, 1866-04-20
INSULTING TnE PRESIDENT.

The interview between the President and
Fred. Douglass has gyea the Radicals a toaeh
of the rabies. They are, soenraged that they
havetakeu to openly insulting the Chief Magis-
trntc. The following extracts from, the Chicago
Tribune are specimen of the talk of these ex-
tremists: rss sar Fl s.es. a1rl- .aI
But let Mr.. johnson step down from his official
position, and, standing simply on his metite as
man, meet the ez-slave Douglass in fair de-
bate on any Of the great political issues Of the
day or advertise to speak in competition with
him, and who does not know that Douglass su-
periority in logical power, in memory, in wit, in
rhetorical eloquenee, and in every charm Of or
atory, would leave bis competitor wholly in the
shade. Had Mr.. johnson possessed those hner
instincts of gentleman and true democrat
which nobly distinguished his predecessor,
he would have felt that, in conversing with
Frederick Douglass, he was talking with gem
tleman who was in all but official station, the
equal, and in many respects his Superior. Even
dhrng the interview, the dgnihed Brief, but ap-
! prolriate words of the ex-slave, contrast forci-
bly, with the rambling, ungrammatical discon-
nected harangue of the President, through
| which the mind wanders in vain in the Search
| for either heart, intellect, logic or coherency.
| Ia Illustration of this contrast we ask the
reader to carefClly weigh the modesty, dignity,
conciseness, and condensation of argument ia
Frederick Douglass brief speech, on which a
| Clay, or an Everett could have made no improve
| ment.
The contrast between the dreary twaddle of
such a speech and the pithy utterances Of our
late President, always keenly revealing some
jewel of principle or gem of truth, is painful in
the extreme. One thing, however, is shown
clearly, and that is, that Mr.. johnson represents
no feeling or sentiment this question that is
acceptable to the great majority of the American
people. The brazen aPprobatieh of copperheads
| only confirms our censures. What they have
approved has been steadily and always wrong
| from their birth, as part, until to-day. Fortu-
nately, as this is a government in which men OF
mediocre abilities may by accident become
President, it is also a goTernmeHt which the
mediocrity of their abilities caunot destroy.
The next day the same paper rayed in a negro
mad strain as follows:
| When black insanity In an Instant Of time ac-
complishes musical feats that white sanity can
not master in a lifetime, and black man boards
a white President in his house and shivers his
half hour Of argument in half minute of COM
mon sense, it is time to stop and consider whittier
| we are drifting, and to fad some means for the
suppression of this boy, blind Tom and this
man Douglass, whose eyes are open. We call
| upon the Graus and Maretzeks and Ulmanns,
| the singipg schools and church ehoirs, to mus
| ter their forces for combined suppression of lis
idiot, who aceomplishes without brains more
| than they can with them, before the scepter slips
| from their grasp and race of black idiots sing
the 'Borgia' and "Trovatore' from our stages,
and 'Mear" and "Boylstou' from our choirs.
We call upon the Doolittles and Guthries aud
Saulsburys to suppress this man Douglass, who
so irreverently demolishes white President
lest it may be noted against in historic chrou-
icles that we of the nineteenth century proposed
| RAISING TO our cOuality men whose black cuticles
were the ouly signs Of equality: ....r
Surely, chaos cann6! he very far off when glib
tongued mulattoes like Douglass, AND born idiots
like Blind Tom, glorifed by white men al
the expense of their own race.