The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-04
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telegraph thst the popular and en-
thusiastic welcome to the President,
in New York, was rounded off BY o
grand banquet at Delmonico's, and
We published. on Friday, tele-
graphic abstract Of his speech on that
occasion. AS this is regarded as a
very important speech, we subjoin
full report, taken from our Northern
exchanges:
know, as you know, that we have
just passed through O bloody md
perilous contest. We have gentle
men here associated with us on this
occasion, who took an active part in
that struggle for the preservation of
our country-the army, on the one
hand, {pointing to Gen. Grant, and
the navy On the other, pointing to
Farragut.) Tremendous cheers.
These gentlemen have all performed
their part in restoring the country to
its present condition, and it would
be very derelict in me if should
omit to say that the Secretary of
State has fully performed his part.
ICheers. AS to whet part the hum
BILE individual who now addresses
you took in that struggle for the sup
preston of the rebellion and the re-
storation Of the Government, I will
say nothing now; but 1 will say, in
summing up-though may, perhaps,
be included in that summing up-I
will say that I feel that the Govern
ment has discharged its duty.
But there is something else to be
performed-the work is not yet
done. Though we have passed
through fields of blood, and at times
almost forced to the conclusion that
we would be compelled to see the
Goddess of Liberty go staggering
through carnage and blood, and our
Government a failure, yet, by the
blessings Of Providence, matters have
been brought to different termina-
ton. So far we have been saved.
But, while the enemy has been put
down in the field, there still remains
q greater and more important work
for you to do. I must be permittcl 1
to say-and / wish not to trespass
upon your time-I must be permitted
to remark, in this connection, that
the Government undertook the sup
preston of this rebellion for the ex-
press purpose of preserving the union
of these States. [Great applause.
That was the declaration it made at
the beginning, and under that declara-
ton it went into the war and con-
tinued in until the rebellion was sup
pressed. By the suppression of this
rebellion, the Government established
and announced the great fact, that
these States have not the power nor
the right, either by forcible or peacea-
BILE means, to separate from each
other. Great cheering. That was
determined and settled by the Go
vernment of the United States the
Executive Department of it. But
there is another department of your
Government which has declared, by
its official action, that, notwithstand-
ing the rebellion was suppressed for
the purpose of preserving the union
of the States, and to establish de-
finitely the doctrine that no State has
a right to secede- 4 say there is de-
partment of your Government which
has practically assumed and declared,
and, up to the present time, carried
out, that the Government was dis
solved, and the States were out of the
Union. Groans.
We who contended for the oppo-
site doctrine, years ago, contended
that States had not the right, even
peaceably, to secede; and, one means
OF peaceable secession was, by State
Withdrawing its representatives from
the Congress of the United States,
and that would be practical dissolu-
tion of the Union. We denied that
State had any such right, and when,
subsequently, they attempted to with
draw, we again asserted that they had
no such right; and now, when the
doctrine had been forcibly established
that State has no right to leave the
Union, and when the States are again
resuming their relations with the
Federal Government, rs far as in them
lies, we find that, when they seek to
have their representatives admitted
to Congress-, there are men in that
body who, in violation of our great
charter of liberty, deny their right
to be represented, and refuse to adm
their representative into the C/n-
gress of the United States.
The query then comes up, in the
struggle that is now before us, Mill
we submit will the American peoAle
Submit-tO this practical 1issolutioN