Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-09-28
Lincoln versng .lTTY Poliov.I

Gen. Carl Sohurz in an eloquent speech
recently delivered at Philadelphia, made
the following remarks concerning the un-
warrantable and impudent assumption by
Andy johnson that his policy is identi-
cal with that of his murdered predeces-
sor:
/ And yet policy ike this have heard
] designated as the "I6ncolD and johnson
/ policy. In the name Of common decen-
cy, In the name of the respect we owe to.
the memory Of our martyred President, I
sOlemnly protest against this insidious
coupling of names. Enthusiastic ap-.
plause The Lincoln policy I knew
Abraham Lincoln we'll and at times
when earnest and true men were dissatis-
! fed with his ways, and when 1 myself
could not resist an impulse of ImpatIenee
yet l never lost my faith In him, because
l knew him we'll The workings Of his
mind were slow but the pure and noble
sympathies Of his heart true as the mag
netic needle, always guided them to the
polar star Of universal justice. he was
not one of those bold reformers who will
go far ahead of the particular require
ments of the hour he labOriOusly en-
deaVored to comprehend what the situa-
tion demanded, and when he once clear
~ understood 1t, at once he planted his
foot, and no living man ever saw Abra-
ham Lincoln make a step backward. His
march was ahead, and each daHniBg day
found him an advocate Of the progress
sive ideas Of our great age.
have heard it said, and it is one of
the staple arguments of Mr.. JOhnson's
friends, that A braham Lincoln would
never have imposed upon the rebel States
a condition precedent to restoration, be-
cause it was not in the Baltimore plat
form. IF Mr.. Lincoln had been assassin
ated In the year 1862 they might with
equal justice, have said because emanci-
patton was not in the Chicago platform Of
1860, he would never have been in favor
of emancipation. I undertake to say he
would have been as firm an advocate of
impartial suffrage to-day as he was of
emancipation had he lived to see how
necessary the one is to secure and COM
plete the other. Loud Applause. True
he never ranted about the hanging and
and impoverishing of traitors, yet In his
soul slept the sublime ideal Of merclful
justice and just mercy. would not
have thought of taking bloody revenge
on the Unions enemies, but he would
never have ceased to think of being just
to the Unions friends. Abraham Lin
coin and this "poliey II JET would rath-
er have suffered himself to be burnt at
the stake than to break or endangeT the
pledge he had given to the Southern
Union man when he called upon him for
assistance, and to the negro soldier, when
he summoned him to the field Of battle
and if he could rise from the dead and
walk among US to-day, we would see him
implOring mercy upon the accused souls
of his assassins But even his large
heart, with its inexhaustable mine Of hu-
man kindness, would have no prayer for
those who strive to undo, or culpably suf-
fer to be undone the great work which
was the crowning glory Of his life.
CCheers.
Let Andrew Johnson's friends look
for arguments wherever they choose, but
let the grave Of the great martyr Of lib
erty be safe against their dehling touch.
In the name of the national heart I pro-
test against the infamous trick of associ-
ating A Abraham Lincoln with a policy
which drove into exile the trQest men of
the South, cnd eliminated in the buch-
cry of New Orleans lie Andrew John
son has chosen his pillory, let him stand
there alone, enveloped in the incense OF
bought aattery, adored BY every villain
in the land, and loaded down with the
maledictions of the down trodden and
DEGRADED fLOng continued applause.