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progress in your commercial, manufacturing and agricul-
tural pursuits, have found no countenance in the exercise
of the powers confided to his hands. If we are not today
a united people, the fault is not in him. ([Loud cheers.]
The efforts now making by radical revolutionary men
to transfer the governmental power of a whole section of
our beloved country from the Anglo-Saxon to the African
race—to establish the authority of the negro over nearly
four millions of white men—cannot be received without
concern, to say nothing of the cruelty which it inflicts
upon a fallen and prostrate people, descended from a
common origin with ourselves. The subordination of the
civil to the military power, now the startling issue of the
day, has marked the progress of anarchy and despotism
m all ages of the world. Republics as powerful as our
own have fallen beneath the weight of irresponsible mili-
tary rule. Is such to be the fate of the American Union,
in the face of the pregnant lessons which history teaches
us? I trust in God that the reminiscences which cluster
around these walls may continue to remind us here in the
aid State of Maryland at least of our duties as statesmen
and Christian men; and that in honoring Andrew John-
son we only renew our pledges of devotion to the Consti-
tution bequeathed to us by our fathers, of which the hon-
ored President has been the unflinching advocate, and the
cause of popular government throughout the world. [Pro-
longed cheering.]
REMARKS OF HON. R. B. CARMICHAEL.
Mr. Carmichael said: Welcome, Mr. President. Thrice
welcome to the Capital of the State of Maryland. [Ap-
plause.] This greeting throbs in every heart of this Con-
vention, and would have utterance from every lip if it
were in the order of procedure on this occasion. The
resolutions which were communicated to you by the Gov-
ernor received the unanimous vote of this Convention.
You are thus assured that, in coming here, you are in the
midst of your friends. [Great applause]—friends of your
policy and your person. [Renewed applause.] In a well-
regulated government a respect is paid to those who have
the administration of the law that does not attach to
their private persons. It is a homage which is paid to the
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