Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-07-26
ANDREW JOHNsON's POLICY.


There is the ring of an Old Hickory proc
and does His instructions to the Provis-
lonal Governors of the seeded States, his
address to delegations visiting him from
all sections of the Union, his platforms of
Restoration, and his letter to the people of
Gettysburg ON the Fourth OF July are in
stances that inspire hopefulness in tie coun-
try and warrant the most exuberant
enthusiasm among all true men. Full
OF tervor, free from fanaticism and firm In
the right path Andrew johnson has evok-
ed, as no President in thirty years hasevok-
ed, the grateful plaudits of patriotic peo-
pie. Looking to the restoration of the u
Mon as ''the primary object of patriotic de-
sire, - he distrusts rightfully all aspiring to
be his advisers, who Sin any quarter, seek
to weaken its bonds" Believing ''the Con
stitution to be sacredly obligatory on all,
and taking Washington's Farewell for his
guide, he evidently regards the theories of
fanatics as designed ''to direct, control,
counteract, and awe the regular delibera-
tions of the constituted authorities, as of
destructive and fatal tendency" He can
not fail to recognize in them an attempt 'sto
organize faction to secure an artificial and
extraordinary force to put III the place Of
the delegated aoU Of the nation, the aoW of q
small but artfM and eateipytstag minority,
and to make the administration the mirror Of
the ilconcerted and incongru0ees projects of
faction, rather than the organ of conststant
and achOtsome plans, digested By common
counci2s GndnaOdifed By mutual Interests. "
In a word, with the warning of the ma
tons Father before him, he must see in the
Congressional combinations and associa-
tions which are besetting him at every turn,
the engines by which cunning, ambitious
and unprincipied men will be enabled to
subvert the power of the people, and usurp
for themselves the reins of government
His Gettysburg letter is characteristic
&c n,ar, ana rr1rzrtrs7 s.sIT'efSet-
probation accorded it. Eminent in It's pa
triotism and exalted in its appreciation of
the grand and bene6cent fruits Of our re-
cent struggle, it has also a crowning meritin
its fidelity to our race,-in its fealty to the
poor white man of the South, from which
class the President sprung. With the tones
of true man and the admonition of afath-
er, he addresses his countrymen as follows:
Since | have seen the love our fellow cit
izens bear their country, and the sacrifices
they have made for it, my abiding faith has
become stronger than ever that a govern
of tba pan1Nla rs tho OF aS
well as the best of governments. In your
joy tomorrow Ii trust yOu aotU not forget
the thousands Of aohttes as aCeU as 6tacks
,chona the acdr has ene0ncipated acho aoW
hail this Fourth Of Ju{y ruth q delight a0hjch
no preUtous dnntcerSa1y Of the declaration
of Independence eUer gdUe them. Control
led SO long by ambitious, selfish leaders, who
used them for their own unworthy ends,
they are now free to serve and cherish the
Government against whose life they in their
blindness struck. [ am greatly mistaken if
in the States lately in rebellion we do not
henceforth have an eXebltlon of such loyalty
and patriotism as was never seen or felt
there before. When you have consecrated
a national cemetery you are to lay the corner
stone Of national monument which in all
human probability will rise to the full height
and proportion of your design. Noble as
but faint symbol of the grand monument
which, if we do our duty, we shall raise "a
mong the nations of the earth upon the
foundation laid nine and eighty years ago in
Philadelphia. Time shall wear away and
crumble this monument, but that based as
it is upon the consent, virtue, patriotism
and intelligence of the people, each year
shall make fi1mer and more imposing.
There is the ring Of manhood in this and
of its synonym-sterling patriotism. He
has no concealment of opinion with which to
delude the populace Looking the nation
straight in the eye, he speaks his thoughts
and his inspirations with an earnestness
and a heroism that are not to be mistaken.
Free from mawkish sentimentality, and ex-
empt from the fanaticism that expends its
sympathies on the negro, while the poor and
humble OF our own race are bowed in suffer
ing and misfortune, Andrew johnson in
vokes the brotherhood of the nation in be-
half of the latter, and predicts from its re-
cipients ''an exhibition of such loyalty and
patriotism as one never seen or felt there
before" And.his prediction will be fulfilled
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Wade Hampton, in long letter to the
New York Day Book, dated at Columbia
S. c., June 18th, attacks Gen. Sherman's
official report of his march through the Car
olinas, as 'misrepresenting him in the
grossest and falsest manner" Gen. Sher-
man, it will be recollected. charged Gen.
Hampton with being the main instrument
in burning Columbia, S. c. Hampton de-
nies all this, and charges Gen. Sherman with
burning the city and allowing all sorts of