New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-07-02
POPE ANDRhW THE FIRST.

POPE ANDRhW The FlRSI.
The telegraph failed to do full justice TO
the president and Mr.. Seward in reporting
the incidents of their journey through New
England and their visit to Boston. We
were satisfied that this was the case, and
therefore awaited with impotence the ar
rival of the Boston journals containing the
full particulars of all that was said and
done on this interesting occasion. They
are now at hand, and we have again had
cause to wonder and eXulU over the bril-
liant oratory of the head of the nation. In
New York the president made speech OF
exactly eighty words. using the first per-
sonal pronoun fourteen times that is 10
say. every sixth word was l." On this
occasion Mr.. Seward acted as chorus, ex-
claiming at the close OF the Grafton, THAT
is the true way to do y One passage OF
the presidents New York speech deserves
especial remark my past conduct"
said he, 'shows that / assent to
everything" That is very true
so true that we never expected to hear An
drew johnson say it. There has never been
any sacrifice of principle, of duty, of honor,
and of patriotism that he has not assented
TO if thereby he could only accomplish the
darling purpose of his life, which seems to
be to render nugatory the results of the
late war and to drag the country back
again to the condition in which it stood
seven years ago. AT Springfield, in an
Grafton of twenty lines, Mr. johnson con-
trived to make thirteen illusions to HIM
self and at Boston, where he delivered
his most finished address, he charmed his
hearers by dwelling in sixteen different
passages upon his own virtues. In some of
his own speeches Mr.. johnson has affected
mock modesty in extolling his own per-
fections but here he scared at once to the
most sublime heights Of unveiled ego
tism. He declared that in all the course
of his life he had committed not a
single error. Through all my life," said
he, have preserved these principles, and
acted up to them, and, therefore, l could do
no arrong !" He is more infallible than the
pope. His holiness does not pretend but
that he may err in secular affairs, and no
claim is made for his infallibility save only
when surrounded by the college of cardi-
nails, and after having implored the guild
ance of the Almighty, he speaks er cathedro,
and with the authority of his office. But
Mr.. johnson, through all his life has made
no errors" has done no wrong. We are
called to believe that as tailor the coats
that he made fitted his customers, that
his pantaloons never bagged at the knees;
and that as president he has always been
right. WE'LL perhaps SO. 1t is only
because we are Of little faith that
we find it so hard to believe it. During
the latter part of the month of April, 1865,
this infallible man declared daily that trea-
son must be made odious, and traitors pun
ished. Now he declares that treason must
be honored, and traitors rewarded. On
the I'd of March, 1867, he declared that the
military government bill invested the off,
GERS to be appointed under it with the
power of absolute monarchs now he
asserts that they have not even the power
of removing refractory justice of the
peace. As he has always been right, each
of these conflicting declarations must be
true but it is hard to reconcile them with
each other. The only way to do it is to
follow the presidents own example, and
assent to everything.