The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-01-26
The President and the Fanatics
Will he Cross his Record?

The President and the Fanatics
VIII he Cross his Record?
a. In, February, 1881. while the country
was rocked by the tumult Of revolution,
ANDREW JOHNSON was in the United States
Senate, and in response to a speech from
JEFFERSON DAVIS, he graphically aud
truthfllly characterized the disturbing ole-
mcnt of that day in the following Lam
guage;
"But Mr.. President, recurring TO what
said yesterday. there are two parties in
this country that want TO break up the
Government. Who are theyY The nulli-
flcrs propcr Of the South, the seccssionists
or disthionsts, for Iuse them all ms synony-
mons terms. There is a portion of them
who per Sc desire the disruption of the Gov
crnmcnt for purposes OF their own aggran
dizcment. do not charge upon them that
they want to break up the Government for
the purpose of affecting slavery; yet !
charge that the breaking up the Govern
mcnt would have that effect; the result
would be the same. Who else Is for break
ing up the Govcrnmeutp | refer TO some
bad men In the North There is a set Of
men called dbolitiOnistS, and they tcdat 20
break mp The GOUenp,eat. They are dis
unionists; they are sccessionists; they are
nulliliers. Sir. the abolitionists and the
distinguished Senator from Mississippi (Mr.
Jefferson Davis and his party both stand
In the same attitude to attain the same end,
a dissolution of the Union"
Mr.. JOHNSON then proceeded to show, by
quotations from the speeches of the Radi-
Gals, that SUMMER, WILSON, STEVENS, &c,
were disunionists and traitors, and that
they had always laborcd In alliance with
the Southern extremists to dismcmber the
Union. lie said:
Then. when we come to talk of "allics,"
whose allies are these gentlemen? Whose
allies are the Abolitionists of the North, if
they are not allies of the Sccessionists and
Disuniouists of the South? Are they not
all laborjug and tOiling to accomplish the
same object, the destruction Of this great
nation of ours? Their object is the same.
They are both employing to some extent
the same means.
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Mr.. President, have alluded to this
Subject of "allies." in order to show who is
engaged i'm this unholy and nefarous work
of breaking up this Union. We find first
the run-mad Abolitionists of the North.
They are SeccsSiOnists; they are for disun-
ion they are for dissolution. When we
turn to the South, we see the red-hot Dis
mionists and Sccessionists at the same
work. ! think it comes with very bad
grace for them to talk about the ''allies" of
Others who are trying to save the Union
and preserve the Constitution,
| went back yesterday and showed that
South Carolina had held this doctrine of
secession at a very early day--a very short
time after she entered into the Articles Of
Confederation, and after she had entered
the Union by which and. through which
the independence of the country was
achieved. What else do we find Mt a very
early day? Go to Massachusetts during
the war of 1914 and the Hartford Conven-
in this reasonable and mhallowed work.
Even in lSt5, Massachusetts in manifest
ing her opposition to the annexation of
Texas to the United States, passed reso-
luton resolving herself out OF the Union
She seeded; she went of by her own act
because Texas was admitted into the Union.
Thus we find South Carolina and Massa-
chusetts taking the lead in this secession
movement
If ANDREW JOHNSON, since his last ac
cession to the Presidency, has, in any man
ner whatever, by act orword, manifested 4
change of mind respecting these two rival
but sympathising classes esofdsunionists and
disruptionists, we challenge any one to pro-
ducc tile record oft. Ifhe, so far, has exhibi-
ted any special positiveness in his adminis-
tration,i il is to be seen in the manncrm which
he has held the Abolitionist-d -disunionists at
hey. From the impudent SUMNER down-or
wemight, probably whore properly say, from
SUMNER ay--not one of them has held audi
encc with the President to urge action in
favor of their Internal conspiracy, to to-
tally break up the old Government, and
force the country into new one, on the in
tolerant Yankee basis that he has not been
snubbed, and, in some instances, indig-
nantly repulsed from the White House.
They have but poorly studied the charac-
ter record, and all the antecedents of Pres
ident JonNsoN, who now expect sympathy
from him, in their villainous combination
to New Englandize this now peaceful Re
public. Their new "lrrepressible Conflict"
they viii find but short-lved.
The Negro Provided For.
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