The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-04-06


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r,,s. IN, Macon tGs.) Journal and Mssssnssss Z
March IA
Andrew johnson has 1t last yielded. Thank
3od for i'll He has done M IN im0ecse
iesl Of harm crippled rs when our armiee
uere in the 6eld; rejected the terms tsns Il
md Sherman gave NJ and then, q iass, M 4
kept sectional hate and animosity suriec W +
.ssiurk - ~ shis nawiaonDogoo - ~ 800. q
~ confict With Congress and Northern SEN
And now We hope President Johnson sop
poSition - shs 0ss1suuUue VIII s:asss 10 =
h. opposed il 90 long, and induced our peo-
ID 10 oppose Il % long holding 81 10 %
he false idea that he would do Domething for
ne. that be has done Us infinitely more harm
,hsn All other men and oil other causes CONF
bined. But for him We would long ago have
heep admitted into the Union, and upon Tar
better terms than We shall now be able 70
obtain. he has been the most effective ene> |
my We have had.
5 In the FIRST place, his influence vss great IN
srrsyine the border States against w he
was one of the most earnest supporters OF
the war wsged upon US. He refused US the
termsgiven us by the generosity and msSpa-
nimity of Gran, and sherman; and last,
though not least, he has, by his course, kept
Northern prejudice and hatred constantly
excited against us. Save US from our friend
johnson -.
Commencing his official career IS Vice
President by an excessively postprsndial
as President, induiging
in such spouting TRADES TO the populace OF
the Federal capital rs should not be used even
ppon the hustings--Roing upon his Western
topr with an engine of vituperatiou, whose
hose he kept turned bsck upon Congress-he
excited the frenzy Of the korthern people
against the Soutberners, whose cause be pro
fsesed 70 advocate. Had be bseu our most
bitter enemy he could not have pursued
course calcuIated to do Us more harm.
Further than this, his conduct has all along
inspired the Southern people with the hope
that he has intended to defend our rights at
the point of the bayonet. Andrew II was
compared TO Andrew I. Tennessee had given
us "Old Hickory" who crushed notification
and /" removed the deposits" and Tennessee,
it was hoped, had given us Andrew II vho
would remove the Radical Congress. Johp-
son was 20 be our Crcm WE'LL who would dis
perse the Rump Parliament of America.
In the meantime, though, with all bis
proslamations. he has never removed martial
law from the South and restored TO our peo-
pie habeas corpus, nor has be released Davis
| from Fortress Monroe.
1t is difficult to determine whether Presi
| dent johnson has exhibited the more politi-
cal peculstion or the more political folly.
His course has certainly been good ground
| for inducing the Southern people 10 hope
that he intended to WELD the sword in their
behalf, and We think yet that there has been
at some times such an idea lurking IN his
n - H. Hall ID axH
proved himself BASTARD he doubted, and is
damned. Thank God for 1t. The spell is
broken-the illusion is gone. Andrew ii
| lacked the nerve 10 do what Andrew | would
have done The Southern people are unde>
ceivsd; let them profit by their dsariy-bought
experience.
| Our noble President, after believing in the
cities Of the West like one Of the mad prairie
bulls of that great section, now ''roars yon
as gently as any sucking dove" AN the
thunder which be poured against Congress
from the Olympus of the White House turns
out to be Pickwckian thunder so far Is Cop
gress is conserved, but it has recoiled with
deadly effect upon "the Presidents Southern
| friends"
Andrew johnson, in his veto of the militia.
| ~ bill, says this measure is "without prece-
dent and without authority-in palpable con-
/
stitntion, and utterly destructive TO those
great principles Of liberty and humanity for
which our ancestors on both sides the Allan
tic shed so much blood and expended so
much treasure" After painting the .'abso-
lutte monarchy and military despousm' in
each Of the five districts defined by the mills
tary act af the South in such fearful colors as
to make the blood curdle in the veins and
strike terror into the heart of every man,
woman and child. white or black, found liv
ing under those " despotisms;" after excit.
ing the Southern people almost to acts of
open rebellion against the provisions of the
military act, he now turns round and tells US
he hopes this monstrous Reconstruction
act" will have the effect of alternating much
of the bitterness caused by the war, and he
twill faithfully execute what he says is a
subversion of the Government aud Constitu.
ton which he has taken an oath 10 support
aud defend. And such is President johnson
such the mgn who has lured us on TO our
destruction.
Let us have done with all this knavery and
folly. We prefer trusting our fate TO open
i enemies to trusting it TO false friends. We
prefer old Ben. Wade, old Thad. Stevens,
and Horace Greeley, to johnson of Tennes-
see and johnson Of Maryland. True, the
President has talked finely in our behalf, aud
so has the "littie villain of the Times. But
as Raymond has always voted against us, so
johnson has st least not acted Tor US. Let
him 20 his ways. The South can trust him
no longer. We must find other guarantors
for or safety, and that safety we must find
| with the Republican party or not At all.
President johnson has no strength, moral,
political OF physical. He represents nothing,
and he represents nobody. Let him 60, like
"the Confederate note,
Representing nothing on Gods earth now,
| And nauglrt 10 the waters below It."
But we lave to complain OF the Democrat
ic party North az much as we complain of
PresidentJ ohnson. Next to President Johns
son we owe all our present troubles to .the
unterri6ed the ''iron-ribbed Democracy :"
In the first place the Northern Democrats al
ways agreed With us in our ideas concerning
secession, and often encouraged us to exer-
else our rieht Many OF them declared that
the South could be coerced only over their
- bodies And it was so, but not in the
I'm which they intended US to under
creed ovei some of their dead bodies, but
they had enough living bodies lief, to enforce
the coerciou.
Since the var Northern Democratic iour>
mails have continually fed us on the false hope
that the Demo eracy, in conjunction with
President johnson, would give US our rights,
If need be, with the bsyonet. Witness the
more ultra Democratic journals, the
Day Book, Ketropotitan Record, Freeman's
Journal, and Daily kesrs. and the more mod
crate Journal, the New York World =
"Out on such friends friends who en-
courage rs to get into trouble, and then whip
US for doing what they told us to do.
Senator Sherman declared that il the
Southern people complained that the military
oct was harsh, they had their Northern Dem.
ocrsrc friends to thank for it, since they had
: voted down an amendment which WAS quite
mitigation Of the severity of the original
bill.
This is so. and we have good many other
things to thank our Northern Democratic
friends for. We have TO thank them that
they encouraged US to secede, and then
whipped US for doing so. We have TO thank
them that, since the cessation of the war,
they have again fed us upon false hopes; and
we have 70 thank them for keeping up the
evaporation of the Northern people against
Us.
Some Republican remarked in Congress
that the more the Democrats resisted Re.
publican policy, the more decided and EN-.
phatic that policy would become. Brooks.
of New York, . recent convert to Democra-