Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-19

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NEW YoRK, April 1s.-The police repoi
that several deaths from ship fever hav
recently occurred in tenement called III
Wrens Nest, in williamsburg, L. I. Otbe
cases are reported in Grand street.
SHIPMENTS OF COTTON.
The shipments of cotton from this por
exclusively, during the week ending las
evening, were to the unusually heav
amount Of 21,IOO bales, of the eurrenc;
value of S3,695,ls.
BURGLARY
The Office Of A. s. Benedict, Lexingto,
avenue, was entered last night by burglar
and his safe blown open with such tre
mendous report that it startled the police
who gave chase and arrested two of th
confederate thieves.
THE FENIANs IN MAINE.
New YORK, April IS.-speeial to Heral,
from st. Stephens to-day says: The Adju
tant General of Maine arrived to-day.
A British frigate is in the river Will
troops aboard.
The Herald's Eastport dispatch SAYS
A Fenian schooner was again seized TO-DAY
but released this evening.
The flagship of the West India souadror
went up the st. Croix to-day. She brought
iVV tIOOpS from hallIsX.
SPEECH OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, April 1s.-In reply to the
| crowd of soldiers and sailors assembled al
the White House this evening to pay their
respects to the President, President John
son said: I confess that in the peculiar
posture Of public affairs your presence and
address give encouragement and confidence
| to me IN my efforts to discharge the duties
incumbent upon me as Chief Magistrate Of
the Republic, and in what 1 have to say 1
shall address you in the character of citi-
zens, sailors and soldiers. Applause J
We are to-day involved IN one Of the most
critical and trying struggles that has oc-
CURED since the Government went into ex-
istence. A nation has another test still TO
undergo, and that is to give evidence to
the nations of the earth and its own citi-
zens that it has the power to resist its in
ternal foes. That it has strength enough
to put down treachery at home and treason
within its own border. (Cheers) We
have commenced the ordeal, and 1 trust in
God we will pass through it success
fully. (Cheers.) feel complimented
by the allusion of your representative
to what I said in the Senate in 1860
and '6l, when the nation was entering on
this ordeal, and that raised my voice and
hand against treason, treachery and
traitors at home. (Cheers and cries of
Good l stand here to-day holding to
and maintaining the same principles which
I then enunciated. (Cheers.) stand here
to-day opposing traitors and treason,
whether they be in the South or in the
North. loud cheers.) / stand here to-
day as then did, using all my powers,
mental and physical, to preserve this ma
ton in passing through the third phase of its
existence. The organized forces and COM
bined powers that recently stood arrayed
against US are disbanded and driven from
the field, but it does not follow that there are
no enemies against our present government
and our free institutions. (Laughterl
then stood in the Senate of the United
States denying the doctrine of separation
and secession I depied then q. as I do now,
that any State has the right of its own will
to separate itself from the other States, and
thereby 70 destroy the Union and break up
the Government, and l think I have given
some evidence that Ihave been sincere, and
now 1 want to know why it il that the
whole train of slanderers and calum-
niators and trsducers have been bark
ing and swapping at my heels. [Cheers.]
Why is it that they array themselves
against me? Is it because l stand on the
side of the people? When 1 say the people
I include the soldiers and sailors. TCheers I
Why is it that they are arrayed in tradu-
cling and villifying and eliminating me
Where were they during the rebellion
{ A voice, "At home, in bed" Laughter
In the Senate raised my voice against it
and when it was believed that it would be
to the interest of the nation, and would as
sist in putting down the rebellion, did not
leave my place in the Senate, q place of
ease and distinction, and take
my position where the enemy could be
reached and were mems lives were in
danger? Cheers and cries of " That's so'7
While was thus exposed, personally and
publicly, some of my present traducers
were far removed from the foe, and were
enjoying ease and comfort. [Cheers and
laughter. But care not for them. care
not for their slander. The fould whelp of
sin has been turned loose against me; care
not for that, and let me tell you to-day that
pretty well advanced in life,
feel that shall live long enough to live
down the whole pack of traducers and
3landerers. [Applause.l They have turn
I'd the whole pack loose to lower me in your |
Tray, Blanch and sweet heart, little dogs |
md al" come along swapping and snarl- |
ng at my heels, but heed them not. |
Cheers.l The American people, citi-
.ens, soldiers and sailors, know that |
from my advent into public life |
% the present moment u have always stood |
and unwaveringly the advo-
,ate and defender of their rights and inter |
,sts. (Cheers.) We are now in the ma
ions third ordeal: we are not yet through; |
We said that States could not go cut OF the
Union; we denied the doctrine of secession,
md we have demonstrated that we were
light; we demonstrated by the strong arm,
res, the soldiers and the sailors, God bless /
hem, have demonstrated by their patriotic
hearts and strong arms that States have /
not the power to leave the Union
Applause) What followed? The Confed- |
,rate armies were overpowered, and dis
banded, and there was willing |
ness on the part of the people Of |
hose States to come back and be obedient |
o the laws and acknowledge the supremacy |
# the Constitution of our fathers. For |
What have we passed through this third /
,rdeal? It was to establish the principle |
hat no State had the power to break up
he Government. It was to put down re-
,ellion. The rebellion has been put down,
md for what was it put down? To destroy
he States? (Voice, "neyer.") For what
lave all these lives been sacrificed and all
he treasure expended was it for the pur-
.
o preserve the Union of these States.
That is what we have been contending for;
o establish the fact that the nation can lift
tself above and beyond intestine foes and
reason and traitors at home. When the
ebellion in Massachusetts was put down
i'd that put Massachusetts out of the Onion
nd destroy the State? When the rebellion
u Pennsylvania was put down did that
estroy the State and put it out Of the
Inion So when the recent rebellion was
ut down and the Constitution and laws of
he country restored the States engaged in
still constitute part of the glorious and
right galaxy of States. Loud eheers.1
n passing through this ordeal what has
cen done in Tennessee under the direction
f my lamented predecessor. We COM
lenced the work Of restoration, we succeed
d before came here in restoring the rela-
ions which had existed between Tennessee
nd the rest of the Union, with one excep-
ion, and that was the relation of represen-
alton. l came to Washington and under
circumstances succeeded to
be Presidents chair. What then2 The
ongress of the United States had adjourned
'ithoutprescribing anyp plan. Ithen proceed
4 as had done in my own State, under
ne direction of the Government, to restore
he other States. And how did we begin
We found that the people had no courts, and
re said to the Judges, District Attorneys
nd Marshals go down and hold your courts, ,
be people need the tribunals Of justice to be
pened. Was there anything wrong in
hat? The courts were opened; what else
We looked out and saw that the
eople down there had no mails; they had
cen interrupted and cut off by the opera
ion of the rebellion. We said to the Post