The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-27
The Democrats and Congress.


1t is the great labor Of the Democratic poll
ticians to create breach between freSldent
johnson and the present Congress, anu mus
conopel him to seek alliance with those who
80 recently were RECALLING themselves upon the
hest blood of the nation, or were in full SYM
natbv with them. Thus far the effort has
failed: we trust the past is an indication Of
what is in the future in this regard.
The Washington Chrunicle shews up the
character of these mischief plotters in few
words, and the picture is SO faithfully drawn
and so true to life that we can do no better
than transfer it to our columns. In Washing
ton the old Intelligencer, fallen from grace
lower than ever fell Luciler, is the organ Of
the malcontents, which is now denouncing
Congress, and invoking denunciations from
the people, and at the same time INDUCING in
all sorts of fulsome adulation of President
johnson The Chronicle quotes from the In
telliqencer of Oct "a, 1854, in which Andrew
g. johnson is denounced as "usurper" for his
.s. course as Governor of Tennessee, and accused
y of design "to disfranchise every Democratic
voter in the State" and in which it is declared
or even in palliation of such acts" for, ii is
said, Eff they are merely blunders, they are of
the sort that are in effect worse than crimes"
In taking such a complimentary notice of
Mr.. Johnson's administration in Tennessee,
the Mtetigencer said: -f1saaa
''We have referred to the topic again to-day
simply for the purpose of setting in the light
of this new Illustration the inscriptions
means to which the present political dynasty
is willing to resort in the view of perpetuating
its power and hence we have no fresh objur-
cations to utter against the "plan" for the dis
reimbursement of Tennessee.
Now that recreant old sheet pitches its tune
to different keynote, and extols the Presi-
dent while msparing in its denunciation of
the peeps els representatives. Touching its
course in this respect the Chronicle says: --.
+ cit cannot have escaped the attention even
of casual observers, that there has been gen.
eral anxiety and general effort to conceal the
evidences of bad faith on the part of the
Southern people. The tacit understanding
among many earnest journalists and political
leaders resulted from sincere desire to have
the Southern States represented at an early
day. The effect upon hundreds Of thousands
of loyal minds has been to excite distrust of
the fidelity of many whose intel igence and
orthodoxy they relied upon. In arraying our
selves among those who accepted the task of
doing the uttermost to forget all that has been
done, and to disregard all that is being done
by the insurgent elements, for the sake of a
speedy, peaceful, and perpetual reunion, we
understood that there was to be something
like reciprocity, and that if the men who had
saved the government from the rebels were
willing to cry oblivion to the deeds of the lat
ter, these same rebels should. in their turn,
prove to be reasonably sensible of the fact
With others who have been equally confiding
and expectant of good faith, we have been
grieyously disappointed. Through the mouth
piece OF the sympathizers, the National Inte,-
Eqencer, the impenitent traitors and their dan
gerous and disreputable copperhead allies, af-
fer having implored that there should be sys-
tematic i.noring of the continuous perfidy
and cruelty of the leaders and agents of the
rebellion, have organized general assault up
on the two Houses of the American Congress,
and compacently appeal to the American peo-
pie to repudiate them! Without commenting
upon the foul hypocrisy of men who demand
that we shall close our eyes to the ingratitude
of the recent rebels, for the sake of cultivating
what they call traternal feeling, and then
Immediately dedicate themselves to stirring
up bitterer and more extended strife by
traducing the representatives OF the American
people, let US LOOK at the sort of public opinion
they would invoke against the American Con-
gress, on the plea of superior devotion to the
policy of the President OF the United States
For it must not be forgotten that in proportion
as they pursue the citizens now celebrating
upon puhlic affairs in the Capital, they hypo-
critically honor and sustain President john
son. In the IateLligelcer of Saturday, after
an earnest appeal to the masses to come for
ward and rebuke the Congress of the United
States, it gives the proceedings ola Democrat
ic meeting held at Pittsburgh, Allegheny
wi n cfraf
of the object of these popular demonstrations
could have been given. The people to whom
the Intelligencer appeals, as this specimen
proves, are not those who gave their millions
to the treasury, their hundreds of thousands
to the army, and their votes TO Lincoln and
johnson, and elected majority of the present
Senate and House of Representatives. The
appeal of that paper and the rebel sympathiz-
ers for whom it speaks, is to the copperhead
politicians-the meters to riot-th0 open
workers with treason-the iusulters of john
son-the men who cal for the pardon of JEFF.
Davis-who denounced the execution of the
assaSSinS of Lincoln-whO treated with con-
tempt the statements OF rebel cruelty to the
Union prisoner who resisted the draft-who
declared in their Chicago Convention that the
war for the maintenance of the Union was a
failure-who early in the struggle, plotted with
the British Government to secure interven-
tion-Who are equally phrenzied against ne
gro Suufa5e dlAu dlucus III iossoi VI iOpCi SUI
frage-and who, ii they could dispose of the
case, would welcome into Congress with shouts
of ioy tn; red-handed traitors, that, having
failed to murder liberty in the battlefield, still
rejoice over what they call their bravery, and
eagerly long to come back iuto power to renew,
by divisions among the friends of the Repub-
lie, their dishonest schemes The people, whom
~the LteIigencer has not called for, will be
ready when their time has GOMEZ"
.-. "How to make the most of Maine"