The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-09

next twenty-four months nobody knows what is I,
possible. Throttle that Rebel in the White
House. Who knows what effect that would |
have upon Grants nomination. Men seem to |,
forget impeachment (appiause) does not mean 1
merely getting rid OF Andrew Johnson. I'm /
peacbment is not barren branch throwing !
johnson into the canal. Oh, no? it means |
great deal more than that, impeachment |
means reconstruction.
Four years ago j said In Boston that Ii q hun |
dred Yankees, energetic men that build rail- |
roads to the Pacific, the men that dot continents
with cities, the men that send fleets to the |
die owning country; Yankee babies who, six |
months old, look over the sides of their cradles |
and plan out pattern-that set of men-it |
hundred such could have been trusted with the
settlement of this question, and trusted with |
all sthe powers of the Government, they would
have finished it in year at one-third the price
that the nation did it, and give us back the
States in 1868, and like matchmaker selling q
watch, guaranteed them to run for year Zap
plause), and believe it. have no doubt OF 1t.
STATESMAN AND FOOL.
have a friend in Boston who had ship
repairing at Norfolk. When they fred that
Sumter gun, he heard of it. merchant, acting
on business principles-the largest result IN the
shortest time, at the cheapest cost-what did
he dor Telegraphed down to Norfolk, "Bring
my ship north of Mason and DiXon's line
whether she is finished or not, no matter what
condition she is in so as she will float; bring
he saved his boat. The Secretary of the Navy
heard that gun, sitting in Washington sur.
rounded with red tape, files of documents
Craftsmanship from the top OF his head to the
end of his beard, never did anything, and the
Rebels took Norfolk and $3,000OO0 worth OF
munitions of war. call that merchant a
statesman, and | call that Secretary fool.
(Applause and laughter.)
Now, then, 1 say if these one hundred men
had been trusted with the question, they would
have settled 1t on business principles They
would have gone down to South Carolina. They
would have said :-'There are 100000 white
men; there are $4,000 black men. They are
could not help it If they wanted to. And these
are Rebels, and they could not help if they
wanted TO-. And they would have said:-'Give
the ballot to these men, give land to these men,
and make South Carolina" Shut those men
out until God pardons them and the future
can cultivate them. They would have given us
! the State.
WILL TIE NEGRO FIGHT AND WORK?
Instead of that, craftsmanship Q) puts ou its
| spectacles, looked down South, and said:-'I
| wonder If the negro will hghtn daughter }
They sent over to France, They searched the
records. They got the opinion of the German
metaphysicians and the ethnologists of Cali
fornia, and the wise men of Oxford, and the
! practical men of Algiers, and they made book.
1t was full of figures and facts and finally they
concluded they might risk 1t, thay perhaps, the
negro would fight. So, in the summer of 1868,
| with great trembling, and believing that he was
not responsible for it, and turning his eyes away
from the danger, the President said TO Massa.
chusetts-"You risk it," and she sent down two
! regim ents, and 1t was found that, like any
animal that had home, a child, and wife,
he would fight just as well as anybody else.
| They said-"I wonder ii he would work. Then
! they went to get the opinions of college profess
| sors, and they concluded that possibly he would
| work.
! Now a common sense man would have said,
'Will slave fight as well as anybody else?
viii a slave work No, If he has got any sense
| inI- Rut will ha Roh
| Will a negro work! OF course, whenever he
! gets paid. That would be an inevitable motive
! to work. (Applause.) Common sense would
| have said settle the matter at once. SO would
| the business men who went down there. We
dismissed all these things We put President
| there who pardons those men and gives them
back their estates, and the railroads. and several
! millions in rolling stock. He gave up all that
had been con6scated, and there it stands. Re-
behon knows it. Disloyalty treads upon it. He
| has treasure for II, while the negro begs for
| an acorn, for foot of ground TO stand on, begs
! rebeldom to allow him to buy farm.
rPEAoH THE PRESIDENT IN SEVEN DAYS.
What does impeachment meang 1t means that
] when you have regarded il, that the President
| was traitor in 1865, and that every one of his
| acts was raitolous, that Congress recalls the
| pardoDs and resumes the lash. 1t means that
| having convicted johnson OF an Intentional pur-
| rose to resist Congress and deride the course of
| the nation, every one OF his acts since the fall
| of '65 is void and dsloyalty trembes in the
! COURTS, anu bue property VI luc men III NlLBluld
| and South Carolina is the property of the
nation, and loyal men are to take 1t and divide
it. That is what impeachment means. 1t does
not mean mere measurable punishment of the
traitor, IT means setting right 1.-THE actions of
the man in the White House, and tearing out
disloyalty, the reverse of the two years. ]
would impeach the President In seven days.
would despatch him in seven more, and the
next day have Congress pass a law that his par
dons were void, and that the land south of
Mason and Dixon's line belonged to the nation.
But you would say "That is very radical
MEASURE Yes, IL is. The land is fun of widows
and orphans. Every hearthstone has an empty
chair. Out of every table you have taken a
| fruit. Who shall pay you that great debtY If
you had ridden as | have for five or six hours
with half idiot on the opposite side of YOU, a
representative of Andersonvile-if you had
lived under the same roof, as l have for six
weeks, with an only and loved boy brought
home from Libby prison. body without soul.
II took eighteen months to restore that intellect
which God had given him, and all mothers
fond devotion TO bring back her child, would
Won think any measure was hard enough 10
leach one section OF a land that never again, by
any human possibility, should one root Of such
bitterness be left, or one chance that any dis.
affection or any disOyalty should make these
cradles fight over again the battles that we have