Year: 1866

The Richmond Times says;


THE President has formally adopted the new
party as the administration party, and has placed
himself at its head WITH the UI n
This party is now fighting great battle ana II II
rumphs the best fruits ofits victories VIII oe eIs.
If in the fall elect uns they crush and anninlate
the revOlutOnists the honor and political rights OF
the South will be forever secure, and we shal once
more become the peers and equals Of the TRIUMPH
ant section IN every department OF the Govern
ment."


That, you will see, is why nothing was
said about these resolutions--it was to
find out about this matter, and if at the
North there could be found men who
were recreant to their country, who, for
the sake or place or power, or other blan-
dishments, would fslsify the record of
their sons and brothers fallen on the field
of battle enough to give up to the South
what they thought to wrest by arms, then
the South will receive all the best fruits
of victory, and become our peers. do
not mean to stop there. There are Radi-
cal papers--if may so term them---in
the South / should say this one is Con-
serVatiVe. l read from the Richmond
Enquirer:


at is. indeed impossible to read many paris Of
| the address Mr.. Raymond and remember that II
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indignation. Whatever he may think, the South
srn people, at least. repe and spurn that they are
Federal Government was on the defensive and and was
not the assailant in the war"


That is, suppose, that we fred upon
Sumter first.


/ "They deny and at the stake would not admit
that they were eOnstitutionally warred upon. They
deny many other avertments and dogmas Of the
resolu tiOn and address and Mr.. Raymond knew
they did, and our delegates knew ito. Why, then
press these things up0n as for adoptiOnI Why
ohend u.s. TOO, as IN some instances ~ asking Us 70
but infringe on our sensibih6es? And why thrust
terms and expressions into our mouths that we can
not but regard as indignities p


And that is the way that these men
who went to Philadelphia and sat silent
felt, and as one paper said, they did not
cheer because it would be said all the en-
thusiasm came from the South; they did
not respond "Aye" because it would be
said that the people of the South passed
the vote, though the real reason was that
not q man of them dared 60 home and
say they helped pass the resolutions
They call their rebellion great and glo-
rious cause lost for want of means we
call it a wicked rebellion crushed by force
of arms They speak of the glorious
dead and clothe their graves with flowers;
we speak of rebels and traitors, killed in
the worst cause that men ever fought for.
That is the difference between us, and are
they in a condition to be received back?
Let US go together a moment. [ have
given you evidence of the Philadelphia
Convention, which was to teach US our
political duty and to show that the South
was ready to fraternise, and was grieved
more than 1 would like to express tbe-
cause have ever had kindly personal re-
| lations with the President of the United
States, when heard him saying to the
Committee--to ReYerdy johnson, man
who, when was in Baltimore, stood on
the fence for more than month, not
knowing which way to leap, until hefound
that we were considerably the strongest
on Federal Hill, and our guns pointed
toward his house was grieved, l say, to
hear the President say that portion OF
Congress, not the whole Congress, were
attempting to usurp power, should like
i to have stood behind him and said, what
are you thinking of? That is a portion
of Congress only because elected by a
portion of the States but this Congress
is elected by precisely the same persons
that elected you; are you only a portion
/ of a President And f you say this
thing is to be tried over again, and the
] rest of the States come into Congress in
order to set the matter right and you, be-
ing elected by only portion of the peo-
pie, better resign yourplace? And then,
if you get elected on that issue, think
you will be allowed to do pretty much
asyou please.


He knows, and know, and you know,
that these eleven States would have
hanged him 80 quick at the beginning Of
the war that he would not have had time
to breathe prayer.


have never had occasion to say aught
against the motives which actuate the
President, but do say that there is no
Viler abuse heaped upon any man, North
or South, than was heaped upon Andrew
johnson, and used to glory in the fact
I that he and trained in the same COM
pany, and dealt in the same epithets, and
now that he has become the great and
good man, as the South say, feel quite
encouraged for myself, that may at some
time become quite a man. 1t only re-
quires little turning back upon my old
4 friends of the North.


We see by the tone of the papers that
these people are not ready for Teconstruc-
ton. There is mass of overwhelming
evidence upon the subject. l, for one,
do not believe that any portion of this
country is ready to participate in the
government of the country, until any
man of any part of country has equal
rights with every other man. And until
that can be done in every portion Of the
United States, that portion is not ready
to be admitted as portion of the Uni
ted States. The Southern man, whether
arrived at the common age of manhood
or not, knows that he can go to any part
of the North and speak his sentiments
freely, and do not want any part OF
this country represented in Congress un-
! til you and l can go and argue the prin-
ciples of free government without fear
of the knife or pistol, or of being murder
ed by mob. And when men ask me how
long 1 would keep these men out, l say
keep them out until the heavens melt
with fervent heat-until they will allow
free speech and free press throughout the
/ land. And if it should not come in this
i generation, we willswear our sons to keep
them out until they become fit for re-
publican form of government.


| | now remember a man who came to
me among the very first at New Orleans,
and took by the hand, and with tears in
in his eyes said, "I thank God that you
have come; bless God that your flag
waves over me again-the symbol of JUS
tice and protection of my country" and
yet have seen that man murdered IN
cold blood by the Chief of Police, whom
1 had condemned to death for the murder
of a Union man, and only refrained from
hanging him because the act took place
before my arrival and doubted my au-
thority to execute him. That murdered
man was Dostie, the best and purest
Union man that ever trod the soil of Lou
siana, for he periled his life when he had
no hope, in defense of the flag. 1 speak
with feeling, for he was one of my best
and staunchest advisers, and aided me by
all means in his power. As long as had
a command, the flag sheltered him and
every other man within my territory
And that that man should be murdered
with the flag flying over him-not to him
then an emblem of power and protection
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