The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-03-15
MARCH Is. 1866.

provoke it, it is thorough Union stterance.
50 bold. so urmistakaRs, that il would
seem as if he who proposes to himself
+ TO take sides against the President, must
have made up his mind previously. and
! for other reasons. to do so. Men in
great Emergencies OF this kind. do not go
off on matters of mere taste but upon
matters of principle and he who could
endorse the past course of the President
and his declarations in the veto message
yet fall out with him because Of this
/ speech, would hardly be valued by him
as that supporter men need IN the DIM
cult positions he has been compelled TO
occupy.
Again: those who hastily conclude,
or fancy, that what has happened is 60
ing to weaken the President with the
nation, has studied the tendencies of pop
ular sentiment and popular movements
10 very little purpose II the American
people value any characteristic whatever
more than another in public man, it is
boldness firmness the determination
not to be rode over tamely by those who
NAV array themselves in antagonism to
him It was this, more than aught else
that made President Jackson what he be-
came and the public may rest assured
that an occasion SO thoroughly Amer
lean as was the late demonstration at
Washington when the President turned
upon his foes at last to pay them off in
their own coin, will enlist the applause
and the sympathy of the millions,
strengthening his hands, and making
him still more formidable rs a leader of
the people The whole Anglo Saxon
race value ''pluck,' "spunk, or what
ever may express that readiness to do
battle the President has ut last shown,
after constituting himself for nearly
twelve months n model of patience in
his intercourse with friend and toe and
no worse policy could have been hit up
on by Messrs. Sumner, Stevens and 9th
ers, than to have persisted in goading
to ihe last limit one of his we'll known
temperament and antecedents one, who
if finally aroused, was sure TO turn upon
them with a power and determination
greater than their own.
TIE nat,on cannot afora 10 see kim sacrt-
need an any such conflict; and what is more,
there is no danger of its coming 10 that -
If he cannot fight his own battles, there
has never been a man in the Presidential
chair who could He has courage, .a-
gacity, self poise, promptness; and his
antagonists may rest assured, will not
easily be driven from his course. Called
to his high position fortuitously, he has
never had the cordial support and sym
patty III his terribly trying position he
should have had and left largely to
find his own supports, he has borne him
self in a manner TO win the confidence
of the American people. Charged with
a design to betray the [ mon men of the
South, right on the heels of his declara-
ton to the Virginia delegation-that il
there were but five thousand loyal
men in that State they were the ones
who should govern it, there was no oc
casion TO furiously impeach his political
integrity to denounce him with the in
decent haste exhibited by his assailants
To use an expression current on the
Mississippi river upon occasion-Sum-
ner, Stevens and company have run
against snag and are not insured "
fact they have doubtless realized by this
time
The time has come to stand By The Pres
ident, TO sustain one as true as he has
proved himself to be in the cndeavor to
give the country peace. He has striven
under every Encouragement to do his
duty to sustain the credit of his nation.
to protect and aid the suffering, 10 recon
ciie those bitter enmities aCAich are corrodin9
the ritdis OF the nmfi0n, sapping its finan-
cial standing, and paralyzing its best in
terests. And had his assailants in Con-
gress been half as buisy over subjects of
the most imminent importance to the
restoration of the Union, the Treasury
bill, etc, rs they have been in drawing
party lines, the political crisis we are con
temDlatin0 would never have occurred and
we should have been 20 day, much more
nearly a happy and prosperous people.
The method is plain enough which must
rebuke this neglect; this fostering of
needless and injurious antagonisms.-
Let the people IN PRIMARY meetings speak out
No true Union man, no friend of peace
and quiet, is afraid Of their verdict; and
we may add-neither in the light of
what has occurred-is the President
Let the people speak out, we repeat, if
they desire to see factionists rebuked,
and the nationality indeed restored.