Year: 1866

thclT TlShtS Ill every state, ana sustain
Congress i'll giving protection to tho ne
gro, in holding these Stntcs where thev
arc, and insisting that free speech, n
FREQ press, civil and religious liberty
shall be guaranteed until IL change can
ho made. Sustain tho loyal mon of tho
South. Sustain them though but ten
honest mon can be found in Il State. for
ten men would have saved Sodom, and
these Stntes nrO not much worse than
SouOm, and let these ten righteous mon
save them. Let us have Republican
party i'll the South. Let us have Il purity
whose free speech can be heard, and
when loyal representative of II loyal
constituency comes to the doors of Con-
gress wo will admit him. Born in II
Democratic State, and reared Demo-
crnt-tnuSht II from my very youth up
i felt myself Obliged to uphold the
South i'll all its claims and all it's
exactions so long as it should remain
under tho Constitution. To do that, l
Sncrlllced everything that / had of no
liticnl prelcrment; l stood almost III n
very small minority with my fellow
cltlZCHS, because the Constitution of tho
inthors seemed to mo to give them GER
tain rights, and l therefore stood by
those rights of the South up to the hour
that they repudiated their obligations
under the Constitution, and attempted
TO secedo from the Union. And when
they SGT aside tho Constitution, that re-
lensed mo from NV obligations to them,
They become my enemies in war and
my friends in peace, when they return
TO tho true principles of republican
liberty and law. Therefore, my trends,
my old Democratic friends, be not
afraid of any idea that you will be
charged with any change of your par
ties. We have fought together in the
old Democratic party for many years
We will fight for four years more if





Government, whero every man shall
have right to equality in every State.
He who swerves from that principle,
swervoS from it because he has not seen
the course of events. The true demo-
cratic principle is equal rights to every
man, and there is no such thing as
having an exception in favor of or
against the negrO-eQual rights to NIL
men.


After sharp review of the platform
of the Philadelphia Convention, where-
i'll he cited the feelings of the rebels as
expressed in their journals, to show its
hypocrisy and fnlsehood, the General
continued:


And that is the way that these men
who went to Philadelphia and sat silent,
felt, and as one paper said all the en-
thuSlHSm 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 man of them dared 90
home and say they helped pass this
resolution. They call their Rebellion n
great and glorious cause lost for want
of means; we call IL Il 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 man ever fought for. That is the
difference between us, and are they in
IL condition to be received back? Let
us go together II moment. have given
you evidence of the Philadelphia Con-
ventiOn which was to teach us our pO
litical duty, and to show that the South
was ready to fraterniZe, and l was
grieved more than l would like to ex-
press, because l have ever had kindly
personal relations with the President of
the United StHtes), when heard of his
saying to tho cOmmittee-tO Reverdy
Johnson, II man who when l was in
Baltimore stood on the fence for moro
than IL month, not knowing which way
To leap, until he found that we were
considerably the strongest on Federal
Hill, and our guns pointed towards his
house,-I was grieved, l say, to hear
the President say that II portion of Con-
gress, not the whole Congress-, were nt-
like to have stood behind him
and said, what are you think
ing of? That is II portion of Congress
only because elected by portion of the
States; but this Congress is elected bv
precisely the same persons that elected
you-are you only IL portion of Presi-
dent? And if you say this thing is to
be tried over again and the rest of the
States come into Congress, hadn't you,
being elected by only portion of the
people, better resign your place? And
then if you get elected on that issue,
. NiNNLy hn NJ e., L.


ty much as you please. He knows,
and know, and you know, that these
eleven States would have hanged him
so quick at the beginning ofthe war that
he would not have had time to breathe
prayer. l have never had occasion
! to say aught against the motives which
actuate the President, but do say that
there is no viler abuse heapcd upon any
man North or South, than was heaped
ed upon Andrew Johnson, and used 10
/ glory i'll the fact that he and trained
i'll tho same company, and dealt in the
same epithets, and now that he has be-
| come that great and good man, AS the
South say, l feel quite encouraged for


myself, that may atsome time become
| quite man. 1t only requires little
| turning back upon my old friends of
the North. We see by the tone of the
papers that these people are not ready


for reconstruction. There is a mass Of
.
| teCt. l for one do not believe TINT any
portion of this country is ready to par
| tiCipate in the government of the cOun-
try, until any man of any part of the
country has equal rights with every
other man. And until that ca i be done
| in every portion of tho United States,
that portion is not ready to be Omitted
as portion ofthe United States. The
Southern man, whether arrived ut the
common nge of man 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 until you and 1 can
go and argue the principles of free gov
ernment without fear of the knife or
pistol, or of being murdered by mob.
And when men ask Ine how long 1
would keep these men out, / say keen
them out until the heavens melt with
ferVent hent-until they will allow free
speech and free press throughout their
land. And if it should not come in
this generation, we would swear our
sons to keep them out until they be-
came fit for republican form of gov
ernment. now remember man who
came to me among tho very first ut
New Orleans, and took me by the hand,
and with tears in his eyes said: /
thank God you have come; bless God
that your flag waves over me again
the symbol of justice and protection
of my country" and yet / have seen
that man murdered in cold blood by
the Chief of Police, whom l hnd con-
demned TO death for the murder of n
Union man, and only refrained from
hnnging him because the act took
place before my arrival, and /
doubted my authority to execute him.