Year: 1865

requires that our government should do
all it can to heal the wounds created by
its forcible eradication. Mr. Blair re-
ferred to the hostility the radicals had
manifested toward him and his conse-
quent retirement from Lincoln's cabinet,


and then spoke of the designsof the rev
Olutionists.


have not referred to myself in this


connection to give myself importance.


have done so beca'> the example was


required to illustra,e the trne spirit of


those who seek, in the gniSe of pre-emi


nent loyalists and transcendant emanci-


pationists, to annihilate the States and


destroy the Constitution; and Mr. Kay


mond, the chairman of the committee by


whom the resolution relating to the cab


met was reported in the late national


convention, has publicly stated that tie


managers aimed thereby to give them


selves authority for demanding my re-


moval by the President. The people of


the country may see in this that it is not


unionism and emancipation they seek


and il concerns the people OF the whole


country to mark il They propose, in-


deed, to strike the Sonth down first.


The Union men then must suffer with


the rebels for the misfortune OF being


born in the same region. Their most


precious rights are TO be wrenched from


them, regardless of their devotion


to the Union, through good and


through evil report, for the crime of not


being able to resist secession when en-


forced BY color of state authority, sane.


toned and acguiesced in by the national


government. Every one who raises his


voice against this aagrant injustice is de


uounced as an ally of copperheads and


traitors. As it is proposed to treat all


southern men alike, il is necessary to


effect this purpose, that the people OF the
North should he taught to regard us all
as criminals All are in fact equally Of
Tenders in their eyes 1t is the claim for
themselves and their fellows Of their
rights az citizens which Oftends 1t is
the monopoly of power which is sought.
aud that design is equally frustrated by
allowing the Southern States theirrights,
whether in the hands of Union men ar
rebels All agree in discarding the shib-
boleth of the imperialists. There are
some, imde9d, W no give private assurance
that. they will work up to it by and by.
and who by joining in the clamor against
the dead rebellion, are cooperating with
the imperialist in propagating the idea
that the safety of the country requires
the exclusion from Congress OF represeh-
tatives from the South, and thus contrib
uting to fix the conviction upon the pub
lie mind that it is necessary to subyert
the rule of the white man in the South
before that region can be restored 10 a
share in the government Swarms OF
hireling writer's are sent over the South,
who 90 there as the English tourists
come to America, with the foregone con
clusions against the country-nost of
them in the pay of the War Department,
but Of the non combatant species, whose
in the service depends on
making the impression that secession is
not dead but sleepeth.


He closed his speech by reference to
the farce of the last election in Maryland.
aud denounced the registration law" as
because it was retro
spective in its effects. He favored its
repeal


The war is over. There is no slavery
to make new one. The passions con
nected with it are subsiding. We have
a great career before us Our struggle,
bloody aud expensive as it has been, will
impart a new life to the country and new
impetus TO industry. Let us set the ex
ample of inaugurating al era Of good
feeling. fl have seemed i'll the refiec- |
tions have made in this address upon |
the distinguished men have named, to
be animated by different spirit, let me |
assure you have animadyerted on their |
acts only because they are the represen-
tative men of the unrelenting party in
the country, and / want to show them
that their heroes have also need of am
nesty. Iam willing they should have IT.
But, on the other hand, / should like
Judge Campbell and Mr.. Stevens, and
Others who have erred to be forgiven
that our people should have real peace
and share in the government their faith
ers founded and which they have to
maintain. And / ask this, not out ofany
feeling that the section was born in is
more my country than any other. ask
it for the sake of the whole country
Free government cannot last long in
either section with practical dismem-
berment of the Union, or with the asser
tion by the general government Of great
er power over any one State than the
Constitution allows, or than is claimed
or would be tolerated in another. The
military subjection of one section entails,
in the end, arbitrary government upon
both. Our eagle must expand both its
wings. Our national republic must poise
itself on both sections If it would move
safely OH its glorious mission