The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-07-27
ronNEY,s HEsPONsE no JOHNSON.

seNtFOly COtFlfaSteu tuc phUflOuC position OF
President JoHNsoH, when he was the Union
candidate for tho Vice Presidency, with
Lbs present antagonisic relations to tho
party which elected him Vice President.
fhe President undertook to avengc himself
by publishing 4 letter from Colonel FoENEY
to him, written on the 2d of January last,
while the President seemed to DO acting in
complete harmony with the great mass Of
patricia in tic country--violatng by such
Ipublication, both public honor and private
confidence. Colonel FoRSEv closes his re.
sponso to the President in the following
scathiug rcjoindor:
Aud now, sir, a word in reference to your
personal affairs. ] know right well the diff
| liculty, il not the danger, of the position
occupy. ! know that for sternly holding
yon TO your pledges am assailod and threat
ened by every Copperhcad and traitor be-
tween Maino and Mexico aud know, also,
that, stimulated by tho passions that have
controlled you since you broke away from
those pledges there is nothing you would
not resort to TO dcmoralizo tho party that
elected you, and ruin those who refuse TO
follow you into tho ranks of the common
enemy. 1t is not tho first time | have been
thrown into conflict with fathless and
corrupt Executive, but it il the first timo
| have ever been called upon TO contemplate
and 10 expose such per1dJ as yours.
will not remind you OF my earnest aud un-
calculating friendship from the period when
You took issue with treason in the Senate
in 1860, down to the Baltimore Convention
in 1864 which body, at tho request of tho
lamcntcd Lincoln aud such earnest radicals
as Benjamin f. Wade, of Ohio, attended
ulo1c for the purpose of pressing your nom
nation for the Vice Presidency, after il be
came apparent that Hannibal llamlin, tho
ncOrruptiblo patriot, was willing to give
way in order 70 allow representative of
tho War Democracy u position upon the
national ticket. That you should have for
Cotton these facts amounts to nothing in
comparison with your hearllcss ingratitnde
to tho party which placed you in nomina.
ton aud elected you Vice President. lndi.
vidull ingrattude and cruelty concern only
tho persons betrayed and injured but
when, as in your case, the betrayal Of the
whole country is contemplated, the oifensu
becomes national, and should DO accordingly
checked and countcractcd.
There is, however, ono part of your eX.
pcrcnco which deserves to bo considered,
especially in view of the new system of re.
vengo you have adopted, VIZ that of pub.
fishing private letters Of gentlemen who re.
llise to sustain your attempt to make loyal
ty odIOus and treason honorable. Need |
tell that ] allude to the disgraceful 4th OF
March, 1868? Wien YoU reSOiced 10 de-
seIt The brare and beHeo0ient men 10 10 Mrer
Ooer you The ci0ak Of their forgiveness and
Charity on hd dtY, YOW consciously or ul.
consciously prepared /Or every other tredch-
ery When you obtained your consent TO
do that single act Of shame, your intrigues
with the Cupperheads before tho fail cleo
iions of 1868, your veto of tue Frecdmcn's
Bureau bill after having almost explicitly
promised to sign it, your revolving 22l Of
February speech, your prosecutions of tho
white aud colnrod luyalisls of the South,
and your publication of private letters
writton to yen in unsuspoctinS confidence,
followed naturally aud irrcsistbly. Sup.
pose any other man were guilty as you
were guilty on the 4th of Mrch, 1865, what
would such u gentleman have done? You
stood before your own country and the
world dishonored aud degraded, The orli.
nary calumuies of the Coppcrhcads and
traitors were coined into tho most fright.
iul maledictious against you | know OF
ter for an incxcusablc weakness was ut the
samo timc 80 universally eXccratcd by one
party, and SO ndulgcutly and mngnanimous
W treWted Wy O"N,her. hny trus man, rquti1y
unfortunate AMI equally forgiven and de-
fcndcd, would have turned to the great Re
publican UhiOn party and have said:
'For this act OF noble clemency ain bound
to you through life and unto death. That
which you have done this day pllcos me
under obligations from which can never
escape, and which shall forever cherish.
feel that | have disgmced you and dshon
orcd myself, aud bya life of gratitude VII
prove that, although unworthy of your con-
idencc, and unworthy of your vndication,
can at least do my bcst to atone for my
Olfensc.'
But as you seem to be male Of different
metal from such character, you have not
only coolly forgotten the generous men who
saved you from disgrace, but are now en-.
gagged in tho pleasant pastimc of slandering
them and prosecuting their friends.
will postpone description OF my own
part in that sad drama, prelerriug to wait
Tor the other private revelations you prom
Use TO lay before tho country. 1t is very
certain that if you have forgotten all shame,
you cannot have forgotten my connection
WIN ObuiSN NulI UludlVJ SNpoll~
euce. Probably no more graphic aud in,
structive page could be added to the curi
Gus history of your administration than a
detailed account OF that celebrated day
| have not been as careful in treasaring all
the incidents as you have been in preserv.
ing the private letters of gentlemen you
iutond to hetray; but where my own mem.
orY fails, shall DO able to eke out u com.
plete narrative by turning to the copouS
and fascinating columns of those traitor aud
Copperhcad newspapers which are now do.
fonding your character and your conduct.
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tbs Memphis Argus. violent rebel
paper. said of ANDREW Johnson, in 1861
We should like to see Andrew Johnson's
lying tongue torn from his foul mouth aud
his miserable carcass thrown cut to poison
mad dogs, or hung on u gihbet as high as
llaman, TO feed the carrion buzaards
Since ANDREW JonNsoN has determined
not to "make treason odious, " tho Argu,
thinks better of him, aud now says;
Tho iron frmnoss, the mdislaayed SOU
OF single mau (Audrew Johnson) is al
that stands between us aud the faterul vor
tex OF anarchy aud resultant despotsm
which has engulfed the liio aud fortunes o
SO many millions before u.s. Let us rail-,