Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-07
The Presidents FIatterers his Worst
Enemies.

InS Pro9A0ontS E10ttererN his worst
Enemies.
It is the misfortune of President John
son to have the Support" of motley
herd of sycophantic conservatives and
disloyal Democrats" The former ap-
plaud everything they imagine the Presi-
dent may do say; the latter pirate to
him Of their faithful adherence provided
he will return to "the principles of
"the old Breckinridge Democrats and
betray the loyal men who placed him in
power. 1t is not presumable that man
who remained loyal throughout four
years of reasonable war on the part of
his State, and who has placed on record
some of the strongest denunciations of
treason ever uttered, will forsake his loyal
.co-workers and throw himself into the
embrace of traitors in the hour of the de-
feat of the rebellion. S1ch course would
be the greatest exhibition of official wick
edness and folly of which any American
statesman has ever been guilty. Such
treason to the party which has brought
the nation through the most gigantic re-
bellion ever inaugurated-the party which
to-day holds the destiny of the nation in
its loyal grasp-would make the detection
Of John Tyler respectable, and the trucu-
lent policy of Millard Fillmore profound
and manly statesmanEhip, in comparison.
The wish being father to the thought, it is
not strange that I" Democratic ? journals
should prophesy such action on the part
of the President-that they should
map out for him a policy as
infamous ss that which has char
acteriEed the Northern enemies of the
Government during the entire struggle
with the slaveholders' rebellion. But it is
strange that men calling themselves loyal
-claiming membership with the great
Republican party-the party of loyalty,
of radicalism, of progress--should be
found veering with every passing breeze
which carries slanderous rumor of Pres
idential detection from the principles and
policy which brought the war to q sue
cessful Termination. These men are gem
orally found ongthe ofice-holders under
the administration, though, thank God,
they fall far short of comprising major-
ity of Federal officers. They are mere par
asites, hangers-on to the skirts of Power;
men who, having obtained position by
feigning virtue when they had it not,
regard themselves as the property in fee
simple of the administration, bound, by
virtue Of having received their price, to
shout praises to those in authority, regard
less of the merits or dement's of the policy
being or about to be pursued. These men,
in their weakness, fearful of dismissal
for failure to yield ''cordial support,
run into all manner of vagaries and curse
with. their ill-timed adulations those whom
they attempt to benefit. Desiring to bs
swift in bending i'the supple hinges of the
"knee," they make themselves and theil
cause ridiculous by advocating every
measure rumored as meeting with execu
tive favor. In this way they are otter
led to the advocacy of measures which thu
President condemns, and which they arr
sure to condemn soon after. This farc'
goes on week after week and month aftel
month, and is one of themost humiliatinl
features of our body polite. These meI
generally manage to control, either. di
rectly or indirectly, the columns of Ger
tain inscriptions journals, which in thei
variableness are likened to nothing s.
much as shifting weather-vane. =
But short time ago, the Postmaster