The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-04-12

otlsm oil the American people than
this same election. IL would be un.
just to say that the battle was fought
personally against Andrew johnson.
That there were strong feelings OF
surprise and anger, that he should
have maintained an equivocal posi-
tion is true, but that the masses
were animated by desire to crush
him by saving themselves cannot
be asserted. They have simply
established the fact that even Prcsi
dcot of the United States, suddenly
and mysteriously identified with men
who have been nothing If not hostii
to him and his country, is not strong
enough to destroy his own record, and
least of all to destroy the guarantees
and projections that have been thrown
around the rights Of a rescued people.
The Copperhcads declare that the
President was with them in this strue
| gle, and yet the people have proved
either that the Coppcrhoads spoke
falsely, or else that they, the people,
could sustain themselves even against
the President Of the United States.
What is most admonitary in these
figures is this that while last year
the mere opparition of negro suffrage
was defeated by the great majority of
.6,372 votes, this year, when the
charge was distinctly made by the
.Copperheads with the support, VIC
regret to say, of President Johuson's
two veto mcssagcs) that negro suf.
frage was part Of the Republican
progrommc, and was contemplated by
the majorities in Congress, the voters
of Connecticut decided in favor of the
Republicans and, if tho enemy
pleasos, in favor of negro suffrsgo-
They preferred, in brief and better
phrase, to take the Union party with |
all the accusations preferred against
it by the Coppcrhcads and traitors to
reposing any confidence in the latter,
backed by the potential encourage
ment of President johnson. Let us
hope that this popular vote will not
lie disregardcd by the President. Let
us hope that he will at least give
credit to the people for noble disin-
tercstcdness and courage ad isinterst-
cdncss in tho face of the fascinat ions
of national patronage, and a courage
in all things remarkable, but especial
ly in the manner which the combina-
ton between weak and trcacherous
men have been resisted and broken.
Now, why should the President not
take such n waruing2 BY trying to
force his policy upon the Free States
he has gained no friends, and by |
proifcring II to the South he has
made no converts. In the one Sec
tion, his supporters headed by that
unfortunate politician, Montgomery
Blair, whose name is the inevitable
'ynonym of defeat, and all of whose
'lans are only provocative of disastcr)
,avc been ground into powder by the
massive Republican mojoritics, while
n the other his truest and Oldest
friends have only felt his official pow.
,r in the additional and fearful blows
II has strengthened their enemies to
strike.
"Thorc have been occasions in this
country when great men, convinced of
their mistakes, have nobly discarded
their record and Withdrawn III ,ir pol.
icy. There have been experiences in
England where, for the common good, |
statesmen have abandoned favorite
and accepted doctrines they
long have opposed. Andrew johnson
has now another opportunity to de-
eide whether he will adhere to or
abandon his cruel, prospective, and
despotic course. Whether he does or
not, however, he need not be admon-
ishcd that the American people will
control and dispose Of their own dcs-
tinies. They would have rcjoiced at
his warm and hearty aid but they
will not be discouraged or dismayed,
much as they may dcnounce and scorn
his almost savage hostility. 1t is
very hard to be compelled to submit
to thcunexpected blow of one warmed
into consequence and elevated to
command, But they will fulfil their
mission undismayed, regardless of
every consideration but the duty they
owe to God aud their country"
A PRIVATE letter from Richmond,
says that of the officers elected at the
late municipal election in that city.
two-thirds of them formerly held
commissions in the rebel army, and
that the balance, with one single OK
ception, were secessionists during the
rebellion, or in some capacity or an
other Identified with the rebel Gov
crnment,
An idea of the prosperity of our
Western territories may be formed
from the fact that, the internal
revenue receipts in Montana Terri
tory. during the year 1865, amounted
to upwards Of cighty-ene thousand
dollars, nearly halfOf which was from
the sale of licenses.
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