The national Republican., 1866-12-24
THE VERDICT OF THE PEOPLE,
HOW 1T WAS OBTAINED, AND
WHY 1T WAS NOT DIFFERENT.

THE VERDICT OF THE PEOFLE-
HOW 1T WAS OBTAINED, AND
WHY 1T WAS NOT DIFFERENT.
The returns of the National Union
party" not yet having been received at this
Office since the October and November elec-
tions, we are unable, as one Of the organs OF
that great party-great in its principles and
purposes-to estimate our own strength,
fully therefore we will not assume to dictate
to the Radical leaders in Congress, but will
rather content ourselves, as independent
journalists, with the high privilege granted
us in the "ten mile square," Of being o
mere "looker-on here in Vienna" Occupying
that position, it is quite interesting to behold
the majority party in Congress, flushed with
recent victories secured by such enormous
majorities as to make them forget the awful
responsibilities imposed upon them by the
people.
They forget that they obtained the most
important of those victories by persistent
misrepresentation of the position Of the
Administration, by the utterance, Upon every
stump, from Maine to California, ofthe most
infamousy cruel falsehoods about the public
acts and social habits Of the President, some
of the basest of which time and the public
records have already exploded to the utter
CONSERVATION Of the evil inventors, and to
the great astonishment and enlightenment
of the intelligent, honestthinking people Of
the United States.
They forget that they studiously taught
the people to believe that ANDREW JOHNSON
was endeavoring to obtain dsspotic sway,
and that on the assembling Of Congress on
the Sd of this month he would secure to
Senators and Representatives of the ten un-
represented Southern States their seats with
the aid of Federal bayonets-a damnable lie
which no one of the Radical newspapers have
yet had respect enough for the nation or
themselves to acknowledge, but which the
people have not forgotten to observe did not
take place!
They forget that they told the people that
JOHNSON would resist Congress and revive
the rebellion" and that the people now see
how they were cheated by such libellers Of
The PRESIDENT.
They forget that they told the people that
The PRESIDENT did not want JEFF DAVIS
tried for treason and that the people have
now found out by the record that he has used
every effort in his power to bring the arch
traitor to trial, but the Judiciary would not
act.
They forget that they told the people that
ANDREW JOHNSON was turning all the Re-
publicans out of Office and putting Copper
heads in their places, and that such state
ments have been refuted, first, by the hun
dreds OF names of gallant soldiers recently
sent into the Senate for confirmation, many
OF whom have the endorsements Of the lead
ing Radicals in the land; secondly, by the
fact that four-ffths Of all the employees
who held offices in the several Departments
of the Government when ANDREW JOHNSON
assumed the duties Of President hold hei,
places no,v!
They forget that in the midst of their
hate and madness, with unblushing faces
they told the people that ANDREW JOHNSON
was party to the assassination Of ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, a statement SO disgracefully in.
famous that it has plagued its inventors
more than it ever could injure The PREsI.
DENT.
They forget that they told the people that
ANDREW JOHNSON was drunkard, and that
abandoned women were in the daily habit
Of visiting the White House, obtaining par
dons for rebels from The PRESIDENT, and
selling them-a fabrication as base as the
men who uttered it.
They forget that they told the people that
ANDREW JOHNSON and WILLIAM II. SEWARD
knew where JOHN H. SURRArr was secreted
and refused to cause his arrest, when at
that very time, as has been subsequently
shown by official correspondence, the au.
thorized agents Of the Government, under
the greatest embarrassments, had been stead.
lily pursuing him with vigilance never be-
fore equalled, and which resulted in his final
capture in far-of Egypt!
They forget that they told the people that
ANDREW JOHNSON caused the bloody riot in
New Orleans on the 3Oth of July, 1866, when
the official papers show that the radicals
only friend and sympathizer in the Cabinet
EDWIN NJ. STASToN-neither answered Gen.
BAIRD's dispatch Of the 2sth of July, re-
ceived two days before the riot, asking for
instructions at once by telegraph" nor per.
mitted The President to see it, that he
might answer it, and thereby have prevented
the riot, and that Mr.. STANTON, therefore
should be held responsible for the riot and
bloodshed in New Orleans in July last.
They forget that they told the people, IN
secret circulars, that ANDREW JOHNSON was
engaged in plot to destroy the majority o
the Republican members of Congress b,
railroad accidents or poison!
They forget that they told the people tha,
he was in league with the Pope, and was pre-
pairing to establish him permanently in this
country,
They forget that they told the people that
ANDREW Johnson was q usurper that ht
had committed high crimes and misde
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