The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-06


our national councils, and made great preten-
sions and eXactOns, and day after day new
demands, until the result was civil war. Now
there are good men who call themselves con-
servative men, who have deprecated for the last
forty years slavery agitation. Every one de-
manded lor more, more, and more on the side
OF the slave, however, until finally demand
Vas MADE IN the broadest possible terms:--You
shan agree that ever foot Of laud shall be-
come slave terIitory, in which every slave
holder or any STAKEHOLDER has q right 10 take
his chattels and there hold them in defiance of
public sentiment, IN defiance of local law.
The Democratic party was broken ND at
Charleston with deliberate intent. that 1t should
be beaten in the election in order that it should
be cause iot the destruction of this republic,
and establish q slavery extending empire mar.
tial and military power, despotism at the head,
arstocracY and military in the framework, and
having tor MS object the gradual acquisition of
Mexico and South America and the West Indies,
and the planting in the heart of the American
continent of the greatest, the most terrible
slavery-extending empire the world ever saw.
This grand scheme of ambition DESTROYED the
Democratic party in order to give place to seces-
sion, rebellion, and the oyerChrow and division
OF the American Republic. There are those
good men, wise men, patriotic men--who believe
as do, not that 1t was necessary in resisting
the Democracy and overtime wing this con-
spiracyto qualify for it, not to ignore or subyert,
that Fundamental principle OF the American
Republic and of sll true republicans that GOV
ernments derive their Just powers from
the consent of the governed. do
believe that this conspiracy was Lepug-
nant to majority of the people OF the South.
| believe IT was concocted by violent, bloody,
restless, ambitious men whom slavery every
where courts-the blacklegs, slave-traders, aud
corrupt men, who, not being rich enough, and
helng a1istoc1atic and therefore too prou1 10
labor to get riches and luxury and power with
out labor.
This class are in favor Of rebellion, those who
consider the world an oyster, which they are
nr nth 70 md
enjoy, but to say that the mai ority of the people
in this Union ever deliberately desired to break
up ard destroy this Union, is TO say what is not
true.
Said Mr.. William II. Russell, the able cores
pol dent OF the London lines, to me IN com.
munication, what Will you do with your Poland
when you have captured it?" said Il did not
kI ow anything better TO do than TO liberate the
Poles" Uaughter.) Says General CAN'T, of
Arkansas. whom doubtless most OF YOU have
bear0:-"sir, l tell you this is true. The South
ern people never were Tor this Rebellion. L was
a Rebel" says he; IL was for It. | stood at the
polls in my county (Washington) all the day of
that election and never worked harder in my
lite; and where had been accustomed to carry
seyen-eighths Of the votes with me could not
get a majority. Some OF them may be ignorant
but not one OF tLem was SO ignorant as not to
know that the tag with the stars and stripes
was the flag OF his country.n This is not the
testimony OF one nGn or ten men, but of hun
dTeds of thousands.
thought this struggle Was simply a device Tor
taking down the North. They were forced into
It, 1t was conspiracy OF two or three millions
otpeople, WELDING every resource, and the ma
tenal and military power of ten millions. Four
millions you say were slaves. But there must
be men to till the fields, as we'll as to work the
guns; and the four millions were just as effec
tive, so long as they continued to Till the fields
as the men who were working the guns. Some
saId il was an ippossbllity to subdue the Soutt:
that it was tnlckly wooded rebellious region,
and that large and small armies would perish
allie. 1t they were perslstently unit, they
were not to be overcome in any way.
The emancipation policy was the only CO nd-
tion, by which this tremendous conspiracy could
be overthlown. 1t was a call of TOUR millions
of Americans from slavery TO liberty, from
darkness 10 light, from nothing to be a some
thing. 1t was denounced and execrated by the
men who did not see that the Rebellion should
be put down. 1t was said in New York and
Philadelphia, as well as in Richmond and
Charleston, that Lincoln's proclamation had
destroyed the last hope Of 1e.establlshing the
Union.
When we came to the last Presidential elec-
ton, you know how absolute, how dictatorial,
how mconsiderate were the predictions. If you
reelected Lincoln you signed the death-war-
rant OF the Union. In spite OF all we triumphed.
(Applause.) In few months after the Presi-
dent took his seat, the Union was recovered,
and the twenty-years' guerilla war we were
threatened with stopped. Let us see where we
are TO-DAY.
General Sherman was induced to make a Ger.
tain treaty winch seemed to recognize the Rebel
State Governments as Governments, and turning
the arms OF the ContederaCy over to them. In
other words, 10 JeorganlZe, recognize, and re-
establish the Southern States on the Rebel basis.
We have trlumphed, not to re-estabnsh those
Governments, not to recognize them, bat to
create new Governments which shall be the
essence OF loyalty and III favor OF sustaining the
Onion.
Andrew johnson and his advisers repudiated
thn sherman treaty and demanded the
render OF the Rebel arms; falling in the track OF
the general law stipulatng Tor nothing but the
personal safety of the surrendered soldiers OF
the Rebellion. We want that loyal people, black
or white should reconstruct and rule the Rebel
States; that loyalty to the Govern ment, not
mere lip profession but an honest, earnest,
faithful devotion to the Union and to liberty,
which Is the essence of Union, should be founded
in the new governments which would be started
in the lately rebellious States. (Applause.) This
is the ess ence OF the Constitutional amenoment
which Congress, after very great dehberatlon -
tor the subject was yerv important one, and
very difficult one submitted for approval
They met TO decide upon what conditions the
Rebel States should be reconstructed and re-
admitted 10 power in the Union. Congress,
after due deliberstlon, favored what Is now
before the country as the Constitutional amend
ment, and said these are the conditions, and the
conditions that almost every man would have
proposed.
One OF our Generals, and a very good one,
was placed IN the year '63 '64 at the city OF
Vicksburg. Some gentlemen came to him one
day and SAID they had a little cotton out here
that they wanted to get over will make it all
right. He sent them away, and they kept coming
back until, finally, he wrote to Washington tnat
he wanted to be taken away. FIRST they offered
him ten thousand, but it finally increased to two
hundred thousand dollars. II l will be rascal
they have got SO near up to my mark that dare
not stay any longer.
He discussed the question Of the assumption
of the Rebel debt at length, and SAID there was
not loeical reason which would admit sixty or