The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-30

The reception of the President andj suite in
New York last evening was grand affair. We
have only space to-day to present report of
the banquet
Speech of the President.
Mr. Johns on sad, in reply TO Mayor Hotfmann's
address OF Welcome:-
feel, ] confess, almost overwhelmed. But
the mind would be exceedingly dull, and the
heart almost without an impulse, that could not
give uttefance to something responsive 70 what
has been said and what has been done. Gap
plause, ana cries OF "Hush?) Oh! believe me,
that on this occasion warm is the heart that
feels, and willing is the heart that speaks
C"Hear, hear" and great clapplng of halds),
and would 10 God It wee in my power to re-
duce to sentence and to language the emotions
that this night ann this occasion have produced.
shall not attempt, in respon to what has
been said, and the manifestations that have
been made, to go into speech, or to make an
argument to you on this occasion, but merely
to give utterance to the fitness OF my heart for
the sincerity of this reception. (Cheers.l !
would that | could give utterance to what feel.
This is impossible; but the sentiments which
have just beeu expressed before me, and the
demonstrations that have been made to-day,
the Outpouring of the popular heart has on this
occasion gone forth, and WILL like liquid, spread
itself until il is communicated TO every part of
the United States. ("Good !" and cheers.) All
that is wanting in the great struggle in which
we are engaged is simply to develop the popular
heart OF the nation. (Cheers.) 1t is like making
fire. All that is necessary is asutficient amount
of friction to develop the popular sentiment, and
the popular feeling of The nation (Cheers.J l
know, as you know, that we have just passed
through bloody ard perilous conflict, and
there are gentlemen here with us who are assO-
clated with us on this occasion, who have par
ticipated in and had their share in this struggle
for the preservation Of the Union. ("Hear,"
''hear," and immense applause.) Yes, the Army
on the one hand docking toward General Grant),
and the Navy on the other docking towards
Admiral Farragut) - (great Cheering) have
performed their part in restoring the Gov
ernment to its present state OF peace. And,
gentlemen, in this connection would be dere-
lect If / omitted to mention the important SER
vices of the Secretary ofState (Cheers.) So far
the humble individual who now stands before
you, and to whom you have so kindly and pleas
anty alluded, is concerIe ed, as to the part he has
performed in this great drama in this struggle for
the suppression of the Rebellion on the one
hand and the restoration OF the Government on
the other, he has tried to do his duty. cloud
cries of "Good.") will say, too, in summing
mp, that / feel that the Government has dis
charged its duty. (Cheers.) But there is still
something to be DONE The work is not yet
finished. Though we have passed through fields
of blood, and at times have been almost con-
strained and forced to the conclusion that we
should be compelled, as it were, to witness the
Goddess of Liberty go staggering to her grave
through fields of carnage and blood, to see our
Government destroyed; yet time changed such
opinions, and victory brought bright hopes.
But while the enemy, as 1T We're, have been put
down in the field, there is still a greater and
more important task for you and others.
(Cheers.) / must be permitted-and will not
trespass upon your time but moment-I must
be permitted to remark that the Government
commenced the suppression of this Rebellion
tor the express purpose OF preserving the Union
of the States. That was the declaration that
4 was made, and under that declaration the Gov.
4 ernment went into the war and C ntinued it
until it suppressed the Rebellion. The Rebel
lion has been suppressed, and in its suppression
4 the Government has declared and announced
and established the great TACT that these states
i have not the power either by force or by peace
= able means TO separate themselves from the
4 Union. (Cries of 'Never!" and three cheers, }
That right has been denied, and has been settled
and determined by the government in the field
and in one of its departments-the Executive
department; but there is another department OF
q your Government which has declared. by its
d lOfficial acts and by the position 1t has taken,
that-notwlthstandin the Rebellion was sup
pressed for the purpose OF preserving the Union
" OF the States and establishing the doctrine that
Fl the Statss could not secede-this department
# of the Government. say, has pracu-
cally assumed and declared up to the pre-
sent time that the Government was dissolved
and the States were out Of the Union, and
has acted upon that assumption. (Cries OF ION
oh !') We who contend for the opposite doc
" trne. years ago contended that the States had
not even the right TO peaceably secede, and one
= of the means or modes OF peaceable secession
was that the States of the Union could withdraw
~ their representation from the Congress of the
United States, and that would be practical dis
solution. We denied that they had the right &c
WItuuIdW lucT NSutOio') 1ncJ
did attempt to withdraw them, and we have
proved that they had no such power. lCheers.,
And now, when the doctrine Is established, tha
they have no right 70 withdraw, and the Rebel
hon is at an end, and The States are again re
suming their position, and renewing their rela
tons as far as in them lies with the Fedora
Government, would give them representation
in the Congress of the United States In con
tOImity with that sacred charter of liberty whicl
declares that you cannot even by amendment h
the Constitution deprive any Que Of them Of tn
right of representation. (Cheers.) We fine
that in violation OF the Constitution in expires
terms as well as In spirit that the States of tn
Onion have been and they continue 20 dem