The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-10-12

President johnson is entitled to the graft
tude ofAeverytrue and loyal heart for these
timely words, and yet they are justsuch words
as every true and loyal man had right to ex-
pect. We say they are timely, and they are
so, Because just at this iuncture the national
hearts, being panied by the efforts Of Copper
heads and traitors to make Mr.. Johnson the
advocate and the supporter Of an oqtgEown
barbarism; to press him into the service Of
those who have been the enemies of the coun-
| try. and to represent him as the sworn practi-
cal enemy of the only men in the rebel States.
who, as a class, have been uniformly on the
side of the country ccJl1iCtl1
President johnson ignores the scandalous
idea that this is simply a iO7site mans country
and calls the colored soldiers .MY COUN-
TRYMEN, y tells them this is THEIR CoUN-
TRY, and assures Men,-the lately despised
ana 9dtoewn-tredden slaves-tha this country
was FOUNDED upon the principles Of
EQUALITY. It is only few days since
that copperhead paper in this city represent
ed President johnson as saying that the man
is knave or an idiot who insists that when
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independ-
ence, he included the negro in the declaration
that all men were created equal President
johnson stands on nc, sucn exclusive ground,
but declares, e0laite -dddresSing negroes, that
this country was founded upon the principles
of equality. Everlasting praise to Andrew
johnson for this manly declaration. at an hour
when the most persistent efforts are being
made to press him into the support of an idea
that would disgrace the dark ages. u Il,
4 The copperheads are just now claiming to.
be the supporters of President johnson and
of ffis policy, but how shamefully their acts be-
lie their professions. While he acknowledges
the colored man who has fought for the flag as
his countryman, encourages him TO seJ-goy-
eminent, and tells him that his rights are
equal to those of other men, the eoPperheads
denounce him as a mere animal, without
country, without citizenship, and unfit for self
government or the exercise of any of the rights
of a citizen.f Bg AIsE - EAtAGiW
President johnson declares that slavery
made war upon the United States, while the
COppCIuCduo pCIotSI III tlISutiAAS5 oAiS
intelligence by their allegations that the war
was made by the lopposers of slavery, in the
North. n<t fsfsert.ef
90 President Johnson throws his a0hole heart
and soul in favor of a constitutional amend
.ment which shall forever extinguish slavery on,
the soil of the American Union. The copper
heads, on the contrary, with scarcely an ex-i
ception, oppose such amendments, and talk
and act and vote to perpetuate slavery. In the
legislature Of this State the few copperheads
last winter voted as a unit against the amend
ment. In the New. Hampshire legislature the
same facts were seen. In New Jersey-the
only free State under the control of the Dem
ocrats-rthe endorsement of the amendment
was refused; and throughout the country the
opposition to that amendment IS measured by
the strength of the copperhead and rebel ele-S
ments, on this question: perhaps on alone
and identical. Whata burlesque and insult,
then, for the copperheads to ciaim'to be the
supporters Of President johnson.