he stood now where
he did when the rebellion commenced, he had been denounced as a traitor.
Who had run greater risks or made greater sacrifices than himself? But
Congress, factious and domineering, had undertaken to poison the minds
of the American people.

_Specification third_.--In this, that at St. Louis, in the State of
Missouri, heretofore, to wit, on the 8th day of September, A.D. 1866,
before a public assemblage of citizens and others, said Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States, speaking of and concerning the Congress
of the United States, did in a loud voice declare in substance and
effect, among other things; that is to say:

Go on. Perhaps if you had a word or two on the subject of New Orleans
you might understand more about it than you do. And if you will go
back--if you will go back and ascertain the cause of the riot at New
Orleans, perhaps you will not be so prompt in calling out "New Orleans."
If you will take up the riot at New Orleans and trace it back to its
source or its immediate cause, you will find out who was responsible
for the blood that was shed there. If you will take up the riot at New
Orleans and trace it back to the Radical Congress, you will find that
the riot at New Orleans was substantially planned. If you will take up
the proceedings in their caucuses, you will understand that they there
knew that a convention was to be called which was extinct by its power
having expired; that it was said that the intention was that a new
government was to be organized, and on the organization of that
government the intention was to enfranchise one portion of the
population, called the colored population, who had just been
emancipated, and at the same time disfranchise white men. When you
design to talk about New Orleans, you ought to understand what you are
talking about. When you read the speeches that were made and take up
the facts on the Friday and Saturday before that convention sat, you
will there find that speeches were made, incendiary in their character,
exciting that portion of the population--the black population--to arm
themselves and prepare for the shedding of blood. You will also find
that that convention did assemble, in violation of law, and the
intention of that convention was to supersede the reorganized
authorities in the State government of Louisiana, which had been
recognized by the Government of the United S