Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-03-09

pendent, thus diseourses on the .Presi-
dents 22d Feb. speech to the copperhead
mob in Washington: 3at
The blush which the President brought
to the cheek of the Nation on Washing
toms Birthday has bad time to fade into
cooler blood. Men have permitted their
sudden indignation to wane into settled re-
gret. 1t is hardly possible to realize the
sacredness of the national honor until it is
confronted with the calamity of national
disgrace. Our enemies familiarized this
nation with the pang of grief Our Chief
Magistrate has twice pierced it with tho
sting of shame. God shield the Republic.
AT two distant points in the country,
two representative Americans spoke on the
same day: one, the elected yice-president
of the Southern Confederacy, and now
private gentleman-the other, the elected
Yice-president of the United States, and
now its president Better for the nation
had each of these men made the others
speech! s
Not proven is the charge that the Pres
dent was in liquor. On the contrary, his
friends esteemed him in his right mind.
But perhaps the superiority of the office
enables president to be as vulgar when
sober as vice-president when drunk
With unheated blood, then, the Executive
of the United States publicly brands the
National Legislators as Traitors Borrow
ing language from the French Revolution,
he calls the Joint Committee of Fifteen
'sAn irresponsible Directory" Pointing
to the Capitol where Congress sits, he ex-
claims "Atnaost another REBELLION Is
inaagardtsd" The acts Of one Of the
three great coordinate departments Of tie
Government he describes as the g Progress
of Faction, REBELLION, and TREASON.h
With ominous emphasis he warns against
"Ckques, Ca5als, Conspiraciies, and Mach
nations" Descending to the pit of bill
ingsgate, he names two American states
men, one leader of the Senate and the
other of the House, whom he calls aas
much the enemies of the Governmeu as
Uers Jefferson Davis, Slidell,a and Toom5s."
The Clerk Of the United States Senate,
the official medium of communication be-
tween that body and the Executive Man
sion, he styles a ''dead duck" These gen
tlemen, and others acting with them in
Congress, he stigmatizes as ''opposed to
the fundamental principles of this govern
ment and lQ6oring to DESTR0YiE" Not
content with this extraordinary language,
he adds the astounding declaration, az
make use of a very strong oppression tohen
I sag that Ihave no doubt tie intention sods
to incite ASSASSINATION" Then, as
if in view of the expected accomplish
ment of his own murder, he prescribes
the manner of the sacrifice, directing that
an alter be reared, his body laid thereupon,
and his blood poured out o's
And all this foulness came out of the
mouth, not of Andrew johnson, but of the
President of the United States! All this
miracle of scandal to go flying round the
world to sadden all nations with the shame
of the greatest!
A few hours after this speech by the
President, his Secretary of State spoke it's
counterpart at Cooper Institute, New York
to the resurrected Castle Garden meet
ing of 1850. Do we say its counterpartl
The Presidents music was set to sharps;
the Secretary's to flats. The philosopher
of Auburn, builder of rainbows and pi-
per of soap-bubbles, discoursed of nothing
that had not already been spoken in lou
der tone by Copperhead gunpowder fred
in the Park. ''The President" said his
premier, sis in harmony with all the states
that were in rebellion" Certainly! And
the President is oa of harmony with all
the states that were not in the rebellion!
""When Mr.. Seward rose last night" said
the next days Eyenilg Post, "he did not
know how greatly the President had lust
offended" But Mr.. Seward did know show
greatly the President had just offended"
A morning journal, an organ of the Gov
eminent, says: fF3 rsas9
'Three or four dispatches were sent to
Mr.. Seward stating that the speech Of Mr..
johnson was frighgI one, speech that
he could not endorse, and begging him not
to speak at Cooper Institute" 7U-aas. s.'-
One of these warnings was sent bya
.. S. Senator, and the other by a Cabinet
minister! But Mr.. Seward was not afraid
of thing frightfuL He made his speech
that night; he perused the Presidents
next morning; he gave thanks for that
immortal objurgstion; and he forwarded
the following congratulation by telegraph
to Washington: SO
.ss-r..Hs.f
New YORK, Feb. %, 1856.
1t is all right and safe. The Union is
restored and the country safe. The Pres
idenfs speech is TRIUMPHANT, and the
country will be happy. as ssea
(Signed) WIN. H. SEWARD.
Thus Mr.. Seward shares the guilt of
his master, re-enacts and intensifies the
Executive insult to Congress, and an
nounces to an astounded nation that the
Presidents Cabinet Minister for Foreign
Affairs is happy to regard the Senate's.
Chairman of Foreign Relations as Trai-
tor, Conspirator, and Assassin! s eae'
Parson Brownlow, in the Knoxville
Wing, pithily says: "If the people are
with the President in his policy, it is the
Southern people, who fought four years to
destroy the government and who clamor-
ed for the capture of the President that
they might have the pleasure of hanging
him." He adds: