Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-03-16

CEDAR FAILS. iowa.
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FRIDAY, MARCH IG, 1885.
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Another Phase Of the Presidents Policy,
Presidential speeches have come to be
such everyday affairs, that they have
ceased to excite that degree Of interest
which the high source from which they
smanate deserves. We have all sorts OF
delegations coming from the White
House with Presidential ideas of An
drew Johnson and his policy, which
displease or please the bearers In the
same degree that they are firm Union or
firm nothing--except Rebel. We do
not mean to say that the President is no
better than the Slidells and the Toombs.
es; but we do mean to say that his
course, even though he be governed by
principle and the requirements of the
Constitution, is such as to rejoice the
hearts of the Slidells and Toombses, and
I'LL the Vallandighams and the Maho-
mics with unspeakable joy. This APP
probation is not so much because the
Rebels and the Copperheads fully en-
dorse the views enunciated by Andrew
johnson since his .unaccountable with
drawal from the great party who eleva-
ted him to power and made him all he
Is, as on account Of the vision they be.
hold of the disrupture of the Republi-
can party and their return thereby to
places Of honor and profit in State and
National government. Once in power
they would despise Andrew Johnson
and all the Stewards and Doolittles who
followed him in his recreancy. 1t is
folly for the President to insist that his
political sentiments are unchanged
that he occupies the same platform he
did during the war. His record is open
to the world, and people are not to be-
lieve when they read that he would
hang rebels if he had the power that he
meant he would indiscriminately par
don them; that when he said treason
must be made odious, he meant that the
crimes Of rebels must be honied over;
that when he promised to be the Freed
mems Moses, he meant he would be
their Pharoah. Even If his present po-
sition could be plausibly harmonized
with his past life, looking at his indi-
vidual record simply, what is to be said
of Congress, the Republican and Dem
ocratic parties, and the Rebels them
selves? A few months ago the Repub-
lican party was unanimous in its in.
dorsement of Andrew Johnson, and the
Democratic party was unanimous in its
denunciation of him. Unionists-such
Unionists as fought for and saved the
Union--applauded him; and Disunion-
ists--such Disunionists as took up arms
against the rightful authority of the
Government-such Kissed and deridcd
him. Have all these changed? Is An
drew johnson alone Of all men the one
in whom there is no changeableness
neither shadow OF turning? 1t does
not look reasonable to suppose that he
10. Right here we wish to introduce
the following extract from the Presi-
dents speech to the delegation from the
Maryland Legislature, who waited on
him last week with resolutions indors-
ing his policy: . ge.'.'-. ,.'.
sit Is not necessary for meto state the princl-
are understood, and there can be no mistake
as to the position occupy. Persons who act
upon principle and understand the principles
cannot disagree
must act together; and, whatever their start
ing point. III acting upon such principles, be
proach each other. The converse of this prop
position is also true: That when ever they
disagree upon principle they commence q
divergent course. ....-7.s ssI
Tho most gratifying thought to me is that /
have always acted upon principle. Ever since
my earliest slvance into public life, there has
ing the nature OF this Union and 1 have never
departed from it. II is also gratifying to me
have passed. and In the chaotic stale OF the
public mind, this idea still lives, and that these
principles are again enumerated,-that there
Is still an appreciation Of them, around and
about which there seems to arise crystalliza.
ton and formation of men that will in the fu-
ture sustain the county and the principles on
which 1t lives"
The President simply declares that by
acting on principle-which he has al
ways done-a divergent course" has
been begun between himself and the
in other words, that he
has become alienated from his party
We must accept, therefore, the unfortu-
nate fact of separation. Now, If both
are acting on principle, the one or the
other must certainly have undergone
radical change else how did they atore-
time act tremendously togetherP Has
the Republican party taken new and
ground since Mr.. John.
son was Provisional Governor of Ten
nessee? Every Republican will answer,
no. Has Congress taken position
which the Republican party does not
lndorse? Every Republican Legisla-
ture answers, no. We must conclude,
therefore, that the Presidents principles
have led him in new and very strange
What influences directed his
principles into a new course cannot yet
be satisfactorily answered. But the full
truth will come out, as his policy is de-
veloped. We have, in his speech to the
another point ready for
"There seems TO arise
and formation of men!"
All! there is the new phase of the Pres.
ident's policy. He dreams of power
full Johnson party; a party that shall
honor him while he lives and perpetu-
ste his memory when he shall have
passed away. Ambition-office! hon.
or! pOwer! President Harrison, by
whose untimely death Gen. Tyler was
raised to the office of Chief Magistrate,
said in his Inaugural Address, in speak
ing against the eligibility of the same
to a second term of the Pres
idency, that, " Republics can commit no
greater error than to adopt or continue
any feature in their systems of Govern
ment which may be calculated to create
or increase the love Of power, in the bo-
SONS of those to whom necessity obliges
them to commit the management of