The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-10-07


The copperhead organ down street has re-
Gently assumed an attitude of peculiar fond
ness for President johnson, and Is ready to as
sail all who express doubts of the infinite wis
dom Of his notions Demonstration. We have
felt disposed to look into a few fugitive copies
of this consistent sheet, to see how unvarylns
and persistent have been itspraises OF tne esn u
tieman who now fills the executive cnalr VI
the nation. rr ~-s9i ,s.....t,s.
BEGINNING t,rea DAYS after the Inauguration
we copy from that paper the ionomiAs
extracts. all but one editorial ana inc selecseu
one approved, and all referring 70 mr.. s ed p
son: .,-x,.-x ,,..-.,...
o,Jaayorirlg to make the b0orish manners and
low demag0gueism often exhibited by the
President appearrespe ctableaill il.-~oN
March 9Th, ut is to be hoped he has got So
Der by this time and viii keep so" ,1sz = I'D
March 9th. sNNe have no heart to comment
on the disgraceful scene exhibited in the mi
ted States Senate on the occasion OF the induc-
ton to office of Vice President Johnson"
March 10th. gMr. Johnson insulted and
outraged all who stood around-the Chief
Justice, the Cabinet, the foreign ministers and
the Senate Nest of all he insnlted the peo-
pie Of the United States, and degraded the high
Mace where the wofthiest of this land have
Sat, Himself he did not degrade. He fell to
his natural level, there to remain for four NOR
tai years." lxEG - - .aAkA
March 18th. aHad a Democratic Vice, Pres
ident been guilty of such an outrage 40 extra
session would have been called to impeach
him. ceg ag0Q 81 SCI OH a9I13O
Here we stopped. We did not feel like pur-
suing the record further. To borrow an ex-
preston, Eve had no heart" to pursue the
shiny track ofthis copperhead viper in its ven
omous attempts to infict injury upon the man
whose chief sin, in Its reasonable estimation,
had been his persistent denunciation of rebel
lion, and his efforts to uphold the stars and
stripes against the combined powers Of south
ern traitors and northern copperheads to drag
them down and draggles them in the dust.
The only reason why such vile and treason
able sheets as the one we have noticed, are now
coquetting around President johnson, IS be-
cause they think they discover some sign that
he may prove false to tn emen BY whom and
the principles on which The was elected, and
betray the cause of Human Rights. They are
sowsdded to treason that treachery only seems
to attract them. Andrew johnson, the sturdy,
unfinching supporter of his country's honor,
the sworn enemy Of rebellion, and the punish
er of traitors, is odious in theirsight; but An
drew Johnson, the betrayer Of all the inter-
ests committed to his care, and the destroyer
of the hopes Of loyal men, becomes in. their
sight.Iittle less than divine. God grant that in
thisa as in their other acts in behalf Of slavery
and rebellion, they may be doomed to signal
Disappointment f.s.,,ls, sisyoasaisaa9
We are not prepared to believe the man up
on whose head traitors offered reward can
now be seduced into the interest of those very
traitors, or into sympathy with those north
ern copperheads who tainted him for desert
ing his state, and sneered at him for not .ex
posing his life to the tender mercfes of those
who thirsted for his blood. '7t-e