Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-18

WIFI lnc w CSlcrn newspapers, Wnen the
Secretary picks out the editorial and
correspondence pertaining to Mr. John !.
son, and reads it. Meantime, half-hour-
~ messengers arrive from the Senate
with news as to how the proceedings
stand. The President questions them
less upon the situation than upon the !
argument, for he is one of those sublime
sclf-abnegations that would rather get |
n sylogism in his favor than new /
friend AS. TO newspapers, he is an ex-
traordinary interpreter of them. He |
will calmly listen to a whole column of
scath, and observing one fraction of con- /
sideration sowed here in the column
will pick it out and appropriate it to feed
his indomnitable conccit.
"There,0 he says, "that writer COM
prehendsme the rest of the article is inn
MATERIAL
/ People come in at intervals up to the
time of the arrival of the New York pa
pers at half past 5 or 6 O'Clock, which is
the era of the day in Washington. Mr..
johnson has queer laundering for the
good opinion of the Tri6une-probably
supposing that concern that could be
mercful to Mr.. Davis might, consistent
ly, ielent to him. Dinner at o'clock,
generally has one or more of the counsel
at it; but Mr.. johnson has not the pow
er to retain even the regard of his coun-
sci. Mr.. Nelson is with him more than
any other one. Stanbery seems to have
most faith in the President. The more
" Shines" surprises and ingratitudes
johnson cuts, the more Stanbery looks
upon him as an Grant son, to be forgiv
en- and fondled. Nelson, on the contra
ry, regards Mr.. Johnson somewhat as
Las Casas or Montholon regarded Napo-
leon, or rather as David Copperfield re-
garded, in his early youth, the distin
guished Mr.. Peggotty. TO Mr.. Nelson,
johnson is all history, all art, all exam
pie, and all department. Nelson sees
nothing but Johnson, the Tennessee ar
chetype! Johnson picking his teeth is
to him spectacle in story. TO him,
makes it inimitable. Delightful old
mushroom! Johnson's whole heart and
: history are not worth one tear like
| thine!
The evening at the White House is
free of gentle company, for the Presi-
dc Al 5 nature requires good deal of the
Ia l-fellOw-well-met sort. With Ker-
shaw and some of the Washington boys
I've sits up till late, exchanging interec-
, tons upon the shames of his enemies,
, the three drinks count the three watches
between dinner and bed time. During
the late half hour of the night the Globe
| speeches of the day read and remarked
q upon.
Andrew Johnson believes that all his
i'll success is attributable to other causes
9 than himself; that all successes came
= out of his own resources. OBJECTIONS
, and failures come to him philosophical
y 1y, therefore. He sits down a while af-
: ter each of them, indulging in a blind
/ hate of somebody, and then, with his
$ treacherous pertinacity, makes another
= without method, and yet with some DIES.
ultoriness of will, SO that nobody knows
S when to trust him and when to respect
| him. He has lived in Washington fol
twenty years, more or less, but his per-
sonal friends here are of a sort that leav'
ing the President, their next friend IL
v point of rank is barkeeper or gambler
1t is this medley of man that is said tC
turn to the Constitution like pilot tt
u his compass. Full of smatterings ofchar
n acters, he has bungled his way to emin
: ence sheerly by the power of words owe
n ignorance, and he believes now that 1T
is the closest constitutional lawyer, TIN
> greatest stump speaker, the author o
8 the best policy, and the most popula
V public man in the United States. He i
~ displeased with Mr.. Groesbeck for say
ing that he don't know much. John
II son, it is said requested Nelson to NEE
v all the points made against this polio.
# by the Managers of the House, whethe
# the other counsel agreed or not 1t wa
all the latter could do to keep Nelson OF
the floor.
JOHNSON'S FAMILY AND CABINET.