, 1866-03-01

chief you hsro 80 long being dofng.-Leus..
rule Journal ----
The Cincinnati Experimentation OF The
dauagc resulting to the President from tho
embraces Of he Democratic party, and anxious
to IeaTc him sufficient reputation 10 insure
--counscls It's people to lei the President
alone, aAd to - keep thu place OF spectator
The Enquirer donbtfuuy exclaims-"I L. It
Providence Or accident thai the party in oppo.
eitioa to Tue Democracy Is SO unfortunate with
its Vice Presidents"
The Enquirer need not feel any apprehen-
sion. The Lord is nQt going to ge1 on it, side
at this late day.
Mr. BoK1es, OF the Springfield Republican.
IN despatch from Washington, last evening.
''president Johnson's speecl .hIs afternoon,
Fts TeIy uudisnifled, ill-tetnpered and unjust
to the North, In paits. u printed a deliT-
ered, It will tend 10 make reconciliation im-
possible.
ttEtcycus's leadership IN the House 1as been
very unfortunate, but the President Is equally
impractlcab1e. ..
s7essmen, and the division and break. down Of
tue uufun party Is freely admitted"
1E'7pm tho n +. rost-IIe.cto!orcn warm supporter
of1he johnson pollcy.]
TIE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
Institute 10 defend the President, he did not
know hoH greatly the President had just Of
,fei. .ded. In the singular md in some respects
unfortunate speech which Mr.. johnson made
yesterday afternoon in the Willie House
grounds, be struck right and LETT, and in his
zeal to parry attacks which .yc nnucecssari-
ly trrilatcd him, bit 1rieuds: I'd tocs indiscEin.
Ma,ely, aud eren gnyc hi :-e1f one or Two
knocks which will cause i.i1n, If wc arc not
mistaken, more su!:s: iug than 1he worst
blows OF those whom i.c chooses 10 think hla
enemies, VIC arc not OF thasc who hold it
improper Tor tho Prsil.rnt to speak to the
people and Were nut OH nhcd at Mr. t.an-
4tr. johnson If he Is u:Ivcd TO announce or
de:eul LIS policy In speech. But the Prthf-
dent Of the United States ought not to de-
scend into the pit; aud instead Of calEsns
names and indu1etng In personalities, he
would have done well 10 Initiate the noble
patience with which Abraham Lincoln bore
1ar bitterer Etbcs, far Fudcr attacks, from the
same men-
For the shocking and unseemly imputation
Ar. johnson chose to bring against afessrs.
Stevens, Sumner and Others opposed to lis
policy, that "their intention was 10 incitc as
sas=fnation," We trust that hc will make haste
to apologize, not merely 10 them, hut to The
country, which lie has most grieyously In
suited Such words as he uttered on that
head would not be tolerated In the hastiest
stump speech. They arc too fll,jndged and
inpulsive for us to think or write patiently
about them; and ne count it no slight mis-
fortune for the milton that its Chief MRsis-
tfate should hare spoken in this style.
From the Montreal Hcrald]
The PRESIDENTS VETo OF TIE FREED
YES's BrRrAu B1IL.-In observing the
are naturally tempted to believe that the
statesmen, wllo, having been greatly si1ided
for lis attachment to some worthy object,
Suddenly becomes the idol Of his late calum-
niators, n1ust have done something Of which
be ought to be ashamed, nnd there never was
greater 1'r7,na .5ae5t appearance OF soundncss
than in that Of the sudden admiration testi-
fcd Tor the President Of the United States by
his yery recent opponents A ycar
ago there was no abuse or mfsrep-
rcsentation too vile to be lealsd
u1on the head Of Mr. johnson, BY those who
had sympathfxed for Hour years with the
rebels to the national Government. For
moment the abuse which Lat been poured
out upon MF. Lincoln. WAS damned up. in
order that the whole rtl eHln might be turned
upoD the drunken 1lllteratc tailor, y who had
been chosen to the Vice Presidency. and who 1t
was not then suspected, wonld IN q lew months
become the chief magistrate OF the Republic.
Alter the late Presidents assassination, these
ISLANDERS assumed a still darker complexion,
and II was not obscure1y inslnnated that the
successor ot the deceased statesman was the
person who, having the most interest in his
taking OF, had employed the assassin by
whom the deed WIS done. All these villa
nies were promulgated by these mcu and
those newspapers who had been remarkable
during their whole existence, for their rn1gar
boastinE; their denagoEue denunclatIons OF
ind. 1hreatcninge directed against other
countries and governments; their coarse
ridicule Of and cruel injustice to the
most bslpless class Of the community !;
and finally their patronage OF rebel
lion agninst their oHn government made in
the interests Of human slavery. When We
see these people, headed By the New: York
Herald. firing guns In honor Of some act Of
President johnson, in reference to a Law re-
la11ng 10 the lately enfranchlsed slaves, it Ia
difficult to avoid the conclusion that hs mus
hare abandoned the noble position In which
lie had me1ited their hatred, and must have
dcbased himself to their own level Iu order to
gain their applause. There is still ereater cause
FOR this opinion when VIC sec that In thus net
ing the rTesl1ent not only has with him all
those who were Lately hostile 10 him, but has
placed himself in opposition to those mcu
who have through 80 many years and In spltt
OF all obstacles, contendcd for the cause o.
freedom and humanity, and whp during thf
late terrible WAT were loyal to the Govern
meat aud Constitution 10 which they owed
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