The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-09-13
THE PRESIDENTS POLICY.
Speech by Gen. IsMtIer-The Phil
adeIpbiI Convention Revised
The True Ma atiOnaI Policy.

Speccn ny Seu. Hbhulcf-An he h-hlIs
;ldeIpbi;L Convention Revised
The Irue National Policy.
., . RETROSPECTIVE.
Gen. Butler, by invitation of the citi-
zens Of Gloucester, Mass, addressed
them on national topics on Saturday
evening last. ".. NJ
lie began by reviewing the history
of the war. Without any possible
cause, he said, eleven States went out
of the Union upon the protest that a
sectional President had been elected.
BY going out Of the Union the speaker
did not mean that by their acts they al
tered the governmental right of the Uni
ted States over foot Of the territory OF
the United States, or over any citizen.
They all remained subject to national
laws, and amenable to national tribunals,
These States passed acts Of secession,
and fought brayey against the armies OF
the Government,
They fought so long and with such
varied fortune that the Chicago Conven-
ton declared the war failure; but,
through the goodness and mercy of a
Divine Providence, and the valor and
patriotism Of our armies, we were ena-
bled to capture every man in arms on
the soil Of the United States. APP
plause. We captured the men, and
when we took them prisoners Of war
we captured their slaves, their property
and their constitutional rights, and he
believed that distinguished General
was pretty near the truth when he said
the only right captured rebel had was
the right to be hanged. Laughter and
applause And at the very moment
when the rebel President was fleeing
before our advancing cavalry, when the
heart of the nation was beating with
high hopes for the future, the hand OF
the assassin Booth struck down our hon
ored and beloved President, and by
that act the Vice President was placed
in the high office he now holds.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
Almost the first words of the new
President were the declaration that
treason should be made odious and trail
tors punished These words had the
true ring to them, and every man said to
himself, if we have lost Lincoln, we
have man in his place who will no
doubt prove a worthy successor Pres
ident johnson refused to sanction the
terms of Johnston's surrender to Shcr-
man. What were those terms? Gen
eral Sherman, anxious no doubt for a re-
turn of peace, and honest in his inten-
tions, said in effect, if Johnson suwen-
dered, the people Of the Southern States
should be restored to all their rights,
which means, of course, civil and politi-
cal rights. Andrew Johnson refused to
sanction those terms and set them aside,
and for the very reason that having re-
turned the Southern people to all their
civil and political rights, it itrendered nu-
gatory all we had fought for during the
four years we had passed through. The
Government of the United States had
but to invite the terms upon which the
States would be readmittcd into the
Union, and the people would have ca
gerly agreed to them. If after the peo-
pie had laid down their arms, South
Carolina had the same rights under the
Constitution as Massachusetts, why did
the President undertake to impose con-
ditions to their coming back to the peo-
pie Of South Carolina, Georgia, Missis-
sippi, and the other States. If at that
time it was competent for the President
to make those orders and impose those
conditons-why was it so? 1t was
simply and solely for the reason that the
people of those States had been in rebel
lion, and the United States had the
right to state the terms and conditions
upon which they would be received
back into the Union President John
son gave them certain orders, as Com
mander-in- Chief, because these eleven
States occupied different position in
the country from the loyal States. If
these States had never lost any Of their
civil or political rights by their rebel
lion, then no man, not even the Presi-
dent, had right to impose any condi-
tions upon them, or keep out their rep
resentatives from Congress. The Pres
ident or Congress has no right to say
what Massachusetts, or New York shall
do or shall not do; but after she reyolts,
makes war, captures our men, and mur-
ders our President, then she has lost her
rights, and the loyal States shall say
when, and under what terms, they will
receive her again. Applause. -. .
TIE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION.
Gen. Butler next discussed at length
the points of difference between the
President and Congress, and then pass
ed to the proceedings of the Phlladel-
pbia Convention. lie said:
There assembled in the city of Phila-
delphia on the 14th Of this month
Convention of delegates-if men can be
called delegates who went on their own
hook-and among other things they un-
dertake to tell us how to settle this war
which they nor their friends did not
fight. These men who went down
there from the North were the kind of
men who, when there was bad news
from Virginia, went around your streets
and said, cit is just as | told you,"
"You never can conquer the South"
''The war is a failure" and such ex-
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