Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-04-17
TnE REsPoNsE.


THE RESPONSE.
Last week we made brief allusion to the
fact that Mr.. Secretary Seward had deemed
the opposition of the journal and Statesman
to the ''policy" of Mr.. Johnson too much
for the weak nerves of the present treacher-
Gus Executive to bear, and that therefore he
the Secrctary-felt compelled to resort 10
the foolish expedient of Withholding the
patronage of the State Department from this
office, in the idle hope that it would act as a
sort of official opiate to lull to sleep our CON
scientious convictions of duty and bring lis
over-by dollar and cent style of reasoning
to the advocacy of what we conceive to
be one of the meanest and most wicked at
tempts to Tylerize the great Union party OF
the country and beiray it into the hands ol
Southern traitors and rebels that has yet
darkened the pages of the political history
of this nation.
Since our announcement of this attempt,
on the part of the once radical Secretary,
to punish US for continuing TO be as radical
in the right, as he started to he before tue
''irrepressible conflict came on, VIC have
read the opinions of number of gentlemen
connected with the independent press of the
country, upon the subject, and we find that
the course of the President and his Secretary
is condemned in the strongest language
And not only from the press do we find
words Of cheer and appreciation, but also
from all parts of our gallant little State are
we in daily receipt of congratulations-eithe
1 personally or by letter-upon the bold and
righteous stand we have taken against the
betrayer Of the great trust committed into
his keeping by the Republican Union Party
when it nominated and triumphantly elected
Andrew johnson to the Vice Presidency o.
the United States.
Among these gratifying evidences of ap
probation we herewith append one or two
from sound, high-toned, loyal journals
whose editors for four years past have bat
tied treason and traitors as bravely and man
fully in their columns, and stood up as heroic
ally for the government and the flag, as evei
patriots did in field OF forum.
The following we copy from that sterling
unyielding advocate of Truth, Liberty ant
Justice, the Delaware County Republican
than which no truer paper to the cause car
be found in Pennsylvania. We thank frent
Walter for the kind sentiments he utters il
our behalf
The President will not tolerate opposition
to his policy on the part of the newspaper
press. Stung by the many scorching rebuke.
that have been administered to him by inde
pendent journals all over the country, he
has commenced to prescribe these organs o
public sentiment, by ordering the wi hdrawa
of the advertisements Of the Department,
which had been awarded to than under the
Lincoln administration. The latest oxhibi
tion of this petty spite is the cutting off from
official favor Forney's Press and Chronicle
and the Delaware journal and Statesman
the latter of which published the laws Shy
authority" This low system of prescription
is the best evidence required of a vindictiv,
and little mind, and therefore worthy thu
action of our accidental President. Through
out the long and bloody contest which ter
minated in the downfall OF the tratorOu
wretches who sought to overthrow the gov
ernment no three papers in the Union con
tributed more to build up and sustain tn
loyal sentiment of the country than thos
which have fallen under the displeasure o
the Executive. We apprehend this act will
harm neither OF them, but on the contrary
contribute to their success in every quartz
where men can be found to discriminate be
tween treason and its opposite, North an,
South.
The following is from the Washington
Chronicle, one of the very best Union paper
published in the United States 1t shows til
straits to which the "my policy" adherent
at Washington are driven to find advocates
No respectable Union newspaper in Della
ware will touch the paltry bait that is in
directly held out to induce it to uphold an
sustain the treacherous course of Andrey
johnson.
The Secretary of State, in pursuance G
his proscriptive policy, after appointing til
f Wilmington (Del) Journal and Statesman
the Oldest Republican paper in that State, t.
publish the United States laws, recalled Tia
favor thus bestowed because MIR. Eckel, tn
patriotic editor, boldly denounced the Pres
dents prohigacy on the 22d of February
1886 But the best part of the story is that
up to this time, Mr. Seward has not been a5l
to find a Onion pdpor in Deltrdre that doc
not f0ll0W the course IF tie ,Iouradl am
.StatesmdH-hence, to be true to his policy,
he will be driven to print his laws in iii
Copperhead organs, which, in Delaware, ar
even viler than they are in Richmond OF i
) Charleston,