The Portland daily press., 1865-10-25
Wednesday Morning, Oct. rs, 1865.
President Johnson.-Cheering Indications.

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President Johnson. Cheering Indications.
We are not disposed to deny that many
things have occurred during the past few
months, in the reconstruction movements at
the South. calculated to create anxiety and to
awaken fear on the part Of loyal citizens Of the
North. But while conceding this we say en-
phatically that in nothing the President has
yet done, has he justified any pronouncement
Of judgment against him by the same loyal
people, or done aught to forfeit the confidence
reposed in him. Up to this time he has in no
case ietgo of the power by which mistakes
may be corrected, provided mistakes shall
prove to have been committed ! We advise all
who have been troubled with fears and doubts
to wait with patience till the meeting Of Con
gress, and read with care what, the President
may have to say in his message. by that we
shan have a right to judge him and we shaii
be greatly mistaken if in that, ne does not
show that in Andrew Johnson the loyal men
ofthe nation may trust as implicitly as they
did in his martyred predecessor. Fs3rssey F.
Nj n 4 letter to Cow Holden Of N. c., dated
the 18Th inst, the President has shown his
hand in relation to the rebel debt, and in a
way to satisfy all who are not at heart rebels
or sympathisers with rebels, He says: snA
Every dollar Of the State debt created to aid the
rebellion against the United States should be repudi
atsd finally and forever. The great mass of the peo-
pie Should not be taxed e pay deot Y aid in carry
selves, we're opposed to. Let those who have given
their means for the obi cations of the State look to
Constitution and win Of the people. They must
meet their tate. It is their sfortJne, and cannot
be recognized by the people of any State protesting
States and in the Union.
81 rePeatithat the loyal people of North Carolina
should be exonerated from the payment of every dol
lar Of indebtedness to aid in carrying the feteion
Il trust and hope that the people of North Carolina
VIII Wish their hands everything that parakes in
the sigh est degree Of the rebellion, which has been
so recently crushed by the strong of the govern
ment IN carrying out the obligations imposed By the
FOens ututaoa efthe Union g tth ~ Al y y
The recentspeech of the President to the
negro troops shows that he repudiates that
heartless, barbarous, heathenish idea, now SO
popular with Copperheads, that this govern
mept to uphold which black men have freely
and nobly shed their blood, is only govern
ment for the aclite man. he calls the coun-
try their country, and claims them as his fell
-countrymen.
!" But in the recent conversation of President
johnson with Major Stearns of Mass. the re-
port of which we published yesterday, we find
all doubts of the Presidents future fidelity
shaken to the ground. He says emphatically
that the General Government still retains the
staff Of power in its own hands-that the err
rors ofthe South can at amy time be,c9ffected
thus showing that there. is little dan
ger of antagonism between the Ezecutiye
and Congress. The Presidents views as TO
qualified suffrage prove him to be fully com
mitted to the maiptenance OF the manhood OF
the negro. The expression of his personal
wishes upon that point will, doubtless, exer-
else great influence upon the former slave
holding States, when they fully comprehend
his motives and purposes. What he manfully
avows as proper for Tennessee may Yet be Sc
cured throughout the South by the adoption
of ludicious measures. In that light we con-
slider this proclamation of Presidential senti-
ments of great importance to all sections of
the country. Loyal men everywhere will re-
joice that the President is not committed
against negro suffrage, but advocates its be-
stowMent upon a portion of the colored race.
AS the Boston Transcript remarks, 'shis new
Democratic friends viii now have to build
"a negro plank, into their platform, or de-
"nounce him as strongly as they did prior to
This elevation to the Presidency, The De
"mocracy' appear to have been as badly
.Scaught, in their haste to. indorse President
iaJohnson, as were the Peoples Party eff Mas
"sachusetts in its Endorsement Of President
"Lincolns a few days before he announced his
Emancipation policy P'tla assI % aa8 rs ssaf
q On the pardoning power the Presidents re-
marks show that it was exercised only in
cases where parties have been sufficiently
huf1bled to pehitentIy ask for the boon, which
has been granted under conditions that must
convince the most naughty SOuthernerg of his
reasonable i'll desert. It Should be borne in
mind that one of the chief accusations against
President Iincolnlwas his .injudicious" lenity,
craftsmanship. Some who are now Condemn
ing President johnson may be placed in the
same awkward dilemma with the former ca
luInniators Of Abraham Lincoln. si-i 4
Referring to the sentiments ofthe President,
as deYelopedin the conversation already re
.fered to, the Boston Transcript well says: "
These opinions, as now declared, viii prodrics en-
lightenment in many quarters where wdifuf blind
ness has prevailed. In NewYork, the Effect OF the
exposition upon the party arrogatfg to tself especial
friendship for the sboorsh taor," in order to meet
the exgenciesofa political campaign will be quite
as sAl ting as II the leading GhampiOnsof the Democ-
racy, John Van Buren,, should take one more bold
step, and nominate Secretary Stanton for The Presi-
dency 1t annihiates the capital by which it was
hoped to re-establish the Albany Regency in power
in the Empbe State; and probably gives the COUP dc
grace TO Whatever chance of defeating the Rep1bli-
cans may have heretofore existed IL affords a me-
fuln IHrouSh which Gen. SlOcum and the few reeus
ant hepunicans associated with him, perceive
tlelr present ridiculous attitude in the 1Copper-
head ranks, whittier they have fed out OF
pretended regard for the Republican president
Their support of Andrew johnson is SO profound
and earnest springs from such umse iRsh desire for
place, that the only way il could be rendered was By
JOINING the organization which has opposed the Pres
ident from the beginning. Having done this how
unutteraby disagreeable to them must be the state
ment that destroys their hopes, and those of other
hungry Democrats, of official plumber for the enjoy-
aent of which they performed such astonishing sum
mersauts, -feats Of or uqd tumbLng in politics pos
EDle only to those mpeed by the keenest scent for
once. AS for the Republicans who have gone over
70 we opposition, they will be condemned to the mis-
eay OF their new political ties, without the smallest
olpsnsalon Tor abandoning their old friends The
Uisanlza1on which has swallowed Them violently de-
iit tne 1qvestmentof the coIored man with the
ynoI puI affects to sustain the President who de-
oSSed some classes Of the despised should be al
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