The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-05
DerIded and Deserted.

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gratitude is most base. For three
years they have used him to advance
the interests Of their party. They
have fawned upon him and fattered
him, and he has been guided by their
advice. He has permitted men like
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS to dictate
his Office holders, and thousands of
faithful Union men, land many of
them gallant soldiers" have been
turned out of Office to make room
for pestilent politicians Of the Dem
ocratic stripe. The President has
calledlaround him. as chief council
Tors, Copperheads like JERRY BLACK
and MONTGOMERY BLAIR, and they
are mainly responsible for the viola
ton of law which has placed him in
his present predicament. A PROPOSE
ton introduced 10 the Democratic
National Committee, by Mr.. BoGY. Of
st. Louis, to indorse the President
was voted down, only two or three
members of that body sustaining it.
Everywhere the party has been in
structed to let ANDY slide. The pa
pers are following the instructions to
the letter The Courier of this city
went off prematurely, owing to
the youth and unsophisticated charac-
ter of its proprietor, bat with that ex-
ception no paper in the State, that we
have observed, went so far as to call
a meeting to sustain or express
sympathy for the White House
Orange they have been so dill
gently squeezing. Not only this
but the Presidential receptions are
now thinly attended. Even the for
eign legations have caught the panic,
and no longer grace the Presidential
reception rooms with their gaudy
dress and trappings None so poor
as to do him reverence" A more
humiliating, pitiable condition to be
in, we cannot imagine. Even his
power to bestow office has lost its at
traction, and profered positions are
spurned alike by the military and
civilians. His very name is men
toned with contempt, or cast out
altogether as evil
As an indication Of the estimation
in which the President is held by the
very papers whose party has reaped
the benefit of his apostacy and degra-
datioR, we quote a couple Of sentences
from the Pittsburg Post.
As for the man Andrew johnson.
our opinions of his character, history
and conduct have been frequently
and candidly expressed in these col
umns, and we have nothing to fetract
nor to extenuate. We could wish
that he had been more "clear in his
great Office that he had possessed
a more exact estimate of the motives
and principles of the two great par
ties of the couRtry. IF he made
the mistake of supposing that the
Democratic party, with their vigorous
organization, controlling and count
ing two millions of votes, would drop
half of their party decalogue and fol-
low any man, even though that man
were the President, or a thousand
times greater than the President.
we are sorry that he had no
better judgment. We are not
sorry that the Democratic party
had not the same dangerous facility
in changing their views that he seems,
Honestly enough, perhaps,) to have
possessed.
We did not nominate Johnson-t1e
did not elect him-on the contrary.
he was nominated and elected be-
cause he was the most bitter, and the
most reckless, and the most unre-
lenting enemy the Democratic party
had in the Southwest, and all the
more bitter and all the more unre-
lenting because he had been recent
convert to radicahsm.
The New York World is fearful
that it may be misunderstood. So it
gives notice that in opposing Con-
gress it does not support Mr.. john
SON. It cannot consent to have Mr..
JOHNSON saddled on the Democratic
party. That organization has enough
sins of its own to answer for without
shouldering such an additional bur-
den. The World says:
Mr.. johnson is not Democratic
President, but a Republican Presi-
dent. The chronic difficulty between
him and Congress is a quarrel in the
/ Republican party. He was not elect
/ ed by our votes; he has never de-
4 farrad RI +ha xuiS hos IF Our leaders