New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-06
awEAT TEE pEopnE sAY, :

be a journal Of decided, though somewha
elephantine responsibility, has lately de
clined into the position of Jenkins for th'
White house. With starched cravat ant
deeorOusly seedy coat, with stuffed calves
trembling with sawdust and senility, Thu
decrepit servant totters about the execu
tive mansion, collects such bits Of gossip
as the master chooses, and publishes then
as public opinion. These broken yietual;
and vapid heel-taps the reading world !:
expected to receive as wholesome mental
feed. This gossip of broken down
serving.man is declared to be "what the
people say.
The moment the president is impeaehed
if we may believe this venerable valet
"The mails are loaded with assurances Of
popular appreciation Of his course, and
proffers OF popular support with men and
money whenever needed" "From among
the multitude of these letters and tele-
graphic dispatches (the kilograms came
by mail, O jenkins 2 1--WE select the follow
ing as a sample Of popular opinion Of the
situation OF affairs here;"
NASHVILLE, KY, February 25.-Will
one regiment of Irish be Of any assistance
to you Answer"
And then follow more of the same sort
proFering not only men but money, al
nauseam
We like all these dispatches, though not
enough to reprint them all, but the one
from Maysville we especially admire. The
president has been impeached. He is like
an alleged culprit who has been indicted,
and is awaiting trial. The senate as 4
court will try him. He must needs have
counsel, and who SO fit for this purpose of
Forensic oratory as the Irish Of haysville?
We remember Phillips; we have been
thrilled by the burning words Of Curran;
we have been moved to tears by the power
and pathos of O'Cennell, and we have 10
hesitation in according TO Hibernian elo-
quence in general the palm Of pyrCteohnio
brillianoy. And shall Mr.. Jhnson fail TO
be defended by all the powers Of speech
We rather think not. A regiment Of Irish
with baggage train Of briefs shall make
the court room resonant with rhetoric
and dewy with pathes. The flowers Of
oratory shall carpet the salivated foor,
and if an occasional Irish bull gambol
upon the woody mead the display will
onlybe the more characteristic. And shall
these thousand counsel be unpaid We
rather think not. The unlimited money
which is promised fFen other parts Of the
country shall be distributed to them, and
they shall we. their thirsty whistles.
And If they do not succeed by mere force
of rhetorical breezes in blowing the charges
against Mr.. johnson to The four winds, or
at least in wearyiHg the senate into q ve--
dict Of not guilty, then the senators have
greater powers Of endurance than are
usually accorded by nature to men Of
sedentary habits.
Bat there is g seriOSs side to this gues-
ion Of what the people say The
has been regularly impeashed by
! body which has the constitutional power
% impeach him. He is to be regularly
.ried by a body which has the censtita-
.ional power to try him. No matter
whether he be guilty or not guilty, no man
n this land can Interfere with the progress
1f the proceedings, or the execution Of the
whatever It may be, without
1eing himself e daring criminal. Yet
when silly and irresponsible people write
md telegraph to Nr. johnson, Offering
heir men and money to nullify the COR
ititution and defy the law, he
iurns these documents, which are either
lilly or criminal, over to his Jenkins Of the
Entslllgsnosr to be published as "what the
people say" Lett be noted that the editor
iays, "we select the following implying,
necessarily, that the president turned over
o him the whole batch for publication.
What is, then, the legitimate Inference, but
hat Mr. Johnson joins with those fools or
hose knaves to propose defiance to the
processes Of law7 "What the people say |
n reality, is that by SO doing he only adds |
0 the long list of his misdeeds.
And the people will further say that the |
walton extended by the fremen in New
Orleans on the fourth to Jefferson Davis,
he chief Of political sinners, is the legiti- !
nate fruit Of the encouragement given to |
he friends Of the lost cause by Andrew |
Johnson that to this great traitor to his |
party we owe the fact that the great traitor
10 bis country has his public reception in
he streets Of our city, and aDixien and the
Bonnie Blue Flag usurp the place Of
'Hail Columbia and the q Star spaDgled
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