The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-26
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REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING AT Ma
TloNAL HALL.-National Hall was Gro yded last
evening on the occasion of a RepubIcan msss
meeting. Ex-Governor Pollock presided
wayne McVegh, OF West Chester, was the
nrst speaker He discussed the proposed
amendments to the Constitution. Not one man
had yet been found bold enough TO declare hlm-
sell opposed to these amendments Even Henry
>. Raymond is violent advocate of the amend
ments and it has been established that Presi-
dent johnson first suggested these amendments
m letter to Senator Dixon, OF Connecticut
This being the case, there appears nothing to
dlscHss in the present campaign. He referred
TO the recert tour of the President of the United
states, who bad forgotten all that had been
done Tor h1m by the great Union party. Start
ing for the city Of Chicago, he forgot THAI the
individual ne Is pleased to call Andy johnson"
was not invited. Aud if he could not separate
the individual from the officer, he should have
Kept both within the circle of that polished
society with which he is said to have surrounded
himself at Washington. (Cheers)
The tour was q shame 90 the nation. At New
York reveller, at Albany a maudlin, at st.
Louis blasphemer, at Cincinnati a demagogue,
and every where a liar. (Checrs.) Such is the
record OF the President during the past few
weeks. Principles must rise superior to men,
and the American people Will be true. Mr.. John
son may use his offices, and Montgomery Blair
may threaten another war. Those VINO are
can enough to wear Mr.. Johnson's collar NAV
take MS offices, but they cannot control the
people. Montgomery Blair must know that the
North is no longer TO be threatened and he
may learn this-that the verdict OF the Northern
ballot viii be enforced at the point of the
Northern bayonet. (Cheers.) But there is no
danger of the people ever again submitting the
Government OF the country to the Democratic
party: No matter what it may call itself, it is
harmless
Colonel John w. Forney, the next speaker,
was received with great applause He said the
common enemy admitted its defeat and was
ready to ground its arms in advance of the
9th of October. (Cheers.) II is this grand up.
rising OF the people that appals the shivering
and drunken tyrant at Washington. (Cheers.)
He referred to Mr.. Johnsons recent speeches,
and especially his attack upon the Union
Leagues. In this connection he desired to read
a speech of Mr. Lincoln, made in 1864: when
presented with the resolutions of the Union
League, urging him as a candidate for q second
term. He presented this speech Of Mr.. Lincoln
as a contrast to the incoherent, blasphemous,
and conceited rawlings and harangues which
have fallen from the lips of the President of the
United States, made the successor of Mr.. Lin
coin by the bullet of John Wilkes Booth
(Cheers.) The speech referred TO was one in
which Mr.. Lincoln announced himself ready to
do anything needed to unite the people in the
effort to save the country. If another man
could do it better than himself, there could be
no difficulty in getting rid of him.
Colonel FoIney next referred to the Maine
election, in order TO show how the Republican
victory was gained. He had received a letter
from friend in Maine giving the Information.
In the Portland District which was considered
doubtful, the Republican candidate had four
thousand majority. (Cheers)
The speaker spoke Of the Federal patronage
being used in the present campaign, and urged
that it would be fit subject for inquiry in the
next session of Congress. Even now three naval
officers are sitting at our Navy Yard, examining
the employees in regard to their political senti
ments But, Notwithstanding this, the victory
OF the Union party was certain.