Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-10-02
PRESIDENT JOHNSON ANDTME
a. DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

As soon as the result Of the Californi,
election was known many congratulation!
were rendered or sent to President johnson
Whether he has also been. felicitatcd on thu
Democratic gains in Maine we are not in
formed but his share Of the credit is JUS
as great in the one case as in the other Of
to speak more bluntly, tits nothing: in either
We do not deny that the great reaction
ought to give him. m..consderable satisfaction
although nothing he has done has had an,
tendency to produce it. As patriot, hon
cstly desiring the re.admission of the South
crn States, he must, Of course, be glad tc
see his adversaries weakened. Nothing
could be more churlish or ilibcral than to
question his right to rejoice in the joy Of
the Democratic party. We should be quite
willing to beat the bush and let him catch
the bird, if the country could thereby be
benefited But inasmY as President
johnson has no proper Identification with
the Democratic party, and as false i'm
preston of that kind would be a drag on
the reaction, it may not be amiss to place
the subject in its true light. The zeal with
which the Democratic press has defended
the President so far rs it deemed him right,
must mislead nobody to suppose that he is
in any degree responsible for us, or We for
him. lie can take no just offence at our re-
pudiatng his modes of operation, since
he has uniformly discarded and rcpudiated
ours.
Mr.. johnson is in no sense a Democratic
President. We did not elect him, we have
no claims upon him, nor have We ever set
up any except the common claim which all
citizens have upon every Chief Magistrate,
that he shall honestly support and defend
the Constitution. If Mr.. johnson, elected
as Republican, had ever become a Dem
ocratic President the change wouldbc dated
from such reorganization of the personnel
of the administration as placed the govern
nlent in Democratic hands. But no such
has been made. Instead Of
a Cabinet consisting of men whom the Dem.
ocratic party respect and contide in, presi-
dent johnson has chosen to be surrounded
by Republican Cabinet, from the first day
of his ascension until now. lie has had
occasion t. appoint several foreign minis
ters but in no case has he appointed
Democrat.in good standing with the party
General Dix, the most respectable of his
nppointces, though calling himsclt-a DEM
crat, long ago dissolved his connection with
the Democratic party Mr.. Cowan, Mr..
and Mr.. Greeley, who have been
but unsucccssfully, nominated
to the vacant Austrian. mission, are highly
respectable gentlemen, but they::have never
been Democrats. General Fitzpatrick, after
carrying New Jersey against the Democratic
party by Campaign of vcnonous scurrility
md defamation, was promptly rewarded by
ho mission to Chill. This was more than
neglect it was.morc than an ordinary af.
ront it was an open an wahton insult
New Jersey was the only Northern State
which the Democratic party had carried for
and our pride would have been
ouched by its loss even if it had been ta-
zen from us by fair means. But when out
ages scurrilitics prevailed against us in the
lOme of our chosen candidate, the immedi-
tie promotion of the head libeller tc full
oreign mission was an act which laid the
,arty under no deep obligation to the Prcsi-
lent. We did not complain even of this
insult, for we had no claims of any kind on
'lr. johnson, and there was no good reason
Why Republican President should not ap-
,oint to Office men who had rendered ac-
cptable services to the Republican party
Nc must not be understood to make the al
nsions, even now, in tone of complaint
hey arc intended only as proofs that Mr..
Johnson has never been, nor ever sought to
e considered, Democratic President We
appen to agree with him on a point on
;hich he differs from the party but that
lust not be taken as an Endorsement Of his
unstatcsmanlike, unpopular ad-
Mr.. johnson not being q Democrat, We
re unwilling that, with his great weight of
npopularity, he should be classed as such.
he contention between him and Congress
fight within the Republican party. The
condition of the country is charg-
bic upon the party that elected both, the
resident aud the majority Of Congress, aud
c expect no relief or remedy but in the
vcrthrow Of that party. Tho Republicans
.nnot fix upon us any part Of the odium
lich has resulted from their own success in
,e elections. Let the fault lie where it may
C are responsible for no part Of it. We
ave not been in power. We arc no more
nswerable for the Republican President
HON we did not elect, and have not been
nrmittcd to advise, than we are for the Re.
ablican Congress which has kept up per.
,tual quarrel with him. Mr.. johnson is
,m President, Messrs. Republicans, not
irs; from your party he has taken all his
sponsible advisers on you he has bestow- :
all his Offices he has kept you in power {
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