Washington, July I.— Ex
-I’resident Johnson was serenaded to
night, and made a speech. He said
he believed the time would come,
ere long, when tiie American people
would be aroused to the importance
of preserving tiie great principles
which have been oversloughcd and
trampled upon so long. He believed
that the gleam of the morning of
redemption could now lie seen. He
spoke of tiie usurpingand tyrannical
Congress, which domir.ated over the
judicial departments, and attempted
to absorb all tiie powers of tiie Pres
ident. He declared that if com
fielied to choose, lie would take tin
lonest, wise and just individual as a
ruler or master, in preference to
Congress, so usurping, capricious and
corrupt. He said feelers had already
been sent out to develope the senti
ments of the country on tiie question
of an empire. Referring to the im
{lerialists newspaper and its mottoes,
le declared it meant, “let us have
an empire with Grant at the head,
and we shall liavajpi’a; e.” He al
luded to the depreciation of curren
cy, and to measures looking to re
pudiation advanced by Congressand
to the disappearance of slavery and
its reappearance in the shape of gov
ernment stocks and bonds locked up
in vaults, instead of being used to
develope the material interests of the
country. He expressed the determi
nation to cling to the Constitution as
the palladium of civil and religious
liberty, and concluded by express
ing the belief that the day was not
far distant when we would meet
under more auspicious circum
stance i.
