Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-30
Who Acted With Perfidv?

"The lasG expediency dodge was-An-
drew johnson. No one ever fully trusted
him. There was blear-eyed unsteadi
ness in his political gait which gave due
warning. He was selected as the candi-
date for the second place in the Republic,
not because he was known and tried
1 friend, but that he might not become an
open enemy. He was employed to do per-
tidy. He has only done other perfidy than
he was employed to do. He kept faith
with no one. With an ingenious self-for-
l getfulness he purjured himself to himself,
and cheated Andrew johnson worst of all.
He has givensthe American people this
| precious experience that the man who
betrays his party for office will betray his
| office for party"
4 Here is an admission that ANDREW
JoHNsoN was nominated by the President
ial nominating convention of the Abolition
| party, that he ''might not become an open
enemy" and that she was employed to do
perfdy." = , GEh q FhEs 20 FaFT
A frank admission, but one that shows
the innate rottennes and corruption of the
party which practised it. ANDREW JOHN
SON, during a long political life, had been
a Democrat. During that time his morals
had been pure-his habits excellent. Un-
der the belief that the Abolition party was
fighting for the Union, anxious to do his
part, he left the Democratic party, which
alone could have saved the country with
out war and without bloodshed, and
Joined his lifelong enemies.fsc -3fE.I -
The very leaders that nominated him,
charge that he BECAME Hintemperate.
Be this as it may, we know that while a
Democrat he was sober man.. Evil COM
munications corrupted his morals. Be
cause of this, the Baltimore Convention
thought he was the very man to act a per-
fidious part. The Journal says, she was
employed to do perfidy.n That sheet COM
plains that he has "done other perfidy
than he was employed to do" Its editor
realizing that sorest of all evils, repen-
tance that comes too late, now admits the
belief that any g man who betrays his party
for office will betray his office for party"
| If ANDREW JOHNSON was guilty of dis
sipation when nominated as the candidate
of the Republican party, our advices from
Washington are that he is no longer so.
The appeal from PHILIP, of Macedon, drunk
to PHILIP sober, produced no better effect
than that made by the American people to
ANDREW JOHNSON the Radical nominee for
| Vice President, to ANDREW JOHNSON the
once Democrat and Statesman. Sober re-
Election came, and with it his opposition to
the patricidal views of the party of which
THADDEUs STEVENS is the great expounder,
WILLIAM H. GIBSON, of Ohio Treasury de-
falcation memory, the great stump orator,
and the Columbus Morning Journal, in its
feeble way, the advocate.
But is it President JOHNSON, or the party
that nominated him, that has heen guilty of
"per6dys" We think the latter, and that
the former has been more -sinned against
than SHINING. We will give the grounds of
this belief.
The Chicago Convention of August, 1860,
which placed LINCOLN and HAMLINin nom
ination as candidates for President and
Vice-Presidenr, did so upon this unequivo-
cal declaration of State rights:
'sThat the maintenance inviolate of the
rights of the States, and especially the
right of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to its
own Judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance of powers on which the perfec-
| ton and endurance of our political fabric
depends; and we denounce the lawless in
vasion by armed force of the soil of any
State or Territory, no matter under what
pretext, as among the gravest OF crimes"
Upon the solemn pledge, tn At the rights
of the States and especially the ''right of
each State to order and control its own do
mestic institutions according to its own
Judgement" LINCOLN and HAMLIN were
elected to power. GE
A portion of the leading men of the
South, who had aided and abetted the
Northern Abolition leaders in their efforts
to dissolvetbe Union-both sides being Dis
unionist per se-induced their States to pass
ordinances of secession. Mr.. JOHNSON,
then a Democratic Senator from Tennessee,
opposed secession, and Joined the Abolition
lists to put it down, and he did SO upon the
declared understanding that the party in
power would remain true to its professions.
In this he had abundance of reason to be-
lieve that it would do so, for the Crittenden
Resolution which passed Congress about the
time of the first battle of Bull Run, made
the solemn declaration:
"That the present deplorable civil war
as4been forced upon the country by the
disunionists of the Southern States, now in
arms against the Constitutional Govern
ment, and in arms around the Capital; that
in this National emergency Congress BAN
ishing all feeling of mere passion and re-
sentiment, will recollect only its duty to the
whole country; that this aoar is not aoaged on
their part in any spirit of OPPRESSION or for any
purpose Of conquest or subjugatton or purpose Of
ouerthro1oing or interfering aotth the rights or
established institutions of those States, but to
defend and maintain the supremacy of the Con-
stitutioR, and TO preserve the Union, Goith all
the dignity. equality, and rights of the several
States unimpdired; and that as soon as these
objects are accomplished the sodr ought to cease.
q At the first State Convention of the Re-
publican party in Ohio, after the war COM
menced, and again in 1852, the resolution
by Congress was solemnly reaffirmed as
the platform OF the Republican party. At
the latter Convention the following was
added, to make the declaration of the Crit
tenden resolutions still stronger: ~..r
Resolued, In the language of the Hon.
! Joseph Holt, we are 'for the Union a1ithout
| condition, one and insepdrdble, nolo and for
| euer-for its preservation at any and every
cost of blood and treasure; against all as
saults and against any and all compromises
that may be proposed to be made under the
guns of the rebels"
mus was Cne party pleuSeo TO Cne rlSnCs
of the States by its Chicago Platform-in
the declaration of its members of Congress
against any purpose of conquest or subju
cation, or purpose of overthrowing or in
terfering with the rights or established
Constitutions of those States," but on the
contrary, to ''preserve the Union, with all
the dignity, equality and rights of the sew
| fY, fha
Resolutions, "for the Union,' as established