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Amtgi of it ;be urefbrbyi*d(ta-toThey were bold to mwtr.veten*v-pftsatit#av-adMa§9 Mjbitwo o» tub Dkhoceact ohBroad 8*BEm.---Tbe friends and supporter# of Jofan-80d and Clyme* held a mass meeting on Broad street,on Saturday evening. Two stands ware erected, oneabove and the other below Chesnm street At themain stands John S. Morton, R#q.t presided. He saidhe was bo ardent supporter of the peltry of AndrewJohnson, and referred to She policy of Coegreee, and oosteaded that if the Representatives and Senators from the Southern States could taae the teat oath, t hey onrht to be admitted to their seats to Congress. If he understood the President's policy, it was in conformity with the Constitution, it was said that the PreeA dent had no right to a poller, but he had sworn to defend the Constitution, and he had done nothing but what his oath required. Congress was guilty of usurpation when it required the Southern States to adopt the amendment to theGooetituuoa before they can fee readmitted. If Robert K. Lee was elected to the United States Senate he could not he admitted, be-spans© he was nnaole to take the oath.WP Ij7w# Stokes,tieredin-iocre~**•»x-Ksn . was announced to read the resolutions. He said ihat be had been absent from the city for some years, during which time the country had been convulsed by a terrible war. He met Andrew Johnson when he waa Governor of Tennessee, una be then fulfilled his duties with the same firmness 7^7yss Jhie eiof 8bThvelinon M moat the p donnoperatione day sTrurrof 8©’ anceaBoxtstore.1 IpRJohn may 1 *fty.H papei storenoun Wed in s IcureThaiOWftSthat be wae now doing. T»e opinion that be badformed of him wae, that our President was an honest, well-meaning citizen, and he challenged anybody to prove the contrary. Tb« Southerners ees tended that they bad a right to secede; they tried the experimentoal and signally failed; they were whipped, and now theyda-iy,“7C 8mstoLhelie-aretanUfane,amthe-re-loothemeoretheaccepted the Issue. The radicals said t) the seceding States should not be restored to their place la theUnion, and the President said that they ought. If we were not afraid to meet them in the field, we ought not to be a lurid to meet them !» council. Andrew Johnson had not asked them to admit one disloyal mao to Congress; but be coo tended'that when loyal men wereelected, that they were entitled to i**re tfieir seefaMr. Ftolree than read a series of resolution# approving of the platform adopted by the Rational Usria Convention, aud advocating „ih© restejraUcm poLcy of Mr. Johnson. , lien era) R. Clay Crawford, of Tennessee, wts |fe*next speaker. He said that for many years before the war commenced there were two email factions in eachTn spierMarlretui tains in th by Mvlrahtbttday i8UFIsection oi theconntry^ equally opposed to the penceTroon, CW.Aland prosperity of the Union. On* of rbem wm nearly annihilated by the war. bat the other still lives, and is now seeking to destroy the President. Gen. a then reviewed the policies of Congress and of the Pre skfent, and contended that the hater still stood 00 the platform of the Baltimore Convention. 1 .The speaker was interrupted tn his remarks by the passing of a torchlight procession of the DemocraticKx Governor William F. Johnson wee next hntro-dsced. and spoke lor some time, and waa followed by Colonel P. A. Aiken, of Washington, who discussedi ipcCom] oa S«the « com] to thIravlby thearlyxfcuThr? * n 1
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Oct 08, 1866
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