The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-14
The President.

However much President johnson
msy differ with the party which eleya-
ted him TO power, it is very evident
that he has no intention of throwing
himself into the arms Of any organizI-
ton which hiss even the smell Of dis
loyalty upon its garments. However
much his views may clash with certain
of the Union leaders, he msnifestly in
tends, rs he has declared, 10 fight his
battles within the lines Of the Union
party. In his recent conversation with
GOV. Cox, Of Ohio, he said his whole
heart was with the bo1y Of true men
who carried the country through the
war and he earnestly desired to main
tain cordial and perfect understand
ing with them.
After making the most strenuous ef-
forts to win over the Republican Presi-
dent the Democrats are at last coming
to the conclusion that their labors will
prove unsEailing, if 8 sudden change Of
tone affords any criterion 70 Judge
from For example, Senator Salisbury
said in the course Of his lachryuiOse
speech before q gathering Of the faith
full at Washington on Saturday, that
he was tired OF supporting q man who
would not help himself; who let the
Connecticut election 60 against b m,
when he could have prevented it, who
gives his offices TO his enemies, and re-
tains Cabinet wholly inimical to his
policy.
The World now wants it TO be under
stood that /" Mr.. johnson is not our
President" Democrats "praise and
support him Just exactly as we should
have praised and supported Mr. lin
coin. We do not ask of him anything
except not to desert himself We do
not ask for Offices; we do not want
them" 1t continues:
The President, in beipg afraid 20
identity himself in any way with the
Democratic party (perhaps from mo
tives of delicacy which we appreciated,
can lose something; but that party
which needs no particular man can
easily do without him. Clay left it.
and, though few more able men have
lived since Washington, the Democratic
party managed to exist without him,
and to beat him as often as he WoOed
the combat We do not envy Mr..
johnson his pretended friends of Sc
ward d Co, whom he so often and so
bitterly denounced as enemies of the
Union, subverters of the Constitution,
and proyokers of civil war We did not
ask him not TO affiliate with them; but
he knows that, though he ask it, we
will not affiliate with them; their hands
are too red with blood and their pock-
cts too plethOric with public plumber,
The News likewise changes its atti-
tude toward the President this morn
ing, and says:
If the President will consent to be
the tool of faction, let him execute
the unconstitutional laws of those legis-
latiYe moDopolists But, if he is Presi-
dent of the United States, he need not
fear to trample upon the edicts of the
demagogues who are going through the
show and mockery of legislation at
Washington
Following the lead Of these two jour
mails, we may now expect the rural
Democratic press will 60 still further
and soundly berate Mr.. johnson for not
fulfilling their expectations, and rang
ing himself along with them
The President, however, will doubt
less pay but little heed to, and care less
about these unfriendly expressions Of
opinion Nor need he look to mere
party organizations for approval and
support If, rising above all party ties
and influences he fearlessly and con
scientiously performs his whole duty
the voice Of the American people will
applaud and uphold HIM y. Com.
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