The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-06-29
From Ii. Springfield R<p.b.,e.n.


The Washington correspondent OF the
New York Commercial! -4drerfiss, recalls
to the attention Of the republican assail-
ants of President johnson some facts
that they have forgotten too soon. Mr.
/ Sumner and his friends did not want Mr..
Hamlin re nominated, because they wish
ed him elected to the senate from Maine,
TO submitting to be whipped in by our
peevish and arrogant senator; therefore
they supported Andy johnson for the
Vice Presidency. Having secured his
nomination and election, now that he
has proNidentially become President, or
dlnary political good faith requires them
TO sustain him, unless he violates some
requirement of the constitution, or some
principle TO which he is pledged. Has
he done either? Those who are now so
fiercelv baying at his heels dare not ac-
cuse him Of either. He is going straight
forware in the line of his principles and
anteeedents, as they were and were
known and read of all men ut the time
of his nomination. When those who
assail him for not making voters Of the
freedmen in the south. nominated him
for Vice President, they knew that he
had just re organized Tennessee on the
basis of loyal white suffrage, and by his
act In his proclamation of January,
1864, ordering an election in Tennessee,
Mr.. johnson said
ITO entitle any person to the privilege
of voting. he must be free white man
of the age of twenty one years, being a
citizen of the United States and citizen
of the county where he may vote six
months proceeding the day Of election
on, and competent witness in any court
of justice of the state by the laws there
of, against white man and not hAveing
been convicted OF bribery or the offer to
bribe. of larceny or any other offence
declared infamous by The laws Of the
State, unless he has boen restored to
citizenship in the mode pointed out by
law
No objections were made TO this proc
lamation either by President Lincoln or
Congress, or the republican newspapers
anywhere. Indeed the oath appended
to the proclamation. which really ex-
cluded all loyal democrats from suffrage.
defended by nearly every newspaper of
the party. 1t was but five months after
that the Republican National Convention
Mt Baltimore nominated Mr.. johnson
for Vice President. 1t was done while
the discussion of Mr.. Johnson 8 recon
stfuction pOllcy In tennessee was nj It's
hight, and it is fair, therefore, to claim
that his nomination was in effect an en-
dorsement OF that policy. It does no.
follow, to be sure, that the Tennessee
scheme of reconstruction was right, or
that our radicals may not take a stride
forward. or backward, or sideways, if
they please. But it does Mt least afford
ground for suggestion to them that they
should not be too violent in their sudden
outburst of hostility against the man
they nominated and elected, when they
know, and the country knows, that he
still adheres to the line OF policy which
then made him conspicuous before the
country 1t is to much to expect that
they shall be just or decent, If they are
bent on a quarrel with the President, but
they should show some little self respect
and not expose themselves to needless
contempt