Year: 1866

be heard and when aloyal reprcsentatiy,


OF loyal constituency. comes to tn,


doors of Congress VIC will admi. him -


Born in Democratic State, and reared


a Democral=-tausht it from my very


youth up-l felt myself obliged to up


hold the South in all its claims and nj


its exactions so long as it should remain


under the Constitution To do that


| sacrificed everything that / had O.


political prefermunt. l stood almost in


a very small minority with my fellow,


citizens, because the Constitution of tn,


fathers seemed to Inc to give them


certain rights, and | therefore stood by


those rights ofthe South up to the hour


that they repudiated their obligations


under the Constitution, and attempted


to secede from the Union. And when


they set aside the constitution, that re.


leased me from my obligations to them


They become my enemies in war and


my friends in peace, when they return


to the true principles of republican liberty


and law Therefore, my friends, my


old Democratic friends, be not afraid of


any idea That you will be charged with


any change ofyour parties, We have


fought together in the Democratic party


tor many years-we will fight four years


more if necessary to save the true demo-


cratic Government, where every man
shall have a right to equality In every
State. He who swerves from that
principle, swerves from 1t because he


has not seen the course of ofevcnts. The
true democratic principle is equal rights
to every man, and there is no such thing
as having an exception in favor OF or
against the negrc-equal tights to all
men.


After sharp review of the platform of
the Philadelphia Convention, wherein he
cited the feeling of the Rebels as expires.
sed In their journals, to show its hypo-
crisy and falsehood, the general contlnu
ed:


And that is the way these men went
to Philadelphia and sat silent felt, and
as one paper said, they did not cheer
because it would be said al! the enthusi-
asm came from the South, they did not
respond "Ayo' because it would be SAID
that the people of the South passed the
vote, though the real reason was that not
man of them dared go home aud say
they helped pass this resolution. They
call their Rebellion a great and glorious
cause lost TOR the want of means; ; we call
it wicked rebellion crushed by force of
arms. They speak Of the glorious dead
and clothe their graves with flowers
we speak Of the rebels and traitors, kill.
ed in the worst cause that men ever
fought for, That is the difference be.
tween us, and are they in a condition to
be received back! Let us 60 together
moment. l have given you evidence of
the Philadelphia Convention which was
to teach us our political duty, aud to
show that the South was ready to fra.
ternize, and I was grieved more than |
would like to express (necause | have
ever had kindly personal relations with
the President of the United States),
when ! heard of his saying to the cons
mittee--to Revcrdy Johnson, d man
who when | was IN Baltimore stood on
the fence for more than month, not
knowing which way to leap, until he
found that we were considerable the
strongest on Federal Hill, and our guns
pointed toward hls house, Il was griev>
ed, say, TO hear the President say that
a portion of Congress, not the whole
Congress, were attempting to usurp
power, l should like to have stood be-
hind him and sad, what are you think.
ing off, That is n portion of Congress
only because elected by portion OF
the States but this Congress IS elected
by precisely the same persons that elect.
cd you--are you only portion
Of n President? And If you say
this thug is to be tried over again and
the rest Of the States come into Con-
gress, hadn't you, being elected by only
a portion Of tho people, better resign
your place' And then if you get elect
cd on that issue, l think you will Le al.
lowed to do pretty much as you please.
He knows, and know, aud you know,
that these eleven states would have
hanged him so quick at the beginning Of
Tie war that he would not have had
time to breathe d prayer: l have never
had occasion TO say ought against tho
motives which acttate thePrcsident, ,bntI
do say that there is no viler abuse heap>
ed upon any man North or South than
was was heaped upon Andrew Johnson,
md I used 10 glory in the fact that he !