Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-08-19
SECOND EDITION
Foun o,CLoCIk. y. M.
THE JURY pEsIIsED no VIEW
THE PREMIaEa.

THE PREMISES.
We find the following in the Richmond
Republic.
We have reason to hope that, before the
end Of August, President johnson win visit
the city Of Richmond. Should our hopes 10
this regard be realized, our citisens win
| avail themselves Of long desired opportu-
nifty TO do honor to the Chief Magistrate Of
the nation. But not only a. head Of the
nation will President johnson be honored
| and welcomed in our city, the wise and lib.
eral policy exercised by him since the reins
of Government have passed into his hands,
the sound craftsmanship he has displayed In
the work Of reconstruction, and the mercy
with which he has tempered his treatment Of
many Of the most prominent former enemies
| Of the Union, have at once excited the admi-
ration and secured him the affection Of the
whole Southern people.
| We sincerely trust that President johnson
will visit the metropolis Of Virginia very soon,
| and that he will bring his entire Cabinet
with him. We desire him TO see our people
| fhce to face-to witness our sorrows--to be-
hold the desolation that surrounds us, and to
convince himself Of the roal sentiments Of
our leading men. Not only the great mass
of the people will extend 10 him cordial
welcome, but the Executive Of the State will
greet and receive him as the best and truest
friend OF the South.
The above is kindly put and undoubtedly
well meant, but the Republic should recollect
that ANDREW JOHNSON, as Senator, Military
Governor, and President, has, during the last
four years, seen the Southern people face 10
face, " and witnessed their "sorrows, 1" which
they brought upon themselves, until we
should suppose he had become surfeited and
heart sick. He has beheld the "desolatiou'' y
which follows in the track Of civil war in his
own State, and no man living is better "oon.
vinced" than he of the "real sentiments Of
the "leading men" Of the South.
What President JOHNSON needs most, for
his own health and information, is to make
a tour North where the great free people
who have stood the brunt Of the battlo Of re-
bellion will rise up and bid him welcome
The great loyal people of the North, in the
agricultural, mechanical, manufacturing, and
commercial districts, cities, and marts, whose
armies with banners have sprung into exist.
ence by millions at tho Presidential call to
put down rebellion and save tho glorious
Union, want to meet the man whom they
rallied to the polls and elected as one of their
chosen captains,
Let President JOHNSON meet this great,
free, industrious, educated and happy people
'face to face" They want to sec him.
Already, through their official representa-.
tives, they are appealing to him to come and
mingle among them; to witness their great
industrial exhibitions, their agricultural
fairs, their institutions of learning, their gal
leries of art. their mechanical workshops,
their great cities, their neat and thriving
villages, and railroads which wind around all
the hills and thread every valley of every
State in the great empire of the North.
Let him witness these things and better
understand the ''real sentiments" Of such
people, and he will then know where the
money and the men come from to suppress
rebellion and support legitimate and oonsti-
tutional government. He will find as warm
hearts, generous hands, and welcome words
all along the rock-bound coast and up among
the granite hills, whore liberty went to school,
as ever greeted conqueror or king.
President JOHNSON needs such tour for
his own physical good, and We hope the loyal
American people will urge upon him to lay
aside his official cares, which are pressing
upon him this very day with more persistency
than ever, and devote n few weeks in ming
ling among the people who elected LINCOLN
and JOHNSON, and who have since, with mon
and money, stood round about them like a
wall of fire.