The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-05-10
@istsllany Of a}e'rs.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON.

N6o10GIN1 JSI1NOSN,
The Cleveland Herald says The han
Of the assassin could take the life of th
President of the Republic, but the Re
public itself was invulnerable to his at
tack. Shot down at his post of duty
President Lncoln had no sooner fallen
than President johnson grssped tn
helm, and the ship of State sailed stead
lily onward, it sails giving but a moment
sry shiver, as he who had for four year,
firmly held the wheel suddenly relaxeC
his grasp.
Andrew johnson, who now fills the
position lately held by the lamented
Abraham Lincoln, has been too recently
before the people to need more than a
passing allusion to his past life and serv
ices. For thirty years he has been in
public life, having entered the General
Assembly of Tennessee in 1885, a Re-
preventative from East Tennessee, and
continued in that position six years. In
lS4l he entered the State Senate, aud in
lS43 became a member of Congress, and
was reelected four times. In 1853 he
became Governor of Tennessee, and was
reelected in 1855. In 1857 he was
made United States Senator and served
until 1868, when he was made Military
Governor of Tennessee.
Emphatically a man of the people, hav-
ing struggled up from poverty and OBJ
scurity, over all the obstacles slavery
places in the path of the poor man, he
has learned the true character OF slavery,
and owes it nothing But intense hatred.
No man, North or South, has been more
bitter in his denunciation of rebellion and
rebels, and of no man can the leading
conspirators expect less favor. What his
views are in respect to them may be
gathered from his recent speeches and
remarks.
In a speech made in Washington on
the evening Of the 9th Of April, when
the news of the fall of Richmond was re-
ceived, Mr.. Johnson said:
"We are now, my friends, winding up
a rebellion-a great effort has been made
by bad men to overthrow the Govern
ment of the United States-a Govern
ment founded on free principles, and ce>
mented by the best blood Of the Revolu-
ton. Cheers. You must indulge me
in making one single remark in connec-
tion With myself At the time that the
traitors in the Senate of the United
States plotted against the Government
and entered into conspiracy more foul,
more execrable, and more odious than
that OF Cataline against the Romans,
happened to be member of that body,
and, as to loyalty, stood solitary and
alone among the Senators from the
States.
was then and there called upon to
know what would do with such traitors,
and I want to repeat my reply here.
said if we had an Andrew Jackson, he
would hang them as high as Haman, but
IS he is no more, and sleeps in his grave,
in his own beloved State, where traitors
and treason have even insulted his tomb
ind the very earth that covers his re-
mains, humble as am, when you ask
ne what would do, my reply is, | would
lrrest them I would try them; | would
convict tbem-I would hang them. Pro
onged cheers. !
AS humble as am, and have been, !
lave pursued but one undertaking course. 7
MI that I havc--life, limb and property
have been put at the disposal Of the Il
ountry, in this great struggle. have +
'een in camp, have been in the field, i,
have been everywhere this great rebel \
oti was; have pursued it until believe 9
can now see its termination. Ssnce the T
yorld began there never has been a re- 7
ellion of such gigantic proportions, so f,
nfamous in character, SO diabolical in r
,otive, SO entirely disregardful Of the il
.ws of civilized war. 1t ha- introduced s
he most savage mode of warfare ever r
racticed upon the earth.
One word more. and have D
one. 1t is this: am in favor of leni
ncy; but in my opinion evil doers should
Q punished. Treason is the highest c
rime known in the catalogue Of crimes. cl
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