Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-13
THE PRESIDENT TRUE TO HIS UNION
SYMPATHIES AND AFFILIATIONS.

THE PRESIDENT TRUE TO HIS UNION
SYMPATHIES AND AFFILIATIONS
1t is possible that certain members OF the
great Union party-the true men who III good
faith went in to overthrow the rebellion and re
store the Union-will find that they have been
too fast and furious in their condemnation oil
the President for the course toward reconstruc-
ton he has seen fit to pursue. Certain as II lS'
nowthat the extremists on our side in Congress
have done what they well could, to drive him
over to the ranks Of the Buchanan democracy,
it is more and more evident that he has Opin-
ions peculiarly his own; will peculiarly his
own; and that we can no more be merely used
by one side than by the other.
We have commended, all the time, that he
was true to the splendid record he made in
Tennessee; and the denunciations so freely
lavished upon him by those, who it seems to
us should have been more considerate, have
not changed that opinion. Left almost with
out support or sympathy by those who should
have treated him with more confidence and
kindness, if they really desired to serve the
country more than party, he has been com
PEELED to largely rely upon himself; upon his
own strong will and indomitable courage, in
restoring the country to peace.
No man knows better than the President
himself, that of all men in the nation, his past
action as the foremost champion of the Union
in the revoltcd States, has made his course the
one least to be forgiven: and that if the old
democratic aristOc racy of the South could
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in once more obtaining power, that they would
turn upon him the first chance, andpay of the
old scores so deeply marked against him.
The country is not deceived in the manner
in which his action has been looked upon.
Despite the desperate and persistent efforts of
two or three radical leaders to unseat him in
the affections and confidence of the Ameri-
can people, little or no progress has been
made. Watched closely as he has been by
the loyal masses-becauSe the people are Just
as capable of pronouncing upon his loyalty to
principle as those who have of late attempted
to enact the part of angry dictators, -they
hare not .found hiD', achen the radicals turned
their backs upon him, going orer to the enc
mics Of the Union; and the latter, disappoint-
ed and counting on his iustifable anger and
disgust, see all this just as plainly; since after
attempting to WOO him in the softest strains,
they have discovered that they have "taken
nothing by the motion"
We say that the fierce disunionists who
figured in the recent conflict, are beginning to
find out their grave mistake; and if our read
ers desire proof Of this fact, let them scan
the extracts we shall give from late editorials
of the New York World and Ners: The
World says-"Mr. johnson is not oar Prcsi
dent" and continues:
THE President, in being afraid to identify
"hin,Self in any way with the Republican par
''ty (perhaps from motives of delcacy, which
''we appreciated can lose something; but that
party which needs no particular man can
''eaSily do without him. Clay left it, and,
''though few more able men have lived since
washington, the Democratic party existed
''without him, and to beat him as often he
''wooed the combat. We do not envy Mr.,
johnson his pretended friends of Seward Il
60, whom he so often and so bitterly de-
''nounced as enemies of the Union, subvcrt-
'!war We did not ask him to affiliate with
'!them; but he knows that though he ask it,
'we will not affiliate with them; their hands
''are too red with blood and their pockets too
''plethoric with public plumber"
And the Ne,CS is no less emphatic
eff the President will consent to be the
stool of faction, let him execute the UNI
constitutional laws of those Legislative mon
'opolists But, if he is President of the
"United States, he need not fear to trample
"upon the edicts of the demagogues who are
'going through the slow mockery of legisla-
''tion at Washington
Does any true Unionist want any more
than this to show that the Woods set have
made nothing out Of late troubles in the Union
ranks, and will loyal men still follow the pes
tiferous lead of Thad Stevens and his coporal's
guard, in trying to ALLEVIATE the President from
his Union friends, or the latter from him? Has
not this attempt to weaken and destroy the
Union party, the noble organization which
saved the Government from overthrow and the
country from ruin, gone far enough? and ought
it not to be considered that the true friends of
the nations peace-the true Unionists-are
those acho haze tried to maintain the ki1ldly
relations still existing bet.cirt the President
and the loyal masses? The president has so
far proved true to the Union party, although
not sympathizing with the ultraists in it; and
when the World and Ne,cs acknowledge their
failure, is it not time to accept the position of
the President as If firmly Tsp