Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-25

There is in the Presidential chair of the
United States ruler as heartless and wick
ed as any that ever oppressed people. In
his refusal to exchange thirty-five thousand
Union soldiers, now suffering the horrors
ofhell in the South; in his calling for ribald
negro song upon battle field covered with
the slain heroes of the Republic; in his con-
temptuous and insulting reception of the
petition of the loyal citizens of State for
aredress Of grievances inflicted by his sub
ordinate and his associate candidate-in
these and hundred other incidents of his
extraordinary career, the odious cruelty
and unscrupulous wickedness are made so
painfully and clearly manifest, that even
his hired toadies, sycophants, and scribblers
are compelled to admit that they "are not
running LINCOLN upon his manners"
These odious and glaring faults do not,
however, arise from a want of manners or
breeding, nor altogether from want of edu-
cation in the man; they originate in the
native wickedness of his heart, and the
cunning, cruel depravity of his mind.
After treating the citizens from Tennes-
see petitioning for justice with the rude in
decorum of ScRoGGs or JEFFRIEs, LIN
colin repents him of his offense when he
finds it will prejudice his election among
good citizens, and now comes out in let
ter, couched in tolerably decent language,
but in which he clumsily attempts to dodge
the main point by species of disgraceful
prevarication, as indecent as his conduct
during the interview at the White House.
ANDREW JOHNSON was appointed Military
Governor of Tennessee by ABRAHAM LIN
colin; ANDREW JOHNSON, in that capacity,
requires the people of Tennessee to swear
that they will vote for ABRAHAM LINCOLN
and ANDREW JOHNSON, for President and
Vice President. When this audacious usur-
patton and outrage is brought to the
Presidents notice, he says he ''can have
nothing to do with the matter, either to
sustain J0HNsoN's plan or revoke it," al
though it is notorious that he had great
deal to do with getting up this "plan."-
LINCOLN disavows the purpose of the plan,
and alleges that "Governor JOHNSON, like
any other general citizen of Tennessee, has
the right to favor any political plan he
chooses" Could audacity and perversion
70 further than this? 1t is not as a
general citizen" that JOHNSON proposes to
enforce his "plan," but by virtue of his au-
thority as Military Governor of Tennessee,
In which he expects to be and will be sus-
tanned by ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Still LIN
colin claims TO have nothing to do with it!
And to prove this he says: "By the Con-
stitution and laws of the United States the
President Is charged with no duty in the
conduct of the Presidential election In any
State, nor do in this case perceive any
military reason for his interference This
isa.pure LINcoLNIsM. He cites the Consti-
tuition (what caricature y and at
the same time intimates that If there were
a asinilitary reason, !" the Constitution would
be cast out of the account. But If the Con-
stitution and laws forbid his interference,
and there is no military reason" by what
right does he interfere? He certainly does
interfere when, through his subordinate,
JOHNSON, he requires thepeople Of Tennes-
see to swear 10 vote the LINCOLN and JoHN-
SON ticket upon pain Of being ostracised.
ANDREW JOHNSON, by authority from ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN, interferes In the Presiden- |
tial election in Tennessee In the most
daring, Illegal and tyrannical manner, in |
open defiance of the Constitution and the
laws; and yet the President claims that the
Constitution and laws forbid his interfer-
encel The Constitution and laws do not |
forbid his interference to promote his own
success; but they forbid his interferenee |
when that Interference would promote bis |