The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-31
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
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Aecture bV Hon. J. r. C. PItkIn, of
Louisiana, at NoFristoWn, last
Evening, on the Position
and Prospects of Ame-
rican PoIblcs.

IsPEcIAL REPORT FOR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
Hon j. r. g. Pitkin, of louisiana ell
known as a political orator. and now on a short
visit North, delivered his new lecture last night
at Odd Fellows Hall, Norristown, to large
and enthusiastic house. His subject "As we
are" received mastery treatment both in re-
Speot TO the nation at large and his own imme-
date section The bold, original manner OF
his criticism of measures and men, more espe-
eially of Presidential aspirants, was heartily
received We present many excerpts from
our report as space permits.
MIR. Pitkin opened by saying that he should
sIeak as one who was the echo OF no partisan
oabal at home and knew no other league than
that of vast loyal people that he might per-
haps affront some of his auditors, as he had
many in Louisiana, but asked at least respect
for his honest views. "To speak truth" said
the Patriarch Photius to Pope Nicholas, lis the
greatest act of charity"
In criIcizing public men he said:--It is q
sublime cheer that peoples, like individuals,
not as Goldsmith says. "too fond of the right to
pursue the expedtent,'' Is q public enemy. The
gloss OF his pTetext will surely and soon wear
OF Apolity to-day may deny a right which /
do not care to claim, but that right Is therefore
no tH,, less mine NJ The moment my civil need
debars me from 1t, and reproach him, living or
dead, who assisted to prescribe that tenet.
Such an one dared to stand in the sunlight at
dawn, and sought to cast q mammoth shadow
Of himself ahead upon the future. We bent to
It, perhaps, and called it statesmanship. But
sums seek a meridian. We at last discover
the shadow shrink back till a
Cali6an, crouches at his feet. We are avenged
Heaven bless each of the few, whose purpose is
catholic enough to compass a broader area than
his own petty Congressional district AS a
whole, our national legislature has not led the
moment Southern levee crumbies the river
seeks and nils the void; so the inevitable cur
around and through the broken " bsrrjers i6 Of
rebellion, and on Its flood our Congress has
finally, though iTresolutely, been borne.
thank (AOnurngg = rvybo of baC
plished? Thank, then, the traitors who mega
lively showed that body what the prescience of
passed three years ago-its entire duty. Before
the Southern loyalist can testify his gratitude
crosses, he must fail to remember that, despite
his entreaties, he was so long and so selfishIy
left unprotected. During an ancient siege all
who were over sixty years of age were cast
without the walls, thatlthe meagre store of food
within might the longer subsist those who were
younger and more capable to assist the defense
In our party, there are many cowardly, yet
years. who are always in the way, always seek
Ing to lower the Republican standard just lit
tie on it's staff always mumbling their dismal
ramparts of party, and always wadding their
political guns with a timid ballot and firing
them off without aim, with closed eyes, and
trembling knees. Naughter.) If our principles
lend honor, they should inspire courage; if they
assure blessing they enjoin duty. Men who
attach themselves to us for selfsecurity rather
than to render service, are worthless adberents
eject them-simply drop them over the walls! !!
(Cheers)
AS to impeachment. he spoke as folIows-
While you stood at your windows watching the
battle, its thunders smote and cracked the
warped glass before your eyes. You trod the
fragments under foot with clearer view
ahead Your million neighbors did the same.
The issues are sharply defined. and
he who seeks to distort them henceforth
or is sluggish to promote them can no longer
fnd ready cIaq,ters in you, and that million
of neighbors: II any one thing was established
in the war, it was that every obstacle to the
progress of a loyal and ambitious people,
whether Rebel, tens OF thousands OF Rebels,
every one of that people. high or low, who
aspires with that progress, be promptly and
1bssrs1 The need having arisen. we have AT no
time longer to lament and delay the duty, be
the means rifle, rope, or pill OF impeaehl,-
be fraudulent weapon now, then
the rifle has been an. unjust and
And yet many of our Republican Solons in Con
gress have striven to dam the popular ire
dent as a buttress, they have cast in all the
Democratic garbage the two Houses afford, ant
embarked themselves in it against the tide. L
themselves alone. The volume of indignation
It's transient impeachment then. with aug
mented force. burst 1t asunder bury II In IL
fSat tSat Sr ss OF or% obyo WHOSE strands a
already encumbered with hundreds of as mise
rable wrecks! prolonged eheers)
The gentleman presented at some length al
objection to the Military bill, arguing It's anti
republican character in one respect-that 1t ez
alted martial authority over, instead OF subol
dinating it to, State authority through the South
He said that the district commanders should b
the leutenRnts of the local Governors, and tina
the civil authority would then be less endaI
gered by the seditious element when martia
restraints were Withdrawn; since, when with
drawn, the Rebel has new master, no longe
the district commander, but one be has nc
been disciplined in the interim to respect, an
therefore may seek to annoy-the unatded Stat
authority. II is less important that con
mander completes his registration this year O
next than that every man whose name Is upol
the registry shall address himself in good fait
to the reconstruction of his State not throug
fear of the commander, but through an hones
love for that State as an integral part OF th
Union; for have but little confidence in th
old Rebels Hawthorne tells us OF gamestC
who betrayed his adverse cards to an an ntagont
by q scar on his forehead assuming a blood-re
hue. So the traitor, upon whose brow the 7
public has branded Cain" is bland in phras
but tell him his peremptory duties, and whi
he listens the old rancor fiushes along his sea-
Here follows his alusion to the National Col
Vention of next year. 4.
Not an Insignificant popular topic and u
hnal one OF this lecture, is the next Presldel
tlal domination. 1 accept the responslbllll
Ior Louisiana alone, in my comments IN Tn
connection, Classical fiction warns us by tt
exam pie OF Melampus, who, while capClV
heard the worms declare they had nearly cate
the umDers through, and that the rooi OF n
cOnnne would soon fall in. He told his captor
and with them escaped destruction. LouisiaI
mas 100 long mad her political ear quickened |
subtle chlchane and plot not in some measu
TO apprenend the ruinous purpose of certai
Selnsh asplrants, or at least OF their heraids.
OF a certain military chief he says, he is
natlonai pleket. not anational leader. II he
sterling officer keep him where he is. Marti
exploit commends q; soldier, but don't assure
statesman, especially when the douRhtv nal
din dofis ms casqne, and skulks under the COY