The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-10
BEEOHER.
His Campaign Speech at the New York
Academy of Music.

fore an immense audience assembled In Jne
Academy OF Music, delivered his f1rst speech In
the present campaign. He said:-
"What is or was the necessity OF Congress act
ing outside of the Consultation since the close
of the war, and preventing the United states
Supreme Court from passing upon their recon
struction measures?"
There is q great distinction between acting acting
of IL. We act outside OF the Constitution slim
ply where there Is no provision In the Consul
iutlon for our action, and where the times COM
pei us to do something. II there were In Tue
Constitution provision for the REHABILITATION
OF The rebellious States, the Republican party
certainly would have obeyed the Constitution;
but that never was contemplated, and there
were no such provisions maze In IL; therefore
The Republican party was obliged TO act outside
the Constitution, or not act at all. AS To this
matter confess don't feel so sensitive about
IL es do the men who spent four ye Ars fighting
against the Constitution. have great respect
for it, like it, But IL is not 30 dear to me as IL
has become to them. have a reasonable hope,
too that the Constitution will be maintained;
i think the broad common sense OF the Ameri-
can people will take care OF the Constitution.
II il very affecting to my feelings, therefore,
tionate yearnjngs and longings and repinings
of the reconstructed Rebellion In tue South In
behalf of the Constitution, the dear, blessed
do love the Constitutions? Because believe
It. breathes and creates liberty every where
Why are they 80 soictous for the CoDstitu-
tion? Because 1t breathes liberty every
where That is the trouble. The Constitution
fancy constructed IL is the old Constitution that
was brought before the courts wnen Southern
make decisions in favor OF slavery Tnat Is the
Constitution they mean, mean the Constltu-
tion that our fathers made wnen all Europe was
flushed with a love of liberty; wnen the world
shone liz e an aurora with the spirit OF lioerLy;
our our os,in,on and pnt IL for
liberty. That is the Cons tuition mean. (Pro-
longed nave ave nSenen
dence of the Individual? What feature
Tower. The very cause of offense is that we
have made liberty so broad that there Is no
creature born OF woman thas uoes m NOT become
You are invited to attend the funeral of the
of this Democratic party, the Southern people
in general. are all affectionately invited to at
10 attend tue funeral See them going In process
sion after the Constitution Qaughter), some reel
Ing with grief and other things daughter See
them going, with their bowie knivesreversed; see
Lhem going, hardly yet wiping their hands with
the blood OF the last assassination; see them
going, the men who fought your sons and mine,
and That split the blood OF loyal, valiant sons
and children liEe wafer; see tneT, IS mIossa1Ing'
Grafton" of the Constitution, this love OF the
Constitution, 1t Is peculiarly affecting to me.
When Sodom and GomOrrah Sit round about
the temple of Jerusalem and praise Its beauty,
and long for the prevalence of the lghtthat
shall shine out of Zion, then shall believe that
these men who are crying out "the Constitution!
the CoDstitutiopW have any love for Its essen
tial principles, or have any right to say any
"Is IL safe 70 lay aside fundamental law and
jOrity desire to act outside OF 1G?"
No; that was the very reason why we blamed
the South; 1t had no business to go outside of it,
we have brought IL inside. daughter and APP
"Why did not the Republican party inform
The principal cause they didn't know them.
selves. DO ou suppose that every member of
the Republican patty was prophet? Do you
suppose they were all inspired and that the
gift of foIe Iesight was given to them l.? How did
they know how the South was going TO act?
know
was q tentative business. The intrinsic diff
Guilty of reconstruction was TO be carried
through with safety and with speed I believe
mistakes have been made, and tried TO fore
stall some Of them and reonkeothers, but with
nevertheless. think reconstruction has been
second only, If second at all to the n. manner IN
through. We were like men crossing a ford;
we had never been across Il; we had to feel our
before we got out of the stream. We were like
an army in foreign country. an were Obliged
TO flank ourselves on every slde Win cavalry,
and try the probing testas we Weht on
GRANT AND SEYMOUR ooNTRAsTED.
1he,ieve Grant preeminently man OF ad-
rministration. l believe ne mas not Only lalo
the country under obligations TO him wnlcn we
can never repay for the services ne rendered
during the war; but believe he is destined to
lay the country under greater ooiisatlons, He
divested OF passion, free from all malign infiu-
epces, SO wise in Its selection OF men, so judi
date from his administration recontinus-
ton of the administration OF Washing
ton himself-tcneers and applause)-a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in no respect more
than this-in bis wisdom in taking counsel OF
wise men and in max ing his personal decisions
re6ecJ the wisdom Of all the councillors he can
gather around him. Ii General Grant sits at
the head of the Government OF these United
States, there is not single workingmau In The
nation not one poor emigrant, not one dusky
creature that by his pine knot candle reads his
spelling book, that will not feel that he Is safe
and secure after General Grant is President
party of the common people, the party OF uni
versal suffrage, and every human being in the
United States will know that the power OF the
Chris ian people will be nll In favor OF the
greatest security and the areatest measure of
what is his antagonist In private life?
gentlemen not only most respectable, but most
Kind and amiable OF polls he'd and winning
manners, against whose private character
man mas brought shadow of reproach. But
Seymour is not a man of ideas; he Is not man
OF victorious will; not man VINO In dark and
though all men leave him follows 1t to the vic,
torious end. Neither soldier nor general, he is
a man that will be managed by those around
him. with out record In the but q pad
record he would hang his burdens on the Gov.
ernment. He is not the man that ought to be
entrusted to shape me pohGy OF an era Of
life has he shown himself to be the right man
IN place in power on those terms OF liberty.
lawy makes the best Tha statesman; Ss@ "a general
the man under whom this nation Will rest most
secure and sale
THE TWO PLATFORMS AND THE CANDIDATES.
And n with such platforms before the Ameri-
can people, looking back 70 banyion anu Egypt Typ
liberty; the other retrogresslVe. WIN TWO eau,
didates; one representing all that Is young and
true and all that Is advancing, all thaJ Is great
aud noble. the other retrogT eSsive, um1d. time
BerVing-if with these two the same people tnai