THE PRESIDENT'S MOTIVES AND ASPIRATIONS
The following paragraph is an extract from a speech by Wm. Lloyd Garrison, as reported in the Chicago Tribune. Revolutions as strange as that herein hinted at, have taken place in this world, and may again. THE PRESIDENT'S MOTIVES AND ASPIRATIONS.
"President Johnson undertakes to stigmatize Congress as a seditious body, a disunion body. What is the meaning of this? It is to wake up popular vengeance; it is to bring down upon Congress the hatred and wrath of wild and violent men. I tell you we have not a sober man in the Presidential chair, and such a man with such habits does not know from day to day and hour to hour what he will do, and yet dares to brand the Congress of the United States as a disloyal, disunion body. He means, if he dare, to perform a coup d'état, and either to insist at the point of the bayonet upon having those Southern rebels put into both Houses of Congress, or drive Congress out of the Capitol. I believe that the Capitol is in greater danger now than it ever was, and were it not that Lieutenant General Grant is living, it would be lost. So long as General Grant lives and occupies his present position, perhaps his tyrannical demand may not be made. [Applause.] Mr. Garrison closed his lecture with an appeal to the people of the State of New York, to do justice to the black man, and place him, with regard to suffrage, on the same level with the white man."