Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-03-11
Middle States Anti-RadIcaI Club.

ADDRESS OF HON. MONTGOMERY BLAIR.
Atthe meeting of the Middle States Anti Rad
ical club, held last night At the rooms of the
CcnseTyauye Army and Navy Usion. 81 Penn
sylNania avenue, a large number OF citizens
and strangers were present. Captain Frank
Geise presided, and Mr.. II. A. Knarr acted As
secretary
After the disposition of some regular busi-
mess, the Chair introduced Hon. Montgomery
Blair, the recently elected president of the
club, who prtfaced his remarks by returning
thanks to the association for the honor they had
conferred on him in selecting him rs their
hCad. He thought the duty dsvolyiny upou the
anti-radicsl clubs OF the various States in their
organization in Washington, was a most i'm
portant one, and he hoped they would give
their hearts and earnest efforts 10 the accom-
pllsh ment of the work. Now wss the tim. for
preparation. so that when the occasion arrived
for action the Conservative clubs might b.
rrady to buckle on their armor for the con-
test The Radicals had usurped the af-
fairs OF Government and there was mr.
gent necessity OF checkmating their power
and in fiuenee for the future. The speaker re-
fsrred 10 Mr.. Stanton's retention of the Office of
Secretary of War, in defiance of his removal by
The Presldeni, as striking instance OF the
desperate character Of the Radical party which
controlled Con ress, and their dptermi nation To
bold on to the power AT all hazards They
had appealed To General Grant and As TO th.
course which that officer had intended 10 pur-
sue, II WAS only necessary TO point TO his wil-
hhshtss ana AZ, IN contin uing an armed
guard around the War Ofice TO protect
Mr.. stanton IN his violent possession of
the office OF Secretary. The oppression of
Virginia and other Southern States by
the unjust legislation of the Radical Congress
was denounced by the speaker, aud classed as
thv highest evidence of tyranny. despotism
and desperation. The North had i'm thunder
torres pronounced The COZ of the Republicans
infamous, ana through the ballot-boy had
poIed an increase OF two hundred and odd
thousand Conservative votes against them
This party IN power, hr said, maintained their
ascendancy only by force having 1T their hack
the army to support them. Their howis about
me dlsloyaity OF the rebels was all fudge and
farce, for the Republican party this day were
the greatest traitors to the Government that
ever existed. They Were a set of plunderers
and dealt IN the most unblushIng frauds which
any country was ever cursed with. The speaker
secuted the idea that they were Repu biIcans:
the proper name for them to sail under, he
said. was Radical, for they Were radical in
everything that was unjust and subversiye of
proper administration. The Conservative party
proposed TO increase the rights and representa-
ton of the Southern States. while the Radicals
aimed M stripping the whites Of the South of
ali rights of freemen. Making voters of the
southern negroes was shame, and a disguise of
the force Of the bayonet. Negro suffrage had
been overwhelmingly pronounced agairst in
the Northern States, because the RADICALS dare
not use the means there to carry out their de.
sigus that they had at the South. At the South
there WAS liberty for the white man. they
had been shsmelessly disfranchised, while the
blacks, their tools. had been made to stuff
the baiiot-box by fraud, and carry the cleo
asserted tina; the leaders Of the Radical
party Were q most Inscriptions set of
usurpers, vioistors OF the Cons titution.
who had no political honor, but would carry
their designs at any sacn6ce of principIe
Reference Was made TO Thaddeus Stevens
when some one IN the room cried out that his
time was most up. Mr.. Blair replied that be
WAS not the only bad man in the ranks of the
Radical usurpers: for when he was gone there
would another Philip rise up take his place
such party, he said gloried in sustaining
INFAMOUS as du-iy Sta.
ton, " ho was 4 srif-acknewiedged impostor and
traitor. IL was we'll known in this city that IN
leel stanton was rebel, while, al the same
time, he was in the habit OF going 70 Charles
sumner and other Radical leaders and repre-
sentlng 10 them that be was o! their way of
thinking also. And now, when ne liz hunted
down and uneaTthed, these Radical leaders
come forward and shou lder this Infamous char
actor. Stanton. Any set of men who would do
SO could not sanction his lStanton's} yillanv.
unless IL was 10 he applied 10 the ends they were
TO carry out. The Radical party We're Willing
TO defraud ihe people. usurp the power of the
GONernmenf, and do the most infamous things
10 carr! out Their ends In conclusion. Dir.
Blair again urged upon the Conservative party
me great importance of vigilance and perse-
Fcrstnce between now and the Presidential cleo
ton IL was imperatively Necessary that these
uupTiEcIpled tyrants should BE- hurled from
the control which they were now so rpckIesslv
exercising. The perpetuity of The American
Republic demanded their defeat, and nothing
should be lett undore 10 accomplishiI
Hr. Clayton being called on. then addressed
The meeting, indOrsing all that Mr. Blair had
said.
capt Geise followed. saying that for five
years h. a. "a Democrat, fought the Radicals of
M SCUM under the banner of his country. aud
nv was now a ready TO take up arms against
The ylie Radical traitors at the North He
spurn-d -uch loyalty a. that which the Rad
GALE bCasted Of. and II be had one drop of such
blood IN his veins he would not rest ill il was
!ei COT
Al the close of Capt. Geise's remarks, teIe-
graphic dispatch was received ana read, an
EOunCIng the probable success Of the Rapubli-
can party At the election held yesterday in
New Hampshire.
Hon. Mr.. Blair arose and administered words
OF encourage ent 10 the conservative party
1 NJ election IN That State, ne said. had been
caTrlt by fraud, TO subserye the ends the Rad
icals had IN view; but he had no doubt that AT
the general election IN November the dam of
radicaiisIn would betbroken through. and all
would he right
hr Club then adjourned.