Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-10-02
ANDREW JoHNsONs PLANS.

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Washington, and describes the situation
as he finds it, III one of his Occasional"
letters:
There seems to be only one opinion
among the patriotic men in Washington
in regard to Andrew Johnson. He viii
hesitate at nothing to produce another
conflict OF arms. Utterly lost to reason,
and intent simply on revenge on the par
ty that elected him Vice President, and
saved him from deserved punishment for
the blacklist otfense ever committed by a
public man: and also full of haired for the
great chiefs who saved the republic, be-
cause they will not join him in the dia-
bolical work, he has taken to his conf
dence early apologists of the rebellion,
and counsels exclusively with those who
cultivate his hatreds and applaud his
plans. Common opinion points to Jere-
mlah S. Black, James Buchanan's At
torney General, as "the power behind the
throne That notorious and danger
Gus politician is declared to be as familiar
a visitor at the White House as he was
when ne advised the Executive that there
was no power in the Constitution to pre-
serve the Republic from treason; and it is
his malign ity, added to the demon spirit
OF Andrew johnson, that is giving such
fatal ascendency to the resulting heresy,
that the same Constitution now demands
the restitution to power of the traitors,
just driven, after incredible human slaugh-
ter and countless expenditures of treasure,
from the butchered body Of the Repub-
lie which is still bleeding from the wounds
they inflicted, and not rescued from the
danger of death. James Buchanan to
his ruin should not be in position to
work still greater wickedness as the
agent and attorney of Andrew johnson !!
The hour is one of duty and Of danger.
1t is no longer question of regrets, but
ofremedies. What may happen between
now and the 2lst Of November, when
Congress meets, no good man can tell
the worst may be anticipated. The pres
idency has become despotism, of
which one malignant man is the head,
surrounded by reckless satellites like j.
S. Black. The Cabinet is unit Of fear,
of submission. Stanton ihas been remov-
ed, the strong arm Of the civil service,
and Sheridan and Sickles have been cut
off from the military service only because
they refused to assist in browning the
trai tors. Even Stewards repeated con-
cessions have not saved him from suspic
ion The rebel spies fear he may be
overcome by the recollections of his bet
ter years, and demand his Office. The
same influences, for the same caus es, sur
round and peril McCuloch in the Treas
ury. IF the despot's DEGREES are not sus-
tanned by the opinion Of one Attorney
General, the place will be flied by men
ready to complete work which will be
double labor of love--it will fill their
pockets and satiate their revenge at the
same time.
In all this thick and awful gloom there
is but one star to light the way, Gen.
Grant is in the War Office! Our poor
country, more than once dependent upon
his sword, as nom hanging upon has uord.
Whatever may have been at first thought
of his accepting the portfolio of the War
office, no patriot Low questions the vital
importance of his presence in that depart
ment. The men who had fled millions
Of currupt claims with Stanton, which
that just and honest man refused to con.
slider, found Gen. Grant, as infezible as
the minister whose great talents and vic
tories he SO frequently and SO recently
and significantly recognized. His favor
lite officers displaced against his wishes, if
not his protest, the attitude Of Gen. Grant
was never more important to countrymen,
or more unpleasant to himself I have
not seen him, and write rather from the
views of others than from my own knowl-
edge. But [ have not met Radical
who does not speak what [ have here set
down, and [ have met our most thought
full and conscientious friends. The des-
tiny of the Republic has never been more
completely in the hands Of Gen. Grant,
than it is at the present moment 49,
If there il any remedy for the new per-
il, it is in the hands of the people They,
and they alone, can apply it. The sur
est way to precipitate hostilities, to en-
courage Andrew johnson to seize the
Government, force the rebels into Con-
gress, and declare the acts of emancipa-
ton and reconstruction unconstitutional,
is to vote the coppefhead ticket the com
ing election. Even the Copperheads,
terror stricken at this bad mans conduct,
try to shake off as if to get rid of Sec
ond frightful responsibility should their
efforts in supporting his policy ripen into
another bloody harvest. The steps of
revolution are never SO rapid as when a
great free people refuse to be admonished.
MACMILLAN S rBoDY-A Queretaro
correspondent of the New York Tribune
says, that Maximillian's body is kept on
exhibition in Queretaro, in dirty Sec
ond story room. A soldier guards the
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