Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-03-02
DISGRACEFUL SPEECH BY ANDREW
,E a.' .. JOHNSON.

Self H.' @ JOHNSON.
His Harangue to q Mob OF 1900 Rebel
Sympathlzers.
A mob of about 1000 Rebel-sympa.
thfzers waited on President Johnson on
the I'D inst. with series of resolutions
adopted at q mass meeting called to give
endorsement to the Presidents policy
He harangued the crowd from the steps
of the Executive mansion in most dis
gushing and disgraceful manner, great
ly to the satisfaction of his listeners
We have not the space to give his un,
fortunate speech in full, but make such
liberal extracts below as will suffice tt
satisfy every true loyalist of its charac.
ter:
APPROPRIATENESS OF THE OCCASION.
FelioW Citizens, for presume T have
a right to address you as such: I come
to tender to you my sincere thanks fol
the appreciation expressed by your
committee in their personal addresses
ana In the resolutions submitted by
them as having been adopted by the
meeting which has been held in this
city to-day. =. :
Ihese resolutions, as 1 understand
them, are complimentary to the policy
which has been adopted by the Admin.
istration, and has been steadily pursued
since 1T came into power. l am free to
say to you on this occasion that it Is
extremely gratifying to me to know
that SO large portion of my fellow
citizens approve and indorse the policy
which has been adopted, and which it
is my Intention shall be carried out
[Great applause.] That policy is one
which is intended to restore all the
States to their original relations to the
Federal Government of the United
States. Renewed applause This
seems to be a day peculiarly appropriate
ior such manifestation it is the day
that gave birth to that man who, more
perhaps than any other, founded this
government; it is the day that gave
birth to the father of our country It is
the day that gave birth to him who
presided over that body which formed
the Constitution under which all the
States entered into this glorious con.
federacy. Such n day is peculiarly ap.
propriate fOrthe Endorsements of policy
whose object is the restoration of the
Union of the States as it was designed
by the father of his country. ZAP.
plause.
TWO REBEL PARTIES.
There were men disaffected to the
Government both in the North and
South. There was in portion of the
! n i,p I'll
some complained, and to which Others
were attached. One portion of oul
countrymen in the South advocated thai
institution, while another portion in
the North opposed it. The result was
the formation of extreme parties-onC
especially in the South, which reached
q point Mt which it was proposed tc
dissolve the Union of the States, fol
the purpose, as was said, of securing and
preserving that peculiar institution
mere was another portion of our coun.
trymen who We're opposed to that in.
stltutiOn, and who went to such an
extreme that they were willing tC
break up the Government, in order tt
get clear of that peculiar institution OF
the South. | say these things because
l desire to talk plainly and i'm familiar
phraseology. l assume nothing here
to-day beyond the position of u citizen
one who has been pleading for his coun,
try and the preservation of the Consti.
tuition. Immense cheering.] These
two parties, l say, were arrayed against
each other, and L stand here before you
for the Union to-day, as l stood in the
Senate OF the United States in 1860 and
1861. L met there those who were max
ing war upon the Constitution, those
n W. tod ff Il 4 l. ~
ana l denounced them in my place
then and there, and exposed their true
character. / said that those who were
engaged in the work of breaking I'M
the Government were traitors. ] have
never ceased, OH all proper occasions, to
repeat that sentiment, and so far as my
efforts could go l have endeavored to
carry tout. Great applause.] have
just remarked that there were two part.
les, one of which was for DESTROYING
the Government and separating the
Union, in order to preserve slavery,
and the other for breaking up the Gov.
eminent in order to destroy slavery,-
True, the objects which they sought to
accomplish were different, SO far As
slavery was concerned, but they az.
greed in the desire to break up the
Government, - the precise thing to
which have always been opposed and
whether disunionists come from the
South or from the North, stand now
as did then, vindicating the Union OF
these States and the Constitution of nv
country. Tremendous applause. l.
When rebellion and treason manifested
themselves in the South, l stood by the
Government. l said then, that l was
for the Union with slavery, l was fol-
the Union without slavery; in either
alternative L was for my Government
and its Constitution.
REPUBLICANS sUBvERTING THE GOV.
ERNMENT.
My countremen, when / look back
over the history of the rebellion. am
not vain when ask you if 1 have not
given az much evidence of my devotion
to the Union as some who croak a great
deal about it? When look back over
the battle-tields of the rebellion, think
of the many brave men in whose COM
pany was, l cannot but recollect that
] was sometimes in places where the
contest was most difficult, and the re-
suit most doubtful. But almost before
the smoke had passed away, almost
before the blood that had been shed has
done reeking; before the bodies of the
slain have passed through the stages
of decomposition, what do we now
find? The rebellion has been nut down
~ the strong arm of the Government
in the field but il that the only way
in which you can have rebelliop3 Oui
struggle was against an atteMpt to dis,
oaver the ugiaH; but almost before
the smoke of the battlefield has passed
away, before our brave men have re-.
turned to their homes and renewed the
tics of affection and love to their wives
and their children, we find almost
another rebellion inaugurated. We pui
down the former rebellion in order to