The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-31
The President and the Union Party.

OF Democratic partlsans.- but this caps
the climax. Without the slightest war
rant in anything he has said or done,they
coolly assume, and assure their followers,
that President johnson is about to turn
his back upon the party which nominated
and elected him, whose principles be cor
daily indorsed, Vho carried the war
against rebellion to successful close, and
upon whom alone he can now depend for
support, and take into his exclusive favor
the party which has denounced him
without measure all through the war,and
from whom be has never received vote
or voice in praise of his character or ID
support of his policy.
In all these assertions, so boldly put
forth and constantly reiterated, there Is
not the slightest foundation in anything
President Johuson has done or said, IN
public or in private, since bis accession
to the Presidency. When John Tyler
deserted the party that made him Presl-
dent, he began by diSmisslng the Cabinet
of his predecessor and replacing the office
holders of his appointment, President
johnson has done nothing of the sort.
He has made no change in his Cabinet.
He has appointed but one Democrat to
Office, aud that was personal friend and
q man of thoroughly loyal antecedents.
Every change be has made anywhere, has
been in favor of the party and the men
who were most active and effective IN
sustaining the Administration throughout
the war. Not Coppcrhead noradh2rent
of the Democratic organization, with the
single exception We have referred to has
received an appointment however humble,
at his hands. Does this look like court
ing the favor, or seeking the support OF
the Democratic party at the expense Of
the great Union organization which has
carried the country through the war ?
On the contrary, look at the appoint
ments made since his accession to Office
in every department of the public service
Look at the selections for Office 10 Boston
andin this city. Vice-Presideut Hamlin,
Mr.. Gooch, R. II. Dana, for Boston ;
Preston King aud Daniel s. Dickinson
for New York; Republicans and
thorough going Union men, as are all he
has appointed anyWhere,-and say If this
looks like turning his back Oh the Union
party?
Nor has President johnson said syl-
liable on any occasion, or to anybody, to
encourage any such expectation or belief
Every public address he has made has
been in exactly the opposite direction
Whenever he has said anything on the
subject of the war, it has been IN denun.
citation of treason, and of all who sympa-
thized with or aided it. Whenever he
has spoken of slavery, he has insisted up.
on the ratification of the constitution
amendment, against which the party now
claiming his support has always arrayed
itself in solid column. While he tells The
people of the South that they must ratify
it, the Democrats of New jersey are
s.raining every nerve to defeat it. While
he tells the South to nominate for Con,
gress none but men who can take the
oath required by law, the Democrats are
demanding its repeal While be i:
speaking words of hope and encourage
ment to the enfranchIsed slaves, the Dem
ocrats are denouncing the negro and brand
ing as fanatical every man who seeks 70
them justice aud equal rights Ant
they are asserting roundly and loudly
that Mr.. johnson has declared that thi
is "the aohite mans country"-he con
tradcts the falsehood by telling the ne
groes, openly and in person, that cit il
their country as much as anybody else
country" La all this what possible grounC
do they fiud for their claims that Presi
dent johnson has abandoned the UnioG
party and belongs to them?
Nor is there the slightest foundation
for the inslnuations in which the Demo
cratic organs SO freely indulge, that Pres
ident Johnson has communicated priUatell
10 them his wish that the Democratic
party in this State, or in any other, ma,
succeed at the coming election JohI
Van Buren, gives out mysterious hints 0
what was said to him by the Presiden
on that subject,-but he is not in tn
habit of keeping secret private converse
tions with him, or with anybody else
when he can make anything by repeating
them. The Tribune was good enough tt
report something which the Presden
was supposed to have said to Dean Rich
mond on the subject, aud the World ex
pended column in the effort to make it
Democratic readers believe that Mr. John
son gave its editor somo very slgni6can
aud encouraging hints upon this subject
Now, in reply to all this, we assert ant
not without warrant, that President John
son has never, IA conversation a0tth Johr
Van Buren,, Nth Dean Richmond, o.
with anybody else, euer said onytbin.
.nI;.nt..au l;a.a.tL,. on. a.dicectLu IN.