Year: 1866

II


While have been contending against traitors and
secession and the dissolution of the Union, l have


been contendng at the same time against the conSoh-
| Eat8oa of power here think consolidation OF power
lEerb IL equally dangerous with separation loheerS'


The one would run into anarchy while the other would
don3entrae and end in anarchy But there IS an des
abr9ad has be an usurper Mr. Jefferson
tells u.s. and does common sense, that tyranny ana
desFctism can be exercised by many more Vigorously
tha by ona What power has your president 70 attain!
What can be do? What can he oEiginateg Why he,
shy he exercises the veto power. lLaughter.J What
il tile veto power? voice to put down the nigger)
Who isYoIr president? Several voices, Andy John
s6n Is he not elected by the people? The president
id tie tribune of the people. In olden times, when
tibanes were first elected in the Roman republic tho
peoae chose tribune and placed him at the doors OF
the senate SO that when that body returned an oppres
slve act he clothed with the power to say, veto,
forbid Your president now is the tribune of the peo
pie thank God am and intend to assert the pow
ef which the people have placed IN me. lCheers
Your president standing here day after day. discharg
ing pis duty is like horse on treadmil and because
he cares differ In opniohin regard to public measures,
he must be denounced uSurper and tyrant. Can
he originate anything under the veto power! think
veto power conservative in its character, and affirm that
all that can be done Under the veto power is to say
whea legislation is hasty and un"se, and constitution
ally stop action and wait till it can be submitted to the
paonle and let them consider whether it is right or
wropg TAppause That is all there is in it. Hence
say that tyranny and power can be exercised some
whefe else than by the executive. He is powerless
All that he can do is check legsatioh-to hold it in
state of abeyance-untl the people consider and
understand what Is being done. Then what has been
DONE? have done what conscience believed, requir
ed ME to do. applause ..-fss.sa


So believing intend to stick to my position relying
on the Judgment and the intelligence Of the people.
the soldiers and the sailors especially Cheers Then
for my life cannot where there is any tyranny.
1t is very easy to impugn motives, and suspect the
purest and best acts of mans life. If you come for





pecttd and condemned and if you withhold your opiu
on you regarded being opposed to the matter.
So that it is very hard to move one way or the othe
fac certain persons are concerned In the Amer
can people my hope for the salvation of the country
| am with YOU soldiers and sailors, and citizens Who
has sacrificed or periIed more? Has not my all been
put On il? NY lile my property-eVerything sacred
and dear to nan-has been staked upon it, aud can
now be suspected Of aerng a: the close Of this third
ordeal of the nation? Where is he in public in pri-
yate life who has sacrificed more who has devoted
more Of bis time and energies to the accomplishment
of the great end chan |, and have done it from the
promptings of my Cwn heart. believe it was right,
and with your hearts and your countenances and your
encouragements, I shall go through en- that line.
Chetrs and laughter And when come to talk about
sailors and soldiers about this to be done and that to
be done ali want is for you to wait and see. so,
as fat as you concerned, wait and see if don't
stand by you although every other man may alter and
fail. (Cheers1 l want to see measures OF policy
brought forward that will advance the interests of the
people and Of that portion Of the people who constitute
the gallant brave men, who, in both branches of the
service have Upheld the National flag and sustained
the country in the recent struggle I thank you
gentlemen for the encouragement thank you for your
cOuntenauce on this OCCASION It cheers me and
gives strength to perform the work before me. If
true to ourselves if we are true to the constitu


on the day is not far distant when this government
will Ec restored. Let us go and restore the COM
merce and trade aud let not only inspire confidence
at home but respect abroad, by letting the nation
assure its Of greatness. Iknow that some will
find fault with me, and say that am too enent, and
too kind, and all that. If were all to be put to
death or punished and thrown away for ofense or
for the second oense to be lost and excluded
from society and communion with our fellow men, how
many OF us would be left? We must with each
other and understand our nature and what necessary
to restore peace and harmony and concord to a dis
tracted and divided people. IN time of it is right
to burn villages sack cities and devastate fields to lay
waste a country and cripple and reduce the enemy; but
in time Of peace the of that precisely
The right one and the true policy of nation is to re-
build its Cities restore its villages and its fedof
agriculture. know there are some who have been at
home cdtvatng during the war, and who bring to the
considerations OF the questions of peace, harmony, and
the avocaton of civil life all the feelings of resent
ment which animated US when the running
high But take the brave men who sustained the flag
on the field and the wave, and you will find better
feelings and better Judgment on these questions than
you Will find with those who have been sitting in the
closet aNd never SHlelleC gufpONuer. CneeTS. es,
from the pra ate to the general they know how to treat
the PRESENT circumstances better than any Of those
closet patriots ard humanitarans. Then, uy country
men, eow-czens soldiers and Sailors let Us rejoice
that peace has Gomez let rejoice that the relations Of
States about being restored. Let Us make every
effort proper principles to restore the re-
ations which existed between the federal government
and the States. l thank God that peace is restored;


thank God that our brave return 20 their fam


lilies and homes and resume their peaceful avocations.


thank God that the balefu planet of fire and blood
which short time ago was in the ascendant, has been
chased away by the benignant star of peace. Now
that ehe star of peace suspended in the heavens let
us cultivate the earth and the relations of peace and
all those associations which appertan in peace
The time ID not distant 8hen we have political
milfsinilm, a political jubilee and when we can pro-
claim all the nations Of the earth that we are again
a united people, and that We have triumphany passed
through third ordeal7-have peace at home, and
power to bid defiance toalI the world. Cheers. Re-
memEer one thing, gentlemen, that in my past life
though sianderers may isrepresent none can say that
| ever deceived or betrayed him. 1t will be for you to
I'M the future who will redeem all his promises and
who viii be most faithful. l thank, you, gentlemen,
for the compliment you have paid me.


INTERESTING DECISION IN ADMIRALrY.-Judge Rfch
ard Busteed, of the United States district court for
the southern district of Alabama has rendered an in
teresfing decision in a case involving dnties