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ALJ3ANY, OREGON, SATURDAY", JAUY 12, 18CT.
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THE OL11 ELSI TREE.
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0,! the old elm tree is standing now,
Where it stood so long ago,
hen in its shade e, children plJ.
ITill the sun in the West grew tow
And its branches reach as far and high.
And the sun above Is M clear,
But under it now no children pl7i
la the golden day of tb,s jar.
The sunbeams oreep through the rnstlifift; leaves
That fall on the moss-grown teat,
Aptd tall grass waves where, in, oher year,!,
It wn (Ridden b children's foc;
And the bees hum H.tij in the sbsdo,
Through the long bright summer's 'day,
nd the soft wind murmurs with lonely o'und,
Yfbflre the ehildren used to play.
They are all gone from their childhood's home
And hafe wanderod faraway
Of all that band of the dejr eld time,
There is not one left to-day j
They are parted now bvnsany I mile,
And the waves and mountains high;
And one has gone to the borne beyond,
Through the golden gates of the sky.
And many a year has come and gone,
Apd many sumniers sun
Has passed ado n the golden West,
When the long bright day was done.
And many an autumn wind has blown ;
And roanv a winter cast;
O'er hill and dale, its shroud of saov.
Since the children met there last.
And the weary years will still move on
With their sunshine and their pain ;
But there in the shade of the old elm tree,
They will never all meet again ;
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And its p rUli are opened wide ;
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They will meet on the other side.
SPEECH OF C. L VALLANDIGHAM,
At RovsviUe. Butler County, Ohio,
October 1, 19G0.
I am here as a Democrat, to addrca
Democrats, in nuppoTt indeed of the pol
icy of the President as a preat li?ip! is
sue of the hour, and because that pJicy
is thorouhljr consiU;qt with Democratic
principles, and because t could Dot' ad
dress to you a Democratic speech unless!
avucaiea ine uoioii aou ix.c oosmu-
tioq.
. e
I am not here to-night as a Democrat
to eulogize the policy, or principle, or
personal attributes of 31 r. Liucoln.
leave that entirely to those who supported
him during hn adiuiuitration, whether
they Toted for him in 18Gv, or became
ubsequently his friends. It is nut fur
me it is not for Democrats who oppon;d
him toarue that the present Executive
is but 'puj-suinsr the line of policy pre
scribed by, Abraham Lincoln. Neither
am I here to assail men who were his
supporters, and wlium X am accustomed
to hear denounced.
It is the fashion to assail Bcccher. and
Lloyd Qarrisou. and Wendell Phillips.
and Sumner, 'and Wade, and Stevens.
and a score or two of others like them.
for their fanaticism, radicalism and vio
lence; and for their disregard and con
tempt for all the ancient and settled prio
cipis apu institutions ot the lorcjomect
and the country.' And yet they were the
men whoxe pioneerini: steps Lincoln.
more fclowlv in his own time, but most
surely in the end,' followed till thecloicf
nis career, l wjii n;t oenouuee tnesc
men and spare Lincoln.
It is the fashion, or was till the ether
day, to as.ail William II. Seward, because
it was he who spent a mc-ttme in creating
auu atuerin loeiner ine emenis oi
i . . i - . i . i. . i . ..
ianaiiai anu sectional UBCora ana sirue
which burst, at last, with such de.solatin;
fury all over the land ; he who, first of
an men, prociaimea the doctrine ot the
SI 1' .
lijgber Law," and of the "Irrepressible
Conflict ;" le, who, schooled in the dev
ilish politics of the Jedici, the Macbia
vels and the Richelieu of Italy and France
in the flfteepth and sixteenth centuries,
developed, complete in all its parte, irj tl;e
very hrt weeks ol the late civil war, a
system of despotism and terror never ex
ceeded in .conception, detail or execution,
in ancieni, oriental or meuievai tyranny;
he at whose instance the privilege of the
writ of ha Leas corpus was, by Executive
order, first suspended, and the Supreme
Court and th'e!hjef Justice set at defi
ance ; he who first closed aid jarred the
casemates of Forts Warren and Lafayette
upon "prisoners of State," and then by
special order Jieptared to them that he
would .'.'not recognize any one as an attor
ney for political prisoners." and would re
gard iae empl ytneoV of counsel by
them as "an additional reasons for declin
ing to release them;" and finally, who
boasted to .Lord .Lyons, the Jintish Min
ister, that he could touch a bell at his
right hand and arrest any man in Ohio
at his will, and to$h it agai and arrest
another a thousand miles distant in Mass
achusetts, and then with a charming affec
tation of simplicity, which Sejanus or
Godoy might have envied? asked his
Lordship, "Can Her Majesty" do as
much f And yet A for each and every
one or these things, or in spite of them,
was he applauded, honored, cherished as
his chief counsellor and friend' by'Abra-
ham Lincoln, to the day of his death. I
will not condemn the servant and approve
the master. I will not denounce Seward
and spare Lincoln.
It is the fashion to assail Edwin M.
Stanton for his rudeness, his brutality,
his cruelty, his reckless disregard of hu
man liberty, human suffering and human
life;'fof his heartless refusal to exchange
prisoners duringthe war, Jvlje.nce tiie hor
rors of AndersonyjJte"; and for a tHousand
other crimes and enormities by which his
name and memory are blackened and de
filed day by day, And yet for every phe
ot these, his characteristics, or in spite of
them, he, too, was retained in office
honored and cherished as' counsellor and
friend, by Abraham Lincoln, to the hour
of his death. I will not denounce Stan
ton and spare Lincoln.' ' ' " "
It is the fashion to assail Joseph Holt
for his merciless and' cblid-blooded 'peVse-
cution of political prisoners, through the
agency of the most odious and execrable
oi an tue innovations aim lUTeuuons oi
the war,' the'inlamous "llurcau ot Mili
tary Justice"-p-'odious in uauio and exo
crablo in practice ver Tflch ip wus
chief; and for hU hea'dlbng and niurdcr
ous subopatioq o perjury to produce
couviction. ' 'And yet, fWa'lrthcse "thini:s.
or in spite of them, lie, too, was retained
in office, supported and "applauded bv
Abraham Liuciiln while he lived. I will
not denounco' Holt and spare Lincoln. '
It is the fashion to assail IJenjuuiui F.
llutlor iq language which I need riot ro-
peat, for criiues and qffeuccs against re
gion, against morals, against liberty and
the Constitution and laws, against lion-
csty, against deceucy in short, ofTenee
and crimes ot every degree "from pettv
perfidy to mighty wrongs " And vet, at
every step in his career, from his .insult
to women to ins larceny or millions, ne
was prai.cd. petted, honored and promot
ed by Abraham Lincoln up to almost the
last moment, ami thcu rctuovpd trout high
command for tho only wi.se. humane and
praiseworthy act of his whole life. 1
will not denouuee Butler aud sparq Lin-
coin,
It is the fashion to aatl tho monster
McNeil, for his ruthless ina.acre in cold
bjootj often iunoccut citizens of Missouri,
under circuniKtances of more than canni
bal barbarity. And yet, for this very
act, or in spite of it, he was promoted and
entrusted with high military commaud by
Abraham .Lincoln to the end of his life.
I will not denounce McNeil and spare Liu
coln.
It i the fashion to assail the Milroys,
the Schencks, tho Wallaces, the JSurn-
sides, the llovcys, the llurbridg., and a
host of petty satraps, depot and milita
ry murderers. And yet all theae were
the appointees and servants, the minions
of Abraham Liucoln. retained in com-
maud, honored and promoted by hint to
a - e s-' L
the'day'or his dqath.'i yy ill not Ucnouuec
tlicm and'sparo Lincoln.'"
Finally, it is the fashion to assail T ur
chin, wIioms deed of horror no language
caCj'"' describe,' becauso at Athens, Ala
bama, he gave over for the fpace of two
hours, a whole seminary of the first yount:
ladies of the South, to the brutal lusts of
his soldiery, whom he invited to tho act
of outrage. For this dsed of unspeaka
ble atrocity he was tried by a Federal
court-martial, found guilty and condemn
ed to dismissal from the service. And
yet, with this official record before him,
Abraham Lincoln not only lefused to con
t . e
arm and execute the sentence, but upon
the spot rewarded Colonel Turchin with
the commission of a IJrigadier uencral m
the army. I will not denounco Turchin
and a'pare Lincoln.'
These are my reason for not s,aiing
the men I have named. These arc my
reasons for declaring that, as a Democrat,
I am uot present to eulogize Lincoln, nor
to pretend that Andrew Johnson iscarry
ing out the policy of his predecessor
which policy, thr ughour, we of the Dem
acratic party steadily, consistently, and, I
think, rightly opposed from the begin
ning. I never learned to stultify myself,
and I do not propose to begin at this pe
riod of my life. Others can exercise
their own judgment and their own rights
I propose to exercise mine.
I have said to you, fellow-citizens, that
I pould not speak the language or senti
ments or maintain the doctrines of the
Democratic party, without defending the
Constitution aud advocating the Union ;
and hence I am the firm, earnest and de
termined fcupporter still, as from the time
it was finally declared about one year ago.
of the policy of the President. I go jn
further back. I do uot now assume to
discuss the question whether in the be
ginning that policy was properly proclaim
ed. I have an earnest and decided opin
ion upon that. As elsewhere I have said.
and bejieye, it would have been far wiser
and better every way for the whole coun
try, and infinitely better tispccially for the
peace of the couutry now and hereafter,
had the President approved of the terns
agreed upon between uencrals Sherman
and Johnston, in North Carolina, in
April, 18G5. Hut the explanation is sat
isfactory, at least to myself. The Presi
dent had but for a few days been in the
office of Chtjf 3Iagistrate. He was gur
rounded by men of whom !?$ was almost,
even personally, ignorant men who, bad
he dared to place himself in their path
way, as since, thank God. he has had the
courage to do, might have disposed of
him as summarily as they did the body ot
uootn. i?or this reason, 1 think we
ought not to quarrel with him for this
mistake and a mistake I think it to have
been, for had those terms been accepted
they would have accomplished whatUen.
Sherman declared in his order to the ar
my accompanying the announcement
made peace in four and twenty hours,
with Union from the Potomac to the ltio
Grande. They were terms of immediate
restoration oi'-the Union " They required
only what the Crittenden resolutions uc
maiided- the surrender of the Southern
armies, the laying down of their arms,
submission to the Constitution and obedi
encc to the laws and the Federal authori-
ty. ana witn mat me return, aiso, to tnc
exercise of all rights under the ConstUu-
iion. .na uus wasstatesmansnip-nign,
noble statesmanship ; and more than that,
the highest' and noblest patriotism.
I have said that tho president has now
a policy which every Democrat' endorses.
It is our duty to support him earnestly
and cordialiy in carrying out that policy.
Now it so happens that the very issr.e of
io-uigiib wan me issue six years ago.
When last I addressed you from this very
buoi, iu louu, wutti was me question i
Mr- Lincoln expressed it in his' lnauirura
'"the terms of intercourse between the
North and the South." It differs' now
only in so far as the status of the nues
txon hasbeeb changed by the long aud
bloody war which has intervened; We
then jdebated in public assemblage upon
what terms of intei'ddiifsQ 'the NnrtJi and
South '"shBuld1 live' together; At that time
iuu uamowc uicu oi iuy ouuiawcre ciaim
ing that thpy coild not "remain in tho
samo fJnion vith ttio N,orth and the
West, unless they had'guarantcos to pro
tect them In the enjoymeni of their slaVo
propcriy',' over and aoovo' Hat" the ' old
Couslrtiitio'lad given thotu ; and now,
after this long period of jjloody 'nnd"db-
vastating wanaro, vnat w. ina nucation ;
"TliO term's of intercourse" sUil and 'a
party of extreme meu here in the North,
controlled by Congress, are claiming that
they cannot livo with "the. people of the
South, unless they liavo ijevr,and addi
tional guarantees to' protect" tho North
against tlq South, lest one of these days
they rise up and conquer the .North.
Hear Lincoln in his inaugural:
"Suppose you go to war. Yon cannot
Gght always; and when, after much loss
on both sides and no gain on either, you
ceac fighting, the identic, old questions
as to terms of intercourse ard agaiu upJn
you." . ' ''
Now;, J heard that. Standing in the
eastern poflico of Vjtot Capitol, under that
iuognificnt statue of Christopher Cilum-
bus, chineled oul of solid njaftl, unhap
pily not by an America'?,' but n Italian
artist I lifttpucd those words, as they
fell from his lips, and thy butconfiritied
me in the course of public conduct which
I had prescribed for myself ; because it
was tho profound and solemn conviction
of my utmost toul that if war could settle
nothin', it at the cud ot the uht the
"identical old questions" were to remain
(or adjustment, then reason, and religion,
and humanity, aud eery material, moral
and political interest of the country, re
quired that they should be adjusted with
out war at ail.
1 he late war is over the nct is to
couij-! Shall I digress a moment to tell
you how? 'Tis raily told.' '"hey have
proclaimed it' already ltinghnui' 'Wade,
Mcvens tue leadars ol the uepuuiicau
party everywhere. Under the pretence
of impiachment of the President, they
moan to depose hiru.
I do not way impeach that is a mild,
iron tie constitutional word though it is
absurd in the extretno to talk of impeach
ing a President for supporting the Con
stitution and maintaining the Union.
they will depose him by violence, though
under the pretended violation of law;
and let mo here say very emphatically
that upon the fundamental maxim of Lin
polo's administration they have a perfect
right to do so. hat wa it? lie bold
ly and rcpeadedly proclaimed, and tnerci
leslv he acted upon it from the bpgir,
ning to the end sustained all his under
Yw 'n everywhere in executing it, that he
had a right, and that it was his duty to
remove every obstacle, of whatever kind.'
human or material men, things, or insii-
utin which he thought which hebe
icved stood in the way of the successful
achtoveiiieuts of what he called patriotic
purposes. And in this montruus claim
e was supported in tho beginning by
the great mas of the ptople its the States
North and West, and throughout by a
majority of them with a recklessness and
bitterness, and a scveri y, too, never be
fore exhibited by a free people in any
country or any age.
w . W I
Now, upon precisely thusamo maxim.
thus rigorously practiced upon,' the Radi
cals have right to remove the President
ironj ipj omce, ana to imprison, exue, ana
even put him to death upon the pretext
that he is believed to bp an obstacle in
the yA: of the successful execution of
their plans and policy for what they choose
to call the public good, nd I do not
that any one who, in Lincoln time, gave
sanction to the execrable doctrine, could
.... . . '
have any right to complain.
I would have that right. The Demo
cratic party would have it and here and
there a solitary wayfarer, marching out of
puce witn cue ncpuoiican noswt. iut no
matter; let. me vrarn all concerned, that
this ' intended impcachtuciit,' this in
tended depstng of ihQ President will be
resisted to the last extremity. He is
President uudcr the Constitution, and
has precisely the same right to exercise
the duties of the office to the end of his
term,' Marc) -4, that the members
of the Senate or House, or any other of
the olucers oi Ooverumcnt have, and
the.se will find a million hearts ot oak and
arms of steel to dfijd him in the enjoy-
meut oi inai rigut. we want no more
war above all, no more civil war: but if
they will force it, if shall be, will be "war
. ' 'I' tf .1 , ... . 1 !.
to tnc Kiiuc, auu too Ktuio totne nut."
Jut to return. I ho recent civil or sec
tional war is over. The Confederate
armies have surrendered and been dis
persed, and the Federal army, twelve
hundred thousand strong, has been dimin
ished to less than, fifty thousand. The
war is over, but the Union is not restored.
Did war restore the Union? Let exery
soldier and every officer answer. If war
restored the Union, what wcro they do
ing here advocating the President s poll
cy ? They all ditl their 'duty like bav
men. It was no fault of theirs that their
work did not restore the Union! They
broke down the armed hostility to. the
Fedora1, government, and Jt was because,
in the eternal nature of things, by the
decree of the Omnipotent God, fore
could not cement a Union . ruade by oon
sent, that the union was, not restored;
and 'now tjie' ientijre '. Denaocratie . party is
where is it has always beeii, 'and every
soldier and officer who fought in that war
should come forward and unite with the
Democratic party in seeking to accomplish
through the Joailot tne worK that war
could not accomplish.
The recent civil or sectional warisover,
The Confederate armies have surrendered
and been dispersed; and the Federal
army, 1,200,01)0 strong, has been, dimm
ished to leas than ou.uuu. me war is
ovor; but the Union is not restored. JLid
i' A i- .1 'it . i ,
war restore $iq Union ? Let every sol
' "si
dier and every omcer answer, it war
did restore
... -
iu every . imc nunci. xi vtrur
tore it, what are they doing here,
ti6g the President's policy ?. THey
Al;?-.. 1 !l i' J1 -L i Ta
adyocati
all' did their duty like brave men. Iff was
no fault of theirs that their work did not
restore tho Union. They broke down the
armed hostility to the Federal Govern
ment, and it was only because in the
eternal nature of things, by the decree of
the Omnipotent God, force coId not ce
ment a Union, made by consent, that the
Union was not restored; arid now that
the entire Dcmocrutie patty is where it
has always been, and overy soldier who
fought iu that war ought to come forward
and unite with that party in achieving
through the ballot tho work that war
pould not accomplish. . ' .
T t P .1 . 1 . f-
iigaiji, i uia oeueyo irora tuc t;cgin
niug that tho war was for the abolition of
slavery, and not for the restoration of the
Uuiotr. irue, I heard Abraham Lincoln
say,' on the 4tlj of Mu'rctilBftl. that lie
had neither tho light nor tho desia to
abolish it. Airain.' after the battle of
Hull Run,4 1 aw John J. Crittenden, pre
sent, for the second time, a resolution
which, when ode red a few days before
that battle, 'hud been Uughed out of the
House; any I savf every member of thtt
House vote for it. excent two Hennbli-
cans, I voted lor it because i thought u
we were to have war, it ought to be de
clared, at hiiist, only a war for the su
premacy of the Constitution aud the re
storation of the Union. I remember,
too, that in the several Executive orders
calling for an increase of the army and
navy, and in the first message of the
PresidenttoCongress.it was announced
that tho purpose of the war was to restore
the Union. Rut I remembered that
Abraham Liucoln was chosen I 'resident
by a sectional party that he had avowed
the doctrine of the irrepressible conflict,
and declared that thm ' I'nioh ' could ' not
endure part slave and putt free. 1 JJemchi
ber'tng thksfc thing, how could I be de
ceived? ' Knowing WVIl tjic character of
the Republican tarty, how' could I hi
mistaken? I remembered further, that
after the firstMonday in December, 18(11,
the Republican party never had re' affirm
ed the Urittcnden resolution. 1 remem
bered that in the second and third cs
sions of the Thirty-seventh 'Congress, and
throughout the whola of the Thirty-eighth
Congress, that resolution' fn sorao forni or
other was offered by Democrats and mod
erate men. ftod regularly laid upon tho
table by ' Republican 'majorities'. T re
mcuberc J. further, that on the 22d of
.Seiitciiibcr,'18n2. or about that time, the
President i&s'u id his proclamation declar
ing alavery "abolished in the United
a a a a
Mates. 1 iMjhcv'cd. then, that the war
was not for the Union nor tho Constitu
tion, but for the abolition of slavery, aqd
that this would lead us to the very qucs
lion which is threatening us to-day with
another civil war. Now, who was right
in all that? Was it not fur the abolition
of slavery? Has it not set free three or
four millions of slaves, and arc we not to
day debating the btatus of the4c slaves
now freed men ?
Rut candor compels me to ay that.
while right on these two great question,
Iwas wrong in another. 1 did not believe
that even the whole power of the Federal
Government, put forth with such terrible
energy and earnestness as it was. and met
to some extent, liy "corrtiiptidiijg clergy
aud earnestness on the other side, could
o any reasonable period tif time, break
lowu the military strength of the South.
In that I was absolutely and totally wrong.
Rut I could not foresee that the resources
often years would have been" so wasted
away by the men in control of the Confed
erate Uovcrnment, as to become exhaust
ed in four years; but upon the main prop
ositions, that war could not restore the
Union and that it was for the abolition of
slavery, I was right aud so, too, as to the
other considerations. I believed that
when the South should be broken down
if broken down she could be the country
would be perplexed and harassed by ques
tions ten times more difficult of adjust
ment than the slavery issue itself. These
are tho questions now aud to day before
us. As Mr. Liucoln predicted, the iden
tical did questions of terms of intercourse
. . . . .
are agaiu'upon u$.
Now lor the facts. Tho President, and
with him the National Union or Johnson
party, ana ttje wtioie ueinocrauc pany
proclaim that the terms of intercourse be
tween the North and the South shall be
tlie old Constitution pf Madison, Washing
ton, Jefferson, Jackson. Clay and ebster.
The Republican party proclaim that the
terms ot intercourse shall be tho new or
amended Constitution of Thaddeus Ste
vens, Charles Sumucr and Renjamin
Wade. That '' tho issue which is forced
upon us now, directly and plainly stated.
Hut behind all this lies tho question:
What shall be done with the negro, now
free? First the Republican party pro'
claim, as part of their policy, that it is the
duty of the United States to care for tfic
"black children of tho uatiou," as they
arc affccitonaiclv termed: and accordingly
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we have had, for eighteen jbjoolhs pas;, a
Freedman's Rureau. It is still in exist
ence. The bilj, for its enlargement, was
m a modified form passed over the Prcst
dent's head; and that Rureau has appro
priated, for its support during the current
year,' seven millions of your money, and
that by the vote of your Iieprntutiye,
Robert C. Scheuck, Seven milhohs' of
inotiVyl Jut tjaatis not all. They were not
content with the old bureau; a new ouo
must be provided, of rarer aud more cost-
ly material and manufacture, a Rureau bill
which tlie President has declared! it' it had
become a law, would fiave taxed the peo
pie fifty-three millions a year for the sup
port of this black population. Now I bej
to ltnow upon 'what principle of the Con-
stuuuon, or oi rigutanu justice, tuo uiacic
man ojr U19 black omin, or the black
child, is entitled to money out ot tho treas
ury of tKe United States, for food, lodging
and clothing, when that treasury is not
called upon to furnish' the same for the
white paupers of the United States?
'f Again for I'ani here to speak plainly
I do not believe that the President had
a right to annex conditions'o'f any -Bort to
the admission "to" th'e exercise of their
rights by eleven States which according
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to nis ttieory, accoruiug wnat is aumitteu
by Democrats every where, and "what nev
er was inconsistent with the declared doc
trines of tho Democratic party in national
convention whatever may have heen the
private opinions of individuals, what is
now recognized, even by the South in ev-
cry State Constitution, declaring their or-
dinances of seeess'ion null and void, were
never Out of the' Union' He had no bet-
tef 'j'gjft as Commandcr-in-Cliicf or as
president, 1:1 my humble judgement, to
require 6f thcnV conditions precedent than
IhaddeuJ Stevens, or Charles Sumner, or
Benianjin Wade. Rut it is needles to dis
eu tlftit question. The South accepted
these conditions, and incorporated thcml Hon, being for the Dmon,- and acknowl
into their State Constitutions ; and now. cJging' obsdience to all the laws. JoodI
after oue year has passed, the President
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has proclaimed that, whereas they have
t ".. . 1 . .1 ' I ' . i f 1 1
suomiitcd to tnc v;onstituiion ar.a ooeyiwno occupies mat position' to-day is s
the laws, and subjected themselves to all
the burdens of government, they are enti-
iicu io uuiiitMiou, w ine Jieri;itK5 01 wieir 1
right of representation in the Senate and
I louse ot lieoresentatiycs. aradia the
t'lectorarColle'.'e. '.' ' ,
"It ii said by some who concede that
these States are m the umou as they al-
wavs were in the Union. their ordinan-
ces of fceccMsion bc'ini: null and void that i
they arc entitled, therefore, to represents-
tion, but that it can be only in the persons
of "loyal men. 1 airree to that, except
that 1 fiuarrel with the word. I never
heard it until 18GI. Itis notan American
word, not a republican word, not a Dem-
(cratic word. It docs not belong to a
free country. Itispcculiartomonafchsand
monarchies, todetotp personal attachment I stand upon the doctrine of the Presi,
fidelity to an individual 'or a cro'.7u head. dent. I am not 1 is partisan, and do tiot
11 nas no oujsiness nere. ii never wouiu
have been introduced; except by men who
Were attempting as men are still attcmp-
ting to establish a strong or monarchical
government in this country. Ihe true I
old-fushtoncd word was 'patnotic, 1 hat j
is the word you are accustomed to hear
iroui trie beginning 01 your uyes on tne
2id of Feburary, on the Fourth of J uly.
and wherever aud whenever any man ad-
dressed you aopealini' to vour VjVo "of
try. Now, bowcrer',' mcri' d4e' the j
void ''loyal" aud tell us that in the!
Senate atid llousc of Representatives, as
ferpret the iiguificatiun of tho word, and
couiment. upon toe text lata aown uy tnei
President. I choohe to go to the fountain
.1 .l I .1
head, not to the muddy stream lower
down. Let us see. In remarks to an in-
tcrvicw with a con;?mttce of the Iegtisla-
tare of Virginia, on' tjie 10th Feburary,
1SU0, Mr. John R. Raldwin, Speaker of
Hou-te of Delegates from llichmond,being
chairn;ah ol'thc delegation, Andrew John-
wti, referring to this ver rjucstion, said :
'0 the curding p"ritjti pie of represent-
tioii, to which your refer," I Will make a
siugle remark. I hat principle is luher-
cut. It constitutes one of the fuudamen-
tal elemeiits of this government. " The
rcprcHjntatives of the States and of the
people thould have the riualifications pre-
hcribcd by the Constitution of the Uuited
States' ' "
There alone I find the authority to de -
clarc qualifications, and I find, moreover
an oatli prescribed; and for one, I deny
the right of Congress, or any other au-
thority of the Federal gavernmeut, to su-
peradd one syllable, or letter, to the oath
which our Cithers set down in that instru-
ment; and the Supreme Court; and I'statel
in 1110 electoral cojtegc, none out loyai ueaa, t wuu wnom "ine wtsnr is
meu should bo admitted to seat. 'Now 1 the thorfght,'1) let hipf take notice
projKjse to take tho definition of loyalty there are two milliohs'of men,'wn'd'
uh given by tjie Prpid?nt, not by any of born in that party, whose children
iiiomj fciuauer iigius wno unuertaKe to in- been ba
it ou the authority of General I' rank Rlairlcrat'C party of the United Slates, and by
us wfell as other authorities which I need thai doctrioe' we" rausfstand 'of falll IT
uot aud will not name has already dcci -
ded that only the oath prescribed by the
Coutitutiou is' the oath 'which Confess
can exa'et. ' The President" continued in
tor patriotism or attachment to the Con-
stitution. as Jefferson called it. lsavuu -
questionably the President is right. No
. .
mau can bo attached to the Constitution
aud not have the 4loyal" qualifications to
entitle him to a seat as a Senator'or Ilep:
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words which are strongly emphasized: It is not the country Iwas born in. y
Thce qualification most unquestionably not the land of my nativity. ''For forty
imply ioyaliy.V ' Now again protesting Vears I have been mistaken; these ' are
agaiust. 1 no u-e 01 mai woru as asuosutute uot tne
. . 1. - 1 . 1. . . 1 ' ..-".. I . .1
rcseuutiive. i-urinir mo war. men wnoiuraws iue itef- mroujiu iue wuoie ajaicut.
were in rebelliou as it is called men in
armed hostility to the Fademl mi t Imrlt v
who reiectcd the Constitution aiid laws
. '. ... . . . .r
could not have a seat in' the Senate or
House, or a vote in the Electoral Colleire
because they were not loval. not attaehe.l
to that Couttution. I herelure, they
could have been lustiv excluded, llow
stands the case now? They have surrcu
m - "
dered, yielded obedieuce' to fhe'Cdstuu-
tiou and lawj and aro loyal, therefore, to
day. 1 mean loyal now, without refer
eireo to their past record.' Dg'you'go
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oacs auu ust 01 oue wno. would join a
church, whether he was asiuner once and
and if he had been asiuner, do you there
fore deny him the right to unife With
ite With
H asked;
ot loyal-
your No; these questions are n
una so with regara to this matter ot ioyal
iy ... Aveprc.iwauyes auu oeuators, ana
incmoer ox tno liiecioriai uuiicgc. Any
man who to-day is in favor of supporting
man rs loval iu the proper term of the
word, if indeed it bo applicable in any
seuso m a ltepubucan government. .
; VH.e ; who comes as u ltepreseutative,"
says the rresideut, 'having the q
uah'fica.
turns
a a
js prescribed by the Constitutiou'
by (Jougress "to fit him to take a
. c -1
not oy yougress-to n him to tak-e a
seat iu either ot the deliberative bodies
which constitute the national
Legisla-
ture, must necessarily, , according I'd the
"NT
intendment of the Constitution, be aloyal
niau, willing to abide'by, and' devoted to
the Union and the ' Cous'itutio'd' of the
States." . . .
. TJiat is the only qualification of "loyal
ty that ever iustly or properly was
known in the land. I am aware that we
have had many other tests within the
last four or five years. To be loyal, a man
musi swear that Abranam Jjincom was
the greatest statesman and the truest pat
riot that 'ever lived. To be disloyal, it
was only necessary to censure any act of
nis aammisirauon, ana democrats were Acs.-BccauS(i she loves her Nap. , ,
pursued, persecuted, arrested, imprisoned, vvJ;-' .. . y s s.
tried by military commissions, exiled, How taanY peas iri a pint ? Ans.T--CSf
thrown into bastiles, or murdered, because'?,
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they were not loyal in the sense of
party, which iarty had teen the peculiar
advocates for ycars bf ' fhe speeth' and S
free' press. I The PresideftC brocecds : I
'He'caonot' be fotthe ' Constitution
he cannot be for the5 Union he cannot
acknowledge obedience to all the laws un
less he is loyal'; - - " ;
Agreed. . Then loyalty m the lieprej
sentatives who are to be se'nfc from"' the
Sooth consists in being for the Constiui
That istound Deniocratic ' doctrine just
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precisely wnat we proclaim, ana any man
- 1 . . . Al A . .. ' .
loyal tuan, whether he be a citizen of Ohio
or iit'&fsvtli Carolina. "And there w neT
uocinuo upou wnieii we c cpo 10 nave
lasting pacification in 'the Unritcd States.
Upon any other they "will be as Huocarr
until the Km peror of Austria was obliged
o give to Hungarians the full rights or
Austrian subjects: as Poland is ' td-daf,'
and has been lor a century: and as Iraw
land, glorious old Ireland, has been fxit
five hundred years; but, thank God, a
she will not be for many years longer-
under British rule. " . - ' 'V
And further says the President and
this clinchss the point which ! make-1
'when fhs "people send 8u"h iden in cood
faith, they arc -ettimd tfJ representation
thrdugh them."' ' '' H 'I -
support mm as sucn. l am a lemocrat;
and ever intend , to'bea'Demoeraf,' w!tb
out prefix or affix. Yes, for one at least:
I mean to bo by your consent, a member
of a convention, a" naticnal converiUon,' t$
nominate Democratic candidates for Presit
dent and ice President in 1868, tbotign
mat convention snouia be no larger than
la county convention ;' and for otfe",' I meatf
to cast my vote for those Democratic' cant
didates. thouirb they shonld recerve rJh
more Votes' than' James ORnrney in 1844
Let the men who talk aboUtf disbanding
the Dcmocratid ' party, about its beidj
lather to
that
were
ptizeu in if, ana wno mean tosus-
tain it ai etery hazard, as long as theV
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snail live. tAppuu.ia.j - ' 1
Will any nran tell me ? Is it because
the negro is better than the white mfcn',
or is it because Reniamin F. Butler'd
clared in his great speech at Toledo, re
ported (correctly, lam sure,') in the'Cincm-
nati Cotnmereial I quote his own "words' I
"I reject, 'w?th""fcnutteraJJle loathicg and
scorn, the doctrine th'at (hxi is'ft' whiU
man's Government." Dare he repeat
the' aecfaration in Dayton? '"Will-he,
upon Saturday',' itr old Butler Corrtty
not called in honor of him, but of a far
braver, cob lar man. utter it ajrain f "I
challenge him td'decUVe'here that Tie re-
jects, with' unutterable scorn and loath-
ing, the doctrine that this isl white iaiA
Government. " If not a white nianVGoT1
ernment, then it is either totally blact or
lit ii mixed.' TApplause. I I was 'taught
it w'as1 the doctrine of the 'fathers';- it
was the idea cf the Constitution, the furl-
da'mental theory'bf all partiesthat this
was a white man's Goveanment, '"made
by white men for the' government of
whi e "men Thai is the doctrine1 of thi
Pfesidcnt'to-day,and of the whole Demo-
lthis is to be a black man's Government
co, if it i to hp c?ulatto Government,
part' black and part whitethen' I'rei
nounce it forever. rCriesof-'Sodowe'l
United States: "this is hot tha
Republic of America,
1 -'", : '
I . w a
NEW isvENTiON. A J08 f3 .,a"
vented a new stoy e tor the comfort ot tray-
ellers. It is io be put under the feet with
a njustard plaster on Hhe head; which.
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It is called' "the Robins6n Exhilarator"
'l r T t ..1.1 i
ix-uovernor rrauit ja. uuuooca., v
Texas, who was' Colonel in the' Confeder-
army and aid to Jeffersoa Davis, hai
established' hiniself at Houston, in the
commission ana auction ousiness, in con-
neetion wun nis son.
Baltimore has a pbpulatiqn of 300.0QQ,
which would imnly a votins nopuhtion ot
af least 40,000. Undertladical rule there
are" only 7.000 voters, five thousand of
whom are liadtcais. v" Jou tuati popu
lar government?
A tunnel 1GS1
feet long is to be ruu
under the Chicago river;, from Franklia
t0 Clinton sW. Chicago. This will re-
i;ara tka (rouol twViioK imiAir nrttimiallv
- 1 He,:e t travel wWch U now continually
choked at the bridges.
I There is "a farm Tn Colorado 18 miles
is worked by Mexican laborers, who are
fed and managed by officers like an army."
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; VVJtiy is a 't King sxiri use a siauaer
pen f! Because lean and fat calves "are
1 ! a . i f ' , f : - , .
seen m them.
nn n ,
- Wo ft ft . , punch so indas.
a: VL Asta wm, t
do she knit her brow.
Prentice says : .'-'Cottou isn't king.
and corn isn't king.;. Braids' "tire ltii,
and industry is prime minister ' u-
. . t- ; .
r Ameriea feaa presented to England
fair Field for future intercourse."
A: warning needed at all fashioaable
assemblages:, Look out for paint.-". ,H
Why is a dolt like jelly ? Ans.-Bei
causer it is i made with eyes in1 glass; 1
Why is Eugenie a sleepy empress ?
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