The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-21

Above al thinee it needs TO know It's servants
M MDeloIe Wuuets n9 them. (Cries Of ''yes,r and ap-
pause'l Ihere rs reticence. There is silence
which covers nothing. A man saws nothing.
because ne has nothing TO say That Is no ouaH-
6cation for office There Is reicence that
covers something, man SAYS nothing hpceuse
he has something which he does not want to
say. II that Is the explanation OF General
Grants retlcence, we want TO know what he
conceals before we make him President and ~
criticism on these leading Senators and Gene.
rails is that they do not do their duty to-day.
Many II en- put the blood OF New Orleans upon
the President instead of on General Giant, on
whom part of 1t belongs. What Is his business
The armed hand of the Government. Twenty
thousand dollars is his salary; ior what2 To
make the flag protect the citizens of New Or
leans as well as II does those under this roof
lCheers.) Ii he cannot do IL, let him report to
Congress and ask Tor fresh power. If he won't
90 1t, lei him tell the people whether II is of his
own Will or because he Is hindered. (Applause.)
Fellow-cltizens-I feel-not knowing what
you teel-1 feel the keenest national disgrace
that New Orleans was possibility. II was ours;
the symbol of victory was that the ''Stars and
stripes" protected the citizen Why, was II not
iactY Couldn't 1t be done? IL has been DONE
Don't deem the reconstruction of the South a
seeming impossibllity. There is Yankee who
went down there and made New Orleans quite
sale ss lor Yankee men. prolonged applause.
tend the jurisdiction of New Orleans from Mary-
land on the north to Arkansas and Texas and
the problem is solved. That same New Orleans
that was safe for Yankee men and Yankee can't
tai, can be made so over again. WHY was it
not done? They have said that General Grant
was not allowed. Then he owed that fact to the
people. The masses fought this battle. and IL
General Grant was not allowed to make the FLAG
competent defense for citizenship in New
Orleans, he should have said so to the North
through the telegraph, and Boston and Chicago
would have fastened to send forth men enou0h
for the service. .
What contend for is for honorable men to do
their duty. Suppose rebellion in Ireland was
to break out Suppose that wellington heard
In London that man had been assassinated i'm
Cork for cheering the Queenl He would have
been in Cork In less than six bours, and In half
OF that time forwards all England might have
Gheered in the streets of that city with safety
What ask of our Wellington, is the reason
But the armed hand of the Government was
battling in the waters OF the Lakes, while the
nag OF the country clings to its flagstaff in every
Southe1n city heavy with Union blood
Th1s is not victory, this is not fidelity this is
not Official responsibility this not criticism to
demand more work. No, solemn-the most
solemn crisis that any generation ever met.
me world @ looked across the waters in 1861, and
said, .The bubble of Democracy has burst, the
great Republic is overthrown;r but they looked
In sixty and ninety days and saw million of
men rise as II by magic, and crush it out more
thoroughly than any despotsm ever did. The
most gigantic of any rebellion, and Europe said
"Yes, Democracy can 6ght.n
Now comes the second chapter. Can demo-
cracy govern? Has it brains as well as muscle?
Can the people control themselves, and succeed
in rising above mere hero-worship, and can
they solve this great problem and remain a
Union? The world looks at 1t. Upon YOU and
me rests the responsibility. Let no partisan
pride;;let no tenderness; no consideration of
profession; let no bastard Christianity ALLEVIATE
and common sense mlslead you. What we want
Is the same fairness of conviction and loyalty to
ideas that the South has shown herself
n am no alarmist. j am not despondent.
man who asks his way home from the nearest
root does not the less design going there.
man who plants his seed in the spring is not
fearing starvation. ! am only raising my voice
with the lest. am not merely arguing for the
negro, and remember that this great war has
lett one chair vacant at every Eearth. 1t has
robbed every poor mans table of a comfort,
every poor mans son OF some of his means OF
rising to better educated position. 1t has
ground down industry with taxes, In order to
suDserve great national purpose. ] would TO
God that the masses would not be cheated out
OF what they have so fairly earned Great
applause.) .a. ''f.,,.
apply plain Saxon terms to Saxon deeds I
know they are hard terms; but Saxon can
SIN twice as fast as the English dictionary can de.
scribe him. We have gathered all the virtues
ana all the vices of our nature into hotbed
for cultivation, under this democratic form of
government, and they come up many tall
branch both of mischief and moral virtue. 1t
Mas-6od VINO gave us the victory, no one can
doubt; but we must not now cheat the negro
(Applause.)
& Whether the struggle will end in three years,
or thirty, God only knows. Give your leaders
harmony, and 1t ends in q few short months
But give to us the maelstTom of party politics
and no man knows It's conclusion. 1t is not in
man to save us, nor IN a man to harm us. The
President himself is but waIf on this great
ocean. He only happens to be in pivotal
place, and in ordinary times we could not re-
move him. 1t is the defect of the republican
government that where we get a mistake into
the Presidential chair it takes four years TO get
rid OF him.
This slowness is, perhaps, inevitable to repub-
lican Institutions, but, perhaps, more important
Now, when events, and the prescriptions of
the President, have given to us the constitu-
tonal right to get nd of him, we should begin
this great social change at once. applause
/ do find fault with Congress, and this practical
craftsmanship, which went down to Tennessee
and dug up traitor, and proclaimed him Presi-
dent in the month OF June. They have done
nothing in Congress but TO quarrel over Ne
braska and Colorado, botn of them the betrayers
OF the Northern idea. CONGRESS- then goes into
caucus, and, by the voice OF its best and lead
ing members, says:-"We don't know that we
shail ever meet again."
Do you suppose they would have adjourned
IN Cromwelrs time? No; they would have held
perpetual session. That was practical states
manship. They feared the PreSiaenG, yet placed
him ln unlimited power, with unlimited means
LOUIS XVI? The Convention never rose. Con-
press should have said, 1--WE will never risen
or IL ought TO have stopped the supplies. Gap
planse.) "
The caucus meant nothing It meant that
Boutwell,, Kelley, Stevens, and Sumner could |
not trust Government, ana yet they trusted il |
with UNTOLD millions. II you cannot impeach |