Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-14
WASHINGTON.
Enthusiastic Conservative Demon
stration.

| WASHINGTON, November IL nc
President has appointed Edward f.
Hoods Collector of Internal Revenue
of the Third District of New York,
Brooklyn, in the place Oft. c. Callicott
The Conservative Army and Navy
Union having rendered the President a
serenade, they invited all Conservatives
and Democrats to join them in the dem
onstration tonight, The procession
formed at the headquarters of the Army
and Navy Union, and was composed OF
delegates and associations, inclu-
ding johnson clubs, and the Unions
of Washington and Georgetown,
and large number of soldiers and
sailors. Many army flags, banners Ian.
terms and torches were carried in the
procession, and during the march there
was a continuous display of fireworks.
There were thirty bands of music. A
broom about four feet long and nearly as
broad, with huge handle, was signifi-
cantly displayed. 1t is the same one
that was presented to President Lincoln,
and which was purchased at an auction
sale.
When the procession arrived at the
Executive mansion, Presidential salute
of hundred guns was fred. The mass
of spectators repeatedly called and
cheered the President Music was played
in the meanwhile, and fireworks exhib-
tied A committee, consisting of Col. j.
A. TAFT, Col. P. H. Allabach and Colonel
James r. O'Brien, escorted the President
to the front of the mansion, where he
was greeted with repeated cheers Col.
O'Brien then addressed the President as
follows:
"MR. president The Conservative
Army and Navy Union of the District of
Columbia tender you, their honored
chief, the compliment of grand sere-
made in congratulation of the newly
promised hope for the welfare of our re-
Gently hitherto unhappy country.
Our Conservative friends through
out the District of Columbia, rep
resenting different States of the
Union, join us in trusting that the pre-
sent, with its arrangements, may be
harbinger of renewed future prosperity,
tranquility and brotherly love through
out our land. We invoke Providence
to strengthen your hands, to give you
courage and fortitude, and aid you in the
successful performance of the mission X
is yours to perform. SOius popuH le
supreme est
The President then addressed the as.
semblage as follows:
"FELLow CITzENs-Itis not my inten-
ton to make an address upon this occa-
sion, but simply to tender yoa my thanks
for this demonstration, "a demonstration
approaching what your fellow citizens
have declared in the recent elections in
the various States of the Union. They
will appreciate your response
to what they have done and
send back greeting. The union
of the States must be maintained
according to the original design of our
fathers. confess am gratifed, but not
surprised, at the result Of the recent cleo
tons. l have always had undoubted
confidence in the people. They may be
sometimes misled by lying spirit in the
mouths of their prophets, but never per
verted, and in the end they are
always right In the gloomiest
hours through which l have passed,
and many of them, God knows, have
been bad enough. When our Constitu-
ton was in the utmost peril when our
free institutions we're assailed by
formidable force and our great Republic
seemed to be lettering to its fall, and
when / felt how vain were my efforts
alone to preserve these institutions
in their integrity and save the Republic
from ruin, | was still hopeful. ! had
still an abiding confidence in them, and
| felt assured they, in their might, would
come to the rescue. They have come,
and l thank God for it, and that our
Republic may yet be saved. 1t was but
the other day that | officially declared
that the remedy for the present un-
happy condition Of tho country
must come from the people themselves.
They know what that remedy is and how
it is to be applied at the present time
they cannot, according to the forms of the
Constitution, repeal obnoxious laws
they cannot remove or control
this military despotism the rem
edy is nevertheless in their hands,
and is a sure one if not controlled
by fraud and oyerawed by arbitrary
power, or from apathy on their part and
too long delsyal. With abiding confidence
in their patriotism, wisdom and integrity,
l am still hopeful that in the end the rod
of despotism will be broken the armed
heel Of power lifted from the neck Of the
people, and the principles Of a violated
Constitution preserved. The people
have spoken in a manner not to be mis-.
understood. Thank God that they have
spoken, for it ia on their intelli-
gence aud their integrity that
have always relied aud still rely. The