Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-09-06
President Johnson's Stamping
Tour.


who were disposed to be his friends by
the Incorporate and grossly partisan
speeches made by him on his present tour.
The New York Evening Post, which has
always upheld his policy, has become
disguised with his course, and now
speaks out in a manner which is not diff
ficult to be understood. The Post says 4;
Does Mr. Johnson know that by his
indecorous language and injudicious
conduct he is seriously increasing the
difficulties under which the country al
ready staggers If he does not, it
would be well if some judicious friend
if he has any such left-would tell him
this.
1t would be well for him to know
that he is very fast making himself per-
sonally odious. The loyal people of the
Northern States, those who stood by the
Union when it was attacked by the rebels,
see with q dissatisfaction and alarm
which is no longer concealed, that the
President, whom their votes elevated to
his position, surrounds himself, by his
own choice apparently, with men like
Tom Florence, Garrett Davis, Salisbury
and Others, who like these, during the
war, never concealed their sympathies
with treason. They see Mr. Johnson,
further, removing from office men of.
ability and of undoubted fidelity to the
Union, and putting in their places not
war democrats, not republicans who
agree with his own views on the ques-
tion of representation, but copperheads,
sympathizers with treason, persons
whose course during the war made them
forever hateful to the loyal people.
They have seen him bat lately, in
Louisiana, violate his own often declared
policy in regard to the Southern States
and violate it in favor Of boastful rebels,
and to the injury of men who We're
known as Union men; and they ask why,
if the law is to be stretched, if what the
President asserts to be the true policy is
to be violated, why is it only in the in
terest Of men who are notorious as ha-
tiers Of liberty and union? They have
seen him pardon many of the most fla
grant traitors-such men as Mayor Mon
roe, men of temper which makes them
bad citizens, and whom it would Ger
tainly be more judicious to have unpar-
doned. Finally they are alarmed and
hurt at the indecorous language which
Mr.. Johnson uses towards Congress
they are Disguised to hear him on every
occasion denouncing Congress, among
whose members are many men of spot
less honor and long tried loyalty, as
traitors, usurpers, hanging on the
skirts of the government" They hear
him speak of subsidized press" and
they ask, Who subsidies it, when Mr..
johnson has all the patronage
The Post then characterizes the Presi-
dent as follows:
His language and acts show not
wise, temperate and conciliatory spirit,
not desire to produce harmony, and
to effect his ends with the general con-
currence Of the nation; they show a
petulant spirit, a harsh temper, whose
inevitable effect, when used towards an
Intelligent people, jealous of dictation
from their public servants, is to arouse
= passionate feeling Of hostility and op-
position"
From all which the Post argues that
President Johnson Is not Only destroying
himself politically, bnt that he is unit
ing the nation in opposition to his poll
cy--rendering it hateful to the people,"
Under the pressure Of the general in
dignation," it tells US, the Republican
journals that formerly supported the
johnson policy have fallen off"
From such source, this language is
very significant. The people cannot
look on indifferently, and see the office
of President, the highest in their gift,
degraded and themselves corresponding
ly Inundated, by such disgraceful cleo
pioneering tricks and utterances as are
now made use of by the temporary occu-
pant Of that position. And if he keeps
on to the end of his tour in the way he
has begun, he will, as we have before said,
do more damage to "my Ipolicy than
he can remedy by all the official patron
age at his disposal.