The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-10

Mr.. johnson on HIS Winding Way.
From tie Tribune
Though Andrew Johnson when he deserted
the Union party, bafilCd our hopes and turned
the vast patronage of the Government against
our policy, there is yet one great compensation
in his faithlessJ ess-we are spatcd the shame of
supporting a an who has repeatedly outraged
all the dianities of Office and the decencies Of
political strife. Since the sad day when he was
inaugurated ce.President we have learned
that his coarseness and duplicty are more dan
gerous to the party he leads than TO that he
opposes; now, at least, we need not blush TO
read his speeches, tor it is not our principles
that be drags along the ground
MIR. Johnson's tour through the North has,
perhaps, nOne the Union cause more good than
the arguments OF all its orators. The pretense
that the real object OF his journey was to give
official honor 10 the memory of Douglas Is now
openly disregarded, and we see the President,
dragging with hun the Secretary OF state,
stumping the North against Congress- and
glori wing his own greatness. AT every little
railroad station where the cars have stopped,
Mr.. johnson has harangued as:onished crowds
with praises OF his own patriotism, and violent
denunCiations OF a malignant, subsidized press,
and q traitorous and illegal Congress-" Mr.
Seward either lacks shrewdness, or has pur-
pose which many rumors indicate as still cling
ing to the ambition of age or he surely would
have induced the President TO be silent. But
the two gentlemen have shown an ineXhaustible
stock OF mutual admiration, by which their pru-
denCe has been betrayed. Mr.. johnson, like
stump-speaker in a county canvass, has used
every opportunity to abuse his opponents with
yehemence and cOarseness, which constantly in
crease by exercise. Yet such an overflow of
wrath has rarely been united with such poverty
Of ideas; he has but one speech, the burden of
which is his own impafuate record, and the
treason OF the party which elected him.
The dlbpraCetI scene at Cleveland is "A
quence of N,r. JOhnson's offensive familiarity
with the crowds he has addressed. He chal-
lenged the criticism he received by the Ian
guage he used. Never before did President of
the United States so completely forgot his
station as Mr.. johnson has done in bandying
words aud arguments with a noisy assembly.
II Is unnecessary to examine the Cleveland
haranguej it is enough that the public should
read II.
Yet what can be thought of the proCessed
humility of Mr.. Johnson-a humility which is
so continually iterated that il becomes an often
sive form OF pride when he refers TO the assass-
nation of Mr.. Lincoln as the WORK OF a righteous
Providence? Though not distinguished tor reti-
cence, upon that subject, at least we might have
expected silence. But it is thus that he speaks,
and thus that the crowd repies:-"But short
time since you had a ticket before you for the
Presidency. ! was placed uDon that ticket, with
distinguished tellow-citizen who is now no
more. | know there are some who complain
"a voice, Unfortunately Yes, unfortunate
for some that God rules on high and deals in
right. (Cheers.) Yes, unfortunately, the ways
OF Providence are mysterious and incompre-
hensible, controlling all those who eX-
clam 'Unlortunate.' ('Bully for you.D"
Yes, there are many who will COM
plain nov the more of Lincoln's death
when they see that Mr. johnson does
not. We are not surprised tnat jhe people
assembled at Cleveland could moi hear this
ianeu with patience; but, were it not that
We have learned TO know Mr.. Johnson, we
should wonder that he continued to speak.
RUt the ODDOSltiOn and ri0ipulp Of his auditOrg
seem to have been welcome; he continued to
speak with sulrt which shows that he has not
lost in the digHities OF the President the habits
of the dcmagogue. Il will tell you what did
do. l called upon your Congress-, that is try
You be d-d,5 Don't get mad, Andy."j
"'Wen, will leIl you who is mad; Whom
the. gods, wish to destroy, they first
make mad Dd your CONGRESS order any OF
them 10 be tried? (Three cheers Tor Congress- "
To such remarks fresh attack upon Congress
is his usual answer, He would "take William
H. Seward and bring him before you, and point
you to the hacks and scars upon his person. |
would exhibit the bloody garments saturated
with gore from his gushing wounds. Then |
and Wendell PhillipsT" He defes ''man or
woman to place his hnger upon one single act
of mine deyiating fl ON any pledge of mine.
lie is called TRAITOR" and replies to the man
who inSulted HIM, II would bet you now that ii
the light fell upon your face cowardice and
treachery would be seen in it. Show yourself
Come out here where / can see you!"
Such are the speeches OF the man who is now
President OF the United States. We are done
with this harangue, which the worst enemies OF
Mr. johnson cannot read without pain, great as
is its value exposure of his undtness for his
high office. Grant and Farragut, who have
BEEN in the worst possible taste, exhibited by
Mr.. Seward as If they we're tame lions harnessec
to the Presidents car, no doubt left his party to
save themselves from personal disgrace. What
ever they may think of his policy, they have
done wisely in shrinking from the suspicion o
approving his manner of enforcing it. Tn
people have been again and again shocked b,
MIR. Johnson's exhibitions, but seldom so deepl,
as now, and watch with feeling of nationa
shame the coarseness with which be has turne
a solemn journey TO the tomb of celebrate
American into the stumping tour of an rrtate