Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-08-08

| no InnUIcT WDpTc ne lllitN IluNcDtcH DOIU,
is q man whom God dmade and for whom
Christ died, and who shall possess equal
rights with everybody else. We want
free States, free men, and that policy
that has been inaugurated will be accom-
plished d>within twelve months, and all
those States within year will be brought
back into the Union. They will not
have the power to dictate the policy of
the country but they will be the radical
and progressive portion OF II. we snail
see these things; and | say toyou tonight,
gentlemen, not merely as partisan, but
as an American citizen, loving my coun-
try, and my whole country, that 1T is.
enough to make the heart throb with
gratitude to Almighty God for what we
! have witnessed during the last seven
years of progress [Cheers.] The friends
of the country have been misrepresented
throughout this contest. We were told
we could not conquer these twelve mil
| lions of people. Well, we did it. We
were told we had no constitutional right
! or power to do it. We exercised the
powers of the Constitution to save the
/ Constitution and the country, and we
have done it. Now they tell us we have
no constitutional power to pass the laws
for reconstruction but we find the pow
ers, and we have passed the laws, and
the laws will do the work.
THE PRESIDENT.
The President of the United States may
do what he pleases; the place that knows
! him will not know him great WHILE
r[Laughter and applause.] The Fourth
of March, 1869, at any rate, will come
some time. A voice: "What about i'm
peachment?"l He may stay in till that
time, and he may not. Cheers. 1t Will
depend great deal on his future con-
duct If he undertakes to violate the
! lou nf ha
duet of the Government, he will have
but a short time to stay where he is
IAppause.1 But | tell you, gentlemen,
he may do lust what he pleases, he cam
not prevent anything. ["Good."l Our
friends in the South, who believe in re-
construction, in united country, and in
freedom, three-fourths of million of
them will bring those states back in spite
of anything Andrew Johnson or any
: body else can do. / look upon Mr.. john
son Just as [ look upon Bull Rum
Laughter Bull Run during the war
brought sense Of shame to the cheek
of the country, but after all it was great
,, lesson to the country. Andrew Johnson
, seems to be a sort of being brought into
f existence for purpose. He stands right
, there, and every time he undertakes to
do ANYTHING against the cause of liberty
) and Justice, the country rallies, and goes
further than it ever would have gone be-
! fore. laughter and applause.] He got
: the opinion of the Attorney General the
= other day, aud all over the South the
. rcbels reared their heads, and began to
- hope again; but in day or two went
. the news on the breezes that Congress
! would assemble, and the rebels closed
! their Inns. Congress assembled, and made
' an additional and stronger measure than
u ever before. He may undertake to set ii
. aside If he pleases. or do what he pleases;
y our Friends i'm the South will take care OF
! the cause of the country. And let me
" tell YOU that Grant is for negro suffrage,
! not only in the South, but in the North.
- TCheers.1 So is Thomas-that great
:, General whom his soldiers nicknamed
"Old Reliable :" so is Phil Sheridan, and
y | nearly every General of the country who
:. has made page of the history of this
y war find IL very large share of the
;, men who have opposed us individually
: say it is right, but they say they have
= po, great prejudice vote behind them,
y and thew must pander to that. | think
:, II becomes statesmen to speak the truth
~ to come out in advance of the people
u and maintain what is right-and the
y people will follow them. There is nc
,, norton of our countrymen so Ignorant
= or preiudiced who will not do the right
: when they see it clearly Such is the
Il present condition of the country. | think
!. il is hopeful one, and ii will be better
i next year than it is now. The men who
i emancipated four millions Of slaves and
!. have established liberty and justice in
/, the land are to have the country next
- year. Whether Grant will be the can
didate of those men or not, and think
!. he is very likely to be, that candidate
= will be elected. There are to-day three
millions of those voters in the country
" who would vote for Grant, or Sheridan
n or Thomas, or Chase [applausel or Col
Ir fax Tapplausel, or brave old Ben Wade
% Tapplarise1, or any other of the true anC
,f tried men who have carried the country
r. through the dark and gloomy days o
Il the last seven years. But no man wht
:. opposed the cause of the country during
ii that war, noman whoopposed emancipa
~ ton, no man who opposes the civil right
l. of the emancipated races, no man wh'
" opposes negro suffrage, will ever lie Pres
y ident Of the United States again. [Ap
i plause.1 If there arc any here to-nigh
p. who desire to act with the masses, ant
a move with events, and who wish TO b.
H. with the successful, respectable, and trl
- umphant, give them this piece of ad