The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-12

PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
We COPY, below, few extracts from dem
ocratic newspapers, in regard to President
johnson: e
From the Washington Constitutional Union.
Above all it Is our duty, sternly our duty, |
to extend TO those in executive official author.
ity our utmost confidence and earnest aid,
eepecilly in sustaining them In their en- |
orts to preserve good order, to MAINTAIN
the integrity of the government, to preserve I
the Union and to bring to condlgn, |
severe, and summary punishment the
guilty offenders against the violated law
Towards the new president, as the official
head, therefore, the eyes of all the people are
directed, and in his official person are their
homes and affections intensely centered. His
duties suddenly precipitated upon him, by
his induction into the presidential office. are
severe. ardous and responsible. Our most
easnest PRAYER and hottest aspiration are that
he nav be fully equal to the emergencies of
the hour and this truly melancholy occasion.
We indulge the well cherished hope. that he
will not disappoint the highest expectations
| of the people.
The architect of his own fame and in at
| tanning official position, which has now so sud-
denly oulmipatOh the induction of Andrew
johnson into the presidential Office, which he
has fully entered upon, prompts us to believe
he will be governed by the highest instincts
of patriotism, and impelled by mature and
| carefully determined views of exalted states
manship. The new president has ever evinc-
ed sincere sympathy for the toiling masses of
the people. We are assured, therefore, that
no official act of his will ever be in contra
vention of his life long convictions.
| From the Boston Post.
The expressions of President johnson, in
reply to different delegations who have waited
upon him, are such as to inspire entire conf
dence in his ability and the comprehensive
and patriotic principles which will govern his
administration. He feels the full response
bility OF his position-the greatness of the &C.
casion, and the momentous consequences
which will hang upon the immediate meas
ures of the government. Approaching all
this, he properly refrains from proclsiming
his future action until he knows what future
events require. With this reservation he
| will be free to meet all emergencies as wis
dom and Justice may demand, governed nei-
Their by preju flee nor passion. but only by
the high motive of doing what he deems for
the common welfare.
II Mr. johnson assumes the direction of the
executive department of the government I'm
der circumstances which devolve upon him
responsibilities unsurpassed In magnitude by
those any chief magistrate has been called
upon to meet. We are confident he will en-
ter upon his iabors with pure motives and
with O desire and determination to perform
| them with the sole view of securing peace,
; Justice, obedience to the law and the pernan
ence of the constitution which forms the
| charter of our repu blIcan government. He
is entitled to this faith from all, at the outset
and should receive from the people he Is un-
expectedly called upon to serve that cordial
encouragement and ready confidence perfect
reliance upon his good intentions would in
dictate. If the administration can conn.,
mence its career under such auspices the act
will be the strongest guaranty of its success,
and more certainly enable it to achieve the
the great purpose of its organization than all
the military power it can command. 1t will
receive a moral strength in the approval Of
: honest people the world ever that will rsndes
its career as irresistible as beneficial; bene
fetal not only to its immediate constituents
I but to the advocates of liberty in every land
{ Therefore lei take our new departure In
the full strength of hope and confidence, re-
, sovled to approve the right and resist the
wrong whatever may be their source.
From the Detroit Free Press.
His devotion to the Union and constitution
, no one can doubt who has watched his past
career, who has listened to him in the senate
or heard him express his views in private al
q resident of Tennessee. A man of extended
influence. who by his own indomitabl
energy had risen to be governor and senator
from the humblest ranks of life, he was sub
iect to the bltterest persecution from the Sc
, cessionists because he would not, like them
prove traitor to his country, and engage il
; the rebellion.
Almost the last speech in .he senate of the
, United States, where he first uttered the sen
timent, 1.-The duties are mine, the consequen
ces are Gods" in relation TO the expulsion o.
a senator who had been his personal and pc
litical friend, he said - fEsE sEs
r ssI am democrat now, i have been all m
life. / expect to live and die one, and the corne
stone my democracy rests upon the enduring ba
sis of the onion. Democrats may come and 60
but they shall never divert me from the Polar sta
3 by which have ever been guided from early life
the great principles OF democracy, upon whic
. this government rests, and which cannot be car
, riea out without the preservation OF the Union an
of these states.''
From the Albany Atlas and Argus.
The new president of the United States
: Sc years of age-the time of life when tn
faculties of men are best fitted for rule. I'll
r lis man thoroughly educated in politics, b
much experience, by long study and by tn
:, concentration of his ambition and interest
in this one subject. He has gone through ey
+ cry public Office, alderman, state legislator
governor, senator, vice president. and no,
fills the highest ofice-a place, let it not b
forgotten, within his aspirations many year
ago,-and not beyond his apparent reach, 70
Q he held the vote of the Tennessee delegatio
in the Charleston democratic convention
1860. and might have been the compromis
8 candidate OF that body if the extremists G
6 the south rehearsing on the floor of the con
a vention the tragedy since enacted on the Dor