Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-03-15
The Presiden. predicts Repudia,ion.

II any body has been green enough to IN
Ter from the comparatively moderate and
respectable tone of the recent yetoes, (writ-
ten by Judge Black and touched up BY Mr..
Seward) that President johnson il becoming
subdued, sensible or ciVil,-not 10 say civil
ised-they may dIsmiss the notion at once.
Andy johnson has not boea made over by
any miracle. Everything which comes from
HIM, OF bis own, shows that he is the same
wil:ul, bull headed, foolish man And 70
be viii remain doubtless. while he remains
above ground. The latest proof Of this is
the report Of the Presidents views on the
finances. detiilcd in conversation with
the editor OF the " \ Cffi.ea. Ger. Hal
pine. and reported by him. Gen. II. Is a
johnson man, and evidently LEFT out the cz-
pletives and '.hard words from his report
but as be has fixed 1t up, NJ. johnson s,y-
,ha; Ian aristocracy at the South, i=s, ou
three thousand millions Of dollars il negroes
who were producing class-has dlsap-
peared and their place in political control
of the country is assumed by an aiistocracy
based on nearly three thousand millions Of
national debt-s thing which is no, prod
ing anything" that''the people have X: 20
pay $50, OOO,O 600 year to this consolidated
moneyed aristOcracy and that we are
drifting consequently towards Reputation.
He added
Look at the effect OF the Reconstruction oil
Just passed ever my unavailing veto ! mean
its peculiar effect as step in the direction Of
Reputation, and not its general effect
high -handed measure Of Congressional usurpa-
ton, striking out Of existence so many States,
and establishing military despotism over more
than one-third OF our geographical Union. This
bill suddenly adds four millions Of ignorant and
pennies negroes 10 the voting force Of the
oountry-an accession OF Just so much strength
to the party whose interest it is, aud must in
creasingly become, to favor Reputation as a
policy"
This, and there was plenty more such
talk, is exactly of a piece with the repudia-
ton prophecies of the copperhead pIess,-
just like the ravings of the men at the
North who would not lead the Government
dollar in it's struggle for existence VINO
would rather, if they could, have invested
in confederate bonds who consequently have
no money now in governments, and would
be glad to see the national debt rcpudiated,
the financial bottom of everything knocked
out, in order that the loyal men may suffer,
and they be able to say Il told you so.''
Mr.. johnson looks back with longing
glance to the old slaveholding aristOcracy,
which he considers so productive and so
much better than the existing order Of
things; and knitting his brows be predicts,
il not threatens, reputation, as a cOnse-
quence of the reconstruction of the South on
a loyal basis How foolish and absurd
How ridiculous, too. the assertion that the
freedmen are going to vote with the party Of
Reputation, or in other words, with the
oopperheads How dcmagogueical and John
sonian his declaration that - the people "
have got to pay SisO,OOO,0OO a year in in
teres., TO the moneyed aristOcracy
Tee only possible effect of this predicting
OF reputation at the White House, will be,
t. depreciate the price Of our securities
abroad. At home here, no schoolboy but
kno VS. that the national debt Is owned by
all classes, the copperheads excepted by
all, rich or poor, who have had savings or
income to invest for five years past it can
MT be repuiiated till the people repudiate
their own property and prosperity. And
they will mark and remember the man who
talks reputation, be he pJt-hOuso politician
or president.