Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-04-12

The following paragraph IL from
Theodore Tiltons last letter under the
above heading: . ........a ,....
!" After hundred days of absence:
after ten thousand miles Of travel by
car, canal, steamboat, wagon and sleigh
after the recital ofa winters tale, ,nto
seventy successive and long suffering
audiences I! expect to cross the sun-
gilded Alleghanies tomorrow morning
singing, home, sweet nome.n Then.
o Editorial sanctum of the Indepead-
ent dim, antique, and solemn clois-
tel. glad will be your Editor to look
again at your weather-beaten walls, to
dip pen in q certain long-neglected
and mouldy inkstand, to renew fan,il-
lar fellowship with your mice and spi-
ders, and TO lie on your red lounge be-
fore the fire In meditation on Andrew
johnson. g19N .lo) H9i ii33s I9@l wv
In no former period of our history,
not even In the fry glow enthusiasm
OF the war, have the loyal masses been
80 sacredly animated by love of lib
erty, justice and equality az at this au-
spicious hour. 1. - a93 isni
Journeying through every Northern
state nom Niagra to Minnehaha, and
taking pains TO feel the pulse Of every
representative community living be-
tween,sI am satisfied that the popular
desire to do him justice, and the popu-
lar determination to see his rights se-
cured, are not measured In their full
by those well-meaning but badly-iu-
formed Conservatives, who fancy that
the nation will submit to any recon-
struction other than Political Eouali-
ty. With the exception of Ohio, whose
Legislature has just clothed itself with
the shadow of shame, every Western
State Is engaged in the humane task of
legisiating into its statutes the EQUAL
Rights OF all classes of Its Citizens
The next report that comes from the
Northwest will be of the expungiug Of
the word white. 'Ifrom half dozen
state constitutions. In forwardness of
radical sentiment, the men who live
West of the Mississippi rebuke the men
who live East. Such legislature as
has just voted disgrace upon Ohio could
not possibly have been elected In Iowa
or Minnesota. EH~
The military plan is 50 much better
than the most sanguine had reason to
expect o month ago, that the day Of its
passage over the Presidents veto wns
q day to make the blood merry In a rad-
ical mans pulse. happened to be in
company with my friend Frederick
Dougiass In Chicago, on the arlnounce-
ment OF the good news; whereupon he
immediately lifted his hands and cried.
remembering his race and the prospect
or their deliverance, Thank God pro
The country would cheer to the echo,
OF the dismissal Of Andrew Johnson to
the harmlessness of private life. L saw,
no audience all winter that did not at,-
plaud the Impeachment of the Presi-
dent: Western men, familiar with the
Presidents speeches, are In the habit
of saying that Andrew johnson should
now take back seat
Nor let the Foftieth Congress initiate
the Thirty-ninth In the bad example
or waiting two years, and tardily doing
It's duty with its expiring breath
Two years hence the President will fall
OF like @ witheredIleaf. What we want
is that he should be shaken Off now
A Congress to which he disdains to
send q message may, before the two
years are ended, find him denying it,
Jurisdiction and arresting its members.t
Andrew johnson Is to-day the chief ems
emy ofthe Republic: let him be 10