The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-05-02
From The 1ndianapolis Herald.


The President.
= ANDREW Johnson is a remarkable man.
lie was born in Raleigh, North Carolina,
DEC. 90, 1908, and is now 81 years Of age.
He was born Of poor parents, and left an
orphan when he was four years old. lie
newer was at school day in his life. His
education is his individual acquisition
He was taught the trade of tailor. He
worked at that trade till 1885, whom he
was elected to the Legislature of Tennes-
see, since which time he has been in pub
cliclife.s lie had previously Been alderman,
mayor, etc., of Grecnville, Tenn. From
such beginning he has risen to the highest
Office in the world-that of President of
the United States. If his career does not
prove him to be remarkable man, an ex-
traordinary man, we do not know what
would entitle man to such appellation.-
This great success has inspired him with
confidence in his power equal to that felt
by Napoleon in his guiding and protecting
deity, President johnson is a man Of me-
dunn Size; is well preserved his physical
condition is good voucher for past life
of moral habits; he looks younger, rather
than older than he is; he is not coarse
man in looks or manner, but the opposite !;
! he is a polished gentleman easy and
graceful in his department., receiving all
with pleasant smile and frank cordially
that puts them at once at ease. Under
stands his business and duties, and is
prompt, honest and conscientious in their
discharge. "There is the law" he says,
" there is the officer to execute it; if he
rhas honestly discharged his duty in the
premises, that is all the citizen can require.
No !favoritism must be practiced."
The President is Democrat, instinct
lively, and from the experience of his life
all his feelings, habits and theories have
been and are that way. Rising from among
the humblest Of the people, he feels, now
that he should be the Tribune Of that peo-
Of the inoneyed, the bond holding, and the
Eastern corporate aristocracies, and the
adxoyztes of the imperial Capitalization of
same time, he is a most ardent friend of
tho Union, with the constitutional rights
Of the States unimpaired.
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Here we may refer to point of history
touching Johnson's connection with these
Northern traitors. Two courses were open
to the South toward them. One was to
fight them in the Union, to secure the
constitutional rights of the South, which
these Northern disunionists refused to re-
spect. The other was to leave the Union.
johnson was earnestly, uncompromisingly
for the former course. He said to Davis
and the Southern leaders all, fight them in
the Union, and l will fall in the last ditch
with YOU. They are traitors, disunionists
they refuse us our constitutional rights,
without the enjoyment of which the Gov
eminent is practically nothing, is in fact
broken up; I'll fight them with you in the
Union, and die in the last ditch. But the
Union must be preserved at all hazards
This is the leading motto of the great old
Union Democratic party to which | have
always belonged, and whose principles are
right; and, if you attempt to leave the I'm
ion, instead Of fighting with me for our
rights in it, shall join anybody against you
to keep you in the Union. That being ac-
complished, shall be ready to again fight
the Northern aggressors and disunionists,
with you or anybody else, to secure, in the
Union, the rights Of all the parties to it,
under the Constitution.
Such has been Johnson's COURSE per-
fectly consistent one. All the time Union
Democrat; ready to fight anybody who
would not stand by the Union. We see
the position of the President toward the
Republicans is caused, not by change of
principle in him, but change of circum-
stances in the country. Johnson's leading
principle has been to, fight disnnionists in
the Union. This application caused him
to fight Northern Abolitionists, the Gar
risons, Phillipses, Birneys, Giddingses,
SHADES, Julians, Chases, etc., and the Re-
publican Sons of Liberty. It caused him
to fight the JEFF. Davises, Yanceys and 9TH
er disunionists of the South, who elected
to leave. the Union rather than fight for
their rights in it; and causes him now to
fight the disunion Republicans of the
North, who, upon the disunion doctrines
they avowed before the war, now insist
that the Union is dissolved, that the South
ern States are out of the Union or dead,
and are, as Territories, in the power Of
Congress; and that, as they were opposed
to the old Union, SO now they are OPP
posed to its restoration, and thus bring
themselves directly in collision with the
Union principles of Andrew johnson,
which, next to his God, he worships.