The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-01
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..President Of the Peonle-,

president Of the People,
No Executive of the United States
ever had a juster claim to the title of
President OF PEOPLE" than An
drew johnson. be is of the people
and with them. All classes have &C.
cess to him, and he hears them with
patience and respect and is eager
ever to aid in securing all in their rights
under the Constitution. He loves the
Union earnestly, and almost TO idola-
tory but still more the Constitution
which Is the bond of union, and with
out which our Government would de-
generate into the meanest and most
oppressive Of despotisms. 1t was his
regard for the people that caused him
TO appear when called for on the 22d
ult, and 10 address his fellow citizens
Of the District of Columbia in his plain.
u~nvarnished way, giving them whole
some truths to digest, and warning
them against enemies to the Constitu-
ton, North as well as South. Regard
ing Mr. Sumner, Mr.. Stevens, and Mr..
Phillips, as engaged in work but little
less reprehensible than that of JEFF
Davis and his rebel legions during the
war, it was his duty TO speak of them
as be did, and the people will
thank him. We must not shut
our eyes blindly 70 the past Mr..
Sumuer and Mr. Phillips belong to the
Glass of Massachusetts, abolitionists
who, if they ever had any, have long
since lost all reverence for u consti-
tutional form of government The
Constitution is a barrier in the way,
preventing q contamination of their
plans and purposes. They would de-
stroy it, as 3 "bond with death, a cove
nsnt with hell" would sacrifice the
Union to accomplish their mad pro-
iects in behalfof universal freedom and
universal suffrage. The AntilSlavery
Society Of Massachusetts,, only the year
before the war, adopted the following
resolution:
"RcsJiUea, That the one great issue be-
fore the country is the dissolution Of the
Union, IN comparison with which all other
issues with the slave-pOwer are b dust in
the balance, therefore, zoe giUe ourselves 10
the U0rk q dHHUiltng uis cOUecGnI Nth
death, as essential to our own innoceucy,
and the speedy and everlasting overthrow
Ol the slave system"
And Mr.. Wendell Phillips, being
present, endorsed it in the following
language:
81 entirely accord with the sentiments of
that last he oluuOu. I think all we havc to
10 is 30 prepsrs the public mind by the
fH'y and hourly presentation Of the DOCTRINE
uF DIsUNI0N. Events, which Fortunately for
as, tee Government itself and other parties
are producing with unexampled rapidity,
are our best aid"
And as late as the Goth January, 1861,
this ~truculent denouncer Of President
Johnson as a Benedict Arnold, said
Sacrifice everything for the Union 3? God
forb "a : Sacrifice everything 10 keep South
Carolina in it Rather build d br dge of
gold, and pay her toll over it. let her
march Of nth banners and trRmpets, and a0c
iriU speed the parting guests. Let her not
stand upon the order Of her going, but %
AT 0NCH. Gre her the forts and crScHdtS
and ygJ-treusuricy, and lend her JcJcclS Of
sIIusr and gold, and Egypt giH rg0tcc that
she has departed
Had the policy of these men prevail
ed in 1861, we would to-day have no
Constitution and no Union. Our coun-
try would be but a wreck Of States
piled up in confusion, without hope for
the future.
President johnson has not forgotten
the obstacles thrown in the path OF
Union men by these ~sgitators, then,
and he is not disposed to permit them
TO be forgotten by the people, now that
the Union has been preserved, and
they have renewed their efforts to I'M
dermiue and destroy the Constitution.
As the President of the people, the
defender and protector Of the Consti-
tution. he did not think it expedient TO
wrap himself up in the mantle OF OH
cial dignity, and let the plotters work
We trust he may never 80 long as he
occupies the Chief Magistrates chair,
change his notions respecting the obi
cations of the Peoples President