Washington telegraph., 1865-07-26

ASIIEw JOHSsoN.-Wc are not i. all tee
proud TO be just, and say that W are disap-
pointed in Andrew johnson. IL is making an
infinitely better President of the United States
than we ever could have expected. His course
tow ards the South seems dictated by a sense of
nigh and Is entirely unbiased by that hateful
fansrical element III the North, to which Pres-
dent Lincoln, time and again yielded his own
convictions. We had learned to think better Of
Lincoln also ia his latter days. and had he lived
the sentimen, would have grown rapidly in the
South He might have been as just towards rs
in the matter of reconstruction As johnson is
determined TO be, but we cannot know that he
weuld have been SO firm.
Emancipation was sccomplis Rod, and had be-
come 6vrd ract before President johnson
c,.In.. l...U Linz 5 seat. That he must now
accept, and cannot alter Had he found slavery
visiting at the time OF the surrender of our ar
,nies, he would doubtless have lcft it to the
states themselves, He is now leaving it 20 the
States 10 determine by their own constitutions
(ne. lsgislatures) the elective franchise-the
questions as to whether negroes shall vote, or
constitutions he admits the suffrage of pardoned
rebels, and excludes the negro.
We really do not conceive what more We
could ask, in this regard.
We thought him vindictivc. lie was so in
the heat of party contests. We think we can
perceive that he is rising to the height of his
position, and discarding all that He acts no
more for elevation. He has reached the sum
mit, and acts for history
To appreciate this NC mus, consider the tre-
mendous pressure, as we know the power, of fs-
natical opposition He must be an Atlas to
TAX. it upon his shoulders and walk with steady
and unfaltering tread He will do it. Never in
his life has he failed to crush opposition from
former friend or ancient foe. Opposition arouses
linn His strength rises always to the occa-
sion, and he has always conquered. We re-
member memorable instance of it when he
FIST took the stand against the Know EothiDgs
in Tennessee. Ii was the only instance in our
lives, in which we supported him-and we did
not like him then. He knows now what he IS
doing. He has calculated the chances, and
marshaled his forces The steps he takes will
De StIaiSnt iOIWdiu he never goes BaSkNalus.
and to do him justice never forfeits a pledge.
lie is 40 Machiavel. His enemies have been
used rather to think him Machiavers master,
after The Miltonian style. Some of us are be-
ginning TO alter this latter thought.
Doubtless the AboIitionists and ultra Repub-
Leans have caught a Tartar" but they can
only grind their teeth in fury.
If the signs of the times DO not deceive us,
there will be under his administration a speedy
restoration Of the Southern States. There will
be more than that-a decay of thu ultra aboli-
ticn spirit and power. The Democrats of the
North will sustain him, with ali the South
Peace so restored may be more profound than
ever.
Let Us hope SO at least. We think we fore
see that the man who, by accident, made him
self ridiculous 10 the beginning of his Office WILL
by wise foresight prudence, persevering design
and patriotic motive, make himself sublime in
in its end.