The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-09-15
President johnson at the Homo of Lin
eOln.
[From the Illinois journal, Springtieldl
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MEETING OF TIE CITY COUNCIL.
Petitions preseased-Ot sundry citizens; that the
City Council invite President johnson and the dStin-
guished gentlemen with him, to visit this city.
Ad. Anderson offered the following order:
orIcred-Dy the City Council of the City Of
Springfield: That the Mayor is hereby Instructed to
extend In behalf OF the City Council and citizens, an
Invitation to President Johnson his Cabinet officers,
cd fiagrag and tae n o
oIr Stale and tomb of the late President Lincoln,
wiTse s1ss memory memoir we all delight 10 honor"
All. aough moved to amend by striking ont the
name of Andrew John:sn - e ~ W.
The vote was taken aud the amendment was a,lopt
ed. 80 ''oi'
AID. Goats moved that the order as amended ra,s
AID; Daliman moved that the order lie on the ta
be. Lost "
+, The order, as amended, then passed, tor.
COMMENTS OF THE JOURNAL.
A dispatch having been received in
this city, yesterday afternoon, announc-
ing that President johnson proposed Wis
iting Springfield on his electioneer
ing tour through the Country, the Copper
heads at once set their wits to work to have the
City Council extend to him and his party
formal invitation in the name of the CITY, By
reference to the proceedings of that body it will
be observed that an order to this effect was Of
fered by Alderman Anderson, but before pass
ingit was amended by emitting the name of
Andrew johnson from the list of those invited.
The Council has done exactly right Presi-
dent johnson set out from Washington osten-
sbly to go to Chicago to be present at the lay
ing of the corner stone of the Douglas Monu-
ment This was all right. 1t was perfectly
proper that the President of the United States
should be present on that interesting occasion,
and that members Of his Cabinet and the chief
commanders of the army and navy should ac-
company him in doing honor TO the memory
of the great Douglas. But that such o pilgrim
age should be turned into an election tour;
that the high and distinguished character and
department which the incumbent of that ex-
alted Office ought to maintain in the presence
of his cOuntrymen Of all parties and opinions
should be laid aside, and those of the partizan
and demagogue assumed, is a spectacle calcu-
lated to sicken and disgust all right minded
men, be their opinions what they may.
The conduct of Andrew johnson ever since
he started from Washington, has been such as
to render it impossible for any men who have
any self-respect to pay those honors OF the
| Chief Magistrate of the Republic in his person
| which they have ever been accustomed to pay
| He has done nothing since he started on his
| pilgrimage but talk about Andrew johnson and
my policy" and my party. Wherever he has
| spoken he has acted the partisan and the dem
| agogue He has persistently appealed to the
baser passions of those who heard him, inter-
| lartled with insults of better men than himself
Under these circumstances, Andrew johnson,
by his course, has rendered it impossible for
our City Council to show those honors to their
Chief Magistrate in his person which they
haye been accustomed to pay, irrespective Of
| party; and they did right last night, in refus-
| ing 60 include him personally in the invitation
| which was extended to his party. Our City
| Council, speaking the sentiments of n large
majority Of the people of Springfield, have no
/, desire to have the tomb of their martyred Lin
| coin desecrated and insulted by the low-1ung
| partisan harangues of Andrew johnson, who
| succeeded to his place only through the assas-
sins bnllet. They have no desire that he should
on their invitation, go through the mock cere-
mony of shedding tears ever the grave Of the
| great and good man, whose Office he now holds