The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-12-20
WASHINGTON.
The Congregational Investigating Cons
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fntttsss--Andy as a 1lan or his word.
Wesubjoin few interesting extracts
from recene letter Of Mack the ex-
cellent Washington correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Commercial.
The investigating committees re.
Gently appointed will, in their reports,
assure the country Of one Of these two
things: That the President Of the
United States is the worst man that
ever held official position IN the United
States. or that be is the worst SANDER
ed and worst prosecuted man that ever
lived The last charge brought against
him is more serious than It's predeces-
sors, and will, il established, pave the
way to his iinpcachment so cffectnalIy
as TO create o universal demand for
both, and make the people more anx-
ious than the politicians ever have
been, to see him turned out Of the
White House. Thad. Stevens. and 9th
ers OF his way Of thinking, have openly
charged, since the commencement of
the present session, that Mr.. Johnson
has made such use Of power be has
exercised very literally, whether right
fully or not-that OF returning confs-
Gated lands 10 their original owners
as to enrich his own immediate rela-
tives, and his political friends around
him-that he has done this knowingly
and intentionally. The same is alleg.
ed with regard to Southern railroads.
1t is we'll known that he has given
away the property Of the United States
to the amount of more than fifty mill
ions in Southern railroads--I do not
mean to say that he has simply return
ed to Southern companies roads taken
possession Of during the war, but that
he has made them present of ralua-
BILE connections, iron and rolling stock,
the actual cost of which to the United
States-was not less than fifty millions
He certainly had no law for this At
Memphis. for instance, the rebel mill
tary authorities had made important
and very costly connections between
the several roads entering that city, TO
facilitate the transportation Of rebel
troops. With the fall Of Memphis Of
coruse all this became the property of
I the United States. What right had
Mr.. johnson to give it away, any more
than to donate the guns captured ut
Richmond and Vicksburg2 But Thad.
Stevens has pledged himself to prove
something more than the mere doGa-
| ton of what didn't belong to the Pres
ident to give away. He has promised
to show that certain parties intimate
ly connected with the President have
been pecuniarily benefited by the
transaction to an immense amount
that in fact the whole power exercised
or pretended TO be exercised, under The
prerogative of pardoning vested in the
President, has been abused in the
grossest possible form-that OF barter
or sale. 1t is for Mr.. Stevens to make
out case against the President, oil
failing in that, TO confess that his hos
tility to the President has been carrleC
much beyond the limits justified by
any system of political ethics eveI
kno xn to this country. The country
will demand from him the one or thu
other.
ANDY AS A MAN OF HIS WORD.
, Boston may brag of her big organ
: but when it comes to big Tyre Wash
ington boats the hub all to pieces.
have already, in previous letters thi
, winter, shown enough to establish thi
} fact, and here is another illustration
5 which has come 10 my knowledge with
S in few days. A man who held tn
: appointment of United States Marsh;
in one of the Western States from Nj
B.. Lincoln, hearing that he was about t
be removed came on to the Capital
n prevent, if possible, that misfortune
f He had been in the army, had lost q
: arm and was disqualified for ordinar
t business vocations. The war had tol
severely on his property as well as hi
t person, and had left him almost beg
gar. Ho had been about tvo years i
office and was making good living
no more. When he heard that he wa
: about to be displaced in favor of on
! of the meanest Copperheads in b
il State, he thought there must be som
= mistake about it, which could be rect
n fed by personal call upon the ind
e vidual who had been SO lavish Of b
;; promises to the soldiers of the Repui
|. lie. He came to Washington and ,
e once called upon Attorney Generi
h Stanbery, an old and valued friend
l. his. The matter was talked over, an
!. Stanbery agreed to use his induenc
It with the President to retain the goo
y soldier. 1t was agreed that they shoul
1t both together wait on his Excellenc.
lay the matter before him, and PEI
suade him, if possible, to reconsider h
promise as against the veteran. The
j. did so. with what seemed to be yer
ot good success, leaving the executiV
mansion with the assurance that
Q. change would be made in the marsha
to ship; that in fact, none had been thoug
To of. What remove a one armed sc
dier-our beloved President had new
o. dreamed of such thing. Next da
is while Mr.. Stanbery and his cripple
10 friend were seated together in the A
n- torney Generals Office in cdme a me
@. sage from the executive mansion, in
in official envelope, and what do you thir
at it wasP Fore heaven it was q pc
ID emptory order to remove the soldi
to and put in the CopperheadI Stanber
~ ,uho with all his poh ,ical waYwar