Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-04-04
RUTLAND HFRALDt
MONDAY, APRIL l, 1867.
prsssdsnt Jshnson's Policy and hais
Acts.

Il ia not very often that political
ieurnal makes q point for its enemies
and against the cause which 1t is endea-
yoring 20 support, but such things hap.
men occasionally, like mistakes in we'll,
regulated households, and are not IN
frequently better than anything that
usually emanates from their opponents.
For instance, the Chicago Times, one OF
the most vituperative Democratic rebel
organs in the Northwest, in a recent
number, discourses of the short.sighted-
ness of President Johnson as follows:
at is about tire that President John
son began to open his eyes, and, for the
sake OF decency aud the country, cut
himself loose from the surroundings
that have alienated from him so many
Of his true friends, and driven him, at
the head of the nation, to the very verge
of politicsl ruin. There is no longer
any use Ia attempting TO disguise facts
that every DAYS experience makes more
and more apparent. For more than s.
year Andrew Johnson has been drifting
with every hour into the arms OF politi-
cal vagabonds and sharpers, whose pres
ence is contagion, and whose touch Is
death. These through his departments,
have filled our public offices with the
lazzaroni of politics, whose daily de-
hauChes have disguised decent people,
and whose guilty lives have put them
beyond the pale o. respectable recoSni-
ton. For months past, scoundrels VINO
have robbed saving funds in which the
humble have had their all OF worldly
wealth. and who have iattened on the
sorrows and miseres of the poor, have
been dealing out the country's offices, as
gamblers do their cards, according To
the greenbacks that their victims ven
tured thereon ending, at last, with De-
ing rewarded themselves with high po
sitions in which they could plumber with
equal boldness the treasury OF the land.
The truth of the foregoing is as re
markable as its dlstinctness Undcl
Andrew Johnson, the patronage OF th'
Federal government has been controlled
and dispensed mainly by the most aban
doned OF the copperhead leaders, -mel
who have in most cases long since for
feited the respect OF all parties as un
worthy OF being Contided with matter
of trust. The result, as above stated
y dcplolaO!c. Not only have the com
mon thieves of the Democratic part,
been installed into positions Of influence
but the Offices, in many cases, have bee
given to men VIGOROUSLY incompetent,
Andrew Johnson having violated tn
faith reposed in him by the Nationa
Union Republican party in convention
assembled at Baltimore in June, 1864
having staggered, drunk, into the Vice
Presidents chair in March, 1865, an
having by pardoning rebels and restol
ing to them the property which they, b
their rebellious acts, forfeited to the rs
ton, as well as bitter hostility toward
all acts OF Congress looking to the re,
toration TO the Union OF the States latel
in rebellion, and having acted throug
1866 and thus far in 1867 in unison wit
traitors, it is hardly to be wondered a
in view Of such acknowledgements as tn
above from his own class, that radici
opponents are eDdeavoring to brin
about his Impeachment and remov;
from Office, q measure which, howevt
much provoked, we deem at the preser
time unwise and impolitic.
Instead of rendering treason odiou
traitors have gone scot free and in man
Instances, fafted upon the bountes
the nation, and been placed by him
positions Of trust and profit and as Il
Democratic authority which we hay
quoted above trutbfully says, "for mo
than yesr he has been drifting wit
every hour into the arms of polite
7agabonds and sharpers, whose presenC
is Contagion and whose touch is death
Instead Of protecting the government
che enjoyment OF the fruits achieved |
our armies he has cast them aside as
had previously cast aside his honor. L
stead OF being a Moses to the colorG
people as he promised them he would b
ne has been their most obstinate at
dangerous enemy. Instead of laborir
to secure to the loyal people OF IL
south the privilege of expressing the
sentiments when and where they choos
nc has in a degree retarded the pnuis
ment of their marderers at New Orleal
Sor SO expressing themselves. Instead
placing true, loyal men OR battle-scarr'
Union soldiers in Office, such places ha'
been filed with copperheads who syr
psthized with treason during the rebt
lion, or with renegade Republicans wi
support his policy, and who like himst
have back,slid from the sound principl
sud moral examples of the grand arm
OF freedom. This catalogue of johnson
sins of commission and omission mig
ne enlarged upon until, when complete
It would make up record, beside viii
chat OF the old imbecile, Buchans
would be an ornament, and which, thou
1pl ha ri1w fkInL- uouId yro,,o ~ L.