The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-13
Compliments to President johnson
G9gi 3ieby one OF his Satraps."s

: The Illinois State Journal repro
so duces the following compliments
81 to President JOHNSON, from the
~ columns of the State Register, edited
O. by E. l.. MERRITT, Mr.. JoHNsoNs
. newly appointed Pension Agent,
en at Springfield. 1t is proper to say
no that these choice extracts appeared in
h the Register during ats present editors
connection Nth that paper. Wequote:
In its issue of March 21st, 1865, it
what it called biography
cal sketch of President JOHNSON,
from which we take the following:
Times change and men change
~ with them. Mr.. johnson sought a
Presidential and Vice Presidential
nomination from the Democratic par
II ty, and signally failed in his aspira-.
tions. He sacrificed the convictions
of his life and became a convert to
the very doctrines he had spent a life
in denouncing. That this was not
the result of an honest conviction, is
seen in the disgraceful scene attend
ing his taking upon himself the duties
of Vice President. TO HIDE AS
1T WERE FROM HIMSELF, THE
DECEASED THING HE BECAME,
and to stife thought, HE RESORT
ED TO STIMULANTS, AS JU-s
DAS RESORTED TO THE ROPE
30 AND HUNG HIMSELF when he
betrayed his Master. Previous to
his change, Andrew johnson was a
sober man. In the very act of taking
4. upon himself the duties of the second
4 Office in the Republic, he showed such
signs of drunkenness that HE DIS
) eGRACED HIMSELF AND Ids
GRACED THE REPUBLIC. This
intemperance is not to be- elassed as
Isl an accidental alteration. He was in
state of intoxication when he as
sembled the slaves at Nashville and
Q made them speech to excite them to
fury against their masters-and some
of them by name And en- route to
l9i the capital HE WAS DRUNK in
Cincinnati, and probably HAS NOT
DRAWN A SOBER BREATH
70 since he joined the idols of abolition
49, ism" ..,.r.
The following is from an editorial
which appeared in its columns on the
18th of March, 1865: 49,. -s ...
i "On Inauguration day the morti-
fcation of all sorts of people was in
fsY tense. The Vice-President elect of
this great Republic WAS DRUNK
in the Senate Chamber before the
Gil eyes of icongregated thousands =
DRUNK. BEASTLY, INORDIN-
" ATELY, CONSU MMATELY
s DRUNK; ; so DRUNK that he could
not stand erect; so DRUNK that had
he been in the street he would have
cndeavored to light his corn-cob
pipe at the public pump handle; so
DRUNK, indeed, that he did not
q know Grandmother Welles, Secretary
gle of the Navy, nor recognize. his i'm
mortal beard with all its flowing pro-
portions so BRUNK, in fine, that
fo3o he outraged the blunt sensibilities of
men who are more or less inebriated
all their lives. h9i sdA Niie1nAI+
bad 1--WE might fill this whole. paper
with lugubrious articles. complaining
i. of our noble Andy Johnson We do
.'oa fill too much space with his afro
: CIOUS AND DISGRACEFUL AN
TICS; but THE PEOPLE SHALL
z KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT 1T,
though our heart and head ache at the
recital. aIE It3HN 31af
9IiDfH What with SMUTTYa JOKER
and MAUDLING, DRIVELING,
SLGBBERING DRUNKARD, this
~ nation is eminently blessed, 4. e. if the
z people think So Surely the people
have right to select their rulers. IF