Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-03-01
LETTER FROM OCCASIONAL" !"
From the Philadelphia Press.

last evening, after the reading of the veto
message OF President johnson, the Copper
head politicians, in and ont oi Congress
assisted 10y the disloyal elements III this
city, were celebrating the event with JOY
: as tumnltuOus as that with which the seces-
sion sympathlzers here would have hailed
the entrance of jefferson Davis INTO the
capital Of the United States after the battle
Of Bull Run. Even before Congress had
adjourned, the Star announced ga serenadc
10 the President y and early in the evening
a band of music, followed by about two
hundred people, called at the Presidential
mansion. HIS Excellcncy declined to make
u speech but somebody announced that he
would address the public on Thursday
evening. Not Union member Of either
House, and not even an Oflice-hoIdcr SO far
as could hear, took part in the demon
stration. Up to this writing have not
conversed with single individuaI-Sen
ator, Representatives. or citizen, who avows
his Willingness to support the policy fore
shadOwcd in the veto message of the Freed
mems Bureau Bill | say this, you will Oh
serve, before we have received any intima-
tlOn from the people Of the States, their
! legislators, newspapers or politicians, and
before either House has taken action upon
that extrao dinary document. In one re-
spect it is far better that the relations be-
tween the loyal people and Mr.. johnson
should be clearly defined and understood.
! The suspense which has prevailed in regard
! to his exact policy, succeeding and yet rap
| idly changing the almost unanimous APP
prOval OF his annual message, was almost
insupportable. You will recollect that
| prior to the New York and PENNSYLVANIA
elections Of last year, although the Presi-
dent was repeatedly called upon by the
prominent Union men in both States, and
solicited to declare in favor Of the regular
| Union tickets, or at least against the Cop
| perheads, he refused to take sides with the
friends Of the country. In our own State,
| it cannot be denied, that he promised to
! give Mr.. Cessna, chairman Of the Union
| State Central Committee an answe wer--which
answer was never received. In New York
he was so utterly demoraliZcd by the visits
! Of the Democrats who demanded his IN
| dorsement Of their platform that he was
| only interentialy quoted in favor Of the
| Union candidates. In both these States
! brave men who had fought against the
rebel enemies headed the Union tickets,
and yet, although they stood upon plat
| forms earnestly approving the Presidents
course, and pledged to him the loyal sup
port OF the people, he refused to abandon
his neutral ground and allowed the Copper
! heads to claim him as their supporter. BH
tcjth all This aid the CopperheqdS acere more
! utterly defeated than at any period of the re-
! 6eilt0R. Please make a note of this hstor-
| ical fact, inasmuch as it will serve to dlssi-
/ tn ll hot
was provoked by what is called the radical
policy in Congress. No such complaint
could be made before the great elections TO
which refer The radicals were silent at
home and indeed, had been rather ig-
nored by the Union party in New York
and Pennsylvania, and yet the hand OF the
! President was turned against lis, and the
battle had to be fought without him The
same temper characterized him directly
after the meeting of Congress. Not All i'll
tlmation was given from the time Of his an
nual message of his intention to carry out
| the positive and voluntary pledges made
while he was a candidate before the pco-
pie, and even after lie became President. by
the assassination Of Abraham Lincoln
His suspicious silence, in regard to the
| bloOd-staincd tyrant and traitor, Jefferson
! Davis, which SO alarmed the people during
the autumn Of 1865, became more ominUus
and marked after the meeting Of Congress-
From the organs Of disaifcctiou beginning
with the National hlteiiigeacer, at this
point, we had constant stream Of calum-
ny upon the earnest men Of the Republic,
who demanded his trial and execution
! Accordingly, treason everywhere took new
| heart. 1t was as common to rIdiCule and
eXccrate the radicals in the South, as il
was to outrage and cheat the negroes
Delegations OF the leading and most pro-
scriptive Democrats paid regular court,
and were received almost in state at the
! Presidential mansion. From Pcuusylva-
MIA we had such men as Senator Clymtr
| and WaLlace-thc slandcrcrs Of Anirew
Johnson III 1868, who led the CopperLeads
in the Legislature when they refused to al
| low him to speak IN the Legislative halls {:
! from New York we had such men as John
! Van Buren,, who was almost a guest, and
the daily confident of the President and
from the South the persons regularly ad-
mitted and attentively heard, were the
! desperate leaders of the recent murdcrouS
rebellion. Meanwhile, the Union members
/ of Congress watched these extraordinary
! proceedings WlJh UhdlSScmbltu sorrow.
| Unwilling to believe that the men who had
sought the life of the Republic, rejoiced in
! the defeat of our armies, denounced the cX-
ccuti0n of the assassins of Abraham Lin
! coin, and covered the name Of Andrew
/ Johnson with indescrbable obl0quy, were
/ believed, much less contidcd in; they called
/ upon the President, aud counseed with
him in the most friendly and traternai
spirit. Mortified as they were to see him
entertaining and listening to the Copper
heads of the North and the traitors OF the
South, Inundated by his ilIdigested, inco-
hcrent, and illogical harangues as he re-
ceved and answered all sorts of delega-
/ tions-they sought in every instance, to
suppress their apprehensions. Thus every
thing was done TO avoid, postpone, and
render impossible, the condition Of things
/ which, it now appears, has been for months
craftily, sedulously and trcacherously pre-
/ pairing. Not Il measure was contemplated
/ by these faithful Representatives that did
not find its source of encouragement in the
/ pledges and assurances of Andrew John
son himself. This is true, even of the most
/ radical measures Of Congress for if any
were many OF the decided radical. | have