The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-09-01
President johnson.

President Johnson.
We have been reading over a collection of the
speeches made by Andrew johnson just prior to
and during the rebellion. In them he breathes
forth the purest spirit of patriotism and love of
country, and determination that, so far as in him
lay, loyalty should be rewarded and treason
punished. Every one is familiar with his cele-
brated speech made in the United States Senate,
in February, 1861, when the Southern Senators
were leaving their seats for the purpose of urg-
ing their States to secede from the Union, in
which he used the following memorable language
g ,Shoao me soho has been engaged tn these con-
spiracies, sOho has fired upon oar flag, sOho has
0iven Instructions to take our forts, and custom
houses, and arsenals and dock-yards, and a0iU
shoaO qou traitor WHERE l PRESIDENT Of the
United States, Iscould do as Thomas Jefferson did
in 1906 aUith aaron Burr. I aOould haze them ar
rested and If convicted acithin the meaning and
scope of the Constitution, By THE ETERNAL COP,
WOULD EXECUTE THEM
He acted up to the the declaration here made
while military Governor of Tennessee, and when
he received intelligence of his nomination for the
Vice-Presidency, in response to the compliment
tary greetings of his fellow-eitzens of Nashville,
he made the following remarkable declarations !:
But, in calling a convention to restore the
State who shall restore and re-establish it Shall
the man who gave his influence and means to de-
stroy the Government Is he to participate in
the great work of reorganization Shall he who
brought this misery upon the State be permitted to
control its destinies Jfthis be so, then all this
precious blood of our brace soldiers and officers,
freely poured out will haze been sUantonly spilled
Al the glorious Victories by oar noble armies a0iU
NIL fho h0ff h1Do
been sown scith dead heroes during tisre6slon aViu
haze been made memorable IN cain. Why all this
carnage and devastation Il aUas that treason
might be pat do0n and traitors punished. There
fore, sag that traitors should take back seat IN
thescork of restoration. IF there be but foe thousand
men in Tennessee loyal to the Constitution, loyal
to Freedom loyal to Justice these true and faithful
men should control the acork of reorganization and
reformation, ABSOLUTELY. say that the trail
tor has ceased to be a citizen and in joining the
rebellion, has become public enemy.
Before these Repenting Rebels can be trusted, LET
THEM BRING FORTH THE FRUITS OF RE-
PENTANCE.'
And be added
&C And these leaders must feel the power of the
Government. Treason must be made OdioUs and
traitorsmust be Impoverished. Their great planta-
tions mast be seized and divided into small farms
and sold to honest, Industrious men,"
Following his record up to the time of the as
sassination of Mr.. Lincoln, we find no change of
views on this important question, and on the
goth of April, 1866, he said :
&C II is time the american people should be taught
to understand that treason is criae-nOt in re-
Uenge-saot in anger-but that treason is a crime,
and should be esteemed as Sach and punished as
such"
And on the following day, to Committee
of laval In foo ll1y
~ Treason must be made odiOus. Traitors mast
be made odious and Impoverished. They must not
only be punished but their social pos0ers must be
destroyed And, after making treason odious,
every Union man and the Government should
be reimbursed out of the pockets of those who
have inflicted this great suffering upon the coun-
try.''
Time and ag ain he gave utterance to such sem
timents, and no man in the Union ranks was so
trusted but "a change came Ger the spirit
of his Dreams" No sooner had the time arrived
for the enforcement of the doctrine promulgated
in his speeches, than Andrew johnson proved
false to his pledges, and commenced systemat-
ic course of pandering to treason. He now turns
his back upon the loyal men who sustained the
nation during its period Of trial. and is using all
the influence of his high position-not to make
g treason odious," but to make it respectable
He gets up Convention of those who favor his
policy, at which rebel Generals and Senators and
Congressman are prominent members; he takes
offices from MANNED Union soldiers and gives
them to men who have been Indifferent, at least,
of the fate Of the Government he refuses to re-
cognize the legally-elected Governor of SOW
eregn State, because that Governor is loyal
man, and permits loyal assemblage to be shot
down like dogs in the streets Ofgreat city. Yet,
those who do not support Mr.. johnson and his
policy" are radical rebels p
To show the great change effected in Mr.
johnson, no further proof is needed than extracts
from Southern papers. The Memphis argus,
one of the most incorporating rebel sheets
published, said in 1862
" We should to like to see Andrew John
sons lying tongue torn from his foul mouth, and
his miserable carcass thrown to the dogs, or
hung on gibbet as high as Hannah to feed the
carrion buzzards."
The same paper, edited by the same man, says
in 1866
g The iron irmness, the undismayed soul of a
single man Andrew Johnson J is all that stands
between us and the fatal vortex of anarchy and
resultant despotism which has engulphed the
lives and fortunes of many millions before u.s.
Let US rally to the side Of that man, determined
to save or perish with the Republic"
A few days ago the following announcement
was officially made
!" The President has pardoned Henry A. Wise,
and ordered his property to be restored to him P'
In april last, this same Henry A. Wise, in
sneech at Alexandria Va qaid
/" If am traitor, let them make the most of
it. If am traitor, why. don't they try and
hang me have lost my land and property,
but would clean boots on your streets sooner
than bow to usurpation. If / had triumphed,
should have favored stripping them naked
LLaughter.1 Pardon They might have appeal
ed for pardon-but would have seen them dam
the boot being on the other leg take no oaths !
] ask no pardons TProlonped cheers ~