The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-31

| speak with great carnestness and interest on
this point. Let me put case TO you. At the
army in Virginia, were not certain
OF your fellow citizens seen in the
streets with smiling and joyous counlenances,
and sayine:-''Didn't tell you so?' "l knew
it would be so;" al told you this war was
failures" and when news came Of glorious VIC
tory like taTragut at New Orleans or Mobile
would you not see the same men saying, 81
don't believe that telegTam;' 1--WE sball hear
the true account in a few days. Thai is the
class of men sent as delegates to Philadelphia.
Where they undertake to lHstruCt you on your
duties you should ask them Did you fight for
our side-did you favor 1t? No, they say, but
, we want to settle it now. Much obliged, but
we want TO settle it ourselves; we fought 1t in
the held, and we Will settle it here. The dele
gates of South Carolina and Massachusetts walk
arm in arm into that Convention, and, there
fore, the whole matter is iraternized, the
whole country is fraternzed. You re-
member what is the emblem OF
when the Tattlesnake and Copperhead twine
and twine, ii don't seem to make much differ
ence to the rest OF the beasts OF the Ad.
Therefore, If you will allow me to go back a
moment TO the language of my profession, 81
demur" TO these men instructing me in my poll
teal duty. And these men come together re-
pre- ent.ng neither section. We know that the
men who went from here do not represent Mas
s8Chusetts. There IS no man so blind, no child
50 foolish, who cannot see that these men are
not the representatives of Massachusetts. TAKE
our ola IIlenu MT. winthrop, IOf WHOM pCISOu-
ally have the highest regard; everybody knows
that he has not for ten years controlled any
bCdy's ote but his own. Take that very respect
able lawyer, Judge Curtis, an admirable judge
and profound scholar; it was only IN 1851 that
he published an opinion that certain Coali-
tions were an indictabe ohense, and
since then we have not heard word
from him until this Philadelphia Con-
vention. | will only say this, gentlemen, that
when you find anybody from this State sup
porting slavery, you will find that he only. car
RE with MIN the clothes on his back. | have
said to YOU that these men do not represent the
North. and in this respect that convention was
the most memorable that was ever held Not a
speech allowed from Southern men, and not
representative Southern man there. MIR. Orr
was shOrn OF his power, and " shows you that
he don't represent the people OF the South any
more than our wOuldbe Governor Couch repre-
sents Massachusetts,. Wade Hampton, the Rebel
chieitain, had to beg and pray that they would
not vote for him, and would vote for Orr, or he
would have been elected. Again, Governor
Perry was chosen by President johnson because
he had been taboOed during the war by the entire
voice OF the South, and he claimed to be almost
the only Union man there. Do they represent the
South? And what did they do They passed ten
resolutions. For fear should make mistake
brought them in my hand and will give you
synopsis OF some OF them.
/ have Given you evidence of the Philadelphia
Convention which was to teach us our political
duty, and TO show that the South was ready to
tTaternize, and | was grieved more than would
personal relations with the President OF the
United States), when | heard OF his saying to
the COmmittee-tO Reverdy johnson, a man
who, when ] was in Baltimore, stood on the
fence tor more than q month not knowing
which way to leap, until he found that we were
considerably the strongest on Federal Hill,
and our guns pointed towards his
house - was grieved | say, to
hear the President say that portion OF Con-
gress, not the whole Congress, were attempting
to usurp power | should Ike to have stood
behind him and said:-''What are YOU thinking
OF? That is portion Of Congress only because
elected by a portion of the States; but this
Congress is elected by precisely the same per-
sons that elected YOU: are you only portion OF
a President? And If you say this thing Is TO be
tried over again, and the rest OF the States come
INTO Congress in order to set this matter right,
and bring the disloyal States into Congress,
hadn't you, being elected by only portion of
il got e9ccd on R o pf fnkA kAgd dtR R&
be allowed 20 DO pretty much as you please"
that these eleven States would have
hanged him so quick at the beginning
| OF the war that he would not have had
time to breathe prayer. We see by the tone
OF the papers that these people are not ready
for reconstruction. There is a mass of over
| whelmng evidence upon the subject. | for one
| do not believe that any portion OF this country
| is ready to participate IN the government OF the
country until any man of any part OF the coun-
| try has equal rights with any other man. And
| until that can be done in every portion Of the
| United States, hat portion is not ready to be
| admitted as portion OF the United States. The
| Southern man, whether arrived at the common
| age OF man or not, knows that he can go to any
| part OF the North and speak his sentiments
| freely, and / do not want any part
| OF this country represented in Congress
until you. and / can go and argue
| the principles of free government without
tear OF the knife or pistol, or Of being murdered
| by mob. And when mon ask me how long l
would keep these men out, | say keep them out
| until the heavens melt with fervent heat, until
| they will allow free speech and free press
| throughout their land. And ii it should not
| come in this generation we will swear our sons
| to keep them out till they become tit tor re-
publican form Of government. / now remember
| a man who came to me among the very irst at
| New Orleans, and took me by the hand, and
| with tears in his eyes said II thank God that
| you have come; bless God that your flag waves
| over me again, the symbol of justice and
| protection of my country and yet | have
| seen that man murdered in cold blood by the
| chief Of police, whom had condemned 10 death
| for the murder OF Union nan, and only re-
| trained from hanging hun because the act took
! place before my arrival, and doubted my au-
| thority to execute him. That murdered man
| was DoStie, the best and purest Union man that
| ever tTod the soil OF Louisiana, for he perllled
1 his life when he had no hope, in defense of the
flag. | speak with feeling, for he was one of my
! best and stanchest advisers, and aided me by all
| means in his power. As long as | had COM
| mand the flag sheltered him, and every other
| man within my territory. And that that man
| should be murdered, with that flag Aying over
| hm-not to him an emblem of power and
| protection-and we be told that these men
are our brothers! (Applause.) The rattle
| snake may be a brother of the cOpperbead,
| but not mine-not mine! And what was his
| often Sc! He undertook to assemble with the
| Convention, and discuss their nights as we are
| assembled here to-night-a right guaranteed by
| the Constitution OF the United states and under