The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-23

love OF invective. IL has been so ndustiiousy
pretended by "A certain class OF Republicans
mat me difference between the President and
CONGRESS Is not of character TO disturb the
harmony OF the party. that it /. OF the highest
importance 10 disabuse the country Of that idea
Even alter the 22d OF February speech, which
seemed explicit enough, and caused such an
QUERY, Senator Sherman and other distn-
gulshed Republicans went to Connecticut and
maze speeches affecting TO regard the difference
DetWeen the President and CONGRESS as relating
merely to the choice OF means for accomplishing
the same end, and as being difference which
onght not to disturb harmony OF party action
lC Is important that the country should know
IDat IDat PRESIDENT johnson repudIates any such
mhk-aHd-Water tWa0ole. There is a wide gulf
between him and Congress, and as he ooes nor
intend TO surrender hls policy, but to appeal TO
!he country in the next Congressional elections
II Is OF the very first consequence that the people
shoulu know, from some perfectly authentic
source, that the President regards the breach AS
important enough TO arouse, and 10 Justify him
IN expressing, his energetic indignation. When
ne ne denounces the opponents of his policy with
the unsparing severity he used on Wednesday
70 one who reads his speech will fail to see that
ne does not regard the opposition made to his
polcy as slight or trivial matter. How can he
appeal from Congress to the people but by am
phasizing the difference which, as often as an
deny? 10y
Pretending to ndorse both the President and
Congress, as the Republican Convention did in
connecticut is dishonest absurdlty which
ought to be exposed; and the exposure will have
most effect from President Johnson's own Iips.
In no way could he have unmasked this trick
so etlectually as by allowing the people to see
tnat ne IS intensely indignant. II hels incensed
tue people will readily infer that he thinks he has
something TO be angry about; and so tar as they
TespecI MS judgment they will cease to regard
the dlierence between him and Congress as of
MINOR importance. But III what way can man
so eHectually convince others that he is angry
as as pv eA1lDltng the signs of anger in the old
Iasbioneoi genuine way? If Mr. johnson had
coolly calculated The effect of his speech. he
could nave said nothing better adapted to his
purpose. The redoubed abuse 1t calls forth
from the radicals attests the sureness of his aim
Inc CohlTast winch he draws between him
sell, who peulled everything Tor the Union, and
the closet patriots who never confronted
danger, is well calculated for popular effect by
reason OF Its obvious truth. If Sumner and his
coaolutors had faced the risks and made the
sacrifices that Andrew johnson did during the
war, they might, with more grace impeach mis-
paiIotsm. The course OF the Presidents ac-
cusers, during the war, required neither moral
nor physical courage. Any man in their neigh.
borhood would have risked his reputation and
llDerty bad he dared oppose the Union. There
was no chance for stay.at-home patriot in the
TI Nortn 20 rival Mr. Johnsons proofs of loyalty.
lie has shown devotion TO the Union as much
superior to that of his traducers as can we'll be
imagined; and in appealing to the people against
tnem he dld well to waive delicacy and state the
plain truth.
the facts should be weighed, and in no other
way could they reach SO many people or secure
so much attention, as when uttered Dy him. At
present, as well as when he was facing his Rebel
nelghbors IN Tennessee, MIR. johnson has more
important things at heart than a fastidious
regard for his personal ease or dignity. He
SPEAKS to carry his point and without thinking
or caring what small titerateuvs may say of his
sty lie, he uses such language as will make the
lntended impression on the great body of his |
countrymen, who are not small titerotes,ys, bur
plaln people, who, neither in their own practice
nor IN Judging OF others, enter into the refine. |
ment OF expressing indignation in restrained
language.
In his speech to the negroes the President
clalmed that he is the best friend they have had
amendment to the Constitution he had done
more for their race than any other man in the
United States. The truth OF this claim cannon
be successfully controverted and, in view of the
Congressional elections, it could not nave been
asserted with so much effect by all the ne wspa
pers and stump speakers of the country as by
President johnson himself. -