The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-02
MIR. WILSON'S SPEECH.

Senator HENRY WILSON, of Massachusetts,
was serenaded on the Oath of July at the Union
Hotel, Saratoga. AS he, is one of the leaders
Of public opinion in the Union, and one of the
nigh priests Of the party that rules the coun-
try, q degree of significance attaches to his
utterances far beyond their intrinsic merit
He began by stating that he takes hopeful
view of public affairs that he had always done
so. "We are to have o, united country, COM
pretending more than is now within the
bounds of the country. We have carried the
flag up to the North Pole on one side of the
continent, and many years will not pass away
before it will also 60 there on the other side"
Mr.. W. certainly is hopeful, though we are not
quite sure that we understand his geographical
prophecy. Does he mean that We shall arrive
at the North Pole by sailing in due southerly
course? If so, it will be a feat, we believe,
hitherto untried.
Mr.. WILSON then, in brief and general out
line, adverted to the struggle through which
the nation has passed; said that it was inevi-
table-that it was one of Gods wars; he
accepts it as such, and accepts its results. He
then continued: "It has recently been my for
tune to travel for four or five weeks through
the rebel States, and as they invited me to
speak to them, said just what thought. |
held them responsible before man and God for
every drop Of blood shed in this country, for
every life lost, for every dollar expended. |
| spoke to them palmer THAI | ever spoke even
to the people of Massachusetts {; but tried to
do it in spirit of kindness that really felt
pitied their misfortunes, They were more
severely conquered than l dreamed of. tell
you here tonight that the people of that Sec
tion of the country put into the contest all they
had Of blood and of treasure, and they were
defeated, utterly annihilatea, their powers
gone. x. l trust that the men of the
North, who can afford to be generous as we'll as
just, while they have resolved that treason shall
never more sway the councils of the country,
will be kind and generous, and forgive the
faults of their erring countrymen,
| m | make tho prediction that
eight or nine, and l think nine of those ten
States will not only comply with the terms and
conditions Congress has laid down, but will
elect men who can take the iron-clad oath, and
will send men to the Congress of the United
States who will think, speak, and act.
| Old Virginia, this very autumn, within ninety
days from this time, will put herself alongside
of Vermont, Massachusetts and Ohio, rs
strong, liberty loving, progressive, Radical
State of the Union. South Carolina will fol-
low. Other States will do the same"
Next he indulged In phlllpplc against lhs
Democratic party; how they led the South into
the war, then abandoned it in the hour of its
trial. Then, coming back to the South and hei
people, he says; "For one have it not in my
heart to pursue the system of confiscation, OF
any other systems that shall bear harder than
those that have already been adopted to bring
them into the country and make them part o
the country. don't want an Ireland or Po
1ov, Il
Free States, where every man is the peer o.
every other man-where ovory man, no matter
what blood may course through his veins, NJ
matter where he may have been born, is maj
whom God made and for whom Christ died
and who shall possess equal rights with every.
body
There is great deal more about tht
strength of the Republican party, the invinc
bility of Congress, the impotence of ANDREW
JOHNSON, freely interlaided with figures, know1
in American rhetoric as spread eagleism.