The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-06-02
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made speech at AuDurn, New York
last night saying !" The Natonalllitt
lately hung on the issues ofvictory wor
in war. Itstill bangs vi unthe issues o.
reconciliation and peace. The nation
must live. 1t must live forever wheth
er it receives the needed care in any
exigency at the hands of our pres
Tent Congress, or party, or at the hands
of another 1 agree that is more de-
sirable that the work 80 happily be-
gun and 30 successfully prosecuted
shall bo continued, and indeed under
the auspices of the National Union
party, and of the President and Con.
gress as representatives ofthat party
I agree, therefore, that would be a
bad misfortune if the divergence be-
tween the President and Congress
should work the decline and down,
fall oftbe National Union party. Both
the President and Congress might be
expected to be equally involved in. the
calamity which should dismiss the Un.
ion party from the National Councils,
and see with modification the great
responsibility to which the party had
in that case, proves itself unequalj and
the duties which must then be assum>
ed and discharged by some new and
yet undeveloped political organization.
But the President, Congress, states
men and parties are of no avail when
we weigh them against the national
life. What then does the nation
need? 1t needs reconstruction, and
just needs nothing more. Let recon>
struction be made first rather in Con-
gress than in any oftho corstituen-
cies, and it will follow in the other
place. The country exhibits at this
moment this extraordinary and inter-
esting phenomena of States, and not
only kindred but allied, yet hostile to
each other. For such a condition, re,
cancellation is the only practical REM
edy. What hinders the application of
that remedy in the legislative councils.
The Presidents position is absolutely,
go taken and universally uhdertood.
We cannot require less than this. We
cannot require more, because then if
more were desirable, that moro isa dei
batable, and must be the study and
work not of ourselves at this particu.
lar period, but of ourselves and our sue.
cessors hereafter.
The President and Cabinet were
serenaded tonight by National Club.
Secretary Stanton.being called upon
at his residence, read speech from a
manuscript. lie had been in favor Of
qualified negro suffrage and the organ
ization of the Southern States, by calm
and full discussion He yielded to the
acknowledgements resting upon the
practical difficulties, and to be encount
cred in such measures, and to the
Presidents conviction that to pres.
cribe rules Of suffrage was not within
the, legitimate scope of his power
Concurring, however, in the objects OF
the Freedmen's Bureau bill, and regar
ding the power therein conferred as
temporary and in safe hands,he avow-
ed its approval; but having been re-
turned to Congress with the Presi-
dents objections, and having tailed to
receive the necessary support, ,itis nc
longer living measure nor tho sub
ject of debate. Without giving bis
personal views thereon,the Secretary
took up the Congressional plan of re
construction. He declared he had
been able to give it his assent, partic'
ularly that referring to the proposed
disfranchisement until 1870. He said
the elements of charge are at work in
the South, stimulating one side to 10y.
atty and the other to continued hos