The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1866-06-13
WILL ANDREW JOHNSON HANG
HESTER CLYMER?

iiii@A' bR VI h Law
The Wcllsboro (Tioga) Advertiser
states some facts which we commend
to the consideration OF Democrats OF
Greene County. We copy;
But these skeptics go still further -
They say, here in Pennsylvania, that
ANDREW JOHNSON is laboring to defeat
General GEARY and to elect HESTER
CLYMER. Fortunately Mr., JonNsoN's
utterances give us an antidote to this
skepticism. In the speech last quoted
Mr.. JOHNSON sad:
1t is not the men in the field who are
the greatest traitors. 1t is the men who
have encouraged them to impcril their
lives, while they themselves have remain
ed a, home expending their means and
cxertlng all their power TO overthrow
the Government, Hence l say this:--
"The halter to intelligent, influential
traitors" Loud cheers. But to the
honest boy, to the deluded man, who
has been deludcd into the rebel ranks, /
would extend lenicncy; | would say
retnrn to your allegiance, renew your
snppo;t to the G vcrnment and become
a god citizens but the leaders | woul
hang. Great chce'ing
So, according to ANDREW JOHNSON;
ROBERT L. LEE, JosEru Johnson, SroNE'
WALL JACKSON, BEAUREGARD, WADE
HAMPTON, Henry A. WISE and hosts Of
other armed leaders of rebellion, were
not the greatest traitors, but the men
who, at home, expended their means
and exertcd all their power to overthrow
the Government. II HESTER CLYMER
did not eSpend his means and exert all
his power to give aid and comfort to
those who were trying TO overthrow the
Government, who, pray, did' We
affirm and no man can successfully deny,
that he did do this very thing More
than this. We can prove it by the ad-
mission Of at least two Copperhead
papers which advocate his election.
WI a. follows' What but the concu-
sion that, if Andrew johnson ever gets
a chance, he will hang Hester Clymer
and four-titths Of the Copperhead lea
ders! If the Presiden is a man OF truth,
if he never changes, he has passed sen
tcnce upon lliester Clymer and his as
sociotes, and will hang them If they ever
come up tor sentence.
Fortunately, too, we are able to quote
Andrew Johnson's utteranccs directly IN
favor of General Geary, for on the same
occasion he said.
In the midst of our rejoicing, we must
not forge. to drop a tear for those gall
liant fellows who have shed their blood
that their Governu ent might triumph
We cannot forget them vhe~ zoe vic,c the
many btoodV baHle,fclds Of the ,Dar, the
ntw'made graues, our manned friends aud
reidt'res Uho haze left their hmbs, asH
,cere, on the encmy's soiI and "thers who
haze bee" consigned to their Tang, nayvow
house, wih no windng Shect Sore Their
thnhetsS $ dmoted with their biood:
Does not that settle the question:
The President is too old to change, YOU
know. lie so declares tor himself; and
there, os you cannot fail to see, Le COM
mils himself to 'hc support Of General
Geary.
But some declare that the President
is about to play the autocrat, and rule by
virtue of the one man power feature of
the Const tuition. Fortunately, we can
come to his rescue from this aspersion.
On the same occasion he said.
But my fiiends, IN wIot has tie 9reat
strength Of this Government conSiStpd?-
H"s il Teen IN onc-man pomer? Has il
6eea u some aufocrat, or in some one man
mho heM absolute government No! q
hank COL / hace IL an my po,cer 10 pro.
claim the great truth Mu his Government
has dericcd h strsngM from tie .Ame4:an
people.
We appeal to our radical friends to
say if we have not met them at every
point with utterances of the President
which put their skepticsm to fgh,' We
do not say that tho President will not
pardon traitors; but we give his own
pledge tina. he will not. We d, not say
that HlEsrER CLYMER is a worse traitor
than General LEE; but we give the
Presidents words to that cffect. We
do not say that Mr.. Johnson will sup
port General GEARY, but we give his
own words, which fairly show where
his sympathies are.
Howeuer, most public men wW bear
wotching.
-------.-----.---..s . > e-.----------..----.--
TIM fo,lnwiDv lptior IN TIM p,tt,h,.c