The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-04-11

Prssident Johnson's Policy.
A southern view.--A Rap q the Demoer.;
ic Party and Papers...The ssLitsie SiI
lain's share, Ac.
From the Macon, Ca Journal and Messenger
March a.
Andrew johnson has at last yielded
Thank God for it. He has done US Al
immense deal of harm: crippled US whe:
our armies were in the field rejected tn
terms which Grant and Sherman gave Us
and then, ut last, has kept sectional hat
and animosity stirred up against US b.
his unwise course and foolish confiic
with Congress and Northern sentiment
And now we hope President johnson
opposition to the Government will cease
He has opposed it SO long, and induced
our people to oppose it SO long, holding
out to US the false idea that he would d.
something for US, that he has done u
infinite more harm than all other mel
and all other causes combined. But 70.
him we would long ago have been admit
ted into the Union, and upon far bette
terms than we shall now be able to OBJ
tain. He has been the most effective
enemy we have had.
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
upon us. He refused US the terms given
us by the generosity and magnanimity of
Grant and Sherman. And last, though
not least, he has, by his course, kept
Northern prejudice and hatred constant
ly excited against us. Save US from our
friend johnson.
Commencing his official career as Vice
President by an excessively post pran-
dial speech-afterward as President. in
dulging in such spouting TRADES to the
populacc of the Federal Capitol as should
not be used even upon the hustings-
going upon his Western tour with an en-
gine of vituperation, whose hose he kept
turned back upon Congress-he excited
the frenzy of the Northern people against
the Southerners, whose cause he profess
sed to advocate. 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 I.
Tennessee had given us "Old Hickory"
who crushed notification and removed
the deposits,' and Tennessee, it was
hoped, had given us Andrew H., who
would remove the Radical Congress-
Johnson was to be our Cromwell, who
would disperse the Rump Parliament of
merica.
In the meantime, though, with all his
he has never removed
martial law from the South, and never
to our people ha6eas corpus nor
las he released Davis from Fortress
Monroe.
It is difficult to determine whether
Johnson has exhibited the more political
peculation or the more political folly
His course has certainly been good
ground for inducing the Southern people
20 hope that he intended to WELD the sup
port in their behalf. And we think yet
hat there has been at some time such an
dea lurking in his bosom. But he hesi-
,ated, he dallied, and proved himself
bastard; he doubted, and is damned
Thank God for it. The spell is broken
the illusion is gone. Andrew II. lack
ed the nerve to do what Andrew l. would
have done. The Southern people are
Let them profit by their
learly 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 sucking
love" All the thunder which he poured
against Congress from the Olympus of
he White House, turns out to be Pick
wickian thunder, so far as Congress is
but it has recioled with dead
y effect upon "the Presidents Southern
friends''
Andrew johnson, in his veto of the
Military Bill, says this measure is ''with-
,ut precedent and without authority, in
,alpable conflict with the plainest pro-
'isions of the Constitution, and utterly
destructive to those great principles of
liberty and humanity for which our an
:estors on both sides of the Atlantic
he'd SO much blood and expended SO
much treasure" After painting the
absolute monarchy snd military des-
,otism," in each Of the Eve districts de-
ined by the military act, at the South.
n such fearful colors rs to make the
blood curdle in the veins and strike ter
or into the heart of every man, woman