Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-16

| 10Y vi august, IN the year or our LORD
1866, did, in a loud voice, declare in sub
| stance and effect, among other things, that
| Is to say:
80 tar as the Executive Department OF
Cne Government is concerned, the effort has
oeen made to restore the Union. to heal the
| breach, to pour oil into the wounds which
| were consequent upon the struggle and
Ito speak in common phrase) to prepare, as
the learned ana wise physician would, a
plaster heal1Dg in character and coexten-
slve with the wound. We thought, and we
think. that we had partially succeeded; but
as the WORK progresses, as reconstruction
seemed to be taking place, and the country
was becoming reunited, we found a disturb
ing and marr1ng element opposing US. In
alluding to that element, l shall 90 no fur
ther than your convention and the distiu-
guished gentleman who has delivered to
me the report of its proceedings [ shall
make no reference to it that do not believe
the time and the occasion justify.
"We have witnessed in one department
of the Government every endeaVor to pre-
vent the restoration of peace, harmony and
union. We have seen hanging upon the
verge of the Government, as it were, a
body called, or which assumes to be, the
Congress of the United States, while in
fact it is Congress of only part of the
States. We have seen this Congress pre-
tend to be for the Union, when its every
step and act tended to perpetuate disunion
and make disruption of the States inev-
table" "We have
seen Congress gradually encroach, step by
step, upon constitutional rights, and vio-
late, day after day, and month after month,
fundamental principles of the Government.
We have seen Congress that seemed to
forget that there was a limit to the sphere
and scope of legislation. We have seen
Congress in minority assume to exercise
power which, allowed to be consummated,
would result in despotIsm or monarchy it
self"
SPECIFICATION SECoND.-Tn this, that at
Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, heretofore,
to-wit on the Sd day of September in the
year of our Lord 1856, before public as
semblage of citizens and others, said An
drew johnson, President of the United
States, speaking of and concerning the
Congress of the United States did, in a loud
voice, declare in substance and effect among
other things, that is to say:
II will tell you what l did do. | called
upon your Congress that is trying to break
up the Government"
SIN conclusion, beside that, Congress had
taken much pains to poison their constitu-
ents against him. But what had Congress
done? Have they done any thing to re-
store the union of these States? No; Oh
the contrary, they had done everything to
prevent it; and because he stood now where
he did when the rebellion commenced, he
had been denounced as a traitor. Who
had run greater risks or made greater sac
rifices than himself? But Congress, fac
tiOus and domineering, had undertaken to
poison the minds of the American people,"
SPECIFICATION THIRD.-In this, that at
st. Louis, in the State of Missouri, hereto
tore, to-wit: on the Sth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1866, before pub
lie assemblage of citizens and others, said
Andrew johnson, President of the United
States, speaking of and concerning the
Congress of the United States, did, in a
loud voice, declare, in substance and effect,
among other things, that is to say:
''Go on. Perhaps if you had word or
two on the subject of New Orleans you
might understand more about iG than you
do. And if you will go back-if you will
go back and ascertain the cause of the riot
at New Orleans, perhaps you will not be so
prompt in calling out New Orleans 1t
you will take up the riot of New Orleans
and trace it back to its source or its imme-
diate cause, you will find out who was re-
sponsible for the blood that was shed there.
Ifyou will take up the riot at New Orleans |
and trace it back to the Radical Congress. |
you will find that the riot at New Orleans !
was substantially planned. If you will
take up the proceedings in their caucuses, |
you will understand that they there knew
that convention was to be called which |
was extinct bV its power having expired |
that it was said that the intention was that |
a new government was to be organized, and |
on the organization of that government the |
intention was to enfranchise one portion of
the population, called the colored popula- |
tion, who hau Just been emancipated, and
at the same time disfranchise white men,
When you design to talk about New Or
leans you ought to understand what you are
talking about. When you read the speeches
that were made, and take up the facts on
the Friday and Saturday before that con-
Vention saIyou will there find that speeches !
were made incendiary in their character,
exciting that portion of the population, the |
black population, to arm themselves and
prepare for the shedding of blood. You will |
also find that that convention did assemble |
in violation of law, and the intention of
that convention was to supersede the reor-
eanized authorities in the State govern
ment of Louisiana, which had been reor-
ganiZed by the Government of the United |
States; and every man engaged in that re-
bellion in that convention, with the inten-
tion of superseding and upturning the civil |
government which had been reorganized |
by the Government of the United States |
say that he was a traitor to the Constitu-
tion of the United States, and hence you
find that another rebellion was commenced,
having its origin in the Radical Congress"
$50 much for the New Orleans riot. And
there was the cause and the origin of the
blood that was shed is upon their skirts,
and they are responsible for it. l could
test this thing little closer, but will not
do it here to mis- ght. But when you talk
about the causes and consequences that re-
suited from proceedings OF that kind, per-
Eaps as have been introduced here and
you have provoked questions of this kind,
though it does not provoke me, will tell
you few wholesome things that have been
done by this Radical Congress in connec-
tion with New Orleans and the extension
of the elective franchise.
Il know that l have been traduced and
abused. know it has come in advance of
me here, as elsewhere, that Ihave attempt
ed to exercise an arbitrary power in resist
ing laws that were intended to be forced
upon the Government; that | had exercised
that power; that l had abandoned the
party that elected. me, and that l was a
traitor, because L exercised the veto power
in attempting and did arrest for a time a
bill that was called 'Freedman's Bureau
bills yes, that was traitor. And have
been traduced, | have been slandered, |
have been maligne1, 1 have been called
Judas Iscariot, and all that. Now, my
couDtrymen here tonight, it is very easy
to indulge in epithets; it is easy to call a
man Judas, and cry out traitor; but when
he is called upon to give arguments and
facts, he is very often found wanting. Ju-
das Iscariot-Judas. There was a Judas
ana ne was one OF the twelve Apostles
Oh! yes; the twelve Apostles had Christ.
The twelve Apostles had Christ, and he
never could have had Judas unless he had {
had twelve apostles. If / have PLAYED the
Judas, who has been my Christ that have {
played the Judas with? Was it Thad
Stevens? Was it Wendell Phillips? Was '
it Charles Sumner? These are the men
that stop and compare themselves with the
Savior; and every body that differs with
them in opinion, and to try and stay and
arrest the diabolical and nefarious policy,
is to be denounced as a Judas"
'sWell let me saw to YOU, if YOU will