Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-01-26
ELncrIoN OF U. 8. .sENAToR--sPEEcH
OF GEN. CAMERON.

nLncT1oN OF U. 8. snNAroR--sPEEoH |
OF GEN. CAMERON.
The election of United States Senator
took place at Harrisburg on Tuesday of last
week, and Hon. Simon Cameron, the choice
of the Republican caucus of the week pre-
vious, was elected by q vote of 10 to 10 for
Cowan, in the Senate, and So to 81 in the
House.
During the evening a public gathering
was he'd at the Lochiel Hotel, at which
speeches were made by Attorney General
Brewster, Senators Lowry and Landon, and
Gen. Cameron, and it affords US pleasure to
note, that upon the questions agitating the
public mind, Gen. Cameron made declara.
tions which must be acceptable to every true
Republican. In the course Of his remarks
Gen. Cameron said -
Your greeting is very kind and cordial,
| and thank you for it. thank Gou that
| in spite of the SANDERS my enemies have
heapcd on me for twenty years, my fellow
citizens, who have seen my life from DAY
to day, have always stood by my side ana
helped to repe them. This last struggle
of my political life has ended in victory
| deserved this as an answer to vndicate
my honesty to my children and my friends.
| now propose to put these ISLANDERS behind
me. and to forget alike the liars who con-
cocted them and the fact that good men,
in some cases, by the repetition of them,
were induced 10 believe and repeat them.
OF the eighty-two Republican members of
| the Legislature, my friends assure me that
sixty-three of them preferred me to any
other candidate, and would have voted Tor
me rather than have witnessed my defeat.
| The character of my supporters is as graft.
| flying to me as their numbers. Any one
who knows anything of our politics, who
will read the list of those who voted for
me, will find names as pure and honorable
as that of the purest Christian moralists
among my rivals, and quite as unlike to
descend to any corrupt proposal. Just there
l leave the whole matter, putting all party
feuds, and animosities, and prcjudices to.
gether, under my feet, and ! 60 forward to
the honorable duty to which my native
State has called me for the third time.
Six years agoI thought that slavery wa;
The strength Of the rebellion and ought tc
be destroyed without delay. wished alst
to arm all The black men who would volun
tecr. Of course, thought that clothing
ed him also with the rights of an Ameri
can citizen and am always sorry to see (
black soldier and then reflect that ever
PENNSYLVANIA denies him to ballot-th,
only weapon Whereby he can protect him
) self. hope to live to see the word white
stricken from our own institution, ant
the spirit OF the caste, based upon color
utterly destroyed.
The South, however, is more controlled
by social influence tian by political princi
pies. If you are wise and firm you ma.
o possibly educate the rising generation will
loyalty; but there is no method of states
manship which will make this generation
: of the South loyal to the Union and to Ii
t dag. The poison of thirty years cannot b
cradicaied by the suhHerviency of the Pres
ident or by the statutes Of Congress. LIE
US look the truth in the face. The South
crn territory is disloyal. The loyal c
: to-day must guard their children agains
another reasonable rebellion. The const
g tutional amendment. and universal suifrag
}, will help to do this, but universal amuest
:, will help to undo it.
OF Andrew johnson, said long ago, thf
:, he was a traitor to his party, and an en
u my of his country, and Il bad man. He bs
e done many bad things, but nothing wors
e than Offering the offices of the country
, those few unprincipled men who agreed
desert and betray the great Republican o
ganiza;ion for his patronage. He joine
u the Democratic party long ago. He has
d right to give them the offices, but he HI
/, no right to dispose of them at auction,
4 weak. .kneed Republicans. The pauper i
Dor of Europe is again competing with o'
D. labor, and our manufactures langusn Il
D, wau: of protection against il. Pennsylv
r. MIA needs no assurance ot my devotion
20 her interests in this regard, which is Il
=, interest of the whole country. will co
!" tinuc to labor in season and out of seaso
Z, to protect our manufuctories from ruin az
ID their workmen from being thrown out
q employment or their wages reduced to 4
starvation point, for l hole that the tr'
y welfare OF any nation depends on the WI
K fare of its laboring class.
st Gentlemen, l trust that this is my la
II. political struggle. l have nothing more
desire and l hope that we will all forg
the bitterness, the unjustitiab'c bitternc:
u think, of the late contest. For my pa
" | shalt try to act Us n representative OF
Of the Radical Republicans of Penrsylyan
q. without regard to past differences or d
sensiOns. With my temperament cam
"a forget my friends who have stood by me
Is nobly, but l will try to forget end forGi
IN the unjust calumnies and the political OPT
,e, sition have experienced.
- a HAE.