Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-03-08

III tiiC HauuS VI uoitn ylcT , anu Ill
short time he bade farewell to his i'm
mediate friends. He soon became q
candidate for reelection, freely placing
himself in the hands of set of adven
turers, whose like I'VE neer look upon
again" They had, as we have said, the
united Democracy and united South tc
begin with. The Wing party was soor
fdislocated, and Tyler, alternately Cat
tered, fooled, persuaded, and driven
distributed his favors with as little
consideration and as much pomp as
the Mock Duke in the play. He seemed
to know that he was giving away
what did not belong to him. Very
few decent men, none at any rate who
were influential in their own neighbor-
hoods, or who looked to an honorable
future, approached him or accepted
place at his hands In that curious
and comic interregnum, when the Pres
ident was not only laughing-stock,
but when every one who gave him his
support was instantly set down as a
toady or gamester, it was the Office
that sought the man, and not the man
the Office. The sequel is SO fresh and
familiar that it need not be held up as
an admonition. 1t is the viGilant and
slccpless sentinel in every honest
statesman's memory.
The biographer of John Tyler says,
in language that may not be unproiita-
bly, read by those who profess to be-
lieve in Andrew Johnson's policy
"The result of the peculiar policy of the
President was that toward the close of the
term it became evident that he had lost The conf
deHee Of The Ways, rithom hdving secured that Of
Gie Democrots. There pqs Bat oae Wig ia The Sen
Gte achose support he could reiy and but fire or
siI ia Tie house. lie had been persuaded. how =
ever that the mass of the people were attach
ed to him, and that he could be re elected
without the support Of either of the existing
parties. In My, of 1871, "A convention, com
posed chiefly Of otioeho assembled at Baiti-
more, and rendered him nomination for the
Presidency, which he accepted; bm IN Agg1ia,
LeiierRg that he had really popular support, lie
,rithdrer from the caHVRSs.'
Not all the Offices at his command
backed by the powerful appeals of his
friends, some of whom were, neverthc,
less, among the ablest men of both
parties, and not the fact that he had
subscribed to the leading tenets of the
Democracy, saved him from the con
tempt and scorn of those he had be-
trayed and those he had joined.
Third. The experience of James
Buchanan, unfortunately more familiar,
if possible, than the comic catastrophe
that bcfel Tyler, because of the trag.
edy that wound up his desperate and
shameless career. Chosen upon dis
tinct and positive pledge to keep the
faith to the people of Kansas, he broke
it under circumstances of unparalleled
perfidy-broke it early, under the sol
emn mockery of scandalous decision
of the Supreme Court of the United
States. and continued to violate and
discard it during four years of ingrati.
tude to friends and cruelty to oppo.
nents-years fitly concluded by ingrat.
itude and cruelty to country and to
mankind. When recalled to a sense
of his crime by the indignant protest
of betrayed people. though not dar.
ing to deny, and scarcely to palliate
his guilt. he intrencled himself behind
the Notifications of his patronage, re-
moved all men from Cffice WHO would
not swear that his treachcry was justi.
fable, and called to his support the
ablest intcllects of slavery, at whose
behest he first surrendered the great
covenant upon which he was chosen
| F,,tt a T,.ln
this man did not ask the votes of his
people for second term but before
, he left his office he destroyed his par
ty, and contributed more to the over
throw of his country than the rebels
who perished in trying to complete his
: treachery on the field of battle. Tho
Offices and powers coniided to him by
trustful people he welded like St
many death-dealing engines agains
the brave men who stood out agains
his fragrant turpitude but these same
: engines often exploded in his hands o.
/, recoiled upon his myrmidons. The,
contributed, III fact, to the slaughter o
7 every candidate who ran in support o
!, his calamitous policy.
As the present Executive evidentl,
E resolves to make a test of that portio,
t of his veto mossage which demand
: tho instant rehabilitation Of States mn
! fitted for political representation in th'
e American Congress, he should know
! that he will have none of the advanta
: ees Of either Adams or TYLER or Bucl
I anan The first was am honest mar
: t;mbt;,c for what be believed 70 h
5 r;@bt and sustained in his contest h,
+ some Of the nurest patriots in the lane
r The second believed himself backed b
united Soutb and = recunerated d,
i mocracv The third had also the mol
e ticians If the entire South to suppor
l. lin ana a desperate section of the n,
! n'ni' anu u1epe,a'1 'e',,on VI 'no o'