Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-10-26
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n hlch slavery creates ana preserves IOr It's
own convenience Their early education
was such as it accords to the children of
this class. Hencs Lincoln obtained most
of his scanty schooling not only long af-
ter his removal into a free State, but af-
ter he had reached the full stature of
manhood, and was enabled to earn and
plan for himself, while johnson never
had any schooling at all, and learned to
read from his wife after his removal from
his native North Carolina into almost free
East Tennessee.
Neither of them could ever have been
chosen even to Legislature in an essen
TALLY slave holding community, no mat
ter how thorough their subservieney to
"the institution" The brand of Pow
erty and Labor on their brows would
hav fixed them forever in the humble
station of their progenitors- They sur
mounted the influence of Slavery by tax
ing position .tside of its more palpable
domain.
To maintain that such men lack abil
ity or force of character is to hold that
republics are ruled by idiots. Abraham
Lincoln entered Illinois poItionless, IL
literate boy. earning the livelihood of
his widowed mothers family by the rud-
est and hardest manual labor, and, with
in twenty years thereafter, had become
one Of her foremost lawyers ard the
acknowledged leader of the more intel
lectual of her two great political parties
conspicuous in her Legislature, her on
ly Whig member of Congress, Wing can
didate for Senatorial ElectoT. U, S. SeDa-
tor, Vice President, and ultimately for
President. All these positions were as
corded to him without contest or hesita-
ton. When the great political struggles
of 1910 and 1874 we're made, none other
than he was suggested to lead in the can
vass. When, for the first time, his po-
litical friends had majoity in the Illi-
nois Legislature. no other was thought
of by the mass of them for U. S. Senator,
though it was finally found necessary,sin
order to secure the requisite anti Nebras-
ka Democratic vote, to withdraw him
and substitute another. AT Philadel-
phia in 1856, his name and only his, was
presented for Vice President by the del
egation from Illinois; and when candi-
date was TO be pitted against Douglas for
the Senatorial canvass for 1858, no other
name was even suggested than that of
Abraham Lincoln. So in 1860, there was
abundant competition as to which State
would furnish the Republican nominee
for President; but no one ever suggested
that among the eminent and honored
Republicans of Illinois there was another
possible candidate than Lincoln.
Andrew johnson entered Tennessee an
illiterate tailor youth, poor az Lazarus
in all but hope and ambition, without
relative OF friend who could help him to
q corporalship in the smallest of flood
wood" militia A few years later, he was
a member of Assembly,; next we hear
from him in Congress; then Governor of
his closely balanched State after spirit
ed canvass; for Tennessee was then pre-
Wing State, and her Wings
always ran for Governor, one Of their
ablest and clsverest debaters. johnson
had always been a very ardent and active
Democrat, and had made himself widely
to his political sdversaries.-
His birth and breeding were matters of
common notoriety and the. cultivated ar
istocracy of Nashville and the surround
ing region were not at all inclined to be
ruled by the exjouIneyman tailor OF
Jonesborough. They could not help
themselves, however; and johnson, after
serving his term as Governor, was chosen
to the United States Senate, where he
made good his position against the ablest
and proudest in the land. Probably no
othsr senater had enjoyed so scant oppor-
tunities for intellectual culture; but tine
debates, in which he freely mingled, give
no sign of this, In the absence OF that
education Of the schools, which hewould
gladly have enjoyed and improved, he
had his full share of the rugged disci-
pline of poverty and priyation, and was
thoroughly trained in the keen -encoun-
ters of an active, arduous public career.
Doubtless, he feels and regrets the def
ciencies of his early culture; but who
will say that he has not nobly supplied
thems o. e--a-F s~l-
Mr.. johnson, as leading Southern
Democrat, and supporter of breckenridge
for the presidency, saw the slayeholder's
rebellion take from and oody under his
immediate observation. He knows it,
egg and Bird its impulses, ideas and
aspirations. Nearly every other prominent
Democrat Of mis- State and section was
drawn or driven INTO its tolls; he never
countenanced it for moment nor regard
ed it with the least allowance. He knew it
to be rs hostile to the class from which
he spruug in the South as to the '.mud-
sills1 at the North, and he .'stood by his
order" like any British Peer, He expos
ed the hollowness Of its pretextS, the
wickedness of its aims, in the presence
of its contrivers, before they had imbrued
their hands in blood, he warned the sim,
pie against their Vaccinations, and warn
~ r L.. ;~axytkahIa faff =
ruin. Had other Southern Unionists
been as faithful ard fearless as he. the
madness of secession would have been
stayed at the northern limit of the cot
ton region, and our country would not
now be reeking with human blood.
1t is common pro Slavery cavil that
"You Abolitionists talk of what you do
not understand" This cannot be said
of Lincoln and johnson, who were born
in Slave States. and been familiar with
Slavery since they first opened their eyes.
Mr.. Lincoln was never an Aholitionist
till Slavery declared war on the Union;
vet he says he never regarded Slavery in
itself otherwise than az ne now does
''If Slavery Is not wrong, then nothing
ia wrong ~ SAYS he in his letter to Hodges
Mr.. johnson was tacit supporter OF Sla.
very until Slavery struck at the life of
his country; but he now holds with Lin-
coin that Union and Peace are only pos
sible through the final, complete over
throw of their assailant. -......
Are these men fanatics. Ii there were
an easier or shorter way to Peace, would
they not choose it! What possible mo
tive can they have for preferring the
wrong way to the right one Consider
and judge. .-.-.-. .,.
Out for Mcclellan.
The New Castle pa Gazette hauls dowr
the Abolition, disunion candidate, Lin