The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-11-02
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The Uriah Heaps Of the Democracy, Every
tumble, very 'umble,' in the presence Of
President J0aNsoS, With devotion to him
that is syeophantic awning, and with an
obsequious servility that is intensified by its
falsity and its political cunning, cover him
now with the slime of their fulsome adnlation
and grow oblivous to their relation to facts
and principles in the past. Out from the
depths of the mire, where their own political
recreancy has cast them, beyond the pale OF
popular favor, they seek to regain lost este
by forgetting the false gods of their former
partizan worship, and by shouting with one
accord, 'sGreat is ANDREW JOHNSON, the cho-
sen President of the Democracy.
The New York World out Uriahs all the
Urahs. II is the Heapiest of all Heaps.
JOHNSON is now the chosen President, pres
ent and prospective of the World. 1t forgets,
mayhap, that not q year sgo-only on the 9th
Of March, of this present year Of grace-it
deemed it due to itself to say in connection
with its publication of the inaugural addresses
ofMr. LINCOLN and Mr. JOHNSON SIT is with
blush Of shame and wounded pride that we
lay before our readers to-day the inaugural
addresses of President LINCOLN and Vice
President JOHNSON
And that further on, with its abject grief
and its intense indignation, the life of Mr..
LINCOLN became precious in its sight, lest
dying, Mr.. JOHNSON should succeed, and il
said: "The pity of it, the pity of it Tha,
the life Of this Chief Magistrate should be
made precious to US by the thought that he,
at least, excludes fronthe most august station
in the land the person who defled our CHIEF
council chamber on Saturday last with the
spewings Of drunken fool
. The day followingit reminded its readers
that its bad opinion of Mr.. JOHNSON was of
long standing by saying: "When JOHNSON
was nominated by the Baltimore Convention
for Vice President we drew upon ourselves .
volley of vituperation for saying that, besides
wanting the character of statesman, Mr..
JOHNSON lacks the sentiments and bearing OF
a gentleman. Since the exhibition of drunk
en- impertnence by which he disgraced him
self, insuted the cabinet and the diplomatic
corps, We are content to submit the propriety
of that criticism to the decree of Republican
journals"
Anticipating Mr.. JOHNSON elevation to the
Presidency it said; "When such man as
ANDREW JOHNSON is lifted into this position
of mere dignity, he dshonors it, the govern.
ment and himself.
And again the life of Mr. LINCOLN becomes
precious and it says: "And to think that on
" one frail human life stands between this
insolent, clownish drunkard and the Presi
dency May God bless and preserve ABRA
HAN LIycoINi"
The World trembled at the possibility O
Mr.. LIsCoLS's death, and if its reasons were
honestly given its fears were well founded L
said: "Should this occur, and JOHNSON be
come his successor, the decline and fall of the
American Republic would smell as rank in his
tory as that of the Roman Empire under such
atrocious monsters in human shape as NERO
and CAMGuLA." II explains its dstrust o.
Mr.. JOHNSON by saying: ''It is ridiculous tc
suppose that he had any political principles
He was nominated because he had none, bm
could beltor his bastard loyalty loudly. Hi.
speech, on hearing of his nomination, reek.
with the same demagoguery, the same low
lived manners and morals, as this his inaugu
rail-"
Wonder if the World in its self stultifyine
and self imposed glori6cation of Presiden,
Johnson has forgotten these, its past reviling,
of him? They were bruta .fulmina indeed
but the World sought thereby, to the full
measure of its ability, to make ASpREv
JOHNSON odious to the country and the world