Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-04-19
RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY, APRIL IL, 1866.
Signs of the Times.

The copperheads have been fishing for
the government patronage at the dispo-
sal of President Johnson. They have
baited their hook with the tenderest
love and sweetest admiration and softest
Aattery. But they have caught moth
ing, and are getting tired OF II. The
New York World thinks the President
ought to have used his influence to help
his democratic admirers In New Jersey
and Connecticut; and at the meeting OF
the national democratic association held
in Washington last Friday, it was voted
to maintain their own party organiza-
ton, and let the new Johnson party take
care OF itself. That good specimen of a
copperhead, Senator Salisbury q Della
ware, made speech that was received
with great applause, in which he said
'tHe believed, to-day, that a revolu-
ton is pending, and President johnson
would have better work for southern
men yet than hanging them. lie be-
lieved, to-day, that when Jefferson DN-
Wis left the Senate he was better I'm.
ion man than Abraham Lincoln. This
he would say on the floor in Congress
before he got through. The work OF
Congress amounts TO usurpatiOn, and
what it passes are not laws. He was
tired of supporting man who would
not help himself He was warm per.
soual friend of President Johnson, but
he was tired of supporting man who
let the Connecticut State election &C
against him, when he could have pre-,
vented it, who gives his offices to men
who are his personal enemies, who keeps
a cabinet about him not one of whom is
a friend to him, and who has scarcely a
member in Congress to support his
measures. Nearly all the democrats in
Congress We're sick at heart because the
president would not attempt to help
himself. He still chung to the vlest oil
the vile, Edwin Nj. Stanton. Let him
stand by the constitution, and then |
will think of going to work again. Re
organize your old democratic associa-
ton, and stick to that"
The attempt to get mp distinct J John.
son party, seems also to be given up in
another quarter. We copied yesterday
an article from the New York Times
arguing in favor Of such, a measure as
the Civil Rights bill declaring it right
and necessary that the freedmen should
be protected, that a majority Of the
loyal people have resolved that it shall
be done, and that "the democratic iourn-
ais among us, which counsel the eXecu.
tive to refuse to give effect to such 9
measure as the Civil Rights bill, even il
it becomes law, are neither true friends
of the President, nor honest friends OF
the South" And the Times calls for
moderation on the part of Congress, for
harmony between it and the President,
and argues that without it the RRpubli-
can party is In danger.
The fact is that all are beginning to see
that the attempt to break up the Union
party is a failure. Founded on princi
pie and having fought through a long
and bloody war against the combined
forces Of disloyalty, it is not going to
falter or dissolve in much less formi-
dable emergency. President johnson
has certainly not answered the expecta.
tions of the copperheads. We do not
think he will. But whatever he may do
the great Union party remains and viii
remain substantially unit