The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-08

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ages on the condition of the country.
There was also meeting of Northern Gov
errors present in Philadelphia, which was
private, reporters being excluded. The
questions discussed were
First. Whether it was desirable that the
Northern convention should meet again :;
and,
Second, Whether, if the Southern conven-
ton adopted the principle of negro suffrage
in its platform, it would be wise or polite
to endorse it.
The general expression of sentiment was
in the negative on both these propositions,
the Governors generally taking the ground
that while Individually they were in favor of
negro suffrage, the people of their States were
not yet educated up to that point, and that
therefore to avoid this difficult question it
was desirable that there should be no regular
convocation of the convention. 1t is under
stood that such is the course resolved upon
The President and Secretary Seward at
Niagara.
The President and his party of friends
were welcomed at Niagara, on their way TO
Chicago, in a distinguished manner. The
President spoke at considerable length in
vindication of his course, and was warmly
applauded. During his remarks he made
the significant declaration that if "party"
stood in the way of the country, "party
might go to the devil-' Mr.. Seward was
also called out, and made the following
speech. We print it in full, as it is serious and
pointed in its character. and will give our
readers some definite idea of the relations of
this distinguished man towards the Repub-
lican party, which he was mainly instrument
al in establishing and building up
Mr. Seward said: Fellow citizens, al
though we are on the verge of the State of
New York, am sure that even here l can
call you neighbors. You do not want
speech from me. Yes, yes.l If you do, it
is only to get up quarrel between the Presi-
dent of the United States and myself, for
shall have to tell you that after the clear and
lucid exposition of the policy of the Govern
ment, which may be called his policy or
our policy" since Abraham Lincoln COM
medced it, and it has been carried out since
the Inauguration of Andrew johnson. At
ter the exposition he himself has given of it.
want to know in Gods name what use he
has for a Secretary at ALA A voice. q Do
you indorse it?"l 1 will say very frankly
that 1 always indorse what is right, and
when you find my signature to paper I will
not disavow it. When put my pen to pa
per 1 stand ready to pay all the cost. Eel
low, citizens, you have heard the President
of the United States traduced. l heard
Abraham Lincoln denounced within three
months of his death by the bullet of an as
sassin, worse and through larger portion of
the United States than Andrew johnson is
now denounced for treason to the COnstitu-
ton and the Government; and let me ask
you this, if, instead of bringing him here in
safety to-day to stand before you and to vim
dictate, in the presence of the whole Ameri-
can people, his life, his character, and his
policy, past, present. and future, he had fall
en- on the way as Abraham Lincoln: do you
think there is one of you who has reviled
him who would not join in his praise and be
as ready to immortalize his fame and glory
as you have been to celebrate the virtues of
Abraham Lincoln [Cheers. This is it
The only trouble with living President is
that he lives. The virtue of a dead one is
that he is gone and he can be praised with
safety by those who were incapable of
praising his virtues while he lived. The
President has spoken to you upon q topic 1
have never opened, and [ did think that I
would never refer to it, and that is, he is
charged, and the members of his Cabinet
and political supporters are charged, with
deserving their party. The charge is that we
have deserted our party, and he has told you
and very properly told you, that it is better
in every case to let parties go down the Falls
it would not be very serious offense if it
had been committed. But he also told you
the truth when he said that it is not possible
to find word in the record upon which he
was nominated that has been falsifed by the
record of his executive acts. Did they not de
clare at Baltimore that the war must be con-
tlnued until its cause was removed and the
government triumphed in the restoration of
the States, and is not the war ended Have
not the States been restored and where on
earth is the cause of the war q? It has
gone into the sepulchre of the record of the
past ages. ICheers. But have deserted
my party Let me call your attention to
my record on that subject. If you will look
back to the month of October, 1865, you
will find there speech made you, for when
speak at Auburn 1 mean to speak to the
people of the whole State of New-York, and
in that speech told our whole people that
the President of the United States, Andrew
Jonson and with him, proposed to accept
certain conditions and restore the States to
their rights as equals in the Union, if they
would do three things, first, abolish the Reb-
ell debt second, repeal their ordinances
of secession and third, accept. the
amendment to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States abolishing Slavery henceforth and
forever. When that was done, the Union
was to be restored, and every man of you
who voted last year to sustain its part which
charges me with having deserted it, voted
upon every platform, and approved every
pledge gave and every word I uttered
ICheers.l What did tell you in the month
ofMay at Auburn, when I saw the party
was getting into contest, and in the month
OF FEBRUARY in New-York City, at the Cooper
Institute 2 told you precisely the same,
that these were our conditions and though
heaven and earth shall pass away, vet the
word of Andrew johnson that the States
should be restored upon these conditions,
having been pledged should he fulfilled
[Cheers Your members of Congress were
asked to vote for it. I tried to save that par
ty from destruction. Ishowed them the
way it was plain and direct. 1 was going to
use the Neutrality-suspicious. ought not to
of the traveller who got bewildered on his
journey and was shown two roads, one of
which led to his destination and the other
IN the opposite direction, and his decision
finally was that he had not good sense
enough to take either road and so it is with