The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-09-20
Mistellanu,
ANDREW JOHNSON AS Ne WAS,
"My Policy" Then and Now.

The following record Is compiled from
the speeches and addresses of Andy john
son. The extracts given will be read with
interest at this time:
HIS VIEWS IN 1SG1-HE WOULD HANG
TRAITORS.
MY proposition was that if they would
show me who were guilty of the oflenses |
have enumerated, would show them who
were the traitors. This being done, ,oere
1 President Of the United States, 1 ,oouLd do as
Thomas Jrt1crson did in 1906, ,oith Aaron Burr,
,cho ,oas charged aoith treason. l WOULD HAVE
THEM ARRESTED AND TRIED FOR TREASON,
AND, IF coNvIcTE2, BY THE ETERNAL
GOD THEY SHOULD SUFFER THE
PENALTY OF THE LAW AT THE
HANDS OF THE EXECUTIONER!- =
Sir, treason acust be punished. Its enormity
and the extent and depth OF the offense
must be made known."TS in the SEN
ate, March 2, 1861.
WHAT lie SAID IN 1861.
Il was then and there called upon to
know What would do with traitors, and
l want to repeat my reply here. said, if
we had an Andrew Jackson, he would hang
them as high as Hannah; but as he is no
more, and sleeps in his grave in his own
beloved State, where traitors and treason
have even insulted his tomb and the very
earth that covers his remains, humble as
am, Wien you ask me what l would Go,my
reply is, 4 WOULD ARREST THEM-I WOULD
TRY TuEM-I WOULD CONVICT THEM AND
WOULD HANG THEM "--[Speech at Wash
ington, April 3, 1865.
LOYAL MEN. WHETHER WHITE OR BLACK,
ALONE TO RULE THE SOUTH.
standing here upon the steps of the
Capitol, with the past history Of the State
to witness, the present condition to guide,
and the future to encourage me, 1, Andrew
johnson, do hereby proclaim FREEDOM,
FULL, BROAD AND UNCONDITIONAL, to every
nah in Tennessee. will in
deed be your MOSES, and lead you tEro'
the Red Sea of war ahd bondage to the
fairer land of liberty and peace. speek
now rs one who feels the world his coun-
try, and all who love equal rights his
friends. speak, too, as citizen Of Ten
nessee. l am here on my own SOIL and
here mean to stay and fight this great
battle of truth and justice to triumphant
end. RI'BELLIoE AND SLAVERY SHALL, BY
Cons GOOD HELP, NO LONGER PoLLUTE OUR
STATE. LOYAL MEN. WHETHER
WHITE OR BLACK, SHALL ALONE
CONTROL HER DESTINIES."- -[Speech
to the colored men of Nashville, October
81, 1861.
TREASON MUST BE PUNISHED.
SIN my opinion, evil doers should be
punished. TREASON IS THE HIGHEST CRIME
KNOWN IN THE CATALOGUE. OF CRIMES, and
for him that is guilty ofit-tor him that is soilmg
to lift his impious hand against the authority of
the Nation-I scould sag death'is too easy pun
ishment MY NOTION IS THAT TREASON
MUST BE MADE ODIOUS, AND TRAI-
TORS BE PUNISHED AND IMPOVER-
ISHED, their social power broken that
they may be made to feel the penalty of
their crime. You, my friends, have trail
tors in your very midst and treason needs
rebuke and punishment here as well as
elsewhere. Hence say this:
THE HALTER TO INTELLIGENT, IN
FLUENTIAL TRAITORS! THE LEAD
ERS I WOULD HANG! hold, too, that
wealthy traitors should be made to remu-
nerate those men who have suffered as a
Of their crime, Union men
who have lost their property, who
have been driven from their homes, beg
gars and wanderers among strangers. Let
us commence the work. We haze put doson
those in arms, let us put them doaon in laao.
in public judgement and in the morals of the
in Washington, April 3,
1865.
TREASON is CRIME-TRAITORS MUST BE
PUNISHED.
1.-THE American people must be taught,
if they do not already feel, that TREASON
is A CRIME AND MUST BE PUNISH
ED; that the Government will not always
bear with its enemies; that it is strong not
only to respect but to punish. When we
turn to the criminal code and examine the
catalogue of crimes, we there find arson
laid down as crime with it's appropriate
penalty we find there theft and robbery
and murder given as crimes; and there
too we find the highest and blacklist of
crimes, treason. With other and inferior
the people are familiar. But in our
peaceful history treason has been almost
unknown. The people must understand
that 1T is THE BLACKLIST OF CRIMES,
and will be surely punished. Let it be en-
craven on every heart that treason is a
crime and that traitors shall suffer its
While we are appalled,, over
at the fall of one man in our
midst at the hand of a traitor, shall ,re al
,o,o men, not by tokat ,Deapons, to attempt
he life of the State Nth impunity? While we
strain our minds to comprehend the enor-
nifty of this assassination, shall we allow
the nation to be assassinated ?''-[Speech
to the Illinois Delegation, April 19, 1865,
three days after the Presidents murder.
TRAITORS MUST TAKE BACK SEATS.
In THE WORK OF RECONSTRUCT
TON TRAITORS MUST TAKE BACK
*** say that the traitor has
to be citizen, and in joining the rebel |
lion has become public enemy. HE
HIS RIGHT TO VOTE |
WITH LOYAL MEN WHEN HE RE-
HIS CITIZENSHIP, AND
TO DESTROY OUR
GOVMENT."-[Speech at Nashville, June
9th, 1864.
HE ADVOCATES THE VOTER BASIS.
~Many years ago, moved in the Legis-
lature (of Tennessee) that the apportion-
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