The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-07-05
The johnson Club.

The johnson Club.
Mr. Johnson has frequently been rep
resented as saying in private converse
lions, that he did not intend to sepa-
rate himself from the great Union party
that has saved the country from destruc-
ton at hands Of Southern rebels. But
d now we find in circulation throughout
the country, certain pamphlets, called
Document No. L." las if there were to
be more) issued by the National john
son Club. This organization, which is
In the interest of Andy johnson, claims
to be working for establishment Of a
party that shall condemn the rebellion
= and at the same time blame no body I'm
the South for inaugurating it. We
Judge from the first document that the
remainder of them will be in a great
measure devoted to earnest efforts to
nrove that Jefferson Davis is a very fine
old christian patriot, in whose behalf
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soldier ought to be kicked four times
every day for attempting to breathe the
same atmosphere that sustains the life
of such very distinguished Southern
gentleman. That this small johnson
Club is emily new disguise for those
who sy mpathized with the rebellion, is
manifested by the fact that such jewels
as Dean Richmond of New York, Sena-
tor Salisbury Of Delaware, Guthrie of
Kentucky and Augustus Cesar Dodge
Of Iowa, together with thirty-four Others
ofnke character figure in front as Vice
Presidents. They have thought to make
their disguise effective by making Mont
gomery Blair President Of the Club.
But this is only aswarning to all true
Union men that there is a vast amount
Of treachery very near the surface.
This Johnson Club does not base its
action upon the report of Gen. Schurz,
whom the President sent South on
tour Of observation, but it grounds its
position on the testimony Of Alexander
III. Stephens, which Is published with
"Document No. l." The document con-
sists of the testimony of Stephens and
IN address issued by the President,
Montgomery Blair. As a sample Of the
arguments used in the address, we quote
N follows:
a'sCongress, by excluding from the
National Legislature the whole race in
the South that fought the battle for our
independence, and who contributed
largely in founding what has hitherto
been looked upon as the white mans
Government, established by his courage,
Intelligence and labor as his own free
hold, and as the inheritance Of his chill
dren, renders any further disfranchise-
ment superfluous, and his degradation is
completed by putting the negroes upon
higher ground than the white race in
other respects, educating their children
at the national expense, feeding, cloth
ing, and sheltering the hundred thou
which invite them to return to employ
naent in the South-according to them
seats in the galleries of the two Houses,
the males attired in every variety of
costume, the females Cat least the better
looking of them) rustling in silks, lit is
TO be hoped not at the expense of the
Treasury; } the men repaying with APP
plause the recognition by Senators of
their service that saved the country, and
the women repaying by bouquets, the
glanoes with which they are honored
from below. 1t is reasonable, indeed.
that they should occupy positions in the
chambers from which muititudes of men
and women of our kindred are turned
away daily. The legislation being di-
rected for the most part to put up the
blacks and degrade the white race in the
prescribed States, it is proper that the
fayorites who take the deepest interest
tn the debates should be preferred as the
audience"
"A large portion of the address is di-
rected against the Freedmen's Bureau
and Civil Rights bills. We quote the
conclusion Of the address, as follows:
1.-THE Congress Is now a revolutionary
AnhVAntfnn The Presidents comment