The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-09-20

an.'e no sooner We doubt if the country
QUILL have stood this test at an earlier stage
If its history, before the grand principles
which underlie our free institutions had be
come so securely grounded in the hearts
Of the people. Then it might have been
taken as To e natural outgrowtb, fuller de-
of tie new state of society, nom
we know it to be an accidental blemish upon
the epiderms, as it were of the body polite,
that will soon pass away, and leave no scar
or trace of its present unsightliness. We
can afford to watch and wait-watch that
the >9xcresence strike not inwardly to the
vitals, and wait, until the natural course of
events carries Andy johnson (and his IAN
tics before high heaven that make the an
gels blush } into that friendly oblivion that
his best friends now covet for him.
We have not space to trace the course OF
the Presiden tial cortege. Suffice it to say
that it continued in that grand circle to
which the President so often alludes in his
oratorical flights We make the following
extract from his Cincinnati speech
81 don't want to See all the work of eman-
cipation lost, aud therefore | am opposed to
the Freedmen's Bureau bill, which makes
four millions of freedmen the slaves of new
task masters. Why, with the Freedmen's
Bureau, with agents and satraps in every
town and school district, with fifty million
dollars in my pockets, and the army at my
back, could proclaim myself dictator |
vetoed the FreedmeD's Bureau bill twice IN
the interest Of the people, and | will DO 1t
forty more times if need be. Cheers.
For this have been denounced as traitor,
and even a Judas But why a Judas? Be
cause dared stretch out my hands in de-
fence of tie people. Judas betrayed Christ,
Have | done any such thing? Are the
Radicals my Christ l don't acknowledge
any one as such except only the Savior Of
| the world
This latter idea was generally worked
into every speech after his effort at st.
Louis, where it was elaborated.
| At Pittsburgh the vision of Legislative
concentration troubled him, he said
| he Lll1o II au arrived lOF every pdCr1Ol
to resist the concentration Of power. II
was important that the legislative depart
ment should not encroaCh upon the others
These remarks were not made in party
view, but arose from the organic structure
of the Government itself. If the Legislative
department can pass law after law trench
ing on the executive and judiciary branches
by two thirds majority, how far distan
is the day when the Government would b.
absorbed in the legislative department?
In the language Of the immortal Jefferson
Zone huBdred or two hundred men can ex
ercise more tyranny than one man can" Ii
resisting the legislative branch Of the Gov
ernmeDt, what power or prerogative had h
, Exercised which was usurping or despotic il
it's character p
) The same old charges against the peopl
! through their representatives. Mr. Johnso
g says he has been fighting power and tyl
amy" all his life, and it seems he is boun
: to fig lit it out on that line When he wa
+ one of the people or a representative of tb
people, he fought against the power of til
executive; now that he is the executive, b
means to fight the pewer Of the people an
S the peoples representatives. Is it nc
strange how circumstances alter cases