The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-03-17
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The Late Copperhead Meeting and
the President.

the Er0S1u0uC.
The late meeting in this town affords ample
evidence that the Copperhead party, in their
support of President Johnson, is insincere and
hypocritcal, and that it was intended only to
deceive and mislead the unsuspecting, and not
to sustain and strengthen the Executive The
aim Of that movement was to divide the Union
party and weaken the power of those who have
been really the friends of the country from the
very commencement of our difficulties. We
doubt very much the sincerity of the support of
that class of persons who have only been known
in the past as the traducers and villi6ers of Mr..
Johnson who, during the war, gave their SYM
patty to the rebels who encouraged them in all
their iniquities who did their utmost to embar-
rass the Government who applauded traitors
who belittled our victories and laughed over our
reverses. We repeat, we doubt the sincerity of
such men Support. They cannot support Presi-
dent Johnson. The thing is impossible. Their
antecedants are too glazing their reasonable
Vaccinations of a too recent date, to palm off so
huge lie. They never did unequivocally en-
dorse the President, and they never will, SO long
as he reflects the views and sentiments Of those
who elected him. g
We have no faith in Rebel endorsements of the
President, and whenever movements are inaugu-
rated for that purpose it may be fairly inferred
that there is scheme of some sort at the bottom
Of them. 1t is the least of their thoughts to en-
dorse him their chief and only object is to di-
vide and ALLEVIATE those who are his friends
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icy, it is true, but they lack the tone and temper
of genuine, out-spoken and undisguised support
1t is not the kind of support Union men accord
him. Theirs is the spontaneous outpouring of
the heart the other the carefully devised schemes
ofpolitical hypocrites and designing demagogues,
and are intended to deceive and entrap.
We place too high an estimate on the natural
sagacity of President Johnson TO believe for a
moment that he can be manipulated and used for
selfish ends by any party. We do not believe
he could by any agency, be induced to turn his
back upon his friends or give himself up to his
enemies. He has too much political experience,
and is too deeply imbued with feelings of patri-
otto devotion to the country, to act upon the
counsel that may be thrust upon him by those
who did not hesitate to pronounce traitors " the
best men in the community" 1t nowhere APP
pears that Mr.. johnson has proved recreant to
his party. His cabinet is composed of men taken
from the ranks of the National party, who do
not feel that the time has come when they can
not consistently hold to both the President and
their party. Besides, Mr.. Johnson is being up
held by many influential and consistent men of
that party. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, who
voted for the Freedmen's Bureau Bill over the
Presidents veto, said in speech few days ago.
" If ever the time shall come when can no long
err con6de in his devotion to the principles up
!" on which he was elected, will bid farewell
" to Andrew Johnson with unaffected Sorrow
To hold fast to the President is thesurest method
10 defeat the efforts being made to overthrow the
Union party. The Democrats profess to endorse
President johnson, but we all know how far they
do endorse him, and their meetings of rejoicings
and congratulations only discover their treachery
and insincerity They did not vote for him
they spurned him and supported PendIeton.-
Their sole delight is over the imagined prospect
of a permanent breach between him and Con-
gress, and the destruction of the Union party as
a consequence. To thwart their dangerous and
selfish designs should be the study of every sup
porter of Lincoln and johnson in 1864. To do
this, it is not necessary to affiliate with those
lately in rebellion, or with those sympathizing
with them, but all associations, in political ac-
ton, may be confined to those who were true to
the Government of the Union. We need seek
no alliance with the party that plunged the coun-
try in ruin and bloodshed.