The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-01-19

you SO ungrateful as TO desert US nd 20
over to the enemy? They would attem p,
to intlame his resentment against men of
the south, from whom he had received 10.
suit and injustice They would threaten
him with the overwhelming p"wer of Con
gress, and the defeat Of his administra-
ti"n, and if they failed in all this they
uld, like one of old, promise him all the
Kingdoms OF the Earth if he would but
fail down and say, great is the Ethiopian.
But Andy will not move. His Democrat
ic education will not permit it.
In overcoming the strong natural dcsil e
OF mah, to take vengeance of his enemies,
aud IN the clear conception and apprecia
tlon Of the dangers that mcnacci the con-
s,itiou, growing cat Of the war, and iu his
steady and inhrxible devotion to the in
terests of the whole country, Johnson
has shown himself possessed Of the grand
est attributes OF our race, and we venture
to predict, that the nation will grant him
everlasting fame if he will finish as he has
begun. LIT him stick to the text.
The charge that Johnson Is being sc
duccd from his party is too silly to need
REPUTATION. 1t would be an honorable ac,
TO convert ruler from wrong to right
measures. We suppose our antagonists
do not wish to immortalize error; but in
this case there is no need ofconversion, for
there was no apostacy. Andy Johnson
never was r publican. H,ar what Sen
atnr Cowan says, iii his recent speech iu
the Senate of the United States Speak
ing of johnson, he says: ale has stood
by the Constitution, by the Union, all the
way through, steadily AMI fruly and us
compliment to him, the great purity to
,chica l belong, and 10 eohich lie lid not
dc/eay, and neuer pretendedto belong, con-
ferred upon him the Office, winch in the
providence of God, has made him presi-
dent of the United States" There was
but one question on which Jrhnsou agreed
with the r, publican party and that was
the war But the war is settled, and that
tie suudcred, leaving the President suund
on the cardinal issues Of The Democratic
party. Therefore his hostility to the
trlumvrate.
The Republicans may as we'll accept
the existing condition Of things. They
are played out as party. Their down.
fall is inevitable, ana Stevens, by his RI
baldry and bilIings4ate, is accelerating
that downfall. The generous Christian
sentiment Of the North was outraged at
the cruel course and unmanly views ad
vanced in his last speech as well as the
purpose intended to be attained by it,
The h"nost r.rt "f N, Rnpubiioau party
will not accept continued power at the
price of the decencies and proprieties of
life.
If our opponents would allow US to ad
wise them at this junnturc, it would he to
cease discrimination. Every observer I'm
dcrstands the true relations between them
and johnson. 1t only makes them rid-
culous to be casting one eye to the Presi-
dent in pretended sympathy with his
measures, and at the same time turning
the other encoura!ingly to the Bloody
Triumvirate, desiring all the time that
the latter should triumph over him. The
veil behind which they hide their scowl
ing vSagps is perfectly transparent.
The mistake into which our opponents
t'li, was IN attempting to measure the
Presidents corn in their busheI In be-
l,eving that he would b"come mere pup
pet in the hands IF the Trlumvirate -
That he would as was the custom of some
of their leaders, "throw conscience to the
devlP' and follow party right or wrong;
that be would hand over the government
to be administered by the negro maniacs
aud suffer them to dictate his policy
But Andy will not be the auto,naton of
any party. He is made of truer materi
ais. The ''man of Providence" turns GU,
to be the man Of Integrity, siernIy reso-
we'd to do his whole duty. What sad
disappointment this is likely to prove to
the fanatics and office jobbers the frs,
baffled in their spite, the latter in their
cup'dity. How they will howl.
But the President can weld power
enough to defeat the schemes of the fana-
tics H. hno'os this and so do his enc
n'tes, and they are chagrined to find that
the supposed puppet has the will nobly
to stand by the right, and to despise the
Yankee trlumrrate who would fetter him
to their tana,ical projects.
The programme of the Republican par
ty was known to the President before
Congress met 1t was afterwards embod-
led when it did meet The committee
was selected which swallowed up the lib
erty OF d bate, extnguishing the grea.
ness and the renown Of that body. Ste
Vens as chairman and mouth piece of that
committee, Illuminated his thunders
against the Presidents reconstruction
policy. Did J'hnsou quail before the
Congressional bully? Did he cry for
quarters? aud did he hasten 10 execute
the mandates Of the Triumvirate ? Not
moment did he stay his hand in the re.
construction of Southern political life
whilst they were fixing committees, gag.
g'ng the representatives of a free people !;
whilst Stevens was frothng at the mouth
10 angry vehemence, aud Sumner was de.