Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-06-07
8radford &eporter,
Towanda, Thursday, June z, 1866.
THE DUPIICITY OF THE JOHNSON LEAD
ERS.

THE DUPLICITY OF THE JOHNSON LEAD
ERS.
We have seen in our day q good deal of
party jugg'ery and good many devices
concocted by partisan leaders to deceive the
masses of the people, but we have witness
ed nothing that surpasses the anxiety, the
labor and devices of the JOHNSON organs
and leaders to deceive each other, and the
public in regard to the standing of the
President with the union voters of the ma
ton. In one place it is asserted that oil
the people are for JOHNSON and "my poll
cy." In another nearly all" In the third,
with few exceptions" and in the last
place it is held that few may be found
who oppose the restoration measures of
JOHNSON" and thus the sentiments of the
people in the four cardenal points of the
country are held to be devotedly, nay en-
Enthusiastically, attached to the President
That. however, which is little marvellous
about this business, is the fact that while
this boasting is going on among the ad-
herents of my policy,"-and this is con-
fined to the office-expectants and democrats
there are many grave charges about
Congress misleading the honest voters. If
all the people are supporting JOHNSON, how
can they be under the influence OF Congress?
Why too, if the patriotic masses are siding
with the President, is there such an ankle
ty to get up meetings in his favor, and so
many and such bold falsehoods in respect
to their size and enthusiasm If the peo-
pie are all for JOHNSON, for whose eyes are
these immense and spirited meetings her
aided forth in glowing capitals Some
body is to be influenced by them, and pray
who is it, if the people are all right al
ready All, Messrs, Democrats and Com
pany, your zeal o'erleaps your discretion
and the weakness Of your cause is plainly
seen through the himsy cause behind which
You act. 1t will not do. The people are
not caught III that way and it has been
trled the hundredth time, and the hundrcdth
tIne It has disappointed the knaves who
have relied on it.
1t is wonder too, that so old IA politician
as JOHNSON is, shoud rely Oh such shallow
! devices He must know their entire worth
| lessness or, is he blinded by the intatua-
tion that he is the greatest man living, or
| his rage? He is following, as near as the
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| footsteps of JOHN TYLER, the worst used
up man that ever left the Presidency OF the
United States, except JAMES BUCHANAN and
| how did JOHN TYLER ruin himself So COM
pletely ? By taking counsel from demo
crafts and making war on those who had
elected him to the position he held. lie
vetoed the party measures just as JOHNSON
is doing He quarreed with the leaders OF
his party in Congress. He used his patron,
age to defeat the measures of the party,
and iniure its leaders. He called around
him those who had opposed his election and
abused him without stint. He subsidised
with the government patronage the con
SefFdIlNSS anu lncI pdpci5 -dhu lcs
were as numerous then as now---and these
bought-up interests, lavished abuse without
measure on CLAY, BorTs, and others of thai
class, whom the President could not control
All this while the democratic press was
profuse, lavish of its fulsOme adulations Oi
JOHN TYLER for his manly independence Of
those who made him what he was, just as
the same press is now doing with JOHNSON
They made him believe he would be re-elec
ed, and the greatest Of all the Presidents
and when they had done using him, anC
got fr, m him all they could, they dropt hin
like hot potato, and laughed at him fol
his folly. This same game is being playeC
with poor JOHNSON, to the country's injury
and his own disgrace History is repeating
itself. and instead of one, the country is tC
have two Presidents who defeated the
measures on which they were elected, earn
ing for themselves infamy by their base be
trayal.