Year: 1861

Andrew johnson at Cincinnati.


Senator johnson, Of Tennessee, received
q magnificent ovation at Cincinnati on
Wednesday last. In reply to brief adj
dress by the Hon. W. s. Groesbeck, be
made speech Of about an hour, full Of elo.
quent love for the Union, and defiance to
the traitors of Tennessee and the South.
Said he:


/ look upon the doctrine of secessionists
coming in conflict with all organism, moral
and social. repeat, without regard to the
peculiar institutions of the respective States
composing the Confederacy, without regard
to any government that may be found in
the future or exists in the present, this odious
doctrine of secession should be crushed oat,
destroyed and totally annihilated. Mo- gov
ernment can stand, no religious, or moral,
or social organization can stand where this
doctrine is tolerated. Applause. 1t is dis
integration-un universal dissolvement-mak>
ing war upon everything that has ten
dency to promote and ameliorate the con-
dition of the mass of mankind. Therefore
l repeat, that this odious and abominable
doctrine-you must pardon me for using a
strong expression-I do not say it in pro-
fame sense-but this doctrine conceive to
be hell born and hell bound, and one which
will carry everything in its train, unless it
is arrested and crushed out from our midst.
[Great applause.


Speaking OF the persecution of the Union
men in Tennessee, he said:


But while this contest has been going on,
a portion of our fellow-citizens have been
standing up for the Constitution and the
Union, and because they have dared to
stand upon the great embattlement of con-
stitutional liberties, exercising the freedom
and the liberty of speech, portion of our
people have declared that we were traitors /;
they have said that our fate was to be the
fate of traitors, and that hemp was growing
and that the day of our execution was ap-
proaching-that the time would come when
those who dare stand by the constitution
and the principles therein embraced, that
the expiation OF these deeds would be upon
the gallows. We have met all these things.
We have met them in open day. We have
met them face to face-toe to toe-at least
in one portion of the State. We have told
them that the constitution of the United
States defines treason, and that definition is,
that treason against the United States shall
consist only in levying waragainst the Gen.
eral Government of the United States. We
have told them that the time would come
when the principles of the constitution aud
the law defining treason would be main
tanned. We have told them that the time
would come when the judiciary of the Gov
ernment would be sustained In manner
that it could define what was treason under
the Constitution and the law made in con.
formity with it, and that when defined, they
would ascertain who were the traitors, and
who it was that would stretch the hemp
they had prepared for us. Applause.]
. know that in reference to myself and
others rewards have been offered, and it has
been said that warrants have been issued
for our arrest Let me say to you here to-
day that am no fugitive, especially no fp-
gitive from justice. Laughter.l If l
were fugitive, / would be fugitive from
tyranny fugitive from the reign of ter
ror. But, thank God, the county in which
l live, and that division of the State from
which I hail, will record a vote of 25 900
against the secession ordinance. The coun-
ty in which live gave a majority OF 2,007
against this odious, diabolical, nefarious,
hell born and hell bound doctrine. sa