The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-09-07
The Aantask Jeffersnnian
A rREsIDESTI>LSrUMP spEECII.
ING JOURNEY.

A fkESiDESIIt SPEECH.
ING JOURNEY.
When it was announced that Pres.
ident johnson intended to make n
tonr to Chicago for the purpose OF
assisting in the ceremonies of inaup
urating a monument to Stephen A.
Douglas, nothing was thought of it
farther than considering it just and
proper that the Chief Magistrate OF
the nation should participate in pay.
ing honor to that lamented statesman
and staunch Union man. The peo.
pie of the nation little thought at the
time 1t was TO be turned into stump
speaking tour, in which the one idea
of my Policy" was to be uppermost,
and all else was to be lost sight of but
that. The fact that Grant and Farra.
gut were to accompany the Presi.
dent, served to give eclQt to the af.
fair, putting the people on tip.toe OF
expectation. Without the latter, Mr..
johnson would have received but lit.
tie attention. He evidently under.
stood that fact, as he, in order TO
have them attend him, use his au.
thority as a superior officer.
AS the intention was to make n DO
litical matter of the journey, every
endeavor was used to make it a sue
cess. Programmes were published
OF tue route, places Of stopping, and
time of arrival at each place. Cou.
ricrs were sent in advance to arrange
matters with hotel keepers, livery sta
ble-keepers, "My policy" Office hold
ers, Copper. Johnsonians, that "the
people might turn out en- masse, and
that reception speeches might be
ready. The.President is now moving
grandly through the land to the tune
Of "My Policy"
If, before the President started up
on this campaign journey, the mass
es, or even a small portion Of them,
outside Of office holders, felt any re.
spect for him, it has turned to dis,
gust in view Of his speeches. 1t was
understood previous to his departure
what the real object of the journey
was, but the President has abased
himself, more than was thought pos
sible by his worst enemies--has utter
ly forgotten that our national Ex-
ecutive should possess dignity, and
has degraded his Presidential of.
flee to accomplish his own and par
ty ends. His speeches are of par
tisan character, worthy only of the
commonest demagogue. They arc
purely personal, and have for q be-
inning and an end, 81, Andrew John
son." Such an exhibition the Amer
lean people have never before been
called upon to endure; the way in
which he disgraced the nation at his
Inauguration was bad enough, but
whiskey was at the bottom Of it,
That cannot be used as an excuse
now, he is deliberately and wilfully
using his high position to gain per-
sonal ends. 81
Further, he has not even the excuse
of the probability of gaining any
thing by it. Ifhis political advisers
urged him to take this course, they
either lack political sagacity or are
intent upon his Boothships ruin
However, his intense vanity may
have suggested to him that he need
only to be seen and heard by the pco.
pie to be loycd-that it only required
the people OF the North should hear his
eulogy of himself, and be told by his
own lips of his just course, to be won
over in body to his side. II these
were his ideas upon the subject, he
has reckoned without.his host. The
free press of tile North has hereto
fore laid before the people Johnson &
''My policy" ideas, by Johnson, and
every person is Thoroughly informed
upon the subject, ''
The whole matter settles down to
this Andrew Johnson's electioneer,
ing tour has ruined him and strength
ened the Union party; it has disgrac
ed the nation it has tended to bring
disgrace upon the memory Of Doug
las it has shown the people thai
our Chief Magistrate determined t.
tring the nation to ruin. .... ....
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