Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-05
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Col. FOrney ON Ihe GOV. G 4 Letter.
The following letter is from Col. FoRNEY
to the Philadelphia Press touching the Gov.
Cox letter. 1t will bese that the Colonel
is unrelenting in his abuse of the Presi-
dent:
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. 27, 1866.
The interview between President John
son and the new Governor of Ohio, Cen
eral j. d. Cox, printed this morning in all
the newspapers, Is the last and the clum-
siest feat of Andrew johnson. 1t is only
useful as one OF numerous conversations
between Mr.. johnson and those credulous
citizens who believed he was sincere when
he pledged his word to the fulhllment of
certain distinctobligations and who discov-
cred their mistake when he coolly forgot,
or deliberately denied that to which he was
sOlemnly bound. There is hardly loyal
statesman in Congress who cannot draw
from his own experience confirmation of
this humiliating statement. Beginning
with Andrew JOhnson's public denuneia-
tiOn of treason, which committed him to
as specific pledge as ever was made by
mortal man, and ending with his very last
assault upon the leading men in Congress,
almost his entire Presidential career is COW
cred with the wrecks of violated faith, in
dividual and national. | saw Major George
Stearns OF Boston, last evening, whose eel
ebrated interview with the President In re-
gard to the coored races of the South,
specific and detailed, will never be for
gotten by the American people. 1t
was hailed with ecstatic gratitude,
because it seemed to them to be
tue sure precursor of justice to the
freedmen, and Ofunion and strength among
the friends OF the Republic. Major Stearns,
like General Cox, took his conversation,
after he had written it out, back to An
drew johnson, read it to him, and obtained
his consent to its publication as an author
lied version of well considered under
standing between the Executive and free
people. on questions of surprising moral
and political Importance. Now, that which
was in fact an elaborate and binding treaty,
is no more remembered by the President
than il it had been signed and sealed in the
days of the Pharaohsi might add a vol
ume of similar instances. Not to revive
his volunteered assurances to the cOlOred
people of Tennessee that he would be their
Moses and would lead them into the prom
ised land; nor yet his OstentatiOus demand
for the cOnfscation of the estates of the
rebels, and their division among the heroes
of the Republic; nor his hundreds of decla-
ratiOns of eternal hostility to cOpperhead
plots and politicians-all of which are no
more thought of than If they had been the
babblings of idiOcy. Who shall keep a
record of the thousands of broken prom
ises in reference to the distribution of
his patronage among the members
of the great Union party, to which
that patronge clearly belonged? There
is hardly an earnest man in Con-
grCss who has not some story of this kind
to relate. 1t is easy, therefore, to predict
what will be the fate of the new promise
which President johnson proposes in his
interview with Governor Cox. The only
thing real in the whole affair is the malg-
nant determination of the President to con-
tinue his war against the Congress of the
United States. That, at least, is inevitable.
The Democratic politicians, while felicita-
ting themselves upon this pleasant pros
pect, will look with sick and gloomy eyes
upon mat part of the Presidents new pro-
gramme, in which he proposes ito act with
the body of true men who have carried the
country through the war;" Here he de-
sires to induce the weak politicians in the
Union ranks to believe that he is anxious to
cooperate with them-an intimation true,
in so tar that he will select only such for
his confdants as are willing to promote his
peculiarly personal views and help him to
continue the crusade upon Congress. But
the Democratic leaders per Se-those who
are now shouting to him, and are for slip
ping the "dogs of war" upon the radicals of
Congress-will be put off with the very
shortest commons, kept waiting. in fact,
until the peculiar Presidential fav-
orites are sufficiently gorged! Is
it possible that these men are
so blind as not to anticipate their fate? Do
they suppose for moment that such men
as Governor Seward, the Secretary of State,
and Governor Dennison, the Postmaster
General, are willing to trust their fortunes
to Democratic combinations? They will
use the Democratic leaders and the Demo-
cratic masses in all their demonstrations
against Congress, and in favor of the Pres
ident, which means themselves; but when
patrOnageis to be bestowed, the Democrat
ic leaders and their followers will be delib-
erately ignored Thus it is that the two
great opposing organizations of this coun-
try-the one dedicated to hostility to hu-
man slavery in all its forms, and to the
complete eXtirpation and punishment of
treason in all its shapes-and the other
sworn to maintain the old test in favor of
Democratic or State-rights doctrines, will
resume their former positions, leaving on
either side the fragments of that TyleriZed
and treacherous Administration which,
coming into power upon deplorable and
irreparable calamity, attempted to perpet-
uate itself by uneXampled prescription and
tyranny, and fell to rise no more, amidst
the scorn and Indignation of all intelligent
men. OCCASIONAL.