistrate of the Repub-
lic-the chosen protector of their rights and
and liberties-that through him the union of
all the States would be restored, and peace
reign in fact as we'll as in name.
The President said he knew how to appre-
ciate a reception from the people of Philadel-
phia. He trusted peace had come-perma-
nent Peace-and that war had ceased forever.
We had had war enough. All his efforts
had been to restore peace and permanent
reorganization of the Government.
The Presidents remarks were greeted with
great applause. The President was then es-
corted by the military under Gen: Meade,
and the civic bodies, merchants etc., to the
Continental Hotel, where he subsequently
| addressed the vast crowd. He will be sere-
naded at II o'clock tonight
On the arrival of the President and suite
at New York, splendid banquet was prepar>
ed. Among those present were General
Grant, Admiral Farragut Secretaries Seward
and Welles, the Russian, Mexican, and
Brazilian Ministers, Messrs A. T. Stewart
Astor, and upwards of two hundred prominent
| citizens.
The President spoke at great length, and
| said in 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 established
| the great fact that the States have not the
power or the right either by forcible "
| Peaceable means to separate from each other.
but the Congress has practically assumed, and
| up t" the present time carried out the doctrine
that the Government was dissolved and these
States were out of the Union We denied
their right to secede even peaceably; and now
we find, when these States seek again to
renew their practical relations with the Union
by sending representatives to Congress, there
| are men in that body who. in violation of the
| great charter of our liberty. refuse to admit
them. The question is, will VIC submit-will
the American people submit to this practical
assertion OF the doctrine they repudiate and
overthrow by the war! That issue is before
| you. IF we submit to this VIC give the lie
direct to every position taken by us since the
war commenced. He asked, in the spirit of
christianity and sound philosophy, if we are
| prepared again to see one portion ofthe country
arrayed against the other in deadly conflict,
or shall we make every effort to unite the
I whole country in harmony and brotherlv
affection. Referring to the PHILADELPHIA
| Convention, he said the best evidence that
can be shown of loyalty are loyal professions
and loyal actions. and when those gentlemen
met in convention from the North and South
| come forward and profess devotion to the
| Union and Constitution, and when the actions
and professions correspond, who shall dare
to doubt them! Have we reached that point
that all confidence is lostin men, five have.
| <yO1Yr
strong as a rope of sand. It has no weight
and will tumble to pieces. The adhesive
power OF this Government is in the confidence
which the people put in each other. He
said the South had accepted the arbitrament
| of the sword and lost. and now wanted to
return again to the Union. He did not want
to see them come back degraded and dcbased,
| but wanted them to come back with all their
manhood. They have again taken up the
Constitution, and ask that the laws shall be
enforced. What, then, was the cause of dis
trust or lack of confidence in them There
is no cause. He also said that General Grant
and himself had fought for the Union at one
end of the line, and now they were fighting
for it at the other, and if General Grant was
not in the field he was doing equally good
service. daughter and applause. He said
our three billion of debt could be paid only
by a consolidation of our nationality and the
perpetuity and union of the States In con-
clusion, he said the demonstration in New
York confirmed him in the opinion that the
people will take care of the Government; and
those who would attempt to check their
purpose had better stand out of the way.
For himself, he had reached the summit of
his ambition with one exception He said ::
"There is but one thing wanting. Would
you (like toy hear it? [Cries of ''Yes!"1
At this particular crisis and period of our
| history, when the States are in peril, if can
| hn TIM Il.