The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-16

election. We know and can name the
-COpperheads of the most malignant
type-who whispered these fattering mes
sages into his eager ear, and received
his confidential assurances of sympathy and
favor. AT once, his furious diatribes against
treason and trators-his threats that the
former should be made more Odious and the
latter punished - were hushed into utter
silence. Very soon, the Copperhead journals
stopped their measureess revilings and began
to regale him with guarded compliments and
cautiously wOrded praises The Washington
oracle, formerly the Union, but long since
renamed in Difference to the prejudices o. its
patrons, first circumspectly pronounced him
an unchanged Democrat; Democratic COM
mittee openly rendered him its congratulations
on his accession; and soon the World-which
had for months, and especially on the occa-
sions of his Nashville speech accepting the
nomination for Vice President, and of his un-
happy Inauguration harangue-assailed him
with beastly invectives as ''bOorsh, drunken
tailor"-joined in proclaiming his orthodoxy
and sounding his praises. And thus it has
continued applauding his acts and glorifying
his character ever since while every grog-
shop oracle has reGchoed its laudations.
Since the case of Eve and the serpent, there
has been no more deliberate, determined, per-
sistent seduction. Mr.. Johnson had weak
nesses; the Democrats knew and resolved to
profit by them. He had consuming amb-
tion and deficiency of moral principle; they
played upon these with intent to bend and
mould him to their uses. They knew that
the action they required of him involved i'm
measurable ingTatitude and perfdy to those
who had elected him; they knew that a Presi-
dent who should betray them as they sought
to have him betray the Republicans could get
his life insured in no prudently managed
company; but they wanted office and power,
and hoped to gain them through his oorrup-
ton and ruin; so they fooled him to the top
of his bent, and gloated over the prospect of
the advantages they would reap from his de-
basement and infamy.
Andrew Johnson has done many evil and
unjustifiable deeds since he made the White
House his home; but every one of them was
invited and applauded to the echo by the De.
mocratic party and press. Fallen and de.
tested as he is, he is their dupe, their tool,
their victim, and they have no right to re-
proach nor even desert him. He is what they
have made him, and entitled to their forbear-
ance not only but their affection. His trea-
cherry is the ladder whereby they have climbed
out of an abyss of hopelessness into a twilight
of hope.
And now his betrayers proclaim, through
the WOrtd, the Albany ArguS etc, that he is
not Democrat-that they will not be respon-
sible for his Presidential career-that Demo-
Gratis must not accept places in his Cabinet,
etc. ETC., as if they had never swayed his
policy nor begged his offices Like the "old
physician" his sands of official life are sfast
running out and they fear he will ask them
to make good their hollow professions, their
lying batteries, by making him their candi-
date for reelection. 1t is the old case of the
lbertine required to fulfil his perfidious vows
after their end has been answered, their object
attained. They never meant to fulfil them.
even when their lips were hot with protesta.
tions OF ftalty and devotion. They will no
more run him for President than they did his
prototype, John Tyler; and, when he has no
thing more to give, they will shun and despise
him as they did his nonillustrious predeces-
sor. They have already disowned him as a
Democrat; two years hence, they will protest
that he was always Black Republican, whom
they detested and opposed while in power,
and turned out on the first opportunity.
Cardinal WoIsey could not complain of being
left naked to his enemies more Justly than
can Andrew Johnson from the day on which
he descends to the common level of his fel-
low citizens.