Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-09-06
A NOTE OF WARMING.

REPuBLICANs OF DELAWARE go
WHITE AND BLACK---REAp, pom
DER AND PREPARE FOR THE
GREAT WORK THAT rs BEFORE
us.
We lay before the Republican party and |
people of Delaware the following note oi
warning from the New York Tribune OF
Wednesday last. We especially enloin upon
the loyal people of this State to consider
well the sober, solemn truths 1t presents, and
adopt its suggestions by Immediately organ.
izing, preparatory to entering into the great
struggle which Andrew johnson is hasten
ing on, and which all true friends OF the
Union must meet, if they would preserve
the country from destruction at the hands
Of Il ow-bred, drunken demagogue and
tyrant;--
We trust tile friends of the country will
not he lulled into false hopes in reference to
the President careful study of his char
acter and OF the principles governing his ad-
ministration makes us feel that ms ruler he
is not 10 be trusted and that he must he
watched with suspicion and anxiety. We
do not say a word in derogation OF the dig
nity of the Presidential Office. That othce
is so exalted, and its powers so vast ana lar
| reaching, tlhl we owe IL w Oul NHllAlSh th't'
it should not be wantonly degraded. The
, President has degraded il. lie has made his
Administration shameful page In our his
tory The country must not permit the page
+, to close without proper recompense. OuI
' rulers may dishonor their office. We must
not dishonOr ourselves.
/, Andrew johnson stands forth among pub
y lie men as the Gigantic Demagogue OF Ameri
l. ca. This is saying a good deal when WI
| i1pr thn OI the nation DNi
at times produced. Aaron Burr, Calhoun
:, Van Buren, Pierce, Douglas, and buchanan
u nre enough for one century. They had re
- deemlng oualities-Mr johnson has showi
none. His devotion to the Homestead law
/. as Senator, was noticeable. Men dld no
lail to see, however, that while tins deVollo
" was forced upon him by his class lie sustain
in cd in John c. Breckenridge party tina
ls aimed to reduce his class below the level {
The negro slave. While lie prOlessed to Civ
labor Il home, lie voted TO have IL sold on ll
auctinn-block When the war came, he CAV
y" the Union cause Il mild and inc0herent SUI
nc port. In this, also, be followed his clas
he and we presume he was not slow to follow
nd by reason of the indignities he received iroi
H., the men who created the southern Conled
'' racy He was made Military Governor
'e- Tennessee, and was roaring Radical. h
te- ruled his State with more slernness than an
si- Of our military commanders He rave
,. about the Union and the negro, prOclaimll
20 himself the Moses ol the colOred race, l
us friend, leader, and champion. The poop
mt made him President. Peace came; al
he in the first sunny, healing hours OF pea
- this demagogue roared for war. The swo
-n' had done its work; he shrieked for the Set
his fold He wanted new Jeffries in the Sout
ly, and Bloody Assize in every State. The spll
of Vengeance had no more insatiae disclpl
If his advice had been taken, our victori
..1 would have been as inhuman as those oi
'eu cobedo and Diaz. Gods lnserutable Pro-
Ia'' dence made him President, and lhe den
Il eoguc who urged Mr.. Lincoln TO play I
his part when mas neen SO elhihenlly i'lnsu al at
, hy Juarez himself sought to repeat the lrt
wv sons of Charles tho Second and the obs
Il nate cruelties OF James. Power transform
nee him from the Demagogue of Rndicalsm
the Demagogue OF Slavery. His purblit
narrow vision saw only in the South so ma
vi | electoral votes that might be "cOnciliatet
y and IN the North Democratic party Il
heu might renew the alliance I at gave us
his hraska, LecOmption, and the Rebellion.
visit had no more OF the Moses leading doy
trodden race to the Promised Land, no nj
cries for vengeance, no more clalnOrous
pealing for blood The demagogue g
II 10 political conventions in tho future with
,sn't lei delegations holding the balance Of pow
has Unable to answer the high commands
Justice, he thought that the nation ha
similar inability. Imbued with preiut
ledi. which had come to him with his birth
I'M condition, he sought TO make it princi
'hth' He had used the negro for his ambition
| the bowed to the Rebel that he might re
mower. Never in earnest himself al
emancipation, he could not feel that
Spir- country was terribly in earnest dc
.dav gogue in his soul, he saw only in his lel
80 citizens nation Of wi e.pulled demagog
i'eu' Men may be false, but nations meyer.
- people saw what their Chief Magis
'nHon could not sec Every American gentle
isions had blushed over the exhibition he mad
Vice President, taking an oath lie was SCI
ly sober enough TO understand. This,
recon still later exhibitions OF the kind, was
10 ou orally forgiven. But forgiveness does
- always produce repentance, and the
who reeled into the Presidency speedi
lustrated the sentiment that strong drll
{ the devil a demagogue, sober or drunk
nesiJ ,leragogne still; and the President wa
law Ia show that the spirit had no
him This humiliation was dreadiul
n De- what was the inaugural ADDRESS TO tv
ieal acts mat loiloMeu ,ormd 20 NJ the ciTcie y
were personal deeds seen oil al men
subject To tho rules that govern the per
from habits of gentlemen, But we had
II the dent to whom no moral test could q
Here was man eonspcuouslY il uetl
those very faults which every good
ion at warns his children against Here
yate. Chief Magistrate-the hrst cltizen