Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-20
ANDREW JOHNSON DESCRIBED BY THE
NEW YORK WORLD.


the battlefield, and whose ballots voted
down Copperheadism in the North--has
fully commenced by order of Andrew John
son, the boundless exultation of the New
York World is curiosity in its way
Mingling adulation of the President with
abuse of the people who placed him where
he ls--calumniating STANTON in one breath
and demanding his removal in the other
applaudiBg the rebels and traitors as the
true gentlemen of the South, and ridicul-
ing the patriots who are to meet in Phila-
delphia on the Sd of September as the
mean whites of the same section-it is
probably more completely the organ of An
drew Johnson than any other newspaper in
the country-not excepting the National
I,ateltigencer, that demanded Johnson's dis
grace in 1864, or the Cincinnati EaqnireJ,
that stigmatized him as the lowest speci-
men of living humanity. OF course the
New York World speaks by authority, and
| therefore it is that we print the following
striking portrait of Andrew Johnson, from
that paper of the 9th of March, 1865 The
! fidelity of this sketch has been affirmed by
nearly every speech made by Andrew John
son since he threw himself into the hands
of the Copperheads and traitors, beginning
with that On the 22d of February and end
| ing with his very last defamation receiv-
ing the proceedings of the Philadelphia
Convention.
The truth of the remark of Senator Sum-
ner, quoted by the New York World, refer
ring to his exhibition on the 4th of March,
1865, that it had been better for the Con
federates to have won battle than for
such shameful event to have occurred"
the horror-stricken American people have
repeatedly realized since that sad and ter
rible day:
(New York World, Thursday, March 9, 1861
VICE PRESIDENT Johnson SHOULD HE APOLOGIZE
OR RESIGN
Most of the Administration organs--the
Tribune, Times, Herald, and Evening Post
have condoned by their silence the out
rage with which Andrew johnson, in a pub
lie place, on public occasion, in the per-
formance of grave public duty, affronted
the people of the United States, betrayed
his own beastly instincts, his demagogieal
habits, and his boorish mind. The Indepen-
dent, however, refuses to assist in shielding
him from the just punishment of public
censure, and insists that it is Mr.. Johnson's
plain duty to apologize or resign" 1t
demands that $50 great an afront to the
dignity of the Republic shall be made to
bear fit penalty, atonement and warning"
The justice and propriety of this demand
are not to be disputed.
We have been informed, and believe that
Senator Sumner, the chairman of the Sen
ate Committee of Foreign Relations, whose
words ON such subject have even more
weight than the same from Secretary Sew
ard would have had, by reason of his su.
perior personal and political honesty
his habit of saying what he means--said
after Mr.. Johnson's disgusting exhibition
of himself on Inauguration day, that it
would have been better for the Confeder-
ates to have won battle than for such
shameful event to have occurred. The ma
terial damage in the eyes of hostile foreign
powers consequent upon lost battle are
| thought by the chairman of the Senate
Committee of Foreign Relations to be out
weighed by the moral damage done as by
Mr.. Johnson.
We have very little expectation that Mr..
Johnson's party will force him to an apollo
gy or resignation. The Tice President is
as incapable of approaching the reparation
which he ows to the country as he shows
himself to be incapable of appreciating his
own insult to the country. He is reported
in the Washington kilograms to be indul
ging in still another debauch. Nothing
better is to be expected of him. These are
the habits of his lifetime. They were known
to the politicians who nominated him they
were were proclaimed in the face of the
party which elected him. Nevertheless he
was elected. 1t is idle to ask the stream
to rise higher than its fountain And in
our judgment, it is much more melancholy
circumstances that Mr.. Johnson's party last
November invited these insults to the coun-
try, and how in March will neither expose
nor punish them, then that the insults are
given us.
If Andrew Johnson had not been drunk
on Inauguration day, the speech which he
would have made would have been less in
coherent, but in all other respects it would
have been the same. The shallow dems.
goguery, the affected 'plebian" praise, the
real selfcontempt and secret envy of more
fortunate men, these have been betrayed,
these have been the stock and staple of ev-
cry speech of Andrew johnson for years.
We say nothing of his political tergiversa-
ton. 1t is ridiculous to suppose that he
ever udu any pOllllCal principles. ne WAS
nominated because he had pone-but bel
low his bastard loyalty" loudly. We re-
fer now to that which was most degrading
in his vinous speech--its betrayal of his
inmost character 1t is necessary to affirm
either that he was drunk every time he
made speech since Mr. Lincoln rewarded
his political dishonesty by making him Mil
itary Governor of Tennessee, or else that
he is drunk or sober, boy or mau, tailor,
Senator, Governor or V1ce President the
low boor which, with infinite pain in the
last Presidential contest, we felt it alike
our duty to declare him to be- His speech.
es are all alike This last one in the Sen,
ate chamber was no exception, save in its
incoherence. Read his speech on hearing
the news of his own nomination at Balti-
more. Let our readers look at their files.
1t was published at the time 1t reeks with
the very same vulgarity, the same dema-
goguery, the same looo-liued manners and
morals Read lis speech after hearing
news of his election. 1t is another, yet the
Same as that of Saturday vulgar, lo,c-bred,
boorish. There, too, he proclaims his hum
BILE birth with "plebian" pride betraying
secret envy. AS if he were the first man
in this democratic Republic who had ever
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