Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-04-11
lFrom the Macon Ga, journal, March 2a.l

mense deal of harm; crippled us when our
armies were in the field; rejected the terms
which Grant and Sherman gave us, and
then, nj last has kept sectional hate and ami
mostly stirred up against us by his unwise
course and foolish conflict with Congress
and Northern sentiment.
And now we hope President Johnson's
opposition TO the Government will cease.
He has opposed it so long, and induced our
people to oppose it so long, holding out 10
us the false idea that he would do something
for us, that he has done us infinitely more
harm than all other men and all other eau
ses combined But for him we would long
ago have been admitted into the Union and
upon far better terms than we shall now be
able to obtain. lie has been the most effec-
tive enemy we have had.
In the first place, his influence was great
in arraying the border States against us. lie
was one of the most earnest supporters OF
the war waged upon us. He refused us the
terms given us by the generosity and magma
nimity of Grant 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 as Vice
President by an excessively post-prandlal
| speech-atterwards as President, indulging
| in such spouting TRADES to the populace OF
| the Federal capital as should not be used
even upon the hustings-going upon his
| Western tour with an engine of vitupera-
tion, whose hose he kept turned back upon
Congress-he excited the frenzy OF the
| Northern people against the Southerners,
whose cause he proposed to advocate Had
| he been our most bitter enemy, he could moi
have pursued course calculated to do us
more harm.
Further than this, his conduct has all along
inspired the Southern people with the hopt
that he has intended to defend our rights a
the point of the bayonet. Andrew III. wa'
compared to Andrew |. Tennessee hat
given us s'Old Hickory" who crushed nulli
fication and s'removed the deposits, ant
Tennessee, il was hoped, had given us An
drew H., who would remove the Radica
Congress- johnson was to be our Cromwell
who would disperse the Rump Parliament
America.
In the meantime, though, with allhis pro
clamatIons he has never removed martia
law from the South, and never restored I
our people habeas corpus; nor has he re
leased Davis from Fortress Monroe
1t is difficult to determine whether Presl
dent johnson has exhibited the more polit
cal peculation or the more political folly
His course has certainly been good groun
: for inducing the Southern people to hor
J that he intended to WELD the sword in the
behalf. And we think yet that there h;
been at some time such an idea lurking
his bosom. But he hesitated, he dallie
and proved himself dotard he doubtt
and is damned Thank God for it, II
spell is broken-the illusion is gone. A
If drew III lacked the nerve to do what Andre
O | would have done. The Southern peop
are undeceived. Let them profit by the
;. dearly bought experience.
!, Our noble President, after believing
a the cities of the West, like one OF the m
w prairie bulls of that great section, now ''rot
~ you as gently as sucking dove. All
u thunder which he poured against Congre
IN from the Olympus of the White House, tur
is out to be Pickwickian thunder, so lar
er Congress is concerned, but il has recoil
:, with deadly effect upon g the Presiden
10 Southern friends"
of Andrew johnson, in his veto of the MI
ii, tary bill, says this measure is without p
AZ cedent, and without authority-in palpa
~ conflict with the plainest provisions OF
oi Constitution, and utterly destructive to thu
er great principles of liberty and humanity,
is which our ancestors on both sides oil
4 Atlantic shed so much blood and expent
~ so much treasure" After painting the =
Is solute monarchy" and "military despotisl
G, in each of the five districts defined by
st military act, at the South, in such fear
~, colors as to make the blood curdle i'll
veins and strike terror in the heart OF ey
man, woman, and child, white or bla
of found living under those despotisms'-
as ter exciting the Southern people almost
!, acts of open rebellion against the provisi
~ of the military act, he now turns round
DIV tells us he hopes this monstrous :. Rec
,m strucion act" will have the effect of all'
m. ating much of the bitterness caused by
- war. and he twill faithfully execute W
an he saws is subversion OF the Governor
his and Constitution, which he has taken
a oath to support and defend. And such
,v. President Johnson-such the man who
- lured us on TO our destruction.
us Let us have done with all this knav
de, and folly. We prefer trusting our fate
TO open enemies to trusting il to false frlel
,,;s We prefer old Ben Wade, old Thad. Stey
n,s and old Horace Greeley, to johnson,
ick Tennessee, and johnson, OF Maryli
a True, the President has talked finely in
vas behalf and so has the little villain of
~ Times. But as Raymond has always "
ieu against us, so johnson has at least not Al
of for us. Let him go his ways. The Sc
ngs can trust him no longer. W. must
ere other guarantors for our safety, and
H.. safety we must find with the Republ
'ey party, or not at all. President johnson
in no straightforward, political or phys
e or He represents nothing, and he repres
nth nobody. Let him go, like 1.-The Conied'
a., note.
.'" Representing nothing on Gods earth now
an And natght IN the waters below 1t.
But we have to complain of the Dem'
Hin tic party North as much as we compla
' President johnson. Next TO President j
'aV- son, we owe all our present troubles t.
ded unterrifed'-sst the iron-ribbed Dem'
:. TO cy.' In the first place the Northern ID
IN, Gratis always agreed with us in our ideas
~" cerning secession, and often encourage
TO to exercise our right. Many Of them
him red that the South could be coerced only
,esi- their dead bodies. And it was so, but L
III, the sense in which they intended us t
'ne' dcrstand their declaration. The South
man coerced over some of their dead bodies
hich they had enough living bodies left to en-
ax. the coercion.
Since the war the Northern Demo
e vi Journals have continually led us on the
arth, hope that the Democracy, in conjun
and with President johnson, would give Il
"a 4, rights. if need be, with the bayonet
ness the more ultra Democratic Journal
Day Book, Metropolitan Record,
0 the mans Journal and Daily Nescs, al
that more moderate journal, the New
Tin World.
i-ii, '.Out on such friend" friends VIII
hited courage us to get into trouble, and then
anci- us for doing what they told us to do.
-eole. Senator Sherman declared that if the
,,,rs ern people complained that the militia
,ou' was harsh, they had their Northern
:, the cratic friends to thank for il, since thu
Abra- voted down an amendment which was
a mitigation of the severity Of the ol
,.n bill
ma, This is so, and we have good many
enrys things TO thank our Northern Deme
ryille, friends for. We have to thank then
,vbile they encouraged us TO sccede, and then
!, ~ ~ ped us for doing so. We have to thanl
the that since the cessation of the war the
1t ten again fed us upon false hopes. We /
N and thank them for keeping up the exasp
! and of the Northern people against US.
:, auu Some Republican remarked in Ct
do II that the more Democrats resisted r.
lily re- can policy, the more decided and en-
st YOU that policy would become. Brooks,
,ay;ng York, a recent convert to Democra
Al. Il.