Year: 1866




been Independent to-day.-Salt Lake Telegraph
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Ahoech From Gen. Shlrldr


The Missouri Republican gives, through a cor
respondent, an account of large meeting, held
10 Livingston county, for endorsement of the
policy of the President. Among the speakers
was Gen. Shields, who is now farming iu Mis-
souri,. The General said F


He had been an unconditional Union man; was
one still, and expected to be to the last He re-
garded the issue between the President and Con-
gress as involving questions of the most vital
importance. 1t involved constitutional liberty
itself, and the breach was too broad ana too
deep to admit OF any compromise or accommo-
dation. 1t was ifreconcilable and never could
be healede- In any European government, such
breach would be nothing more nor less than q
revolution. Not so with US. Our Constitution
happily provides remedy for all such cases In
this perilous exgency there is remedy, and
that remedy is a direct appeal to the people of
the United States. They are the arbiters-the
jury now sitting to decide the tremendous ques.
tions involved, and their verdict will be final
Gen. S. said: As an old man let me tell you,
my fellow citizens, in all candor and sincerity,
the exigency of our nation at this time is peril
Gus in the extreme, and mark me when say
that the decision of the American people upon
these Questions will determine the character OF
this Government and the social condition of the
people of the United States for ages to come. It
was fortunate for the country that we had at the
helm of the nation such a man as Andrew John
son. He knew him well, and was satisfied that
he was the right man in the right place. He is
emphatieally man Of the people. His sympa-
thies were with them, and he had no conceal
ments from them. He was bold and outspeken,
and would do his whole duty. He would take no
backward steps, and if the people will stand by
him, as be believed they would, the Union was
safe, and constitutional liberty would be pre-
served and transmitted unimpaired through gen.
eT tons 10 come.


When a fanatica and frenzied party would
override every constitutional barrier to carry out
their Infamous schemes of disunion, are you not
grateful and proud, as American citizens to see
President rise above all party, and with =
great, proud heart throw himself and the cause
of the Union upon the great heart of the Amer-
can peope-willing to abide their decision, and
confident that they will sustain him in his eff
forts to restore the Union and preserve the Con-
stitution involate, as it came from the hands Of
our fathers? | know that man. sat beside
him in the Senate Chamber Of the United States,
and from ny acquaintance with him, am war
ranted in saying that, never in public or private
life have met a man of more iDdomitable will,
more unfalterlng courage, and more integrity,
lncorruptOIe integrity. lie is a genuine type OF
the AndreT Jackson school snd never can be
driven from his purpose by the rage of faction,
however loud or strong it may howl around him.
Let them try to intimidate and overawe him as
they did President Lincoln by shaking their fists
in his face, and they will soon find they have
slightly mistaken their man. When the party
placed Andlew johnson on their ticket for Vice
President, thought then that they did not know
the man and the sterling qualities that marked
his character Had Mr.. Lincoln lived be would
have broken with this same party long before
our President did, for he was disgusted with
them anyhow )


He knew well the character of these Radical
leaders in Congress-Steyens, Sumner, etc.
and he could give the history Of every one Of
them but it was unnecessary here and now to go
into detail Congress had been degeneratiug
for the past twenty-five years in point Of moral
character, ability and craftsmanship. All adj
mit-all deplore it. But never in our entire past
history had such an inferior Congtess sat in
Washington the one now there. When he
said inferior, be alluded to the lack of high
qualities of talent, judgment, dignity, states
manship, to say nothing of the expanded patri-
otism which embraced the interests Of the whole
country. Yet they are formidable. They pos
sess a Gind of INSCRIPTIONS adroitness and an
unprincipled ingenuity that makes them forni-
dabe. He Heeompared :he present Congress with
1Thad. Stevens as their leader, to the Rump Par
liameut and the French Revolutionary Conven-
tion, but possessing neither the sincerity of the
one nor the talents of the other.