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II Mr.. Johnson's 10 Mr., Lincoln's pol
icy, why did not the rebels endorse it, in
stead Of assassinatilg the author An
swer this satisfactorily. and we are for A.
Johnson.-MarysviRo Appeal.
Do you mean by the above to say that
you were in favor Of Lincoln's policy
If you do, we advise you to turn to the
files Of the Appeal Immediately preceding
the news of the assassination OF President
Lincoln, and read your W editorials on
the surrender Of Lee to Grant and john
son to Sherman, which took place under
Mr.. Lincoln's administration, and you
will find a complete refutation of such an
idea. II you want still further proof,
just review your own obituary Of Mr..
Lincoln, and your utter hypocrisy and
mendacity will be established beyond sue
cessful contradiction ; and will so COM
pletely show up your character as a dis
unionist, disorganizer and cringing hypo-
critic. that, had you the least spark Of
manhood or regard for truth, you would
hide your head for shame, and never again
attempt to disgrace the memory Of the
honored dead by stating that you gave
his policy a cheerful support. We feel
confident that had President Lincoln
lived, he would have pursued the same,
or nearly the same policy johnson has,
and that you and all Of your kind would
now be denouncing and bowling at him
as you are ut President Johnson and Sec
rotary Seward.
Don't you remember that you consider
ed the assassination Of our noble Lincoln
ian act Of Provldence"-that he was too
conservative to suit you, and that you
actually gloriied over the fact, that in his
successor the people had found q true and
tried patriot ; But johnson does not love,
reverence and admire the niger enough
to please your fanatical friends; 'that's
what's the matter"
In this connection we would say that
the course of those men is un~accountable.
on the hypothesis Of honesty, who all
their lives lave been ultra pro-slavery
Democrats, like the editor of the Appeal
men who supported Buchanan and
Breckenridge, and whose eyes the firing
upon Fort Sumter and the murder Of
troops in Baltimore could not open to the
truth Of the situation, but who " waited
"until they saw which was to be the pop
" ular side, and then chopped" and,
like eleventh hour converts, to establish
their character as "purc-minded" Union
men and members Of the Union party,
I" commenced to howl more furiously than
"even old time Abolitionists for the abo-
"lition of slavery, the determination Of
the whole Southern people, equal rights
for the niger, amalgamation, death
and damnation to traitors, the hanging Of
all rebels, the destruction of all newspa-
pers that opposed any policy Of the Ad-
ministration, the distranchisement of the
copperheads ; but were always eager for
government contracts, so as to be able to
swindle the government, to furnish the
South arms, etc., by running the block
ade to made money for themselves, to cry
union. niger, and sound their own
praises. It is no wonder that such men
now denounce Seward, Doolittle, Cowan,
Raymond and others, who before these
eleventh hour converts had cleared them
selves Of their Democratic swaddling
clothes, had fought and won the fight for
the rights of the white citizens Of our
country in every State and territory in
the Union ; but they did not do enough
for the "poor Niger" which neglect men
like the editor Of the Appeal seek to rem
edy.-Quincy Union, Cal.