Mr. RANDALL, of Pennsylvania. It is a good Union platform, Mr. LAWence, of Pennsylvania. But, air, of what use is a platform which every one knows to consist simpl of hypocritical professions? Sir, the plat mm which that party has adopted in Pennsylvania for campaign purposes is a card representing Clymer supporting a white man, whi e General Geary, that heroic man, who traveled with Sherman through the South, and returned victoriously, is represented as holding up, or perhaps embracing, a negro. Sir, the only capital of the Democratic party today in Pennsylvania is the negro question. They attempt to apeal to the lowest passions and prejudices of the ignorant and debased with regard to the negro. Because some of us representing here the State of Pennsylvania vote for negro suffrage, as an experiment, and to enable them to compete with returned rebels in this District, our names are paraded as friends of the negro in preference to the white man. In this, with the tricks of demogogues, that party appeal to asson and prejudice, and not to judgment an reason. ow, I say that is the platform upon which these men stand. It is pu lished in every Dem ocratic aperin the State. I eulogized President Jognson when these men were denouncing him. I stood by him at that time, in Harris burg, when he made one of the most able arguments that I ever heard in defense of the constitution and the right of the Government to at down this rebellion. I followed him then;, Ifollowed him in Tennessee, when he stood like an oak stricken in the forest, when he was driven from home, and his family were scattered. I stood by him then, and I stood by him as the candidate of the lie publican party in the last campaign. I helpe to elect him. I would be glad, sir, to say that I indorsed every act of his Administration. I do not, and I cannot. Icame here as anxious as my friendfrom Illinois that we should be united, that the President and Congress should stand together in this great issue. I knew the assaults we had to meet from the Democratic party. Iknew they were thirstin for the loaves and fishes. I knew they would use every effort to secure possession of the Government. I was anxious that we should stand upon the platform of the party which would save us from this humiliation and disgrace. I did all a man could do to stand by the President, and, as some of my friends now, I subjected myself to suspicion and reproach from some of my radical friends becanse I did not indorse all their policy. I regretted to hear the President abused early in the session. I was anxious we should be kept together; but after his speech of the 22d of February, and after his veto of the civil rights bill, I found I could not go for his whole policy without degrading myself and losing my own self respect and say here, in the presence of the nation, that my district that voted for him was in favor of sustaining his Administration until by some of his own acts, and by means of the copperhead party all over the land, he succeeded in destroying that confidence which I desired to cultivate; and todayl have the gratification to know, although I represent a doubtful district, that the President, by the removal of pirre, honest, and patriotic men, and by pardoning The men covered all over with crime, who have been guilty of treason to the country, and by suffering himselfto be led astray by our oppo nents, has made it necessary for the Union men to stand together in an port of the general policy we sustain here, an they are as earnest and as powerful as when they sustained An drew Johnson for the Vice Presidency of the U.S. They stand in opposition to the general policy of the President and in favor of the general policy pursued by the party in Congress, and I stand there with them. i I am not YOlllg to abandon my principles to follow the [lead of any man. [was willin to yield something for peace and harmony. IVhen war is made upon us, when it comes upon the wings of the wind every morning and every evening, when we are attacked upon all sides, when attacks are made upon our people because they are not willin to bear the yoke, I cannot support the policy. Mr. Speaker, I will not abuse the Presid ent personally. I never do that thing. I predict, with the honorable Gentfrom Illinois, that we need not fear the contest. We live in an age of advancement, when bibles and churches and school houses are scattered all over the land, when men are expected to respect a man because he is a man, when men are expected to dojustiee to all men, white or black; and I say the day is not far distant when this miser able co perhead party, that has no love of principle, t iat does not stand by its professed principles during more than one campaign, that has changed them in my own State 20 times within my own knowledge, when this Democratic party that derided Johnson, that slandered incoln yes, sir, for they did deride, vilif, and slander him all over the land, calling ima low butfoon, while today they come up and hypocriticall sing praises to his mom ory I say that the ay is not far distant when this Democratic party will sink into oblivion covered with the curses of the people it has deceived. I This same party rallies around President Johnson by night and by day. Go to the White House any time you please and you will be sure to see some of them, and always the shadow of some of the Blairs. Laughton] I have scarcely ever gone there Without nieetin some one of the family. I have seen the 01 man, who is almost ready to fall into the grave, there. It was the same during Lincolns administration; he was always thereting to lead the President away from the people, in order to give office to the family. I feel like the man in my own State at the time that President Jackson removed the de posits. He said, "I didnt wish General Jack son any harm; but I shouldnt care if the Almighty took a fancy for him.” [Laughter] No family in this land so few in number has done so much to alienate the President from those who were his friends as this family of Blairs. I have been drawn off into this personality. How could I help it? The Union organization by which I have stood since the 1st tocsin of arms was sounded at the attack on Sumter, I have followed it, never stopping to inquire whether a man who adhered to it was a cm ocrat or a Republican, and it was this organization and its policy that saved the coniitr. I have met these men who call themselves eni ocrats everywhere. I know where they stand, and how they long for the flesh pots of Egypt. But I have always found myself right when I have sustained the Union organization in my own State. Monthsago I trembled for the President elected by Union votes, when I saw those men about the White House trying to steal him away, flattering him, eulogizing him, and dictating a policy for him. When I saw, long since in the State Dept, a ile of pardons as high as 20 family Bibles, laughter] and a man carrying a lot of them out, I saw it was a wholesale business and was informed by a gentleman there he ha carried out 1,000sof such. Well may we tremble for the President, when we reflect how much depends on his fealty to his true friends. But. as my friendfrom Illinois [Mr. Insan sou.] has well said, the Union party will survive and save the country. I glory, sir, today, in the record of that party. There never has been a party in any country that has done so much for liberty. It has saved this Government from destruction. While the soldiers met the rebels in the field of battle and defeated them, the loyal men of the North met their allies in the political field, at the polls, and defeated them. I repeat, this Union party has saved the country in its hour of trial and it will triumph in the end, not so much on account of its numbers as because it is right. As my friendfrom Chicago [Mr. wENTWORTH] remarked the other day, "God will sustain us if we sustain the right.” I repeat, then, the Union party is bound to trium )h. I may not indorse all that is done here by it. I am not quite satisfied with the reportot the ComReconstruction and shall vote to amend this proposition. But the Union party will live in spite of adversity. Already the political ax is falling upon the necks ofour friends. Heads are falling in my own State.