The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-11-28
NO. 36.

all the infamy that blackcns the Iscariot
names of history. Applause. After
discussing the reconstruction measures
passed by Congress, the speaker said: You
required no punishment, no con6scatiou,
no disqualification at the ballo:-box, no
indemnity for the past, but you demand
as bond OF security for the future that
every person born on American sell or ma
turalized thereon is an American citizen,
entitled to the rights and immunities Of
citizenship. 1t is but few years gone
by since the Supreme Court of the Uuited
States declared as the spirit of your in
stitutions that every seventh man, wo-
man, and child born on your soil was not
a citizen, and could not sue or be sued
in your courts. You slammed the door
OF Justice in the face of men because they
were poor, despised, and friendle.s Two
hundred thousand of This prescribed race
wore the uniform and kept step to the
music OF the Union. Thirty thousand OF
them sleep in soldiers graves. They
came to hghtthe battles of a country FROM
which they never received ausht but
stripes and bonds. When the rebel at
Port Hudson shouted over its ramparts
"NO quarter to- the niger" he hurled
back the cold defiance, "No quarter it is,"
and. butting his musket, laid low every
rebel within his reach loud applause. I
/ When at the hour of midnight he scaled
/ the earthworks Of Wagner, leaving his
/ Colonel dead IN the ditch, he stood there
amid its iron hail, side by side with his
white companion in arms till ordered to
retreat. Renewed and great applause I
When Payne, at the battle of Chapin's
Farm, ON the James, ordered his black
brigade to carry the enemy's works with
Out firing gun, they marched over the
field ploue6 with shot and shell, carried,
the works; the day was ours, bat the field
strewn with black heroes. Such are the
men against whom the Republic closed its
doors of justice, and whom it outlawed as
American citizens. \ nation that allows
! Its defenders in the hour of peril, ever af-
ter to wear the chain, or bruised and
manned in its defense, ever after to sub
nit to outrage and wrong without redress
in its courts of Justice, deserves to die
will assure as there is justice in Heaven
or retributiOn on earth. Applause, and
cries of Good. ." Justice to yourselves,
gratitude to the nations defenders, re-
quires that you make this provision So
plain that no judicial blindness henceforth.
shalli fail to read and understand it. Great
applause Your offers OF reconciliation,
so magnanimous In their terms, were
spurned by the rebels Then Congress
passed the bill allowing the black man TO
vote. Now if it be an evil to allow the
black man to vote, who j, responsible for
| 1t but johnson and his Democratic allies.
in advising the rebels to reject your prof
fers! The fruits of the policy of Con-
gress are seen in the restoration of Ter
nessee the fruits of Andrew Johnson's
policy are the massacres of Memphis aud
New Orleans, and the blood of Union
men all over the South. In reference to
finances, and National debt He said that
the faith of the nation was pledged to
payment of its debt, dollar for dollar; but
any discussion whether it was to be paid
In gold or paper seemed to him of little
consequence at the present time Before
paying any of the funded debt, the coun-
try must of course resume specie payment.
That would settle how it is to be paid
The scheme to pay our debts by taking
up our bonds and giving our notes he
thought was only changing the name with
out changing the substance The Re-
publican party is the only party that has
vigilantly investigated the conduct of its
own officials, and openly repudiated them
If unworthy of trust. The Republican
party was not responsible for Andrew
Johnson's appointments, most of whom
were Democrats, aRd they could not eK-
pect fidelity in men who sold their prin--
ciples for bread and butter" Laugh
ter aud cheers