Year: 1866

An immense meeting Of the German popula-
ton of Chicago was held on the 2eth of Febru-
ary: at which the following resolutions were
adopted amid great enthusiasm


WHEREAS, the United States has always been
a republic only in name but in fact Southern
aristocracy ruling tie country by means of a
Northern so-called Democratic party and where
as, the great battle between the nation struggling
for new birth in the spirit of the Declaration Oh
Independence and the anti-republican spirit OF
caste, as it is still living within the Southern
leaders, has to be brought to decisive issue by
means of free discussion and legislative enact
ments, so as to create that homogeneousness OF
culture, views and sentiment that forms the only
safe guarantee against new rebellions.; and
whereas President Andrew johnson, by his veto
of the Freedmens Bureau bill, has tried to op-
pose the march Of the great revolution of thought
and sentiment in which the recent four years war
forms but episode, an evident though highly
important one, and full of bearings and he
has cut loose from the party that nominated him
for Vice President, and that bore him when
President with only too much patience, as he
now stands forth in reality the leader of the
Confederate hosts, of Southern and Northern
wing, half rebels and whole rebels ; therefore
be it


Resolved, That henceforth we do see and con-
denim in Andrew johnson the open enemy of the
Republican party, the betrayer of the most sa-
cred interests of the nation, and the head and
front of all the reactionary classes that now
stirring everywhere, encouraged bv him, and
blending all diversities into the support of his
new policy that we adopt the words of brave
old Senator Wade, stigmatizing the President,
rs follows: Why, sir, the policy of bringing
these States into the Union, with all their rebel
lion and treason in their hearts, is no better than
treason itself. If there is any man, be he high
or low, who is an advocate for bringing traitors
into the councils of the nation, to participate in
their deliberations, he is no better than rebel,
and is rebe, at heart


Resolred. That while we feel sorry and indig-
nant at the detection of Johnson from his party,
we do find great consolation in the fact that by
that event Congress is at last cut off from all
shifts, compromises and lodges, has been COM
PEELED to appeal direct to the masses and thereby
TO bring the great question of national existence
into the course of full and radical solution.


ResoIred That by the first defeat Suffered by
US in this great second war for impartial freedom,
caused by six recreant Republican Senators sus-
tanning the veto, do feel as little discouraged
as the nation did after the defeat at Bull Run, in
the first year of the hrst war for freedom that
that defeat shall serve as an Indictment to
efforts, and bring about the full unrolling
of the banner of radicalism on onr part proclaim
ing the equality of all citizens in regard to civil
and political rights, without distinction of race
or color.


ResOircd, That the radicals of yesterday (that
is, of old) do feel highly gratiied at seeing the
radicals of to-day, that is, the representatives
and pressed of the Republican party, driven into
radicalism by events; adopt one plank after the
other of that Cleveland platform of 1864, attack
ed so violently at that time such as the one-term
policy, such as section twelve, g that the ques-
ton of the reconstruction of the rebellous States
belongs to the people, through their representa-
tves in Congress, and not to the Executive
planks that, if adopted at Baltimore in June,
1864, would have saved the nation the present
crisis.


Resolred therefore, That it is impossible to
escape the logic of events by means OF COM
promise; that the demands of justice are inexo-
rable that lodging them by mental reservation
is always inexpedient, and their complete fulhil-
mcnt the only safety of a nation that is exalted
by justice only.


Re,olved, That we indorse the resolutions
passed in this Hall the 5th instant, and urge
again the immediate issue of a decree by Con-
gress, by which the right of suffrage in the South
is restricted to loyal persons, black or white,
and rebels are thoroughly disfrnnchised.


Resoired, That the House of Representatives is
asked to take measures at once to cause the I'M
peachment of the President for his many uncon-
stitutional acts, the more as according to the
Constitution high misdemeanors ever are made
sufficient ground for such impeachment


RESOLVED, That Congress continue in session
until March, 1867 in order to prevents any "coup
defat," should such be attempted, by the would
be Napoleon, and to prevent the abuse of the i'm
mense patronage in behalf of the new Confeder-
ate party.


Rcsolped, That in order to diminish that dan
perous patronage, the English system of COM
petitive examinations be introduced into our
civil service


Resolred, That the formation of radical clubs
throughout the land is the more necessary, as
the Presidential campaign for 1868 is now really
being inaugurated, and as a considerable part OF
our newspapers have neglected their duty, that
consists in warning the people in advance of i'm
pending dangers.


Resolred That the labor question ought to oc-
cupy prominent position in that new radical
party into which the main material of the Repub-
ican party has to change, or rather to sharpen
itself.


Resolved, That, to us the word of that excellent
organ of labor the Boston Daily Euening Voice,
with such a party (that is the new radical
partv) the interests of the working men are
identified" that the question of reconstruction
Is fact, but the question about the relation
that labor shall occupy to capital in the South,
that the solution of this question in the interest
of free labor is the indispensable preliminary to
that elevation OF WOrknlen tuTougHout 'uc ion'
that has clearly been made the problm and the
task of this age.


Resolred, That in order to stop one of the
main sources of political corruption, the reward
ing of party services by offices, ought to be CIV
ing in preference to those soldiers who have Of
fered their lives to save the republic.


The Republican editors of Illinois, in Conven-
tion at Peoria, adopted the following in connec-
tion with the recent overt acts of the recreant
President:


Resolred, That we, the Republican editors of
the State of Illinois, in view of the late action OF
the President of the United States in vetoing the
Freedmens Bureau bill, measure designed on
ly to operate in those States and districts where
the civil rights Of freedmen were denied and the
law of liberty set at naught measure humane,
benignant and just in its general provisions, and
passed by more than two-thirds of the members
of both houses of Congress-receiving the united
support of every true Republican member there
of--do hereby declare our unqualified disappro.
baton of said veto, and deprecate the spirit in
which the President turns his back upon the
loyal friends and supporters of the Government
and Joins hands with the late rebels and Copper
heads, whose common purpose it was, and still is