The New York herald., 1868-08-17

the sanction Of his Cabinet ana the sanction OF Con-
gfess; @ -. nj. Lncom was assassnated In april 1863
public speech before the American people
was was. IN & the city Of washington, but few ,s
| days before his assassination, In which ne
urged upon the people to go forward IN the plan OF
restoration which he had proposed with reference
plan to all the other States they should surrender
to the government Of sthe United States On the
became President OF the United States and the rst
great and important question when came before the
Saonsnt ohas"n was ns Ye question Of ton
formed. Edwin N. Stanton, Secretary OF War, was
the very. man who drew it, and General Grant
twice In the Cabinet Of Mr. Lincoln before Mr. lin
| coin was assassnated and the same plan was put
right through, and-to use the language Of General
Grant-applled in the proclamation which Mr. John
son issued to the state OF North Carolina and to the
states OF the SO south Now this plan Of reconstruction
| based upon these two fundamental ideas TO which
have referred First OF ALL that these people in these
Southern States ought by the constitution Of these
States to be admitted to the right OF suffrage under
the reconstruction, provided they accepted of the
| allegiance which was required by the President ana
which ne required as one OF the conditions OF grant
transpired during the summer and fall OF 1865, and
ia the December Of 1855 General Grant, being at the
head OF the army was sent to the South BY the Pres
dent Tor the purpose OF examining the condition or
things and making his report to the Pres dent TO be
laid before Congress. That report of General Grant
! have now IN my hand As desire always to
build upon sure foundation, viii ask some gen.
tleman to hold light SO that can read the words Of
| Der, writing TO the President, says
satisfied that the of thinking mon of the South
w S s far o s %
@ the states to o s anf s
resort to- was pleased to learn leading
mas for Ss ds snd that the DECISION has
&c laiescenee In the authority OF the general gov
By Sss the s Of military
S % the scan, Il. 4 essa seanoy @ to
CURED that the kept the interior, where there
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for the freedmen for long distances White
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States se,fgovernmeni within
Union soon a, possible is 70 Ss regretted ih.t there
cit Of The two sections and particularly of those en-
have read this statement Of General Grant made
In December, 1855, Just about two years after Mr..
Lincoln had proposed his plan Of reconstructon, and
six months after the war had closed, to show You
the state OF the public mind at the South ut that
time; because at that period the plan Of reconsruc
sa M S the q M ad
been practically carried into effect in all the States
Of the SOUTH with perhaps the exception Of the state
OF Texas. Now what occurred IN December 1885,
when this report OF General Grant came into the
Senate OF the United States accompanied by mes
upon the good condition OF the people OF the SOUTH
ana upon their good disposition toward the govern
ment OF the United States-what occurred IN the
Seuatef Mr.. SIMMER OF Massachusetts,, the same man
who led the little band OF radicals IN March in resist
ing the admission to representation OF the state
oil LOuiSlani-hr. sumner rose In his place aud
denounced the report OF General Grant as 'white-
washing" report and message and then the war be
gan. And, ieiOW citizens, what then 0ccurrodY ne
House of representatives under the lead of Thad
deIs stevens twho is now no more, and has gone to
his final accounp, and the Senate, under the lead OF
men like Sumner, resolved tnat they would tranple
down this plan OF reconstruction and that they
would inaugura.e another plan of reconstruction
denominated the Congressional plan. Now let me
be heard q few moments longer. stated tue prin-
cipes upon which the restoration of the Union was
TO be properly conducted by Mr.. Johnson in pursll
OF the plan which Mr.. Lincoln had proposed IN
December, 1858; but in December, 1885, under the
tho lead OF these men in Congress, the Congress OF
the United states determined to trampe down
Johnson, and to set up reconstruction policy
OF their own, based upon two very difercnt funda-
c,sely, and in such o manner that think you win
never forget them. They maintain, frs that their
but outside the consttuton that the States OF the
South outside the constitution, and have lost
their rights under the constitutions that neither the
States OF the south the people Of the South have
any rights which the other States are bound " re-
spect In this federal Union, and therefore that the
States Of the South and the people OF the south are
to be absolutely disposed OF at the will OF Congress,
without any reference to the constitution or the
rights which 1t secures. And the further funda-
mental idea in this radical reconstruction policy
that Congress would build up new States upon the
ru ms of the States outside Of the constitution aud
base their reconstruction, not upon the civilized
white basis but base that reconstruction upon the
haf-ciylilzed negro basis. Fellow citizens that
call to your mind the fact that, In March, 1865
when Mr.. Irumbul urged the admission OF Louisiana
to her right to representation Mr. Sumner proposed
then, for the first tme that Louisiana should not be
admitted to representation except upon the funda
mental condition Of universal negro suffrage. And
when the vote was taken in March. 1855, Mr. Trum-
bull and twenty-three other republican Senators
voted ssanst M Mr summers IS poposso an anu niSb @
when the division occurred, four radical Senators
beside himself. But in 1865. after Mr.. Lincoln had
dled-alter Mr. Johnson became President-afer
General Grant visited the South In December, 1885,
and made the report from which have read as TO
disposition towards the government Of the United
States-Mr Sumner, Thaddeus stevens and those
VINO followed them acquired such an ascendency in
carrying forward this radical policy; and the radical
reconstruction fpoicy was based upon that idea and
upon that idea alone There nothing else in the
reconstruction policy OF Mr. johnson to which they
took any exception except that he did not force ne
viii OF the people OF the South Now, you have heard
good deal during the past winter about impeacn-
true reason and the only reason why they attempted
70 impeuch him was that he would n 1t lend himself
to their project to enforce negro suffrage Fellow
citizens there Is an impeachment now going on and
being tried before tribunal more august than the
Senate OF the United States. There is an impeach.
ment gong ON before the great American people ana
the party that impeached Ia this radical Congress-
Fellow citizens, let us lay our foundations sure.
desire TO state 10 You in little tnan ortlt
narly formal manner the impeachment that Is now
going on against tnat radical policy that IL now IN
existence. arraign and impeach the radical menl
bcrs or the present Congress Of high crimes and
nisdemeanor al the bar OF the American people, In
the presence OF high Heaven and before the civilized
world. impeach It, first, as crime against tile
laws OF nature which God Almighty has stamped
upon the race OF mankind, because this policy OF
Congress attempts to force political, and conse
quenty, asociai aud unnatural equality between the
African and the Csucasian; between an alien and
inferior and an exotic from the tropics and the
highest type OF the human IN the home OF the
latter In the temperate secondly impeach tlie
RADICAL policy as crime aRainst civilization isef be.
cause " would, by force. wrench cue government
out OF the hands OF the civilized white race IN ten
states OF TINS Union to place in the hands OF the
half-cvilized African. Thriy--i impeach tt as
crime against the constitution. because % trampes
down the rights of The States TO fix for themselves
the qualifications OF their own voters. a right with
out which state ceases TO be a republican State
FOurlhly-I lmpeaCh u a. q crime AGAINST tie