The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-09-09
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President Johnson.
i HIS STATUS AS A STATESMAN.
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The President of the United States oc-
cupies today the most, prominent and sa-
lient position of any potentate of the earth,
representing, as he does, the model repub-
| lic--the States of North America p ow-
er whose colossal proportions, consolida-
ted by the war, must throw its lengthening
shadow across the continent Of Europe" (
Within the last few months the thought
and intellect and craftsmanship of the world
have been on the qui vive to know what
manner of man, now occupies so exalted a
position. This inquiry assumes peculiar
and touching interest among theintelligent
and patriotic masses of this country, who
have been engaged in the great Industrial
and business pursuits, and in its battles
rather than its politics, now that the bloody
drama of civil strife is closed. g15.,, 1aaar
The writer, sometimes differing with Mr..
johnson, has had ample opportunity of stu
dying his peculiar and marked traits of
character His early history of late has
been frequently the topicof newspaper par
agraph and sketch. These are in the main
correct !; but it is his cast and grade Of mind
and intellect his moral force and stamina,
that the people are peculiarly interested
in, knowing. ass ii1iiil .a,a
AS q politician Mr. johnson has never
been pretentious or noisy. He knows but
| little of what is called tactics and party
drill, but noipne more thoroughly compre-
! hends the intrigues of politicians and is as
little likely to be caught in their tolls He
knows nothing of the oozening and appli-
ances Of the grocery or pothouse chieftain.
In his department among his immediate
| constituents he has been plain, unassuming,
not to say modest, and has always won his
way to public favor by the clear and nation
al brilliancy of his mind, his intense earn
| estness of purpose, and real sympathy
with the masses. .r
Believing literally that this is a govern
ment of the people, he has acted honestly
upon that hypothesis in the various strug-
| giles in which changes of administration and
1 public policy have thrown him. No one
more thoroughly thinks and acts for him
self, yet open at all times to suggestion, to
| light and information. ~ 5129 i'9a"'
He is very careful in investigating facts
and laying down his premises that being
| done, he drives home his conclusions with
a clearness and logical force of deduction
i uneaualled. He has none of the arts of the
rhetorician, no words of aattery, no set
phrase of speech; but no man in America
can more thoroughly fix the attention of
4 his audience. His public discussions have
| been mainly in his own State, where his pc
| culiar manner is we'll known, and where he
4 had to meet in succession in his canvass for
Governor two of the ablest popular orators
of the age. oats .s9sa9. GUS s.lj bas ta.
/ Mr.. Henry was an eminent lawyer, and a
! descendent of the great Patrick Henry,
with9much of the fire and brilliancy of his
ancestor, and Mr. Gentry, a lf-made man,
/ like Mr.. johnson, and whose eIocution for
| dramatic effect was surpassed only by, that
! of Mr.. Clay; yet these were both defeated
with O. party majority in their favor at the
opening,of- each canvass .sysl laag4a na 4
Mr.. johnson has been close student.--
! He has never found time for the dissipation
j too often incident to public life. Perhaps
no public man of his time is so free from
1 the'ordinary vices. That he is or ever has
! been o wine bibber is gross calumny. s.j.
! No question has arisen connected with
the politics of the country that he has not
thoroughly investigated and exhausted
His mind abhors an absurdity as nature ab-
hors vacuum. Whatever opinions he en-
/ tertains or line of conduct he may prescribe
| for his action are the result OF clear convlc-
tiong TO think or to act otherwise would
i be to violate his natural instinct. .s. ,..rr
! He.is a man gifted with the highest in
tellectual powers, and fully competent to
try conclusions with the abest men of his
age upon any subject he has had the oppor-
tunity TO investigate. Even upon legal
ouestion. if the authorities and facts we're
laid before him, and the occasion were fit,
4 he would prove himself a match for the Chiei
Justice. sH mW taa 8 loss
Sound in body, as he is sound in mind,
\ his moral and physical courage have never
\ been questioned. The position which he
maintained in the Senate of the United
4 States for the Union, the powerful speech
4 which he delivered demonstrating the par
amount authority of the Federal Govern
ment, his unhesitating and onward course
/. to the close of the war, amidst the dsaffec.
tion of hisentire section, evinced a moral
courage unsurpassed by the most brilliant
feat of arms.
i The people of every section and shade
of opinion should trust him, for he viii
prove himself equal -to-the mighty task o
reconstruction, and thorough master of the
u situation.
i Mark the prediction. No, man since the
DAYS of General Jackson will so thoroughly
stamp his own individualityupo the admin
, istration Of the ,Governmentsaoqcie
J, Old party lines will be wiped out, and
al he will rally around him a great nationa
party, whose watchwords will be soldlty