Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-12-26
NUMBER 81.


How despicable soul is Andrew Johnson.
Raised to the Presidency by the strangest freak
that ever capricious fortune played upon mankind,
how does he use his high position
1t seems as though the memories clustering
about the place, memories of the Father of his
country, memories of him who penned the Dec
aration, of him who swore by the Eternal that
the land should be saved, aud lastly, the recollec-
tions of him who watched over the land through
the night of rebellion, and gave his own blood as
the crowning sacrifice of the war; it seems as
though boor to be permitted to stand in the
sacred place pressed by the footsteps of these
sages, would be so lifted up in thought, so eleva-
t1 in character that if the great questions of the
hour were too vast for his comprehension at least
the vices of a low nature and the jealousies of
debased brain would be held in check. Not so
with Andrew Johnson.
Seeing, as he must, that he is no longer trust
ed by the nation, knowing that he is despsed by
the good and pure of the land beholdipg his
maudlin predictions all disregarded and swept
away in the current of destiny which is bearing
the nation on, despite him, to peace and glory
instead of acknowledging to himself his mistakes
and striving to improve the few months left him
to his from everlasting infamy, he
turns at bay against Congress, against the peo-
pie, against truth and common sense and dares
to reiterate again and again the worn-out myth
of "my policy" And all the malignity, all the
falsehood, all the special pleadings of a dema-
gogue and pettifogger are brought to bear to
help him.
No petty, obscene sheet ever stopped to lower
appeals to the baser passions of men, no thief
npon the gallows ever inveghed more fiercely at
tue arbitrary law which made life forfeit for
certain crime, than does Andrew Johnson, in his
last message to Congress, appeal to the most
sordid instincts of human nature and denounce
those who have had the patriotism to oppose
him.
Thank God his term is almost ended. few
months more and we shall have to read no more
of his insults to the people who gave him his
place, we shall have no longer to blush that such
deformity holds the sceptre that Washington
held.
We suppose in the eternal providence of God
the existence of such monster was deemed nec-
essary; but nothing in all that ever happened on
earth, furnishes so striking proof that d" the
ways of Providence inscrutable," as the
fact that merciful God ever allowed such VIII
lain to be President of the United States. Still
his life will not be without good results 1t is
our duty to try forgive the faults of others,
and since Andrew johnson has lived the human
heart beats kinder toward Arnold, toward
Robesperre, toward Nero, toward any who
through cruelty and treachery have made for
themselves an Immortality of nfamy. And in
the years to come when his history is written,
and his character shall be fI11y understood, it
seems to us any erring youth will be brought In
repentance and reform by threatening him that
be Will grow up to be as mean man as Andrew
johnson was. This is period of earthquakes,
tidal-waves, storms, floods, pestilences of
strange commissions and arrangements on earth
within the earth and in the air above and his
tory will recount these things and then will add
that besides these calamites the people of the
United States were cursed with Andrew Johnson
for President.-Reno (Nerada) Crescent.