New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-23

be sound doctrine, thcn we should at once recall
our soldiers from the revolted States, rebuild
the waste places of the South at our own proper
cost, and erect monuments Of our own contrition
and their heroism to the memory OF Bishop
Polk and StOnewall Jackson.
No greater contrast could be even imagined
than that which is presented by the rival candi'
dates for Vice-President: Pendlcton n son or
the North; johnson child of the South: Pen
dleton Graded in affuence; johnson in extreme
poverty: Pendleton enjoying the largest and
fullest opportunities for education and culture;
Johnson spending his youth on tailor'S bench
toiling for the pttance which, small as it was,
helped to support his widowed mother, and
learning to read from his wife after their early
marriage: Pendeton the lifelong favorte of
polished, aristocratic society, enjoying every
advantage Of counsel and culture which position
and leisure could command in one of the great
est of our interior cities; johnson fighting his
way up from obscurity and extreme poy-
crty, conquering the silent disdan OF the mag
mates of his own party and the undsgulsed
hatred of those who led It's antagonist, who were
astounded by the audacity of the tailor upstart'
who not merely confronted and combated them on
the stump, but had even the audacity to beat
them at the polls. He was chosen Alderman OF
his village when barely twenty years old Mayor
when twenty-five, to the Legislature when
twenty.seyen; Presidential Elector when thirty
two; next year to the State Scnate' two years
later Representative in Congress, where no
served ten years consecutively, and was chosen
thence Governor of his adopted State; reelected
after a spirited canvass; and, before his second
term had expired, chosen U. S. Senator for
full term of six years, when not yet fifty years
OF age. There are not many such records oil
continuous and UNMARRIED success by an untaugh',
friendicss orphan, in this or any other country.
Andrew johnson, though born and always
living in Slave State, and member OF the
party which fomented the Rebellion, was It's III
stinctiye inplacablc enemy. He had many
reasons for this hostility, of which doubtless
was his perfect knowledge that among its latent
impulses was determination that unschooled,
pennlless tailor boys should neyermore be ehgi-
BILE TO Goyernorships and Senatorships life
long Southern Democrat and supporter oil
Breckinridge for President, he recognized IN
this Rebellion his deadly enemy, and fought 1t
from the outset with firm resolve neither to give
nor ask for quarter. Consider once more these
two passages from the first and most elaborate
of his Senatorial speeches against Secession, aha
weigh them against the preceding specimen OF
Mr.. PendetonS craftsmanship:
Now "a expose the absurdiiy Of the prctesop that
thore Is right "a secedc let press this argument
little further. The Constitution has been formed IT has
been made perfect or in other words means have been
provided by which IL eau bc made perfect IL was In
tended 10 be perpetual In reference b. the execution Of
the laws under IT. what do hnd' As early as 1928 Con
gre-s passed excise law. taxing dstl res through
out the country and what were called the whisky Buys
81 Pennsylvania resisted the law. The Government
wanted mesnA 1t taxed dstilleries. The people Of
Pennsylvania resisted It. What !, the diher.
cnce between a portion Of the pcopIc resisting a
constitutional law. and all the people Of state doing
soi But because you can apply the term coercion IN
one case 20 State. and in the otter call II simply The
execution Of the laws against individuals you say there
| is grca, Distinction We do not assume the power
10 o'frcc State, bni we assume that Congress has
powc. 20 levy and collect tlIcs and Congress has TIE
| right to enforce that law when distractions and npcd
| menfs opposed 10 It's enforcement The people OF
Pennsylvania did object they did resist and oppose The
forced, Was u called coercion at TINT Jay 70 enforce
IL suppose all the people Of the State u fennsylya
MIA had resisted would not The law have applied with
Just the same force and would not have been jus,
constitutional t. execute h, agains'.a tie people oi he
State as it vas to execute 1t upon part Of their CIT
! zensi
Il have abiding faith have an mistaken confidence
! In mans oapabhty Ia govern himself will not give
| up this Government that Is called m experiment
which prepared to abandon for constitutional
monarchy No; | intend 10 stand by IL; and cntrra
every man throughout the nation who "a patriot, and
who has seen and compelled 90 admit the success Of
this great experiment 10 cume forward. not IN heat not
Ia fabatlcn. not ia haste. hot ia pTccpliancy bnt in
celebration IN full view ~ all that Il before rs IN tie
spirit Of brohery love and fraterual affection and rally
around the altur OF common countfy. and lay the
Constitution upon IL Inst libnion and swear by
onr od aud all that is sacred ard holy that the Ton
.tituton shall be saved and he mon preserved les
In the language II the departed jackson let cScaiu
that the Union the Federal Union must BE- pTcsefy
cd
Fellow citizens, one Of these two is to beyour
Vice Presidential Office which has twice with
in a quarter of century insured TO It's occupant
the Chief Magistracy Of our country for nearly
full term. VIII you now have il filled by
George II. Pendleton or by Andrew Johnson'
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