The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-09-11
THE PRESIDENTS TOUR

The Northern papers come to us filled with
long accounts of the enthusiastic ovations which
mark the progress of President johnson towards
Chicago At New York the crowds assembled
to do honor to the great Conservative, the scenes
of display, and incidents of the gala day
represented to have been Undesirable. No
event appears to have more greatly stirred the
popular heart The people have at last seen the
man and heard from his own earnest lips the
policy which he enunciates as the only means
of saving the country from ruin. In broad con-
trast with the bitter basphemous diatribes of
his Radical opponents, are the great thoughts
born of the Constitution, and instinct with
patriotic life, with which he lays down the true
course to be pursued by all men who have the
interests of the whole nation at heart. Read
his bold language:
"Thcre is department CT your Government
which has practically assumed and declared, and
up to the present time carried out, that the
Government was dissolved and the States
out of the Union. [Groans There are men
In that body, who, in violation of our great
charter of liberty, deny the right of the South
to be represented, and refuse to admit their
| representatives in the Congress of the United
States The query then comes up, in the strug
gle that is now before US, will we submit will
tho American people submit, to this practical
dissolution and this practical assertion of the
doctrine that they have already repudated and
overtbrown. [Cres of "no, no. The issue is
before you. The Union is essential to US. The
North cannot get along without the South, nor
the South without the North. But men say do
you want to be governed and controlled by
rebels -? I answer no We want to let loyal
men in and none but loyal men, [applause] !;
and I ask here tonight upon what reasonable
ground rests the fear that men coming into Con-
gress from the South would control the country
to its destruction Take the entire delegation
fifty eight representatives, compared with two
hundred and eighty -two--do you fear that fifty
eight men will control all the rest. Laughter |
Oh, men say, they will repudiate our public
debts. Now, place these fifty eight men in the
most powerful position that you possibly can,
and you have one hundred and fifty or one hun
dred and eighty, an Overwhelming majority
against them. Surely, enough to keep them
from doing any harm. [Laugheer-] Are we
great people? Are all towards mol
Did they control you before the rebellion CON-
| now than they bad before There is another
thing. You have about three thousand millions
Of dollars in bonds How are you going to pre-
serve the credit of them Will you tell me
how the security, how the value, how the ulti-
mate payment of the interest and principal Of
those bonds is to be secured? Is it by counting
this Government, disrupted as it is, by crippling
our energies, and dividing US up into half
dozen petty States? Let me tell you, and mark
what [ tell you, there is no way by which those
bou'is can be ultimately paid, interest and prin-
clpal, than by the consolidation of our nation
altg, the perpetuity and completeness of the
Union of the States. [Applause-] Pardon me
when L say l understand this question; and |
tell you that you play false part now, and play
into the hands of your enemies and the ene-
mics of your country when you aid those who
would keep the Government disrupted. Let US
unite all portions of the country firmly together,
and you will have more capital than you need"
We have not space for further extracts, but
the spirit Of the speech is evident from the
above. Let the President 90 on in his good work
and the country is safe. New York, as we are
informed will give eighty thousand majority for
the Union, now, and the canvass has scarcely
begun, while other States in the West, falling
in the wake of Kentucky, viii pile up their
columns of votes until there is not left 10 Con-
gress corporaPs guard of the radical devils who
make of its balls Pandemonium.
NOTICE.
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