The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-01-22
Speech OF the Hon. Simon Cameron.

Speech OF the Hon. Simon Cameron.
On Tuesday evening, the Hon.
Simon Cameron, who had just been
elected to the United States Senate,
by the Legislature of Pennsylvania,
was waited upon by 4 number Of his
political and personal friends, and
responded in an address, from which
the following extracts are taken:
[ thank God that, in spite of the
slanders that my enemies have hcaped
upon me for twenty years, my fellow
citizens, who have seen my life from
day to day, have always stood by my
side and helped to repel them. This
last struggle Of my political life has
ended in victory. [ desired this rs
an answer to vindicate my honesty to
my children and my friends. [ now
propose to put these SANDERS behind
me, and to forget alike the liars who
concocted them. OF the eighty-two
Republican members OF tho Legisla-
ture, my friends assure me that sixty
three of them preferred me to any
other candidate, and would have
voted for me rather than have wit
messed my defeat.
1 go forward to the honorable
duties to which my native State has
called me for the third time Six
years ago thought that slavery was
the strength of the rebellion and
ought to be destroyed without delay,
and wished also to arm the black
men who would volunteer. Thought
that clothing 4 black man in the
American uniform clothed him also
with the rights of an American citi-
zen, and l am always sorry to see
black soldier and reflect that even
Pennsylvania denies him the ballot,
the only weapon he can protect him
self with. [ hope to live to soc the
word white stricken from our own
constitution, and the spirit Of caste
based upon color utterly destroyed.
The South, however, is more con-
trolicd by social than political intiu-
ences. if You are wise and firm, you
may possibly educate the rising gene
ration into loyalty; but there is no
method of craftsmanship which will
make this generation Of the South
loyal to the Union and to the flag.
The Southern territory is disloyal,
and the loyal men Of to-day must
guard their children against another
reasonable rebellion. The constitu-
tional amendment and impartial suf-
frage will help TO do, but universa!
amnesty will help to undo it. Of
Andrew Johnson, [ said long ago
that he was u traitor to his party and
an enemy Of his country, and a bad
man. He has done many bad things,
but nothing worse than offering the
Offices Of the country to those few
unprincip!ed men who agreed to de-
scrt and betray the great republican
organization for his patronage He
Joined the Democratic party long
ago, and he has the right to give
them the Offices, but he has no right
to dispose Of them atauction to weak
hneed Republicans.
The panper labor Of Europe is
again competing with our labor, and
our manufacturers lanGuish for want
OF protection against it. Pennsylva-
MIA needs no assurance OF my devo-
ton to her interests in this regard,
which is the interest Of the whole
country. L will continue to labor, in
season or out OF season, to protect
our manufacturers from ruin, and
their worhmen from being thrown
out of employment, or their wages
reduced to q starvation point, for
hold that the true welfare of any ma
ton depends on its laboring classes.
Gentlemen, L trust that this is my
last political struggle. have nothing
more to desire, and hope we will
all forget the bitterness, the unjusti-
fable bitterness, of the late contest.
For my part, I will try to act as
representative Of all the radical Re
publicans Of Pennsylvania, without
regard to past differences or dissen-
sions. l cannot forget my friends
who have stood by me so nobly, but
[ will try and forget and forgive the
unjust calumnics and the political
opposition have experienced.
REMARKABLE STEADINEss OF FIVE