The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-27

has been deceived ~ much by the formal
utterAnco Of Mr.. johnson when accepting
the Presidency, as by the accident which
threw such rjdiclule over his Inauguration
in the subordinate Office. This ia no feeble
ruler, sure to be Q tool in the hands Of his
Secretaries, or the parties around him, any
more than It is adrunken rough elevated
BY an accident, and incapable Of an idea,
but o strong, self.rel;ant man, Accustomed
to rule, and to rule in revolution, with Q
policy 10 distinct - that of the oldest Eu-
rOpean statesman, and will which be that
policy wise or rash, will assuYe1ly make
resistance TO it q most dangerous task.
it is 90 important to Eng.ishmen ~ under
| stand 40 The character Of the American
President; they can not afford q second
mistake ouch az that committed about Mr..
Lincoln, and We have passed hours in
studying the speeches and acte Of Mr..
Johnson az Governor of Tennessee. The
moro we have read the more strongly has
the conclusion grown on Us, that the new
American presijen. Is one Of the individ.
GA! men On tie continents ruler who,
wha:arer, else he may do or leave undone,
will mGst Assure1!y rule; who will borrow
knowledge, but wiz accept only when il
harmOn'zes with his own preconce;ved
COW lotions.
JOHNSON AND JACKSON.
IA Quaker" says Sam Slick, who dis
sents from Quake-ism, must have pretty
Southerner, raised himselfinto the idol Of
slave-owning Democrats, and then, con-
WINGED tina, slavery was an evil, flung him
self down from his position, down to the
very bottom, & homeless, landless, friend.
less man, and then fought his way back to
the very top as chief Of the anti-alavery
Democrats, is not the man 70 be guided"
AGa Y@h~
unless We mistake utterly all the indics-
tons Of his life, is simply Andrew jackson
over again, and We are not certain wheth-
81 the repetition ofthe character 10 not con-
sc:ous, whether Mr.. johnson has not rec
ognized his resemblance to that prototype,
and modelled himself TO make the ressm.
blance visible. He il always talking of
IA! analogy Of careers must frequently
| have strack him. Like jackson, Mr..
Johnson was born in the Carolinas, poor,
if NO: "snean" whi:e-he says. II picked
cotton MS an apprentice, and picked twice
az much as any slAve'--and, like him.
emigrased to Tennessee. and there became
the lido! Of the Democracy. Like him, too,
force of an Imagination which requires
| strong ideas to stir il, q passion for the
Union, and therefore o resolution to defend
I it at IL: times, ny all means, legal and
lawlsss equally. Fad Jackson been en-
coun;ered, ~ he was threatened, With q
slsveholders revolt, he would, We can
hardly doubt, have passed, az Mr.. john
holders, TO an iron determination that
slavery should end-end. As the new PSesi-
dent says, ''now, Internationally, forever"
so that no State shall have the power TO
re- establish il. On that paint there is in
Mr.. Johnson's mind 70 possibility OF truss
or comprOmise.
No: TO pursue the external arslogy, il
appears certain thst internally, IN heart
and brain, Mr.. johnson il Democra,-we
Use the word the word in the English
senss-of the jackson type, q Democrat,
that Ia, with y tendency toward equality ns
well IS freedom, Yest!essness under law,
q disposition to act in emergencies with
mind has none OF the b;ss toward legality
which his life rs lawyer had impressed up
on Mr.. Lincoln, none of tina. desire for
moderation, ~ in itself good, which 60
distinguished that great man. On the con-
tlary, he pisces the will Of the people above
the law as distinctly NJ Dapton ever did.
What" said he tc che people Of Tonnes
President, and 40 ne remarked. placed
above ''xli doab!e-s,ealing aud dena-
gueism."-What "ase governments p
They come from the people; you are the
people, hence you can do no wrong" Il
is sufficient defense Ae continued, "to i
charge OF oyer-steppiag the lava. to he
sare shat you have saved the republic. The
people must sometimes take the law into
.heir hands, and do desperate AVID irregu-
lar acts TO save the life o! y nation" In-
deed, he preferred, in the emergencies, IL.
regular actsfor permanent changes in the
law left, he thought, unpleasant, msrno-
ries. which were better avoided by tempo
rary and explicit ac;s, rttessnces Of the
nnmeke law" which obviously in Mr..
Johnson's mind, ia law, provided, always,
il accepts the Union. That, or ia other
wcrde. sdlAs repxblicG 10 as eupYeme an
object, in his Jnln,, as ever 1t was ia the
mind Of Q Roman iat e,oian or Partisan
SapseM bFlBes.i rea- - ts's ..tse,i ~ r,
There is n9s's.ag we know Of nm in shs y.
should do strong n.:.e, If the liio OF the ma
ton required thelss we aiao indeed did CO
theus when only the future of u del,ende.-
cy ves in question. Eul the tendency Of
Mr. Jchnsoh's is to do them when i, 10 pos
sible Ito dispense with them, to prefer
strong measured 10 legal lneans, as the
swi1tef aud more direct road. Thus. hs
rejected Nj. LinGU1n's plans Of enamel pa
ting for service to the Union, a. too tardy
and incomplete, and hurried back TO Tell
neesee 70 secure permanent, uncompensa-
ted emancipation by constitutional
change. To secure Il, he had almost to
overturn society, BY System Of test oaths,
but he thought thaithe /" emergency" war.
ranted tina: desperate" remedy, and he
succeeded in his desjgn. A convention,
composed Of loyal men, abolished slavery
forever, but even this was too allow for
the strong-willed Governor. While the
discussion Was going on, he stood one
evening ON the steps ~ the State Capitol,
aud there uttered these remarks able words3
=. Co1ored men Of Naahvi0e-You have ALL
heard of the Presidsnl's proclamation, by
which he announced 70 the world that the
slaves in . large portion Of the seeded
states were benceforth ard forever free.
Fur certain reasons, which seemed wise TO
the President, the benefits of tina: proc,a-
nation did not extend 70 you or your ma
tive State. Many Of You consequently
we're lef. IA bondage. The task masters
scourge was not ys, broken, and the Ies.
ters still Called your limbs. Gradually this
in;anity has been passing away, bat the
hour has como when the LAST vestigs Of it
must be removed. Consequently, I too,
without reference to the President OK any
other person, have a proclamation to make
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