The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-10-13


SRI hereby resign the Office Of Auditor
of the Treasury for the Postofflce Depart
ment
H Three DAYS before his assassination, the
position was rendered to me by President
i Lincoln to facilitate the preparation OF
/ record of his Administration and the over
throw of slavery in the Republic, which l
! then hoped he would live to consummate.
i When / accepted the commission from you,
which death prevented him from issuing, l
1 did it in the full faith, based upon your pa
triotic record during the rebellion and your
l repeated declarations over the dead body
of the martyred President, that your policy
/ would make treason odious, and that you
would be faithful to the loyal men, North
and South, who had saved the Republic ;
that you would endeavor to carry out the
principles which will make Lincoln's Adj
ministration illustrious to all time.
| will do you. the justice to say that be-
lieve if while you were addressing the Hill
nois delegation who waited on you and ten
dered you the same support they had given
their own great statesman, if at that moment
when your heart seemed full Of loyalty and
fidelity. and you told US that the people
i must understand that trea son is the black
est of all crimes and will surely be punish
ed" and that when the question of eXer-
lcising mercy comes before me it will be
considered calmly-judcially for we must
not forget that what may be mercy to the
individual is cruelty to the State"-ifat that
time your future could have been held up
before you, and your apostacy could have
been foretold, you would have Indignantly
I. exclaimed, " Is thy servant dog, that he
should do this thing ?"
You have betrayed the great Union par
ty which elected Abraham Lincoln, which
as an incident of the election, placed you
in the Office of Vice President. You have
deserted its principles, and are to day in
open cordial communion with those who
sought the overthrow Of the Republic OF
those who for years made war upon our
flag and who crowned their long catalogue
of crimes by the murder which placed you
in the Executive chair.
You are to-day prosecuting and denounc-
inc as traitors the lifelong friends Of Abra-
ham Lincoln those upon whom his great
arm leaned for support in the hour OF SUI
preme peril for the Union you are de-
nouncing and prosecuting those friends OF
Mr. Lincoln for no offence but fidelity to
the principles and party which you have
deserted.
Youhave chosen as your friends and coun-
sellers from the lately rebellious States, not
the prosecuted, abused, faithful, heroic I'm
ion men, but those whose hands are yet
stained with the blood ofloyal men. In the
loyal States your supporters and counsel
lors are to a great extent with those whose
sympathies were ever with Rebels and trail
tors.
In your present position, and with such
associates, it is natural you should hate
those whose fidelity must be constant re-
proach to you. You are furnishing in Hi
nois and elsewhere the old personal friends
of Lincoln at the instance Of his lifelong
enimies.
Mr.. President, the American people in
their hour of bitterest anguish, when almost
stupefied with grief over the murder OF the
noblest, grandest character which has
adorned our history, heard your voice ut
tering bold indignant, loyal and patriotic
words. They took you to their hearts and
gave you their confidence Where are you
! to-day? Who are your associates and ad-
visers What promise made over the dead
body of Lincoln have you kept? What
pledge, then uttered, have you not broken
Sir you are welding immense power and
patronage but tell you, not in anger, but
in deepest sorrow, there are few names 9TH
err than that of the Rebel chief as yet in
Fortress Monroe so odious among loyal
men and so popular among traitors as that
of Andrew johnson. With fidelity, you
would to-day have been the first of Ameri-
can statesman with fidelity on your part,
there would to day have been harmony in
all departments of the Government, and
peace and Security throughout the repub-
| lie with fidelity, it was yours to have
saved the country. God and the people
will prevent your treachery from destroy
ing it.
| al will not now contrast your policy with
that of your illustrious predecessor; but l
shall ask your attention to one point only.
Tothe loyal black mansand the loyal white
man of the South Mr.. Lincoln promised
protection and security. He kept his prom
Use. When emissaries, such as you pardon
and take to your confidence, proposed to
him to return to slavery the black soldier
of the Union army, and thus win the mas
ters they had fought, Mr. Lincoln indig-
nantly replied /" Should do so, | should
deserve to be damned in time and eternity p
How can you, Mr.. President, occupy the
Executive Mansion as the successor OF
Lincoln How could you visit his grave
with the bloody outrages of Memphis and
New Orleans unpublished Do you remem-
Der that Mr.. Lincoln said, Negroes, like
other people, act upon motives. If they
stake the their lives for US, they must be
prompted by the strongest motives--even
the promise of freedom and the promise
being made must be kept"
Tho nation nranicad tho negro lihnrtV
and protection for helping it to put down
the rebellion. You have turned him over
to his exasperated master, whom he helped
to subdue. When did you punish Rebel
for the murder of loyal negro The
Rebels are to-day your councillors. They
and the Copperheads constitute large ma
iority of those who call themselves your
friends. They control your patronage.
Believing you are to-day exerting your
vast power in the interest Of traitors, and
that your policy should be overthrow at
the ballot box that the Republic, based
on liberty and justice, may live, | retire
from Office, that | may freely and effective
ly aid in that overthrow.
/ have the honor to be, very respectful
ly, &C.,
ISAAC n. ARNOLD.
To Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States.
A Perfect Antidote for all Polsons.
A plain farmer says, 4" 1t is now over
twenty years since learned that sweet oil