Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-08-21
A President with but one Constituent.

the state of Illinois at large, said in
his speech accepting; president
Johnson was elected by a single Con.
stituent, Booth the assassin of Lin
coin And this day is faithful to
that Constituent, faithful only to
Booth and those who felt that Booth
was blameless for the work he did,
and faithful to the northern copper
head sympathisers with Booth. The
people elected Lincoln for president,
but Booth elected Andrew Johnson.
The people sowed good seed, but
some Of it fell among thorns, and
Booth and the devil have got the
harvest. Speaking of the objects
of President Johnson in deserving
the party that elected him, Gen. To-
gan said:
A word or two in reference to ano-
Their question. / have on idea in re-
ference to our future that may differ
from that entertained by some men,
and / gather it from what see go
ing on Some say it is hard to ex-
plain why Mr.. johnson has left the
Union party,-hard for us to under
stand or see what the result of this
will be. Now / don't want to be an
alarmist or to appear to you as cow
ard, but really feel some alarm in
reference to what / see going on,-in
reference to our future. L believe
President johnson, when he was in
augurated Vice President, by his
own CONDUCT lost the confidence of
the Union party. Believing that,
looking upon the mans record and
forming my opinion about him,
came to this conclusion. When all
things were created in the creation,
it was necessary to have an animal
to perform all, each and every duty
that animals can perform, for we
must have creatures of every kind,
when the Almighty looked round to
find a demagogue, he made Andy
johnson. [Laughter.] Being that
man, certainly as great u demagogue,
in my judgment, as we ever had, he
commenced then looking round to
see what could be done for the pur-
pose of making his calling and cleo
ton sure in the future. He said to
himself, II certainly cannot be nomi-
mated again by the people who nomi-
mated me before. | must now figure
up some kind of a plan for rcnomi-
nation by some other party" There
was no other way to do it, except to
get some kind of policy that would
get up q break between him and Con
gross. Then he naturally would
have the sytnpathies Of the Copper
head party, and would naturally by
fighting the Union party, take pos
session of them, and with his patron
age then, he would secure some of
the Republican party, and would or
ganize party for himself. BY them
no would be renominated if he could
do that, and if he could get before
the people, he thought he might be
elected President. honestly believe
that was the mans idea
Congress adopted the proposition
that none but loyal States should
enter the General Government that
the Southern rebellious States should
be excluded, but Andrew Johnson
insisted that those States were in
their proper relations to the Govern
ment; that their civil, social and
political relations were in no wise al.
tered or at any time broken or chan
ged by the rebellion. We insist that
they have broken off those relations
and destroyed their civil Govern
ments, and until those are restored
by some plan acceptable to Congress
tho representatives of the loyal PEG
pile of tue country, they are not and
cannot be restored. This is the diff
erence between the two. Then he
has organized this Convention atPhil-
adeipbia. They bring up delegations
from all the Southern States If
they fail to adopt this Constitutional
Amendment, they will not be repres-
entcd in Congress for two years from
now. Ifnot represented in Congress,
he presumes that we will hold as a
party that the votes OF their electoral
colleges cannot be counted, and he
will hold that they should. Now,
when ho is nominated by the Copper
head party they will organize in the
South, and the North, have delegates
from all the States North and South,
bold the election, and if we fail to
elect q man President Of United
States by the votes Of the Northern
States and he fails to carry majority
of the United States, he will declare
himself the Constitutionally elected
President Of the United States.
| believe that is what they aim at,
and when they do that, itinaugurates
another revolution and bloodshed in
the land again. ! believe they at the
South understand this plan perfectly
well, and if you will examine some of
the speeches made recently in Mis-
souri,, you will find some plan Of this
kind is to be carried out. A public
speaker there declares if the rebels
are disfranchised, and not allowed to
vote, they shall organize polls for
themselves, vote and count the bal
lots as at regular election, and if
they have a majority they will de.
clare their man elected and take the
Offices. The man who makes this
avowal is in constant correspondence
with Washington, is IL the confidence
g