The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-11
The President and the Democratic Party.


From the World.
There seems to be some little misapprehension
in the minds of Republicans as to the support
and praise Of the President by the Democratic
party. We can ease their minds at once. Mr..
johnson is not our President, and we praise and
support him just exactly as we should have
praised and supported Mr.. Lincoln had he lived
to find himself in antagonism with party of
which the utterances ia 1866 are in direct con.
f1ict with the utterances of 1861. We under
stand the President and he understands us. So
far as he differs from the Sumner-Stevens school,
we agree with him. In his fight with disunion-
lists, we back him. and we back him without
either fee or reward, or the hope of fee
or reward except the consciousness of
duty. We do not ask of him anything, except
not TO desert himself We do not ask for offices;
We do not want them; we simply ask him not
10 allow the offices TO be used to beat himself
ii he takes our advice, it is so much better
for him and Tor the general welfare; if
he does not, we are no worse off, So far as the
interest of the Democratic party is concerned:
80 tdr as the burning OF its principles into the
convictions OF men thereby, 1t might be better
that the Sumner-Stevens faction should beat,
and disgrace and degrade from his office Andrew
johnson, than that he should beat it. The
President IN being afraid to identity himself in
any way with the Democratic party (perhaps
from motives OF dehcacy which we appreciate)
needs no particular man, can easily do without
him. Clay lett it, and, though few more able
men have lived since Washington, the Demo-
cratic party managed to exist without him, and
to beat him as often as he wooed the comb
We do not envy MIR. Johnson mis- present ore
tended friends of Seward & Co., whom he so
often and so bitterly denounced as enemies of
the Union, subverters OF the Constitution, and
provokers OF civil war. We do not ask him not
10 affiliate with them; but he knows that,
Though he ask it, we will not affiliate with them;
their hands are too red with blood, and their
pockets too plethorc with public plunder
! AS matter OF course, the Democratic party,
whose lie IS sacred regard to that com pact
''betWeen the States that ratified itn-the Oonst
futop-canDot attain power while that Constitu
tion is utterly disregarded and while a commu
nifty Is debauched by paper money, which il was
one Of the great objects of that Constitution to
guard against, 1t would be as idle to EXPECT IT,
as to expect OF man who is in the flush and
happiness of wine to admit that a debauch il
moi avery profitable as well as a very pleasant
thing. Only after the dreadful next morning
will he agree that the pleasure is dearly our
chased, and that he has paid too dear for hi.
whistle. 4
The Democratic party is the party of reason
not OF passion; OF the concrete, not of the alb
stract Of liberties, not of liberty. 1t aims to le
men as severely alone as possible; To allow ever
man TO work out his own elevation. 1t doe
not pretend to any superior science which will
make gold out OF leaves; il knows of no aritt