The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-09-06

EDoEKroN's SPEEcH.-H Henry Edgerton
delivered an able speech in Plau's Hall. San
Francisco, on Tuesday night. OF Johnson's
usurpation, and Of the measures adopted BY
Congress, he thus spoke:
MANY of the best minds in the country saw
Andrew John>ons usuTpatlon and were stag
gered at its b"dnes>; but they we're tired OF
war; the nation wanted peace more than
any thing else, and they wanted to see how
these plans of reconstruction would answer.
Never Was such scene of crime, bloodshed
and misery Witnessed in any country as pre-
vailed for two years in the unhappy South
under Andrew Johnson's attempt at recons-
Traction.
Congress passed the Constitutional amend
meni> aud they were rejected by the Soul hern
States all that asked of them was to
di qualify all officers actually engaged in the
reb, Hon above certain grade. JOhn>onS
policy di>franchised so, 900 of these people,
and the Congressional policy $1,000, and
then it made provision that any man who
couli show reasons and chose to apply,
might have the disability removed by Act of
Congress. Since then Congress has, in one
sweeping Act, Removed the disabilities of
! $50 persons of the $1,000 over the grade.
the speaker showed the absurdty of charging
policy, WHEN for ordinary Of
ftn>e> men could unl, be tried before their
municipal courts, and for mlli.ar, utfen>e>
the officers wer- restricted from recourse To
unusual punishmenfs, and no N II life
could H. taken except Cn the warrant OF the
President Of the United States.
And of the greatness We have achieved
through the war, he said:
now much greater and granh;r
the II uIOn ndd become tnTu'Igh the
y uthIus could btc"tpe great uitlout trial. !
The human >nul must co"quer sin before
The moral nature could reach il, highest |
triuIulh> IN man woman. Inc nation !
mad pa ssed through suITow, suffering and |
tears 10 the happ, condition Of peace and |
iisrt,. From d small beginning the na-
inu had grown great, and her massive lInos
had become flied with strength. He COM
pared her t. an oak, when first put ou'
1t, tender >prig from an acorn, and which
As it grew piricsd the grnHnd and shot up
lealth, saplin- but it vas not until ihuu>-
aid storms had hardened is heart and
nushened its hbres, that it lifted its head TO
he sNv and stood out monarch If the forest
tpplau>e. And ST., in completion of the
riders of Gods pro, idynce, no nation ever
,ru"S great until its roots have o-en moist
ned and enriched by blood and the tears of
War the father of all things.
Il was the war, and not the Government,
nat lii I'd up the souls of Grant, Sherman,
Sheridan and Thomas. [AppIau-el War
fave back to this immoral nation virtue and
war opened its eyes to the crime
# two hundred wears sttnding, the sin of
slavery !; war placed this Young Republic al
NE bound highest among the nations Of
he earth, where, if it will but be true to
sod, true tn Law tempered with equity.
rue to mercy tempered with justice, III all
IS dealings. il shall Sc that granfsr des-
my which Kings and prophets sought but
ever found.
lie closed his speech with the following
patriotic appeal:
Let us not close our eyes to the dangers
hat thici.en around US on every side; let us
lot turn deaf t. the load alarm which
he b' lis ring out, peal on peal, iii ever, stir
IN, hour Of the day and III the silen, watches
# the might; ring out the irresistible sum
"A 4, u ich calls California, calls the town.
ads the country, calls the clri, calls the
tate, calls the nation, the manhood, the
oior. the devotion, and the principle to
ONE 10 tue rescure Of the Union; calls them
, come and win victories of var, and where ,
er white plume leads, there let US follow aud .
chIeve the great but stainless victory which
e ow4 TO American liberty.