The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-31

oof n"H p'o''heh ulany angry comments,
and Mr.. Thad Stevens declares that were
the House Of Representatives in session,
he should move the Impeachment of pub
lie functionary."
And the same paper editorially, uses
the following language
"When Mr.. Seward announced, more
than year ago, that Mr.. Lincoln must
be reelected in order that he might be
President OF the whole country, it seemed
at least logical that Mr.. HamIin should
be included in the category The Balti.
more Convention thought differently, how
ever, and so summoned Andrew johnson,
of Tennessee, to the second Office in the
government. On Saturday he made his
maiden speech as Vice President When
We say that this was the most disgraceful
utterance ever made by public man in
this country, we use the ml1est term that
can be applied to it. There can be but
one excuse for this shameful speech, and
that is more shameful than the speech it.
self. 1t is charity to suppose tina, the spir-
it of "Old Bourbon" had aprtheosis 10
the Vice Presidents chair. Mr.. johnson
insulted and outraged all who stood around
bim-the Chief Justice, the Cabinet the
foreign ministers, and the Senate Most
of all he insulted the people of the United
States, and degr ded the high place where
the worthiest in this land have sat Hun
self he did not degrade He fell to his
natural level, there to remain four mortal
years. We will not analyze this speech
we leave it to the judgment of our rea-
ders, who must dden with shame at the
thought that leadership in this land is in.
trusted to such hands as thesa'
Thus speaks the virtuously indignant
Greeley
M. Andrew johnson, our new Vice
President is said to have ben demented
by liquor when sworn into pffi Sc, aud to
have mai. senseess and dis ,reditabe
haran5 cue in consequence. AMI it is re-
p 'rted he has fallen into habits which dis
qu'hfy hun for the high position to whico
he has been chosen.
W. fervently hooe tina. at least the lat
ter aud w'rse half of rliis sc,nlal will
prove untrue; for, if it should not, the
country Will b. subj sotel 10 tn pam ind
sclnial an | Mr. JNhason to the III 'rtic,
ton iusap .raot, frnn his exon son from
otfi;a. If he has baco ne drunk ,rl anl
does no. prnnp ly an | thnrou thlv raf'ru
he certtl lily ninnr ren,in Wee Pr,,,.
dat Of I'll U NE States; lni, if ne his
any earles' IN intinlte frIeni, he will
De 81 assured tprthSlth. tn. Pc rpl. may
pity ~ will IS mara h'4 ttll bu1 traY
cannot apie dru TX rd Ia his pr SEM
high position.
Tue Ptttsours g 'zette, thu len linz Il =
publican paper Of Wastern Pennsylvania,
says:
W. have hitherto RETAINED from e,m.
m ntins upon the fact that the Vac Pres.
dent ai.gracad himself and the nlti)n by
appearing in state of iutox cation Il! tire
time of his ia iuction into offs aud inlict-
ing upon his hearers "a maullin, drunken
speech, not because We hoped thereby to
hide the unpleasant fact from our readers,
or shrink from condemning the grievouI
fault Committed, but because we hoped
that little delay would bring US some
mitigation of the report, aud render the
transact N less disgraceful than was at
first stated We have waited, however,
10 vain and now that the facts are be
You'd dispute, we join with the Rspubli-
can press of the country in telling the
Vice President that having utterly dis
graced himself. subjected his party to the
keenest notification, aud made his conn
y a laughing stock in the eyes of the
world, the least reparation he can make
is to resign. After this exhibition Of
himself, he cannot occupy that place any
longer with honor or credit. His good
name is lost, and he cannot regain it by
holding on to place he has disgraced.-
If he attempts to hold on to it he will
thereby show himself insensible to shame,
and therefore all the more united for
that high position.
But what if be does not resign? Then
let him be ilnpeached, or reached in some
other way by the action of the Senate.''
The Franklin Repository another lead
ing Republican paper, edited by Gil. Nc
Clure, says:
THAT Hon. Andrew johnson gave a
most appalling exhibition of either shame.
less debauchery or hopeless insanity, when
he was inaugnrlted as Vice President of
the Uuited States, is fact too patent to
admit of denial or pallation. When called
upon to assume the second offi ;ial posi-
ton within the gift of the Nation, consti-
tuting him the presiding off er of the first
legislative tribunal IF the Republic, and
the possible successor to the Presidency
ITSELF he ranted and raved like mailman,
aud made every friend of the government
bow in the deepest hunililrion and shame.
This spectacle was witnessed by the rep
reseutatives of every foreign government,
by grave s nators, by most of the heads
of department. an by crowded. galleries
aud il is ii fact too terrible, alike in its
imueo!ilte and ultimate consequences, TO
he excused So far from attempting to
conceal it, it becouurs the imp ratlve du y
Of every one to demand that the shame