Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-09-26
WHAT A JOHNSON ORGAN sAYsl
The New York Times Repudiates the De-
moeraoy- Denounees Hester Clymer-
Predicts Defeat for the Conservatives,

The New ork Times, which has been re-
garded as the organ of President johnson,
and whose editor, Henry j. Raymond, was
the author of Wigwam Convention address,
has the following remarkable article in its
issue of September Goth:
for Office Men Who Have Been
Disloyal.
General Grant Is reported by correspon
dent of the Chicago Republican to have
ing remarks lie said that without ex-
pressing any views Of his own for or against
the johnson policy. he yet felt it to be a
misfortune for Mr.. johnson that the adyo-
Gates OF his policy In States through which
he had just passed, Missouri, Illinois and
Indiana, had in some instance put on their
ticket men who In 1861 and 1862 had been
guilty of known disloyalty TO the Govern
ment; because (and this was said ia very
emphatic manner he felt hat to ask men
whose sons had shed their blood for the u
Mon to vote for men who had been dIsloyal
to 1t was the greatest insult that could be
offered. Southern men he could make al
lowances for, and he could ride through the
South and get out on a platform and shake
hands in friendship with such men as Lee,
johnson or Forrest, because, though they
had been almost educated Into secession,
they were now truly honest and loyal in their
adherence to the Union. and were seeking
to strengthen it. But he did not feel in
that way toward Northern men who had
once been disioyal, and neither desired to
associate with them nor have them for his
friends No such men could have his sup
port, nor ought they to be supported by Mr..
johnson friends throughout the Northern
States. He particularly instanced. us a
specimen Of this Objectionable class Of men,
Hester Clymer, the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania saving that to
ask any soldier to vote for such a man, of
at one time knowndisloyalty, against anoth-
er who had served four years in the Union
army, with credit to himself and benefit to
his country, was gross insult. If men de-
sired to support Mr.. johnson S policy let
them, but at all events, let them vote only
for such men rs were true to their country
in 1861.
Nothing could be more just or sensible.
Nothing has contribu ed more, land very
many things have contributed much, TO-
ward alternating popular favor and support
from the just and liberal policy of the Presi
dent toward the South than the action of
those who claim to be his friends in this re-
spect. 1t has proved, indeed, as Gen.
Grant styles it, "a misfortune for the Presi-
dent" and we may add, for the country
also. In Pennsylvania the Administration
candidate for Governor Is one who, in his
political action, resisted the Government
throughout the war who made himself ut
terly obnoxious to the loyal men who were
struggling to save the nation; and his elec-
ton, by the defeat of a gallant soldier who
RI har fD,+ = ha
throw of the rebellion, is held essential to
the vindication of the Presidents policy.
The same thing is true, perhaps, in less
conspicous degree, in nominations for mem
bers of Congress and for State officers of
various grades throughout the country.
The reason of it is clear. 1t has been
done because the Democratic rarty has
pushed itself into the foreground Of the
President S supporters, and has seized the
occasion TO reconstruct and strengthen It's
own organization. rather than sustain the
President upon the principles which he as
serts and in the mode which he himself
pointed out. President johnson never hes
itated 20 declare his purpose to stand upon
the principles of the Union party, to act
within its lines, 10 co operate with those OF
its members who adhered to its platform,
and to use the patronage at his disposal &c
nationalize and strengthen It's organization.
He never concealed his conviction that the
Democratic Party, as an organization. de
stroyed itself by its disloyal attitude during
the war; that it had justly forfeited the
confidence of the people, and that the party
which carried the nation through the wal
was the party upon which he relied for co
operation and support in restoring the L.
Mon and securing the blessings of peace.
'ba Of ha pnrt,
seemed conscious that it had been betrayed
by its leaders into a false position, and they
were quite ready to accept the result anC
| act in good faith with the Union Party il
| the restoration of the Union, under the
guidance of President johnson If the u
| MON Party in Congress had been less under
| the control OF extreme men-lf National u.
| Mon doctrines opposed to the violent sec
| tlonallsm of uitrasts and malIgnants, haC
| found a stronger utternance and greater
! favor with Congress and the country, and /
the President and the Union party haC
| been somewhat less distrustful and more
| frank in their relations to each other, there
would have been no difficulty in thus rally
ing to the Union platform and the Unio,
party an overwhelming majority of the peo
pie, North and South, throughout the Z
nion. But that opportunity was thrown
away, and both the President and Congress
accepted an attitude Of mutual distrust anc
hostility, with "a readiness which in suspi
cious minds begat the belief that both hac
| sought it.
Naturally enough. under the circumstan
ces, the leaders of the Democratic Party
took advantage of this state of things, ant
made bold push to regain their power
Sheltering themselves from the odium In
bax tl,D ~,
men in nomination for Office set in motion
their old machinery, and demanded the sup
MORT of GnnSeruativa ITnion man fo III.