The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-09-12

the Southern people hate the North. Ex-
cent the policy Of another civil war and Of |
guillOtining Andrew johnson. Except the |
policy of negro suffrage aud white euslaye- |
ment. Except the policy of sccurlng the |
permanent two-thlrls asceu1ancy OF ule
Radical party Except the policy Of keep
ing up sectional distinction after slavery
has been abolished, for the sake Of calling
Maryland Northern State.
| am not n Southern man; ] am not
Northern man; | an for the Union, the
whole Union. and nothing but the Union
always was aud always shalt bc.s 3al
am not n Republican,; am not a Dcnl-
ocrat; never was either, aud It's not
probable that ever shall be either.
My opinion has always been that II the
natural Tendencies of parties In this cOun-
try, when they become dominant aud pow
erfttl, 10 become corrupt. My creed ls, as
before expressed to use parties for the good
OF my country, not TO bo used by parties
for their good or my own.
fThc Speaker next referred tn the recon
structiOn bill OF the Hon. Henry Winter
Davis, which Mr.. Lincoln repudlated IN
opposition 60 the wishes of Congress, aud
| then said u
! How did Congress behave, under this re-
/ buhp just rs Congress behaved after the
veto Of the Freedmen's Bureau bill aud the
| Civil Rights bill. They raised n howl.
They denounced Abraham Lincoln as
tyrant aud ausurpcr; they imputed 10 him
base and unworthy motives; they accused
him of personal ambition of getting up
new civil war; they endeayorcd 70 defeat
his election, and they actually threatened
his impeachment.
Senator Wade and MFR. Davis, "a the
chairman of the two committees who had
/ L. la ~ Vft InI tfH nj "A g.
sumed to speak the radical voice of Con-
gress to President Lincoln aud 10 the peo
| pie. lr
Here Is portion OF what they said
THE President, by preventing this bill
! from becoming n law, holds the electoral
votes of the rebel States at the dietatiou OF
his personal ambition. If those votes turn
the balance In his favor, Is Il TO be supposed
that his competitor, defeated by such
means, will acuuiesceP IL the rebel
| majority assert their supremacy in those
States and send votes which elect an enemy
OF the Governments will we not lepel his
claimsp And Is not that civil war for the
| President inauguratcd by the votes Of rebel
Statesp II electors for President
be allowed to be chosen IN either of those
States, a sinister light will be cast upon the
motives which induced the President 10
hold for naught the will of Congress. .
A more studied outrage on tho legislative
Authority of the people has never been per-
petratedn lf .nc.. III og
After tlenouncing the amnesty proclama-
| ton asa "headlong stride toward anarchy"
this extraordinary manifesto menacingly
appeals to the people and Congress TO ''con-
| stder the remedy for these usurpatfons, and
having found It. fearlessly TO execute It,"
The people responded to this appeal by
their action in the ensuing November cleo
tlOn. They re-elected Abraham lincoln to
i Il 4 4 Al.
| the first Provisional Governor Of his APP
pOintment Andrew johnson. of Tennessee,
to cooperate with him ia its eOnsumma-
| ton fn Io.
There was one Congressional district in
| the country where that appeal, IL founded
on justice, might wen have been expected
to produce u profound impression II was
the district which one of its authors repre-
lEented. where lie was best known and his
personal Influence most powerful, and
where he would naturally be supposed tO.
| find strong body of Jealous and ardent
| adherents.
Able and brilliant as Mr. Davis was ac-
kuowledged to be, the issue that he thus
made with the Administration was not lsus-
taiHod by his district, nor by one todrd out
| of the thirteen Which composed 1t. In the
Convention which met shortly after, rep
resenting all that claimed to be the Union
| sentiment Of the district, Mr.. Davis did not
4 receive one cote. ~ 20 300
And here, fellow citizens, rest my case
for the present. went forth from you
commissioned to support and sustain the
policy which the last Congress, with Mr.,
Davis at its head, denounced as q "head-
long stride toward anarchy" have con
sistently sustained that policy, unmoved
by similar denunciations of my fellow
members of the present Congress. come
back, asking nothing, and expecting moth
ing, but to bring with me an honorable
reputation into private life. You, gentle
men of the Convention, have seen fit to
signify your desire, and the desire Of what
believe to be an overwhelming majority
of the people, that should continue to adj
vocatc aud uphold the restoration of the
Union and the Constitution, as your repre-
sentative in the Fortieth Congress. have
regarded your call rs the call of duty, the
, call of honor, and the call of my country.
have been able to find no reason that
would entirely satisfy my own feeling OF
self-respcet by disobeying that call.
am not here to defend, explain or vim
dicate my course. The record is before
, you, and you have acted. / am here not ON
the defensive, but the aggressive. am
, here to attack those who assail the Union
, and undermine the bulwarks of Republic
can, Constitutional, American liberty. /
, am not here to defend myself against those
, who may choose to assail me. do not ask
every member of this Convention, or every
man who may vote for me at the polls, to
) endorse each and every vote have seen iii
q to give. ! stand upon the Philadelphia
platform, which stands upon the Constitll-
| tion of the United States.
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e ApOIOgizing for Schenck!
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