Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-02

referring TO the present state OF the affairs
the country stated that he saw storm to frghter
MN. Laughter and applause
IN his distant mountain home the hearts of thu
people beat in unison with the people here and that
when he voted for the Freedmen's Bureau bill, ove
fne veto OF the President the response came bach
from ms constituents, We'll done good and faithful
me speaker stated as his friend had said in New
10 ork that some might be washed overheard laugh
"tC ~ t1"se were the least likely who stood the
NAIte1C ~ ~ g " uech. lApplause.
ne nau seen harder storms thau the one now brew
ing over us but that it would last long rs was the
case with all storms, which was SO stronS in the he
ginning. Laughter and applause / T6e proSidon4
had vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau. and Congrass
could not quite pass It over the Presidents Veto
cause he thought it was right, and the Prasidop+
vetoed it because he thought it was wrong fCbeerS
and renewed laughter One thing it had done II had
caused all the rebels to shout again [Iaughtcr i T%
President, although vetOing the present frocinoap
bureau, had the old one and as one of sacred
writ remarked These dry bones live again. .
lLaughterl 7
He had watched the rebellion, marked it well, and
keeping his finger upon it. knew who traitors gere.
he could tell one when he saw him. laughterI they
looked dissatisfied because they failed to break the
principles laid down by the Government. lie be-
ieved in quick conversion, even as quick as Paul's
but that of the rebels was little too quick laugh er
that they bad pledged themselves to the Presidents
policy 6ut that he never saw any true to the prin-
elpleS of the Government. Cries of good good They
say they accept the issue does the criminal in the
boy n because Us, be cant help it; LLaughTer.l
come in humiliation? Five years ago they boasted in
Congress that we could not keep them in the Union
ana that now they were just loud in their declara-
ton that We could not keep them out laughter
and that by their actions they are saying, You
foolish loyal men, we'll fight you when we please
and # we fail with the bullet wen fight you with the
ballot Laughter and applause.l
BuI none Of that Tor me. know not what others
Will do, but for me and my house we will not vote
for a rebel to come back into Congress- rla(ghterI
and think can do anything a man ought to do
renewed laughter and that, if it must be done YOU
must chose some other instrum ent-that he saw in
n thn ET,yfa 4I,t
whetted tor the assassination of President Lincoln
and the sears of the Secretary of State-a this ar
the question, Is there rehe here? lie wouId like
to see one, as he had not come to call the righteous
put SINNERS, to repentanee, laughter and he de-
Suppose your armies had been successful, that YOU
had desoated this beautiful city, how long would it
have been before You would have admitted Yam
keeint Congress? CHEERS The reheIs though af-
ltlcted with chronic disease were getting impaticnt
because they could not be cured by a Single dose
laugbterI, that taxation Ito them without represen-
tation was dreadful thing. Renewed laughter I
Let them find that there no nutriment in
m mhuSks, and that they could not ell themselves with
the east WIND, ana then come back and if we
would not kill the fatted calf and if we did not we
would at least kill lean one. Laughter That it
took them thirty years to get out of the Union and
they were not satisfied because they could not get
back IN thirty days. LLaughter Things generally
outside; and that as the lean traitor Alexander Ii,
stephens was ON the outside, he asked what was in
the inside LCheerSE and that If Hershel v johnson
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age. Laughter and applause.
If he was rebel he would be satisfied to live un-
der the laws made by loyal men. [Cheers.l Thatyou
never saw criminal sitting on his own jury Laugh
ter Take off your grey uniforms while you are pro
testing your loyalty, and that they the rebcs) would
have to wash more times in pure water than the
leper dl OF Old In order to get pure. so deen was
the STAIN eheers and laughter that it was easier to
eradic9tes leprosy then to traitor. Ilaughterl
Arnold never got cured renewed laughter] and his
tory has set to record the cure of one traitor Ian
pausel they even could not sit in judgment on them
selves without condemnation. ChccrsI
They might betray the lands. but that they could
not betray US again. Loud cheersI How hungry
the traitors are to get possession of the flesh pot OF
power cheers and laughter but when thew had
wept sufficiently over ten thousands of graves they
caused and then come back, though their sins might
be as scarlet, they would be received and made
gress is in danger, do you? Laughter [ guess
Congress will take care of iiself-and if it don't
the people will take care Of them. LLaughter.l l
don't think the President will leave Us, as he has no
where to go; there nothing to subSist on with
the rebels. Loud laughtcrl
| am Republican, and have been for year. and
joined the Union party from its beginning and that
longer used Cheers The Union now was cemented
with loyal blood, cheersl and that ifthe Union party
tonight it would have glorious inheritance in the
future that the God of battles and of liberty was on
its side. Cheers.I Those little rppes now agitating
the country was only to test faith. The speaker
retired amid shouts of applause.
REMARKS OF MR.. THOMAS.
Hon. John Ia. Thomas, of Maryland, then being
t9udly called i9r, appeared and was greeted with
three cheers. After thanking the meeting for the en-
thuSiasm with which he and Others had been re-
celved stated that the meeting at the Institute
few nights since, in OF theirresolutions resolved
that all men without distinction of party sh0nid unite
themselves together and form great National
Union party.
Not happening to be present, he judged from those
who had signed the call, and those present upen the
stage, and wondered that some of them wouid favor
any party at ALL as the major part had been for the
past three or tOur years without any party because
they were trying to break up the Government and
rs IN hasa l1s4-,
chIsed by the people of the State for dsloyay-the
great wonder was that the should desire to form a
national party. tCheers.
lie came not here to form a party, because he be-
longed to party begun in 1S6l-that party had lived
all through the war, had saved the country and that
we wanted no other Union party, cheers, and, as
had been stated by his friend from Nevada. it had
been cemented by martyred thousands, and that it
needs no other cement, loud cheers that party was
the same to-day far regards tho opposition tJ
treason a it had shown itself in the five years past
lie Gid not come here to get angry with to abuse
the ffesldent, because he agreed with bin in many
particulars.
When hosays that treason must be made odious
and traitors punished say it is only constitutional
and so does Congress. When be SAYS Speaking to
the southern StateS) that when am satisfied you are
loyal the doors of the Union will be opened to re-
Seiye you agree with him, and does Congress.
LCheers.I The speaker then went on to explain the
stand taken by him in Congress, and stated that no
rebel could enter Congress bv his vote oud cbenrs
The President might call him revoutionist a rad-
cal, orwhatever be pleaSCS it was nothing to him. he
should move on in the same direction, and whether
or minority he would have the satisfaction of know
ug he had stood on the side of his couptrv fT0ud
eheers.I He had received both ietors and teegrams
directing HIM to stani by the President. A voice
IRON rebels so will whenever he is right and so
viii Congress, lcheersi but reserve to myself the
right to determine when he is right
Here Mr.. Thomas intimated his desire to cease
speaking, when cries of the Registry law were made
in answer to which Mr.. Thomas remarked that uDOn
tins you know my opinion; he would never change
it, cheers and stated that if you desired rebels fo
RUE, repeal your registry law and the aim would be
accomplished For himself he intended to oppose its
repeal; LeheersJ ana as letter from the Eastern
Shore had stated they would oppose the registry law
even to rev0lution, he would meet them in reyolu-
ton. Loud cheers.
Don't let copperheads in your midst delude you;
don't think because Congress thinks for itself and
the PRESIDENT for himself that the Union party is to
be divided No, 1t Will not be So-organile and Sc,
that none but those opposed to the repeaI of the
stry law represent you in the legislature; send
men tnat can be neither frightened or bought,
CHEERS and those men would resist its repeal night
and day, rs we would resist the entrance night and
day ofrebelS into Congress.
Referring TO the constitutional amendment the
speaker stated that he was in favor of an amend
ment to keep traitors out of power, cheersl as he
never could or would trust them, [cheersl, and ii
they DID get back into Congress he would not then
trust them. Renewed cheers He wanted con
stItuuonal amendment providing tn the rebel debt
should not be Pad and another that the expense in
CURED by the United States Government for proyid-
ing soldiers &c not one cent of it should be repu-
dated. Cheers.
lie had not disappointed his constituents. he said
to them he would endorse the pesi, emf in ali wise
MEASURE and so he w""".,l but that he was pc 70
10 20 NV ,oneers) and until they ha1 SHOWN them
ewes untrue to their principles he asked that the
constituents
Mr.. Thomas then amid shouts of appreciation, re
tired and, after an air by the band the President
announced that the meeting was adjourned. The
audience, which had at this late hour considerably
thinned out quietly dispersed while the band played
DuGing the progress Of the meeting several cheers
were gwen Tor Congress, the lamented deceased