| Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH TO ani chiok london noon consola 88 tor money C att newill new ill the peace negotiation all going well liverpool aug 17 noon cotton ealm of the week bales prices improved id middling up lanila quoted at breadstuff s firmer aug 18 tho coa appointed by abe with such other dat ditc itc a iborti in attended at the wild inoue at noon to day and by president the eist room the president was at knord bagen grant secretary wells randall and browning and bout a doan ladles reverdy addressed abe arca ident oa behalf or the committee giving liim an of the convention congratulating lim on his administration aej with hopeful usuries us uries for abe future the president replied that language vis to express his feelings on abo occasion lie said in listening to abe which your elt and has just delivered the proceedings ot the convention ati they transpired recurred to my mind I 1 partook atif abo inspiration that prevailed in the contention ConTent lon V hen I 1 received a dispatch by two of its dis members conveying ia terms which baa just been described of south carolina an d massich arm in arm walking into thai vast as cem blago and thus giving ovid enco that the extremes bad como r and thit for the future hey were united na they hid been in tho past on abe pre cerv tion of abe union when the dispatch informed me chatin that vast body of men distinguished for intellect and wisdom every eye was suffused with tears on beholding abe scene I 1 could oot finish reading ibo dispatch to an associate with me in tho office for my own feelings overcame ms cheers I 1 think we may jully conclude we arc moving under proper inspiration and that we not mistaken be that the flacco of the overruling over ruline aarl unerring providence ii in thi loud ahr fotion ia in peril wo have through a mighty bloody momentous ordeal yet do not find ourselves free from difficulties and the dingers that at first surrounded us while our brave men havo performed their duties both and men turning to gen grant th stood at his right while they have won laurels imperishable there re stall greater and more important duties to perform while we have had their co in the field we now need their support in ofir efforts to per ate a peace cheers so far as the of the government is concerned abe u art has been to pour oil into abe were consequent upon abe and to irollo atin common phrase to prepare as the learned and wise physician would iler the healing io the character and io with the wound loud cb acrin wo thought and yet think we hod partially succeeded but ns the work progressed as to bo talin place and abe country becoming united we found a dia turbine and element opposing u in alluding to that element I 1 shall go no further than did your convention and tho distinguished gentleman who his to ma abe report dofita proceedings I 1 shall make no reference to it aba ido not believe time and occasion will justify wo hayo witnessed in one department of the government avery as it were to prevent abe restoration of peace and harmony there is on abe verga of abo government as it borc body which assumed to be tho congress of the united states but in fact a Coi greES of only a pirt of the states have teen thi congles Con gres as aitse and pretend to be the fort of thu union aben its overy eipp and act tended to perpetuate disunion and make a dl ortho states inevitable ini promoting reconciliation and harmony its has taken abe lorm dod d od abis bai been jahe course and policy of one department of conr government the humble individual ho is now stands abo of another department part ment of the government tha mn ner in which ho was called upon to occupy I 1 ceball not allude to now suffice it to say be is here ander the constitution and being here by virtue of its ions ho takes bis eland apon abo chaiter of our liberties na the rampart ot ciril and religious liberty prolonged cheers having been taught in my early life to hold it aid baring practiced upon it during my whole public earlor I 1 shall ever con to reverence that constitution the of abe lathera of our conn try and to make it my ceide cuide cheers I 1 goow it bus been said and I 1 must bo permitted to indulge in tho that abe executive of abe government bad been tyrannical let me gk this audience of agn around ina bery tot ity to point to a vote I 1 ever gave to a ezwoh I 1 to a single act of my whole life thai hs not been against tyronn and As to myself ha ele tenente of my nature the my afe bisp not biletn mile tn either in my feel ina cr I 1 y my on tho contay IB dearn B IVO in ite tnt I 1 say that halloy my aland upon he broad principles 0 liberty and thero li not power enough on earth to delre m from it prolonged ch ering having placed myself upon that broad plat forin I 1 have not been nord dismayed or or intimidated by cither but havo stood in conjunction with patriotic spirits founding the alarm believer 1 tho citadel of libert in danger great applause I 1 said on a previous occasion aind it now that all that was necessary in tho great struggle against tranny and win that the glo should be sufficiently for tho american people to hear and properly understand ahry did hear and looking on and seeing tiiu efio acro and what that struggle was about they determined they would settle fiat question on hie side of the constitution and of principle dies of so aud applause I 1 proclaim here today to day as I 1 tiago on other occasion that luy faith afi abidi fi in ali great mass of the peo alo in tho darkest hour of the ichen clouda seemed to be almost loveing loven ng mf faith instead of giving way looked up gli iio da kiaei and far be vond saw that all would be safe in tho end cheers my wo all know that in the language of thomas jefferson tyranny anade even can bo used and exerted more effectually by the many than the one we have seen a congress gradually en croach alep by step upon tho constitutional rights and violated daily and month after month th fundamental principles of abo government we havo teen coign ss that socked to forget there waa a constitution and that there wis a limit to the laws and scope of legislation we have seen a congress in a minority assume to exercise pow er w aich i allowed to be carried out would result in despotism or monarchy itself cries of so and enthusiastic cheers ih is is the truth and because others as well as myself have seen pi oper to appeal to tho and republican of tho country wo have been do bounced in the moat savero terms slander upon slander upon cathe most character bis undo its way through the public press what gentlemen has been your and my rin what has been the cause of your offending I 1 will tell you diring to stand by the constitution of our fathers cheers the president hero approached ho where senator johnson was bt anding and said I 1 consider the proceedings edinga of this convention sir as more important than those of any convention that ever assembled in tho united states great applause when I 1 look with my 0 upon that collection of citizens coming together voluntarily and sitting in council with ideas with principle and commensurate with fall and the extension co with holo and contrast it the collection of gentlemen who are trying to detroy the country I 1 regard it as moro important thin anny convention abit sat at ecat since 1776 cheers I 1 think I 1 may abo declarations mido there aro equnn to those at tho declaration of As I 1 stand hero to day I 1 pronounce it n second declaration of independence chies of lo rious and roost and pro angea ongea applause your address and de clira tinna anre nothing more nor less than a re ot tho constitution of the united slates arica of good and cheer you I 1 will go farther and say that ohp declaration you have made that he principles you bavo enunciated in your address are n second proclamation of emancipation to the people of the united states renewed applause for in proclaiming and these great truths you have laid down n constitutional platform upon which all can make the common cause and together for the restoration of the states and of alio government without r to pirty tho question only is the salvation of the country for our country rises all party considerations erat ions or influence cries of good and cheers how many aro in alio united states thit now require to bo free that bear the liaL kles upon their limbs and arc bound as as though they were in fact in slavery T I 1 repeat then that your declaration is the second pro mation cla to the people of tho united states and offers tho common ground upun which nil patriots can stand mr chairman and gentlemen let me in this connection ask you who more for the advancement of public welfare ban I 1 am as much opposed to the of egotism as auy one but hero in a conversational manner while formally rec ang the proceedings of tho convention I 1 ma be permitted to ask what baio I 1 to ann ii human tion moro than I 1 hao gained my race is nearly run I 1 have baert placed in the highest enrco which one can occupy under the constitution and J may say I 1 have held almost arery po boitin itin from abo lowest to the highest which mail may attain under our government I 1 have passed through every position from an alderman of a to tho pi ardency Ai dency and gentlemen this be enough to satisfy ica ambition if I 1 wanted an office or wished to perpetuate my own power how have been to hold and wield that w aich was placed in my hands by the measures culled the bureau laughter nd applause uth the army winch it placed at my disposal I 1 could have re maince at tho capitol of the united states and its fifty or baty million dollars of appropriation at my disposal with the machinery to be jerked by my own hand with my satraps and dependants in every town and vil roge and then ith the civil ahll following as an auxiliary laughter in connection with nil the other appliances government ern ment I 1 could have proclaimed myse f dictator cries of teats truo and three cheers for tho president but contle mci my arido and my ambition have been that which retains all the boeri the hands of tho great cu etring it is upon anat I 1 liate always relied it ig upon that I 1 icly iw moice and will not disappoint you and I 1 that neither threat of of a calumniating can drive mo from my purpose 1 acknowledge no superior except airty god tho author of roy existence and tho people of fhe united states prolonged and enthusiastic cheering for the aaa I 1 try to obey all Us coin mand as best I 1 can tompat ible ith fur tho other in and representative tensa alio bagh behesta behests of tho kropa have al nag been respected and obeyed by mei loud cheers st bB irman 1 said boore than 1 had intended tor tiro hind allusions to myself in your address and resolutions adopted by the gon Ten tOD let me remark in and at this period of ray life I 1 hold above nil shall ever refer with beef ins of profound gratification to the last resolution containing the endorsement ofte convention en mating bously from the great nima of the people loud cheers 1 hope that my future action may bo such that ou mid alio contention amy biot regret ca you expressed anca of baio bure of it before baiting my frield frie ud one and nil committee and strangers gleaso accept my or the kind manifestation of mid rc vou have exhibited OR this gioi I 1 repeat I 1 eliam continuo to be guided by atrin nna conscientious coni ciona of duty and that nawab cout iga anjer tho constitution which 1 biake my guide at the conclusion of the pi cs ident f remarks three cheers given lor andiew johnson and three more for yen grant the president and gen grant then retired ann in aim and the committee and tho audience commenced to |
