The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-08
William OF Orange and Andrew
johnson.


We cannot be mistaken in the con-
viction that the mental characteristics
of Andrew Johnson bear strong re-
semblance to those of William of
Orange; nor suppress the hope that
he is raised up by the hand of Provi-
dence to play a part in American af-
fairs, not unlike that which his illus
trious prototype enacted in England,
and which won for him his noblest
and most imperishable titles to re-
nown.
The obligations of William of
Orange to the Wing party of Eng
land were of no ordinary character.
They had been chiefly instrumental
Ill bringing him from a comparatively
obscure position on the Continent,
and placing him on the throne of a
powerful empire. In return for their
devotion to his cause, they expected
that he would become, like other
Kings in similar circumstances, q
party leader, and not the head of a
nation. They not only demanded
that he should show favor to none
but the dominant party, but that he
should adopt all their old party
grudges and help them to be avenged
upon their enemies, Such had been
the c!nvarying results of every politi-
cal victory, from the commencement
of the civil troubles of the seven
teenth century down to the Revolu-
ton. A Roundhead triumph; Cava-
lier triumph; the Whig ascendancy,
accomplished by the father of the
Popish plot; the Tory ascendancy,
obtained by the detection of the Rye
House plot-were each in their turn
followed by sanguinary proscrip-
ton. OF the alternate butcheries,
the last and the worst was that which
was inseparately associated with the
names of James and Jeffreys. The
men who brought William into power
were bent on exacting terrible re-
tribution for all they had undergone
during seven disastrous years. His
clemency was peculiar to himself. 1t
was not the clemency of an ostenta-
tlous man, or of a sentimental man,
Or of an easy tempered man. 1t pro-
duced no fine stage effects. It drew
OIL him the savage invectives of those
whose nalevolent passions he refused
to satisfy. 1t won for him no graft
tude for those who owed to him for
tune, liberty and life" But none of
these things moved the great and
wise ruler whom Providence in its
mercy had granted to the British ma
ton. That nation soon discovered
that in the delicate and fragile form,
which was all that stood between the
successful party and it's victims, was
will of iron, and soul that, fash
ing through the eagle eyes, mastered
the sternest of the proud barors
around him at glance. He had
saved the islanders from the despot-
ism of James, and he was now re-
solved to save them fror> the vindic-
tiveness of each other He risked
his popularity with men who had
been his warmest admirers, to give
repose and security to men by whom
his uame was never mentioned with
out curse. It is needless to say how
he triumphed in that act of grace,
the passage of which he at last secured
in both Houses, by unanimous vote,
and which has stamped his name with
immortal renown, and saved England
from being rent to this day by pro-
scriptive factions, each, as it prevail
ed, avenging in rivers of blood the
wrongs it has suffered
Andrew johnson has the opportu-
nifty of achieving for America what
William of Orange accomplished for
England. Like him, he seems to pos
ses-, wonderful calmness and in
tensity of determination, and a great
ness Of soul which rises above the at
mosphere of party, and embraces i'll
its comprehensive glance the interests
and welfare of his country and his
race. 1t will be glory such as no
American, with the solitary exception
of George Washington, has achieved,
If by his wisdom, tirmness and COM
prehensive toleration and patriotism,
Andrew johnson shall save the United
States from a fate like that from which
William Of Orange delivered England,
when every great explosion and every
great recoil Of public feeling was ac-
companied by excesses and cruelties
which make humanity shudder.
Richmond Dispatch.
CHOLERA CURED AS EASILY AS
TooTH-AcHE.-Dr Post, who is rep
resented as high medical authority
in New York, delivered a lecture re
Gently at the Medical College in that