Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-08-23
The Presidents Future.


President Johnson's record during
the last fortnight has not been writ
ten in water" 1t has entered into
the serious consideration of millions
of our countrymen, who will not let
it pass from their memories. They
will put it with what has gone before,
and with what shall transpire during
the few months to come prior to the
assembling of Congress, So that by
that time, we have no doubt, a con-
clusion viii be reached which will ap-
pear in the prompt and effectual &C
ton of their representatives. Thus
far there are two theories to account
for Mr.. Johnson's removal of the Sec
rotary of war, and his threatened
treatment of Gen. Sheridan and Judge
Holt. The one represents him sim
ply as a willful, angered man, and
swayed much more by his personal
resentments than by any motives of a
public nature. Mr. Stanton has
touched him in some sensitive spot,
and so he is kicked out of Office" to
use the Presidents own memorable
phrase. Gen. Sheridan's letter stir
red up his wrath, which will not be
appeased until the general is officially
put out of sight. Those who hold
this view say that Secretary Seward,
Mr.. McCulloch, or even the harmless
head of the Navy Department would
be treated in the same way under sim
liar circumstances, and that, too, with
out a thought of the public bearings
of the result.
But there are others-and proba-
bly, their number is increasing-who
think they discern little too much
method in all this madness. 1t seems
to strike by choice at those men who
are standing prominently in the
breach against all dangers threaten.
ing the reconstruction policy of Con
gress. Of such men, certainly, was
Mr.. Stanton at Washington, and Gen.
Sheridan at the South. 1t is believed
by those supporting this theory that
the President has determined to make
one more desperate effort, even at the
expense of conyulsing tine Union, to
arrest and defeat the progress OF re
construction. He and his rebel in
stigators perceive that if matters are
suffered to go on as they are now go
ing, the seeded states will all be re-
organized within two years at the fur
thest, and will be admitted into the
union, with congressional delegations
Republica for the most part.
Against such a consummation, the
Presidents sectional pride and pride
of cast and poor white bigotry are
arrayed with all the bitter intensity
of his nature. But hard as the lesson
has been, he has still learned the nee
essity of some caution in carrying out
his programme in the short time anc
under the difficult situation at biz
command.
| Now, it cannot but be that the
mass of the people will have ample
opportunity to decide between these
two theories before the meeting o
congress. If Mr.. Johnson is simpl,
making personal exhibition of him
self, that which may be sport to him
but is death to the good name of tn,
country, will continue to go on. Blu
if he has begun the developement o
a wicked and dangerous scheme, it.
true nature cannot be kept much lon
ger from the public eye. In eithel
event we are not so sure but that tn,
result will be the same, so far as tn
Presidents future is concerned. Tn
people and their representatives may
become tired of these Donnybrool
demonstrations in their highest office
and may set their perpeUrator aside
to give the country quiet breathing
: spell. They will certainly and swift
ly and ANONYMOUSLY smite him int
, obscurity, if their rising fears {
! treacherous plots on his part shall b
confirmed. Nothing in the future ca
! be clearer than this. Nothing in a
l the past of history could have bee
i, more righteously done than this wi
be or would be surer to receive th
accordant verdict of posterity.-Bo
ton Journal.