The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-05
PRESIDENT JON SsoN's POLICY.
AsOuthern VIeW.--A Rap at the Dem
'OerAIIc Party and Papers---The '.Lit
tie Villains share, DC.

a Southern EieW..-A Rap at the Dem.
OeraIIc Party and PaPers---The Lit
tie Villains share, DC.
From the Macon (Gd.) Journal and Messenger,
Andrew johnson has at last yielded.
Thank God for il. He has done us an
immense deal of harm; crippled us
when our armies were in the field; re-
| jected the terms which Grant and Sher-
man gave us, and then, at last, has kept
sectional hate and animosity stirred
up against us by his unwise course and
foolish conflict with Congress and
Northern sentiment. 5rt
And now we hope President John
sons opposition TO the Government
will cease. He has opposed 1t SO long,
and induced our people to oppose 1t so
long, holding out to us the false idea
| he has done us infinitely more harm
than all other men and all other causes
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. He has
been the most effective enemy we have
had. r. -5iss-s -
In the first place, his influence was
great in arraying the border States
against us. He was one of the most
earnest supporters of the war waged
npon US. BE refused us the terms
given US by the, generosity Of Grant and
Sherman. And last, though not least,
he has, by his course, kept Northern
prejudice and hatred constantly ex-
cited against us. Save us from our
friend johnson.
Commencing his official career as
Vice President by, an excessively post
prandial speech-afterwards as Presi-
dent, indulging in such spouting TRADES
to the popuIace of the Federal Capital
as should not be used even upon the
hustings-going upon his Western tour
with an engine of vituperation, whose
hose he kept turned back upon Con-
gress-he excited the frenzy of the
Northern people against the Southern
ers, whose cause he professed to adVo-
cate. Had he been our most bitter
enemy, he could not have pursued a
course calculated 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 /. Tennessee had given US
"Qld Hickory who crushed nQllifica-
ton and nremoved the deposits" and
Tennessee, It was hoped, had given rs
Andrew IL, who would remove the
Radical Congress. johnson was to be
our Cromwell, who would disperse the
Ruulp Parliament OF America. ~
In the meantime, though, with all his
proclamHtions, he has never removed
martial law from the South, and never
restored to our people hG6eGs corpus;
nor zhas he released Davis from For
tress Monroe. - -rrlf-r asa- rn--.lr +
It is difficult to, determine whether
President Johnson has exhibited the
more political peculation or the more
political folly. His course has certain
iy been good ground for inducing the
Southern people to hope that he inten-
1e1 to yfnIA ha- In, h..
half. And we think yet that there has
been at some time such an idea lurking
in his bosom. But he hesitated, he
dallIed, and proved himself a bastard;
he doubted and is damned. Thank
God forit. The spell Is hroken-the il
lusion is gone. Andrew II. lacked the
nerve TO do what Andrew /. would have
done. The Southern people are upde-
ceived. Let them profit by their dearly
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 you as gently as any suck
ing dove" All the thunder which he
poured against Congress from theOlym-
pus of the White House. turns out to
be. ekH1ckian thunder, so far as Con-
gress is eoncerned, but it has recoiIed
with deadly enect 2 upon 'fthe Presidents
Andrew johnson, in his veto of the
Military BIZ, says this measure Is
'without precedent and without auth
ority, in palpable conflict with the
plainest principles OF liberty and hu-
manity for which our ancestors on both
sides OF the Atlantic shed so much
blood and expended so much treasurer
After painting the absolute monarchy''
and dmilitary despotism" in each of
the i've districts defined by the military
act, at the South, in such fearful colors
as to make the blood curdIe in the
veins and strike terror into the heart of
every man, woman and child, white or
black, found living under those ades-
potismsr'-after exciting 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 monstrons "Reconstruc-