Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-11-01
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1leut Johnson and his ACoomplices.

s@ient Johnson and his Acoomplices.
from tie Atlantic Monthly for ovember,)
AGaaw JOHNSON has dealt the most
Il. NJ. all blows to the respectability of
action which rejoice5 in his name
-..lIy had the political Pecksnifls and
ar.ydggps cOnuived SO to manage the
-s.a Convention at Philadelphia that it
.4,e- .eg OF the proprieties of intrigue
4- uulg Of the decencie5 Of dishonesty,
nan the commander-in-chief Of the combi-
...- -59k the field in person, with the in
sl.gl Oi carrying the country by assault
.sgctive point was the grave Of Doug
f. "ncn became, by the time he arrived,
grave also Of his own reputation and
-ope5 Of his partisans. His speeches
tue route were a volcanic outbreak of
5auty, Conceit, bOmbast, scurrility, ig-
aace, insOlence, brutality, and balder-
49, Screams of laughter, cries Of dis,
st, Ausnlngs Of shame, were the various
sqyuses of the nation he disgraced to
4arangues Of this leader Of American
,.lservatism." Never before did the
-s. Office in the gift of the people appear
poor an object Of human ambition as
A Andrew Johnson made it an eminence
which to exhibit inability to behave and
qacity to reason. His low cunning
Splred with his devouring egotism to
lake him throw off all the restraints of Of
al decorum, in the expectation that he
us find duplicates Of himself in the
r5a he addressed, and that mob difused
.t hardly sympathize with mob imper-
-t,j Never was clustering demago-
I'd by a distempered sense of self-im-
..t-Cc into a more fatal error. Not only
tHc great body of the people mortified
fdgnaut, but even his satraps and
eadants," even the shrewd politicians
@9dcuts Of an Accident and shadows of a
,da-who had laborcd so hard at Phila-
zyAia to weave cloak Of plausibilities
cover his usurpatiUns, shivered with APP
euension or tingled with shame as they
ad the reports OF their masters impolitic
ID ignominious abandonment of dignity
al decency IN his addresses to the people
3 attempted alternately to bully and ca.
lie. That a man thus seIf-exposed as un-
'N4iJ VI tlLoJ oLIOuiu nave Uau lilc
.:a to expect that intelligent constituent
les would send to Congress men pledged
support has policy and his measures ap.
cared for the time to be as pitiabIe a spec.
ac.e Of human deluson as it was anexasp
rating example of human impudence.
Not the least extraordinary popularity
j these addresses from the stump was the
immense protuberance they exhibited Of the
.'sauai pronoun. In Mr.. Johnson's speech
Is " - resembles the geomcter's descrip-
..a Of infnity, having :" it's centre every.
,aera and its circumference nowhere. -
>~ong the many kinds Of egotism in which
IS e.oquence IS prolific, it may be difficult
81 .saten on the particular one which is
s'I detestable or most Iaughable but il
ssms to US that when his arrogance apes
unity it is deserving, perhaps, of an in
User degree Of scorn or derision than
.~'a 1t riots in bravado. The most often,
'|5 part which he plays in public is that o
~s humble individual" Dragging of the
~" ".less Of his origin, limiting Of the grea
-.'''a which could alone have lifted him tt
So present exalted station, and represent