Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-06

lone, are found with this same United
States standing vith mailed heel upon
them. want Cuba annexed, but / want
| it done In accordance with law. / sup
pose there are none here but want Cuba
annexed and represented in Congress.
NOT TRAITOR.
They say that have been a traitor to
nv party. Where have / violated any
pledges. (VOice, never.) Where was l
nominated? Was It at Radical Con-
vention-a Wing Convention ? No. IL
was 8 Union Convention. 1t was Con-
stitutional Convention, and they invited
all to come into that convention. defy
you to put your finger upon the para
graph of that platform that I have vio-
lated.
HIS RECORD REVIEWED.
T replied To the letter notifying me Of
nv nomination, and I want the gentle
men who have been falsifying my record
to recur to that letter. / accepted it as
war Democrat, and urged my old Dem
ocratic friends TO come up and Join me.
l refer to thisI simply to make the record
right. stand now as I stood then, bat
ting for the Union and the Constitution
of our fathers, but where do some OF
them stand now2 I told them that the
true place to fight the hattie was in the
Union and under the Constitution. 80 l
told Jsfferson Davis when he left the
Senate. After the battle OF Bull X IN,
the country Was dismsyed, and I'VE
Thousand trO,ps marching into Wash
ington could have taken the capital, and
to restore confidsnce Mr.. Crittenden in
trodueed 3 resolution in one house and
in the other, declaring the war was
g. nj ar11 tho ftrTafItFI-
tion, and ths,t the States had no power
to seeede. That they were not out of the
Union, and could not go out Of the
Union. Well, we fought the war. We
conquered, and the defeated bowed to
the decision Of war and renewed their
allegiance tesths Government. Was not
this all we wintsd?
Il has beer. said, and was true, that l
had been mstreated, prosecuted and in-
suited, and when I came into power the
malicious said " Now he will carry out
his own doctrines; his passions will be
his guide, and hs will seek revenge"
| Thank God am q man that, when
| fighting, will fight TO the last; bat when
| have conquered. and my foe is pros
| trate, thank God have too much msg-
fnAnimity not to lift him up.
l was President when Gen. Lee sur
rendered. 1 thought that restoration
was needed, aud when there we're 10
States to be found put them into eondi-
| ton. Governors were inaugurated and
| States reorg Anized. The work of reor-
| gania alton vas all complete except the
admission OF Representatives to Con-
gress. The mails &ere restored, the
/ blockade removed; but the Thirty-ninth
| Congress met and said: No! These
! States shall not be represented" Hence
ell these laws thstshave been vetoed
| the Freedmen's B6teau law, the Civil
Rights bill, The military government of
! tue Southern States-atl these | vetoed,
and L would do il again.
l have been accused Of abusing the
pardoning power. L have psrdoned more
men than any other Executive, cut am
| glad of it, and 1 only wish had par
! doned many more. Some Of those who
abuse me SO for paFdOning, | dare say,
need more pardon than asy. Laughter.
! At one stroke Of my pen [ set IS, 900 free,
cleared the jIiis aud prisons from those
confined for political OHenses. and L did
wall; yet for these things l was de-
nounced a. worse than rebel.
But, after declaring that the States
could not go out Of the Union, this Con
! gress turned around aad said they were
out Let me ask this assem- Olaga il these
! States hsd been conquered from some
/ foreign power, who would object to ad
/ mitting them into the Z UniOn? yet they
are our own neigh6Ors.