The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-24
,rsnr,s,os OF SECRETARY STANTON.

rur SUSPENSION OF SEcRETARY STANTON.
,ox,r1oN MEETING OF SOLDIERS AND
iNO' SAILORS IN PHILADELPHIA.
,,E1PH1A, Aug. IA mass meet
nf bonorably discharged soldiers and
la ;Iors was held to night at the Union
S Sai, House, for the purpose of expressing
n' S;99nstion at the removal of the Hon. E.
l III Stanton bv the President. Gen. Joshua
NJ orep acted as chairman. He made a
Limo IL speech, reviewing the policy of Mr..
Iahnson. claiming that he has defied the
,"mtnl enactments of the peoples representa-
i l:,.oc and is III sympathy with the rebelious
W 'oone of the South. He contended that our
PEararnuent had been The most maonani-
u" n"s on the earth. and yet in the face of
.ns the traitors who escaped hanging are
LAW .~ srraying themselves against this Gov
Eminent, aided and abetted by the Chief
ssIagistrate, who is doing everything to ruin
= Speeches were made by Gen. James
Given, Lieut.. Reeves, and Others A pream-
HE and resolutions were adopted The
rrpsmbe asserts the duty of the defenders
IF the Republic to express their views on the
oorduct of that Government which their
Ssryices have rescued from traitors, and con-
tinues as follows:
Whereas, We believe crisis has arisen
whereby, through the treachery of once
natriotic public servant, the results of the
rreceut struggle for universal liberty and re-
nmbIican institutions are likely to be wrested
irom US. unless we make manifest our con-
timed and answering devotion to our
country and our hostility to the authors of
the war and the sentiments which actuated
them: and whereas, recent events have de-
yeloped the determination on the part of the
recreant Executive to cvade and DEFY the
enactments of the true representatives of the
loval men ofthe land, by presumirg to force
mon tile nation plan of reconstruction in
direct opposition to the will of the law
making power, by removing from office,
through his ingenious selection of subordi-
mates, manned soldiers of the late victorious
armies and appointing in their stead open
mouthed sympathiZers with the Rebellion;
bv slandering volunteers with the assertion
that to have made himself dictator he might
have called to his aid the army and navy
by his violated pledges of friendship for
emancipated bondsmen; by his wholesale
pardon OF Rebels. Therefore,
Resolged. That when the hand of the as
sassin took from US the life of our beloved
COMMANDMENT Chief, Abraham Lincoln,
and cast cloud of deep mourning over an
army flushed with the victories of four
wears war, we looked with anxious eyes to-
ward the man who should fill his place, and
have found him clamorous i'll his denuncia-
lions Of treason, apparently firm in his de-
termination to make the crime odious and
its authors responsible; and full of assurance
that the blood shed by our comrades should
not be in vain. For nearly three years we
have looked for the fulfilment Ut these
pledges, hut it has not come.
Res0lced, That while the President has
surrounded himself from day to day with
advisers of doubtful loyalty, and men who
have proved false to their antecedents, the
veterans OF the late war never abandoned
hope for the future, while the heart and
brain ofEdwin N. Stanton, faithful among
the taithless, administered the duties of the
War Office
Res0lCed, That in his suspension from
office, in direct violation of the positive law
enacted expressly to secure the retention of
his eminent services, the President of the
United States is chargeable with high crime
and misdemeanor, for which he should be
held accountable
Res0tced, That the proud record of Edwin
NJ Stanton needs no eulogy at our hands
Most heartily do We echo the sentiment
contained in thejust and generous letter of
our lonored chieftain, u S. Grant, and
sincerely will we congratulate ourselves if
the Generali in Chief be permitted to remain
at the head of the Department until the
action of Congress shall necessitate the re-
turn of the proper incumbent.
Resolced, That we earnestly hope the Pres
ident will yet abandon the idea of forcing
upon the loyal masses of the North policy
which the people and their representatives
have again and again rejected, and that he
will pause before interfering with Major
Gen. Sheridan and other Department com
manders in the execution of the laws of Con-
gress. for the people are preparing to remove
all impediments in the reconstruction plan
of Congress, and can confidently rely upon
the assistance of soldiers and sailors OF the
war.