Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-09-15
The Presidents Insult to Cleveland

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Mr. Johnson's speech at Cleveland decp7
lyr mortified and offended the Union men
many of whom had assembled to give him,
as President, an honorable and respectful
reception. , The Clesezdnd LeaGev' thus
speaks for the majority Of the, citizens ;'a
We,hear, Copperheads,q on our streets
loudly complaining that the President
was ipsultedj blythe scries and cheers of
the crowd which listened to him Monday
night In our judgment, instead of the
people of Cleveland insulting the Presf
dent, the President offered grave insult
to the people of Cleveland The Presi-
dent, while here, was the guest of the
city. He came ostensibly on no political
errand, and he was accompanied by ma
val and military heroes whom the nation
delights to honor In respect to his office,
and in honor to those who SaccempanieA
b i'm, the hospitalities of the city werejexl
tended to him by Its Republican city
government. Every taxpayer ofClete-
land, whether johnson or anti7J ohnson
in sympathy, shared in the expense ofen
tertaining the President, and thus he was
under. obligation to each one of them, as
their guest. Under these circumstances
it was Mr.. Johnson's obvious duty. not
only out of respect to his ofliciafdifgnity
as President, but out of respectito the po-
litical position of the majority of our
people, to abstain, entirely from political
references. But instead of doing this, he
went out of his way to do the opposite.
lie fulfilled our worst anticipations, and
those radicals who We're engaged in get.
ting up the reception must have experiene-
ed extreme modification and shame at the
use which he made of their hospitalitiess.
Well knowing that the city, whose guest
he. was, was overwhelmingly Radical;
well knowing that the gentleman who in
treduced him was Radical; well know
ing that the City Council, whose mem
bers surrounded him were two to one
Radical, he Proceeded, with unblushine
effrontery, to appropriate the honors paid
to- his, office to political purposes. He
commenced a, bitter political harangue.
every word Of which was an insult to his
Radical hosts. This is bad enough, httit
this was not the worst. Even decent and
temperate political speech would have
been most updignifed' and inappropriate
in view of the occasion, the position of the
speaker, and the character Of the ap-
| dience. But the Presidents IiaralSue
was not even decent nIiis Recommendation
Of Wendell Phillips and Thad. Stevensby
name as traitors; his insolent and reyol.
utionary attacks upon Congress as a sfac-t
tiOtts, domineering, usurpmg body"
which si"trying to baeak up the Covers
mdnt :" his defiant declaration that those
who differ from him were Northern trait
.ors, greater traitors than JEFF. Davis.
and that he was ''ready to. fight traitors
at the North worst Of all hisiaan up6n
the mob to hang Wendell Philips and
Thaddeus Stevens, would have BEEN ont.
rageous from any mQuth=-from that, of
the President of the United States they
We're simply atrocious" N''N '4oia7'iV1q
Had tll5yal MAI, gone tom ewsa 0fleaYs
and addressed the ilhresidmt's,adseBN
friends in that city ia lterIys, ope7balRias
hYlolent as these used by Ma. ,,IphnsQn
Monday night, We know from sad pre-
cedents that he would have been fiufiaer
ed before he could have concluded his
speech. "A Cleveland audieDeesfiB not
made of New Orleans stuff, and the Pre-
sident knew he could trust its moderation,
or he would not have dared SO to test It.
We regard the manner of Monday nights
throng as one of extreme federation Inn
der grieyous insult, andwe thank the peo-
pie that they wererso moderate and for
bearing.
Reyy Leonard Corning, of Poughkeep-
sic, rowed up from that place, to Troy
last week, in skull boat thirty feet long.
fourteen inches wide, weighing forty-seS-
en- pounds. The distance rowed Is ninety
miles, as the boat followed the ;indicar
tions Of the shore, and the feat was accom-
plished in sixteen hours. The reverend
gentlemen ayows his intention to q doh
the whole Hudson in this mannsS,fih
which way he Is spending, his sSsmmtf
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|sadA4 Uhitedl States, lIisysnue ,effisaf in
Spripgfeld, Mass has Ieesiyed. .thsfaIIeNr
ing "noat, which seems rather q loud one;
s'ro Mr.. Adams, have been seiliiiii
shessnuss by the kwart to som Of my ma
boris an the boys says l shal be prosek,i-
ted ifIidont hasi lisence or git my she's
nuss stamped onto, How mulch .hay i
got to pay for sellin few, shcsnllss 2"