Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-15
The President and the Richmond
Examiner,

The Pfesidenf and the Richmond
Examiner,
IFrom the Erie Dispatch, june -
The Richmond Examiner is a high old
Democratic sheet, which through ell the
tribulations of the east Eve years has
stuck ihanfully to its principles, never
letting 20 once. During the devastation
of the sunny South by Northern hirelings
the Examiner was never found wanting
in either Democratic defamation or first
class Democratic advice. 1t cried out
very properly against the wirkedness of
the North, and called Il Babylon, and
sich. II stated, with eohmendable vet-
scity, that the Federal army was composed
of scum" that the best Of the multitude
were not fit 10 clean Southern gehtlenen's
boots, and that one chivalrous Southron
could clean out half dozen NOrtkGf;;
mudsills, =, u1vocated raising the black
1 nag, and thought the Union prisoners at
| Belle Isle and Andersonville were used
much too well. It gloried with a full
heart at the Fort Pillow massacre, and
rubbed Its hands with delight at the fun
of Quantrel one night at Lawrence. 1t
Democratically set price upon the head
of President Lincoln and the leedihF
Generals of the North. Its pet name for
Andrew johnson was drunken hound,
ana il often pathetically inquired if there
would be found no arm TO rid the world
of such monster.
The Richmend Examiner has been rec
INSTRUCTED. II is one of the miraculous
effects of " my policy" Its reconstruc-
tion is of the intermittant kind, however
Now it is reconstructed and how it isn't
Its new loyalty breaks out like cutane-
Gus disease-very inhammatory in one
place, while the rest of the body remains
altogether unaffected. For the last sew
eral weeks a portion of its columns have !
been set apart for a sort of fetish-worship |
of Andrew johnson. He is a patriot, a |
hero, martyr, demigod, Democrat |
The only thing for the E11nii,se7- to regret |
is, that his name can't be spelled with ak"
In one of its recent gushes the EraBlize7'
spreads itself thusly:
He (Andrew Johnson) is the pure
genius of American liberty embodied in
the flesh
If that is so, the pure genius of Ameri-
can liberty ought TO be ashamed of itself.
1t is evidently embodied" in something
it don't feel at home in.
w III AAO lCiHOlO III oHOdh-
ing thus of Andrew johnson. Nor are
we moved 10 speak in his praise by hope
of reward or fear of punishment. He is
the one distinct, separate, grsndly solitary
figure in the whole range of time, who,
possessed of vast power, has scrupulSIsly
abstained from rewarding his friends and
furnishing his enemies"
That's so, that's Andy 10 dot Scru-
pulously abstained from rewarding his
friends and punishing his enemies" He's
right thar every time. In fact, the re-
and furnishing" would seem
TO a person of ordinary intellect 20 have
got mixed, somehow. Judging from pres
emit appearances the aforesaid stands an
equal chance of being "solitarier" than
sVor, shortly. ----
{" He has forgotten self"
Not muchly he hasn't That amt his
style. ----.-.--.
aAndrew johnson is wholly merged in
The President. . mas. .-s
Yes, and the President in Andrew John
son.
"He is puzzle to generation that
cannot comprehend his exalted virtue"
Right every time. Andy is about the
toughest old puzzle that any nation ever
got stuck with, and whether he'll get fairly
spread out so as TO be understood by his
own party before his term expires is
another puzzle just as tough. The Eraul-
iHeT is sound when it says his exalted vir-
Tue cannot be comprehended by the peo-
pie. Anyhow, it hasn't been yet.
Taken altogether, the Eram1,er Is a
paper which is paper, and the mau who
1enies it is base recresnt to the good old
Democratic principles which are enunci-
ated and set forth in its columns.