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SAVANNAH. WEDNESDAY; MAY i>l, XS6S.
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Public Notice of President £in
coln’s Death-
Mo Herald To-Morrow Evening, fer Fri
day Morning.
To-morrow having been recommended by
tlie President as a Fast Day, in observance of
President Lincoln’s dentil, we shall issue no
paper in the evening, or on Friday morning,
nnless important news arrives, in which case
it will be published in an Extra.
We recommend merchants to close their
places of -business, and such general observ
ance of the day as becomes loyal citizens,
lamenting the assassination of a lieloved
Chief Magistrate
Our morning edition of Thursday and our
evening edition of Friday will appear as
usual.
THE BEMOVAI. OF TRADE RESTRIC
TIONS BY OEM. GILLNQRE
We are glad to see from Gen. Gillmore’s
General Order No. 71 which appears in the
Herald to-day, that he has officially pro
mulgated President Johnson's liberal order in
regard to trade, and has removed in accor
dance therewith, ail military lestrictions
fjom Department Headquarters, on the sub
ject of commerce. He bas also abolished
the one per cent military 1 tax.
While the General is resolute in insistin g
upon a loyal obedience to the national au
thority, he is doing all iu his power to promote
trade, and restore quiet and prosperity to
the States in his Department.
VNION MEETING ON FAST-DAY.
The people are cordially invited to attend
Religious Service, by Chaplain J. H. Fowler,
on Thursday. The time aud place will be gi
ven in the Evening Edition. Subject “The
State of the Country.”
DtsTiNoinsiißD Visitors.— By the W. W.
Coit, yesterday morning, Brig. Gen. Stewart
L. Woodford, Chief of Staff of the Depart
ment, aud Capi. James, also of Gen. Gill
more’s Staff, arrived here. Gen. Woodford
will probably return to-day.
Lt. Col. M. Clymer, Medical Director, ar
rived here yesterday by the Cosmopolitan,
from Hilton Head.
TuE.StoMAi. Corps were not responsible for
the error in regard to the price of gold in the
Herald Extra of Monday, as that message
was not sent through by signal, sent by spe
cial boat. Tue Signal Corps are noted lor
their accuracy', and wc have never found any
error in any dispatch forwarded through them.
THE GREAT WANT OF TENEMENTS
IN NEW YORK CITY
The following is an extract iiom a letter
ot our New York correspondent, dated
May 25th :
<• the great want
of tenements in the city is the city’s greatest
evil, and what is worse it is a growing evil.
You might almost say there are not half
enough tenements in the city. People are
driven to the suburbs—to Brooklyn and its
suburbs—to Hoboken—Jersey City and all
through that part, of Jersey Slate which is
accessible with from one to two hours ride.
And yet New York, its upper part, is filled
with vacant lots. Many a man, with a
small family is obliged to go into those ten
ement bouses wiricb, apart from dangers
from accidents, are threatened with diseases
and filled with the annoyances proceeding
l‘r»m the congregation, beneath one roof of
Ironr sixty to one hundred families. A gleam
of relief has appeared however, by a distin
guished humanitarian of meaus, who proposes
to erect about one hundred tenements, .which
he will so construct as to put each one In the
possession of any man of moderate means.
His plan is to put sixteen houses on eight
lots, each heuse to be but one story and a
half high, twenty feet front by forty feet
deep. The eight lots of 25 feet front and
JOO jfeet deep, each will give ten bouses ot
twenty feet front each. Then there will be
three houses on each side of the square csf
twenty leet front each also. AH the houses
will be forty feet deep. In the rear, between
tbe wings of the block will be an open space
120 by 60 feet, which will be planted with
shade trees, grassed and laid out iu walks,
open to all Hk? oooupauts. Each bouse will
have seven rooms—all on one floor —gas and
water and a cellar for fuel, vegetables etc.
Tne best part of the plan is that a man will
have a house to himself for the moderate
reu t of $250 per annum.
The BrM S*.«-ngtheut n|f Plaster Is tbe Po
™ ,OUB of D r . Allcoek.
rbey are warranted to keep good twenty year*, but
may be retained for fresh plaster* without charge
Qi AUTiEs. They will cure# Weakness
O om^Ll‘‘ iU r h M Slde ’ U the Knee
’° r w olllFm ' aud with more
comfort than any other application.
•' ‘ > Knoxville, Albany Cos., Jan. i«, m 2
Da. T. Allcock.-Heir Sir; .Seventeen year* a-ol
wa* sorely injured in my back. At length I was in
uuevd Mr use your Plaster. I wore one constantly for
six month*, and did more hard work during that »i*
months thau iu the preceding dfteeu years. I have not
worn a plaster for over eighteen months, and have had
bo return of the gnawing paiu aud weakuesa in my
>aca, but have been entirely well. lam your obedient
JOHN O. CHART
Principal Agency, Brandreth House, New York.
Sold by all respectable Dealers In Medicines,
may 11-It
Meeting of the Loyal Residents
of Savannah.
LARUE ATTENDANCE OF ALL
CLASSES.
IMPORTANT &SSOX.Wf XOJNTB.
VYDREW JJHYSDY ENDORSED B¥ THE
ASSEMBLY.
Sympathizers with Secession not
to be Supported Lor Oilier.
A Military Governor for Georgia
Asked For.
AddresscN by Col. A. Ntone
and otliei’M.
[SPECIALLY BEPORTED FOB THE HAV ANN AU DAILY HERALD, j
A public? meeting of the “loyal residents
of Savannah, who endorse the policy' of the
President of the United States, as indicated
by his past history," was held last evening at
the Georgia Union Club Hall, over the Ex
press office, “to consider such measures
in harmony with the present Administration
as will conduce to the welfare of the State.
The Attendadce.
The.house was well filled with loyal men of
all classes. The attendance was mostly of
civiilians. including many natives of Savan
nah, and a spriukling of officers and soldiers.
The Halt of the Club
was decorated with the stars and stripes, fes
tooned upon the wall in the rear of the
speaker and looped with black crape. The
hall which wa9 last evening thrown open
for a public meeting for the first time is ad
mirably adapted to that purpose, and has
recently been fitted up with seats and a tine
platform for speeches, by the club.
Organization.
Col. Wm. H. Stark, President of the Geor
gia Union Club, called the meeting to order,
and. on motion of Col. A. L. Stone, he was
chosen to preside.
Messrs. L. A. Dodge and Israel R. Sealy
were appointed Secretaries by the Chair.
Committee on Resolutions.
The foilowiug were appointed a Commit
tee to draft resolutions: L. S. Bendett, Mar
tin Duggan, E. S. Riddell, Mr. Padelford,
Mr. Brigham, Mr. Wadleigli, J. G. Mills.
The Resolutions.
The committee reported the following:
Resolved, That we cordially approve of the
policy of Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States, as indicated by his past his
tory and more reeeutly in his address to the
Indiana delegation, and pledge to the Ad
ministration our cordial united support and
bo-operation.
Resolved, That we will henceforth support
such men only for office as shall satisfy us
that they have no sympathy with secession,
and will pledge themselves to abide by and
sustain all acts passed by the Congress of the
United States.
Resolved, That iu view of the present dis
organized and unsettled condition of affairs
iu this State we believe a Military Governor
is a‘necessity until the power of the enemies
of tbe|Uniied States Government shall have
been so crippled as to cease to be dangerous,
aed the ballot-box so guarded as shall ever
prevert the recurrence of the terrible scenes
from which we have been delivered by tiie
power of the United States Government.
Mr. C. K. Osgood" moved the adoption of
the resolut ions.
Address of Col. A. L. 3toue.
Col. A- L Stone was called for to apeak
on the motion for the adoption of the resolu
tions. He wa3 received wit!) applause. He
made an eloquent allusion to the stars and
stripes, his flag, the ffsg of all loyal people,
displayed for the first time publicly in that
hall for a long time, and then, with some
comments, read extracts from President
Johnson’s address to the Indiana delegations
as exhibiting his policy. He then spoke as iol
lows
Over four years of dark desolating war
have spread over our land—not one blight
spot can be remembered, one long dark night
of ri}in, aud every fireside has Its vacant
chair, the ioved ones are gone, our fair lands
dotted "over with new made graves, and
weeping mothers, yyiyes fpj<] sisters go about
on tbe streets in the garb of sqrrnw—truly
the whole land mournetli. But', thank Gpd
the war is over, and new duties and anew
life await us—the cruel wounds of war must
be healed—the bitterness that has taken root
in the heart must be extricated—passion
must lie laid aside and calm, deliberate rea
son lake its place.
Solemn and important duties devolve upon
the people ot the South. It is further to de
termine whether free Government shall be
thr them and for tlieir children, or whether
the strong urw of military power shall grind
a people that refuse yield willing, hearty
aud cheerful obedience to just 4wg tpunane
ly administered—whether we will goyern
ourselves, or refusing that, be ruled with the
strong baud, 1 have watched this revolution
from the beginning and Us authors aud abet
tors. It commenced before the election of
| Abraham Lincoln.
John C. Calhoun sowed the foul seed, and
| we, at this day have gathered the terrible
; harvest. Arid the memory of that ‘intellec
tually great man will be remembered only in
sorrow that he ever lived. Ruin and Blood
and a desolated country are the land marks
of his memory. His disdiples.have been the
more immediate teachers ot tbe people—ac
tuated by an unholy ambition for place*and
power they taught the people lies, aod they
have been scourged wit h thorns. Tell me not
that the acts of Secession were the uprising of
. she people against tyrunuy and oppression to
I justice und wrong; tell me not it was the elec
tion of Abraham Lincoln that kindled the
tires of of revolution in the South; no, no, for
years the “tire eaters” in the South had seen
the sun of tlieir power declining, had begun
to realize the fact that they could not always
control the dealings of the nation in their
I own peculiar way, they could have justice
but with that they were not gut -
I ished, and as they could rule supreme no
, longer, determined on the destruction of the
1 Government of their fathers, and to erect on
its ruins an aristocracy that they could rule
or ruin as their own will might dictate-
That beiug tlieir determination long before
the Democratic Convention in the city of
Charleston, S. C. in 1860. we find on inqui
ring into the secret records of those traitors,
who had resolved upon the destruction of
the Government, that they were in secret
caucus in the city of Charleston with the
press bought in their interest not to publish
tlieir arrival in the city, more than once prior
to the Democratic Convention of 1860.
There was Wiu. H. Young, Robert Toombs,
Barnwell Rbett, Howell Cobb, Wig
full, Benjamin. Thomas R. R. Cobb, and oth
er traitors in secret caucus plotting treason,
devising ways and means to break up the
Convention, secure the nomination of
what they' called an Abolitionist by the
North, and then with a lie upon tlieir lips,
and deception in their hearts go home
and, by appeals to the passions and prejudi
ces of the people, tire their heads for revo
lution. In this Convention the re
marks of Wm. L. Yancey to T Knox Wal
ker, of Tennessee, both delegates to that
Convention, is significant—Mr- Walker of
fered tu withdraw the name of Mr. Douglas
if the Convention would adapt tlie princi
ples of the Cincinnati platform and support
any man they might nominate. Mr. Yan
cey' replied : “ Any position acceptable to
Mr. Douglas or his friends is in itself unac
ceptable to us. J mean twice I
have been before my constituency' advoca
ting it, and been defeated, H>ut now''l shall
succeed and we will drag out all who will
not go with us.” That threat proved too true,
South Carolina weut out, Georgia and other
States were dragged out, and the result is
belore us in cities 'destroyed, and a
people impoverished, and who but your
selves are responsible for that act.
Has not God in his Providence been dealing
justly with you—yea, even mercifully, iu
comparison with the crime?
Wliat right had the Federal Government
evertleniecl you ? Wh it claim founded in
justice had ever been withheld—wliat Gov
ernmental act of usurpation ever committed ?
—not one can you to-day point to—and the
confession is forced home that we alone have
been to blame—and those who have inaugu
rated the bloody' drama, those wiio advocat
ed and signed the hateful ordinance of Se
cession, will be held responsible iu all
coming time for the fearful consequence of
that ill-advised act, and all those wno have
since, by' their counsel, the purse and the
sword, voluntarily given aid and comfort to
the enemies of the Government, shall ever
hereafter merit the sebrn aud contempt of
an outraged people.
Those editors whose pens dipped in gali,
those preachers and politicians whose lips
inspired with lies, have made a people
mad, vindictive aud cruel, will meet a fear
ful retribution in blasted hopes and iu the
gnawing 9 of a .guilty conscience. .
It is those who have educated the people
in hatred and a desire for revenge; and,
though unharmed, they will cry out like
Cain, that tlieir punishment is greater than
they can bear. Think, O think, my friends,
ot the hundreds of thousands of graves that
are filled with the victims of this unholy
ambitition! Think, O think, of the thou
sands of the starved skeletons in the pen of
Andersonviile—whose long fingers to-day are
pointing upwards frt>m those nameless graves
and crying for vengeance on the authors of
their suffering and death!
Think, O, think of the countless number
of widows andxH'pbaas whose cries go up
all over this land and whose tears speak a
sorrow their lips cannot utter—think of these
things and forget your bitterness, and let a
great, magnanimous nation welcome you
back to its protection, its privileges and its
benefits. Confess your sins to the nation ;
confess them to each other; confess them to
your God, and rejoice that the nation you
would have destroyed is saved—and lei there
be no longer in your hearts any North or
any South, East or West* but one united
people—free, prosperous and happy.
The war has wrought great changes, social
ly and politically, aud instead of complaining,
we should quit ourselves like men, and set
about with a will to adapt ourselves to the
new and changed condition of things—we
should not wait for others to do it lor us, but
do it for ourselves. I doubt if there is a per
sqn in the hearing of my voice that has not
at heart at some time wished the institution
of slavery was opt of the way. It was neycr
considered a Diviue Institution until within
a few years, and that heresy is now explod
ed, by Divinity itself, fqr God assuredly takes
care of his own, and He bps let the Slaves go.
It has been a political institution, but it was
tor Alexander H. Stephens to discover in it
the proper elements lor the corner stone of a
Southern Conlederacy—and I think he was
a little mistaken, for the stone is broken, aud
the Confederacy has tumbled down, and has
socially and politically buried archi
tects in its ruins. Slavery is dead; Secession
killed it. The Providence of God made its
peculiar guardians the instruments of its own
destruction. And what is the use of burrow
ing under |ts pld fogsjl remains iu a vain en
deavor to resurrect It into a short sickly life?
—rather bury it out of 9ight of raeni and let
its watchers and nurses get well as soon as
possible. A little free and w’holesome exer
cise will soon render them convalescent and
change their mourning into gladness.
I lielieve this country was destined by God
for the white man, and that it is our mission
to develope its vast resources—Agricultural
and Mineral, from the Atlantic tojtne Pacitic
frorn the North Pole to the Equator, bound,
ed by no latitude or longitude but one vast
poultry of freemen, with one government,
pne flag; oye sacs tjjis war has developed that
we shall not forget and that qtifef nations do
well to remember, that under one flag \yc
can whip the combined powers of the world.
I am not troubled about the negro. I am wil
ling he should enjoy all tlie liberty aud free
dom he is capable of, nnd the government will
give him, and if they make men of them
selves they shall be treated like men; but if
I bad tlie disposition of them just now, I
would raise aii army of three or lour hundred
thousand men, clothe them in Uuited States
blue, with United States muskets in their
hands, knapsacks on tlieir backs, four days
rations in tlieir haversacks, put them under
the command of General Sherman, face them
towards Mexico with instructions to enforce
the Monroe Doctrine, and you would see
Maximilian and Johnny Frenchman skednd-
Jing worse than the chivalry of South Caroli
na dirt 4 few days ago.
But why \yaste vyorijs aipj fret about the
black men, the sjiipe Proyidonce that made
them free, will take care of them. Let us go
to work for ourselves aud as soon as possible
udjust the niachineiy of the government to
the changed condition of things. It is sadly
out ot order; it has been running the last
four years ofl the track, and must be engi
neered back? we have enough to do and must
do it with a will. Not only has this govern
ment to be put iu order, but our Internal Im
provements are all to be rebuilt, and increased
in ten fold proportion. We have enough to
do without the negro, and finding fault with
the consequences of Secession, Repent of
the inglorious acts, aud keep repenting, and
do works meet for- repeutance. God knows
that sins enough have been committed in tlie
inauguration and prosecution of this unholy
strife, to keep the actors in tlie bloody drama
on their Knees lor the balance of their lives.
They can repent, but never atone for the
great evil they have inflicted upon tlie na
tion. It lias been one long dark catalague
ot crime from tlie beginning to the end, cul
minating in the cowardly assassination
of the Chief Magistrate of the Nation, the
most illustrious martyr in the cause of free
dom and self Government. A man. great
in his goodness, and good in his great
ness—tempering justice with mercy to
all ill-advised and misguided . All * now
denounce the act as unparalleled in the his
tory of the world, and cry out out for ven
geance on the cowardly 'assassin. And yet
he was but a pupil from the school of Se
cession, educated and prepared for the act by
the guilty authors aud supporters of Treason
and Rebellion. Have not tlie press of the
Souih without rebuke advertised for the
man who would undertake the vile act ofas
assinating Abraham Lincoln, Andrew John
son and v\ r m. H Seward, falsely asserting
that, that act accomplished, peace w’ould fol
low? Peace after such an act! Peace to its
aiders and abettors! Peace to a people who
have advocated, or silently permitted its ad
vocates to go iturebuked! There can be no
peace to them. It was the last foul deed of
treason, the last insult to the National honor,
the last sting of the creeping serpents, nurs
ed under the shadow' of the Palmetto of
South Carolina, and the cries aloud for ven
geance ascend to lleaveu through the length
and bredth of the land. That
voice that spoke forgiveness to re
pentant rebels has been hushed in death—
those to whom forbearance would Lave been
extended and forgiveness secured are per
haps among those who conspired bis death.
And those feelings of magnanimity and kiud
tendencies that had so deep root in the hearts
ot the loyal North, that even the wholesale
slaughter, exposure aud starvation of North
ern soldiers in the prison pens of the South
had not wholly destroyed, are now drowned
in one universal sentiment of horror at the
foul deed that deprived the nation of its cho
sen leader, and the South of their best friend.
Justice demands punishment, aud men sor
rowing cauuot plead her cause or say aught
why justice should not be fully satisfied.
Whatever man may do, tlie judgment ot
Heaven will fall on tue guilty authors of such
treason, aud they will find that, though “the
mills of God grind slowly, that they
grind exceeding small.,’ 1 advocate no
vengeance, no revenge. Such a spirit
would be unworthy the people of so
great a nation. On the contrary, I would
exercise the most generous forbearance to
ward tlie deceived and deluded masses in the
South—dragged into an unwilling support
of a cause they despised, but which they had
no power to resist, and have yielded a reluc
tant obedience to the power that surrounded
them. But to those who, with an oath upon
their lips to support the Constitution ot
the United States—holding offices of
profit and trust under that government, con
spired to destroy it, that upon its ruins they
might build a despotism subject to their
will. I have no comparison—forbearance
would be criminal on the part of the gov
ernment, and an insult to those lives who
have so gallantly defended our nation’s hon
or and upheld its flag iu a thousand battles,
carrying it victoriously from one end of the
land to the other until at last it floats trium
phantly on the grave of rebellion. The
fallen braves of Gettysburg, the Wilderness,
Shiloli, Vicksburg, ChieKuinauga and At
lanta would rise in judgment against us as a
nation if no punishment follows treason.
The dead martyrs of Libby and Ander
sonville with sepulchral voice disclose the
secrets of the prison-house and demand pun
ishment of treason. The weeping mothers,
widows and sisters of our land, whose hopes
lie buried in the graves of these loved ones,
demand punishment to traitors—aud a dead
President looking down irora tlie spirit
Land, says, let justice be done to the authors
of all our woe, and a Nation responds
•4 «!«•'( f •
There are small and big traitors; the small
ones doing the dirty work of the big one 9,
like village curs bark when their fellows did,
and no less culpable than they, such are the
ones who have pursued, hunted with dogs,
shot and hung, those whose only offence was
a fealty or suspected fealty to the old Stars
and Stripes. Those who would raise the
black flag and exterminate the
dals—those who lejoiced at the sufferings of
the starving soldiers of the .Union —those,
who, if Hell was here and the Yankees there
would go to the former in preference to the
latter. Such meij are not deceived, but
traitors at heart, and are the first to profess
conversion when captured by Uncle Sail’s
preachers. Just as soon might the d—l be
come a saint, and I would have equal con
fidence in his conversion.
The law has overtaken them and they pro
fess penitence, and beg for clemency. But
the voice of the thousands of martyrs say,
‘•Justice.”
Treason has ceased to be respectable and
they always abhorred it—tbey haven’t done
anything, no not they—shall all these go
unpunished—shall the social and political
power of such miscreants be preserved to
them? Never.
But enough traitors must be left to make
J,ret}sbn “respectable again. If traitors at
heart—if they hate the Utfiou—if the expe
riences of the past are not the
desolation that surrounds them—the bleeding
hearts of their countrymen, cannot work a
change in their hearts, then thru country is
no place for them. There is a necessity lor,
and there must he, c\ -/W genuine, warnum
wisyuj loyalty, not a loyalty enforced by in
terest or tear; not the oath of allegiance on
the lip3 and a curse in the heart for°tbe gov
ernment you rfwear to obey. Events instruct
you that you have been wrong, and it is wise
and Christian to yield, and time will soften
the feelings and weaken the power of old
associations, and we may become broilers
again.
\on have sons slain—you mourn the loss
ot loved ones dead; you have suffered and
sorely; but your conscience, if not now, will
it> the figure tell you, at your own door lies
the bjame. You sought to destroy that gov
ernment ypur fathers woplil have died to
riftVe ' .There " as 110 principle at stake;
a pernicious claim to control in your own
peculiar way the destiny of the nation, and
the government could not permit you to go
without committing suicide, aud you and
KrJKJr wm ,ive to -j Ol - tbat youdid
There is something in indomitable com
age, a self-sacrificing heroism even in a hid
cause, and the intensity of mis contest ha 3
created a respect for each others bravm
whieh will alter a time ripen into friendship
that shall last through time, aud though ter’
nble the destruction it is but the inevitable
result of the conflict and not irremediable
lhe dead cannot be restored to life
maimed to health, nor the institution of s'-
very resumed. Yet we cau rebuild our cities
our towns and villages, our railroads and
canals, and in a short time, if the work is en
lered upon with determination, our whole
state will be so far ahead of what it ever w
that we shall hardly recognize it, and
in our prosperity the terrible ordeal we have
passed. With a soil rich aud productive? a
universal wealth undeveloped and iuexhaus
table, navigable rivers and a net-work of rail
roads, we cau and must be a great and nroi
perous State. Cotton has played out but ks
a civilian we can make a very good use of
him, and I think he will adapt himself to the
changed events very readily. A humbu«-
king any way, but as a citizen we will make
good use ot him in developing the mineral
wealth of the State, and I should not wonder
it he found his brother Pete Rolimn up in the
mountains of Northern Georgia, and if Iso
there is no telling how rich eve should be
\ ou have worshipped your black gods quite
long enough, they nave been to you a curse
retarding national progress and individual
happiness.
I have said this much without addressing
myself particularly to the Union men and
women of Georgia, aud I thank God that there
has been more righteous, than wa9 found in
Sodom, at least ten in every city whose
hearts have always been right, that have
never worshipped the molten calf of seces
sion nor bowed the knee to Jeff Dayis, aud
when the noise of music and dancing of those
idolaters who had made the calf, was heard
in the camp, their hearts were sad, and their
anger waxed hot; but the Constitution of
tlieir country, the flag of their fathers was
engraven on the tablets of their hearts and
was not broken. No new commandment
was necessary for them—they saw that the
bear' of the people was set on mischief and ■
that their sin would be visited upon them
and that they would be plagued on account
of the caif t hey had made.
That day has come, your day has come,
and you can hardly find a man who will ac
knowledge that he ever worshipped the calf
or even had a hand in makiug it. The re
membrance of the years of longing and suf
fering you have endured, may excite a feel
ing of revenge, and I need not say it is unjust
but it is impolitic, it will injure your power
for for good.
The Government can and will take care of
those who have violated its consti
tution and laws. You by years of inter
course and community ot interest have a
hold upon your fellow citizens for good. You
have a power for usefulness, responsible even
enviable.
You with your hearts aglow, with love of
the Union, strengthened by years of trial can
do much towards the conquering of prejudice
and effecting in spirit of reconciliation a wil
lingness to forget tbe past and work togeth
er for tbe future in tbe great work of leading
back our state into her natural and proper
relations to the Federal Government.
It is a great and glorious work wherein
are to be ignored party prejudice, animosity
and hate.
Tne nation has been fighting for a great
principle, it has triumphed; let it be our
privilege as individuals to triumph over
hate and a spirit of revenge. Our
ship of state has got to be officered and
manned anew; her old commander in a
reckless attempt te steer ■between the Scyla of
State liights and Cliarybdis of secession run
her into the breakers of revolution, aud for
years she has been flounderiug about the sea,
.captain crazy and the officers drunk; but
the General Sherman with a crew of seven
ty thousand heroes picked her up, and thank
God she is saved, but sadly out of order—a
mere wreck of what she once was, but she
is not a total loss ; and 9he was insured in
L ncle Sam's Company,and Andrew Johnson is
now President, aud she will soon be put afloat
again. But none of her former officers can
ever command her more; they can’t be trust
ed ; real, uncompromising Union men must
be put in command—men that have been
faithful among the faithless, with honest,
loyal hearts ever true to the Union; men
that can keejf their eyes on the “light Uouse”at
Washington, and carry the stars and stripes
at the mast head. Her old commanders
could not be trusted with a scow with a
cargo of rebel treasury notes. Shall these
men be trusted again ? shall they ever have
power for evil ? The answer is, “no more
and yet it may be suggested that there
are now no recognized leaders
in the South, that they have passed away or
have been supporting the cause of the re
bellion, that there aye no men tQ
take their places. This may he'true,
but all history teaches that emergencies
make men for the times, and that the great
men ot the future ax - e among you, perhaps
humble and obscure, not suspected of the
community or themselves, but true hearts,
in _ which with earnest conservative
sentiment, they will come forward,
command respect and excel the gteat
men of the past. Good aud true
leaders will not lack when the opportunity
presents. God has preserved our* nation and
will raise up leaders equal to the emergency.
We have had treason in the State, ’ treason
m the pulpit, treason among women and of
all the traitors in the land, those sancti
monious pretpnded servants of God, who in
the iivipg Heaven have so devotedly served
the d—l are the worst; pretending not to he
politicians, they preach treason with doable
effect, availing themselves ol the confidence
placed in them by the women they first se
duced from their love to the Union and
‘■steeled with valor their melting spirits”;
by inflammatory remarks disloyal
conduct, appeals to their honor, pride
and courage, sncceeded in deceiving tire
young men of the land into the whirlpool of
treason, Those traitors have now
a name that will forever be a disgrace to
them, and if they can ever find a cavern
dark enough, should hide therein their mon
strous visages forever.
I have no malice against them, uor no love
for them. Influence for evil has been great,
and they have excited it to the utmost. Ido
not believe a loyal person whh the ex
ception perhaps qf a few Catholics can be
found in the Sopth. They liaye preached
treason, talked tieason, prayed treason, and
even “bellowed for revenge. ’ I may be se
vere upon them, but J do not believe fealty
to God can exist in hearts of treason against
their country. I can only offer them the
