Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-08-31
THE corNrny,s mvmILrArIoN,

The New York IKord, warm admirei
and advocate of Z" my policy" thus speaks
oithe beastial propensities of Merry Andrew
johnson, the man who was made President
by the bloody bullet of the assassin-J.
Wilkes Booth =
From the Now York World. Thursday. March O. 1864
VICE PRESIDENT JoHNsoE-HHouLD HE
APOLOGIZE OR RESIGN
Most of the Administration organs-the
Tribune, Herald, Times and EgeAtng Post
have condoned by their silence the Outrage
WIN which ANDREW JOHNSON, in n public
place, on public occasion, in the perform
ance OF grave public duty aarontcd the
people OF the JHued Suites, BETRAYED his own
beastly instincts, his demagogical habits, and
his hoorlsh mind The independents how
ever, 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
= so great an allront TO the dignity of the
Republic shall be made to bear fit nenalty
atonement and warning" The Justice and
proprely OF this demand are not TO he dis
puted.
We have been informed, and believe that
senator SUMNER, the chairman of the SENATE
words on such subject have even more
weight than the same from Secretary SEW
ARD would have had, by reason of his SUI
pelor personal and political honesty-and
his habit OF saying what he means-said af
ter MIR. JoHNsON's s disgusting exhibition of
himself on Inauguration day, that il would
nave been better for the COniederates to have
won battle than for such shameful event
70 have occurred. The material damage in
the eyes OF hostile foreign powers consequent
upon lost battle are thought by the chair
man of the Senate Committee of Foreign Re.
latlons to be outweighed by the moral dam
age done us by Mr. JOHNSON.
We have very little expectation that Mr.
JoHNsoN's party will force him 10 an apolo-
gY or resignation. Inc Vice President is
as incapable OF approaching the reparation
which he owes to the country as he shows
himself TO be incapable of appreciatinr his
own insult TO the country. He is reported
IN the Washington kilograms to be indulging
IN sun another debauch. Nothing better is
10 ne expected OF him. These are the habits
OF ms lifetime. They were known to the
politicians who nominated him; they were
proclaimed in the face of the party which
elected him. 1t is idle to ask the stream 10
rise higher than its fountain. And in our
judgment, it is Il much more melancholy
circumstance that Mr.. Johnson's party last
November invited these insults to the cOun-
try, and now in March will neither expose
nor punish them, than that the insults are
given us.
IL 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
nave been the same. The shallow dema-
goguery, the affected plebean" praise, the
eral selt-contempt and secret envy of more
fortunate men, these have been betrayed,
these have been the stock and staple OF
every speech of Andrew johnson for years.
we say nothing of his political tergiver.
saton. IL is ridiculous 10 suppose that he
ever had any political principles. lie was
nominated because he had none-but below
his bastard "loyaltyn loudly We refer
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 lie made
speech since Mr.. LINCOLN rewarded his DO
lltlcal dishonesty by making him Military
Governor of Tennessee, or else that he is
drunk or sober, boy or man, tailor, Senator,
Governor or Wee Prsident-the low boor
which, with infinite pain in the last Presi-
dental contest, we felt it alike our duty to
declare him to be. His speeches are all
alike. The last one in the Senate chamber
N"9 ~ SAetlNious suNe Ill It's lncOnerence.-
head his speech on hearing the news of his
own nomination at Baltimore. Let our read
ers look at their files. 1t was published at
the time. Ii reeks with the very same vul-
garity, the same demagoguery, the same lo,o-
hced manners and morals. Read his speech
after hearing the news of his election. 1t is
another, yet the the same as Saturday-yul
gar, loo bred, hoorish. There, too, lie pro-
claims his humble birth with "plebeiann
pride bctraying secret envy As if he were
the first man in this democratic Republic who
had ever risen from narrow circumstances TO
the high places of the landl AsifJAoKsoN
and WEBSTER and scores of others had not
compassed as great advancement as lie,
who never spoke themselves nor permitted
others to speak of them, except in language
becoming to their own greatness-who never
set their own praise to devouring their own
deGds
1t is this which is melancholy in the pre-
sent situation ofthe Vice PresMency. and for
this apology or resignation is either possible
or probable, for it is the victorious Republl-
can party which would need TO apologize 10
the country or resign.