The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-01

sdent from washington to the present. time? They
power TO appoint public ofiicers-a power which
every President has exercised since the formation Of
the government. and without the exercise OF which
l undertake to say this government cannot be
honestly administered.
Why look at it for single moment. See the
vast, complicated financial machinery cast over
this country, involving immense amounts OF
money; yet the President, by the action OF
portant public officer connected with the collec-
ton and disbursement OF the finances OF the
country. Take the most notorious Official thief.
who has stolen the peoples money, robbed them or
their hard earnings and the President has no power
to him. II he attempts to do SO and the Gull
pri claims be adherent TO the radical party and
It's extreme measures he Is sure to be retained.
(Cheers.) Not only that-the constitution of the
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Army and Navy. Have they not taken that power
from him Do you not know that by act OF Congress
the President o. the United States is prohibited from
issuing an order to the smallest subordinate officer
of I he army unless such order passes through the
General Of tae Army WIN ms appropation and the
the United States made by the constitution the Com
mander-inChief Of the Army and Navy, being unable
military ocer without the appreciation OF and pass
ing through the hands Of his subordinate. But this
is not all; they have not only taken the Executive
power, but they have invaded the judiciary In
every free government the judiciary Is regarded as
the bulwark o. liberty When public officers fail to
perform their duties and infringe upon the rights Of
the people the citizen falls back upon the jud cary.
which Is presumed to be independents OF oitcial III
nuence OF any kind or character Whatever
WHAT has CONGRESS DONE?
But what has this Congress doneY They have
passed series Of acts which are VIGOROUSLY uncon
stitutonal. and then they passed an act prohibiting
the supreme Court from reviewing their work. The
very powers which our fathers conferred upon the
Supreme Court this Congress has, by an act OF its
own prohibited 1t from exercising. Was not, then,
correct in saying that they have violated every prln
ciple to which have referred, upon which the gov
ernment was founded, by usurpng the power OF the
Executive and the judciarys Is it wonder, then,
that people are discontinued? Is singular that you
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ministration OF public afairsY Let US 20 one step
further. And here again desire TO address my re-
publican friends.
Let US recall for moment the history OF Congress
with reference to the restoration OF the Union for the
last four years and see how you have been led along
step by step, by these bad men, until you have APP
preached the very precpice over which they ask you
In this campaign to plunge taking your country,
over and Mr.. Lincoln died, he had reconstructed
two States by observation-disclosures and Loui-
siana He reconstructed them upon what was
called the 'onetenth principle''-that IT, If one
tenth OF the people OF any state OF the South would
form a state government he promised to protect
Arkansas and Louisiana did that. They called con-
ventions. adopted constitutions, submitted them to
State officers members Of Congress and Senators,
and sent them to Washington. All of this was done
before Mr.. Lincoln's DEATH and under his superin-
tendence. When he died he left unissueda procia-
nation for recognizing North Carolina. When An
drew Johnson came IN he took the Identical pro-
clamation prepared by Mr. Lincoln for North Carolina
and issued 1t for the organization OF not only North
Carolina and Arkansas, but for all the other unre-
stored States. Under that proclamation all OF those
States proceeded to organize State governments
They abolished slavery by constitutional provision
They recognized the federal debt by constitutional
provision. They repudiated the Confederate debit
in fact, did everything which at that time was re.
CURED OF them-organized their state governments,
elected members OF Congress and the Senate under
that organization and sent them to Washington.
Now, my republican friends ask you whether you
did not support that policy OF Andrew Johnson at
the time IL was inaugurated, and for year after
wards Did not the great mass Of the republican
party tfor these bad men had not then the control
Of its organzation) approve and support the policy
US look back now to the fall Of 1866.
APPROVAL OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
Mr.. Johnson came into power in the spring OF 1885,
In the fan OF 1865 the Republican State Convention
OF the State OF New York passed resolution ex-
restoring those States in the manner he did, aud
they went to the people The democratic party did
the same thing and the republican party, through
their presses and public speakers, declared they were
better friends OF the policy OF Mr.. Johnson than the
democratic party, and they went to the people and
ask you to repudiae that policy and to curse Andrew
Johnson every morning, noon and night, but as
ing measures which are not only unconstitutional,
but which, II persisted In, must revolutlonlZc our
government and every principle upon which it is
founded. The Southern people, when they were
beaten laid down their arms and proposed to come
back into the Union in good faith. We wanted them
that we sacrificed half a million OF the
lives Of our young Isp and untold ,ndIs millions
argument we used to the young men to enlist in
the service OF their country during the rebeilions
IL Is not SO long ago but that you may remember
ARGUMENTS FOR ENLISTMENT.
You probably attended war meetings and heard
the speeches. attended great many myself, and
and money to carry on the war. When Congress
declared by almost a unanimous VOTE that this
war should be fought to restore the Union, and
when the rebellion was put down the rights OF the
States should remain unmpaired-when Mr.. Lin
coin proclaimed that in his proclamation; when
all the republican presses said so. and their speak
ers said so and came to me and said, "our country
Is In danger; now we ask you to unite with us in
putting down this rebellion and the rights Of the
and went In and helped. The great body OF the
democratic party responded to that appeal, and
Democrats went themselves, their sons and broth
crs opened their Golfers and poured out their treas
ure Ike water: What was the argument we used to
mentS That the Southern States had no power TO Sc
cede from this Union; that when they entered the
Union under the constitution 1t was perpetual con-
tract and all other acts tending to secede from the
Union were void, and, therefore, the United States
duty to put down the rebellion and keep those states
In the Union. proonged cneers.) Was not that the
meetings. with men Of every political iepara .Sfss
abolitionsts republicans, ministers OF the Cos
pel-with everybody, and never on any occasion did
tory to that to which have just referred.
CHANGE IN THE RADICAL Foley.
why, WltHOub tndt argument, 40 YOU suppose our
men would have rallied as they didP In Schuyler
county, II you had preached the doctrine that those
radical leaders are now insisting, and have been in.
sisng for the last two years. that these States were
out Of the Union, could you have raised one single
man' There was no justification for this war, except
that these States were In the Union and had no
power to get out. Now what is the doctrine OF the
radical leaders, do not say OF the republican party
because as said before the masses mean to be hon,
estwhat Is the doctrine Of the radical eadorsY II is
that those states not only out OF the Union but
never can get back into the Union except upon the
terms they have prescribed. They assume the same
ground adopted by the Confederate government.
They are upon the same platform with Jen. Davis
Co. for four years. Davis kept the Union apart by
that doctrine for four years. and II these men hold the
rens till next April they Will have accomplished the
been kept apart by the Internal heresy that the States
were out OF the Union.
STATES NEVER OUT OF TIDE UNION.
They never were out OF the Union. There was an
armed rebellion there but the States az such existed