Worcester Daily Spy

THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR
His Last Disgraceful Harangue.

DETROIT, Sept. 5.—President Johnson and his party reached this city last evening, Gen. Grant being at the depot in a carriage to rejoin the party. The mayor, on welcoming the President, compared him to Andrew Jackson, which pleased Mr. Johnson. The President subsequently addressed the great crowd before the hotel at great length. In the course of his speech he "pitched into" Congress and said:

Suppose that eleven foreign states were lying outside the Union, with all their advantages and riches of minerals, with all the capacity to constitute and make us in part, a greater people. Suppose these states would come forward and say, "We want to add our stars to your stars."

Let me, he said, ask this sea of upturned faces—I would ask every one whose heart beats with national pride and the love of freedom—would you not make them a part of this republic? (Cries of "yes, yes.") Would you receive them as accessories from a foreign power? (Renewed cries—“we would.”) Where then is the man who can hesitate, and see bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh asking for admission, and yet shut the door in his face? I care not by what name he is called, if he would do this he is a disunionist; a northern secessionist and disunionist. I fought the battle on the southern extreme, and now, when the circle is going around, we find men attacking the Union on the northern verge. (Laughter and applause.) This glorious Union can be destroyed by a different way than by dividing it. You may have consolidation in the hands of a few.

He referred to the action of Congress on the Freedmen's Bureau bill and their opposition to the Executive department of the government; said he would like to meet the whole phalanx of the men opposed to his principles. He would like to see the legislative department of the government that is making charges against the Executive go before the American people and test the question at issue, humble individual as he was. he would like to take the entire Congress entertaining these doctrines before the people and he would soon show who it was that was trying to absorb the liberty of the people. (Cheers.) He had stood as the Tribune of the people in defence of the people's rights, and he would continue their defender.

Have I not, he said, been elected President by you? (A voice—“That's $25,000 a year." Oh, indeed! That is what you give your Tribune is it? (Cheers.) Let me call your attention to this. I am not afraid to talk to the American people and all the little fellows they put into crowds to call out catch words with a view of creating disrespect; I care not for them. The whole kennel has been turned loose upon me long since—their little dog Tray and Blanch and Sweet Heart—all have been let loose yelping at my heels for the last eight months. (Cheers.) The whole pack of slanderers and calumniators had better get out of my way. (Great cheering.) I tell them the American people are taking hold of the questions at issue, and when they begin to consider them these usurpers and tyrants—because tyranny can be exercised more effectually by two hundred and forty-two men than by one single man—(cheers)—I tell them it will be better for them to keep their small boats near shore. (Continued cheering.) The people are being waked up, and when the honest, intelligent and patriotic masses come to the rescue the whole set of them will be destroyed. But it was said here that I, the Tribune of the people, was getting $25,000 a year; but I ask this question, has it been increased since I came into office? (Cheers and cries of "No, no.") But let me tell you what Congress has done. They changed their pay since they came into power. Yes! this Congress that has assailed and attacked me for faithful discharge of my duty when the citadel of freedom was attacked—(cheers)—yes, this immaculate, this pure, this people-loving, this devoted Congress finds it convenient while they had the chance, while they were in power, to increase their pay nearly double. (Great cheering and hisses.) Those who live in glass houses should never throw stones. (Cheers.) Yes, this immaculate Congress increased their pay nearly double, while at the same time they were so magnanimous as to vote $50 bounty for the brave two year veterans of the war; $50 bounty for the men who shed their blood and lost their limbs in the defence of their country. For men mutilated and disabled from work forever this immaculate Congress gives $50, while they double their own emoluments—(cries of shame)—receiving $4000 a year. Just pocket that as you go along.—(Cheers and laughter.) They reckoned with some sagacity in the premises; they feared there would be this uprising of the people, and it would be the very last grab they would have at the public purse. (Cheers.) I trust in you, and trusting in you, I say let the whole Congress come. Relying on you, I will meet them single handed and alone. In the words of the poet I exclaim:

Come one, come all, this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I.

AN INCIDENT AT NORWALK.

The President made a brief speech at Norwalk one of the oldest towns in Northern Ohio, where he said he wanted to heal the wounds inflicted upon the country, and desired no more shedding of blood. Let our reason and conscience control us, and let our passions subside. Let us have peace on earth and good will toward men. Is it not time to stop the sacrifice of blood and treasure?

A man in the crowd exclaimed, "Why don't you stop it at New Orleans?" to which the President responded, "I should like to see that man's face. Could not an American citizen express such a sentiment without being insulted?" (Great cheering, with renewed cries of about equal strength of "New Orleans. New Orleans!") This contest of lungs continued for some time, when a cry, "three cheers for President Johnson" was raised. The cheers which ensued drowned utterly the hissing of the opposite faction. The President said: "I should like to see the man who first spoke then."

The man was at once discovered by the efforts he made to retire. "He certainly cannot treat a fellow citizen with civility."

Three more cheers were given for the President, and the train moved off, Mr. Johnson shaking hands from the rear platform.