The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-04
FIRST EDITION
EXIT JOHNSON.
a Parting Salute from the New YorI
Journals.


says the New York Herald of this morniug;-
president johnson winds no his career at
noon 10 day, aud has slgpaized the event oy
sendine forth stump speech to the people In
the shape OF a fare we'll address. In endeavoring
to follow in the footsteps OF his iiIustrious pre-
decessors, Washington and jackson, Andy
johnson has made q olunder. When they lett
the Executive chair they enjoyed the pro-
found respect aud admiration OF the Whoie
people, and their parting words Iell
ike mama upon iamished laud. But
IN President Johuson's case he has the misfor.
tune OF bavlug very few friends, and those not
OF very influential kind, tue ch iei among them
besripg the Stripes OF patriotic bat involuntary
service to the State. These parting wotds of
the retiring President might have done very
well at some political gathering in Tennessee,
and possibly might have assisted In paving the
way tor a new departure for him in the future.
But as they stand they smack of chagrin. dis
appointment, i'll nature, and bad blood. He
will now have the reputation of going out as a
scod, when he mig ght have retired TO the shades
OF private lie as good natured man, and in
sty lie at once digni6ed and solemn. Goodbye,
ADdyp
Saws the New York Tnoes:-
"Audrew Johnson closes to-day his admins
traton of the Executive office. IL has been in
very many respects one of tue most unfortunate
and disastrous we have ever known. Beginning
lust as The great civil war had closed, and fol-
lowing the murder of President Lincoln, by
whom that war had been carried to q tri-
umphant end, 1t fell upon a time when the
public passions were greatly agitated, and when
the sway of calm judgment, more than ever
necessary, was more than ever difficult.
President who could meet the emergencies of
the hour, and restore our political society to its
normal condition OF peace and harmony, would
have won for himself the proudest distinction
which great public service can ever bestow,
and Tor his country the choicest blessings
which good and wise government can ever
confer. Mr.. johnson, as President, has failed
to do this, and, as q consequence, he leaves the
Office with the profound conviction OF the whole
country that he ought never to have held 1t.
Great communities judge men by what
they might have done, 1t their abili-
ties had been equal to their opportunities;
and the magnitude of their failures, il
they fail, Is always measured by. what
would have been the grandeur OF their sue
cesses, il they had succeeded. Mr.. johnson is
naturally, therefore, set down as having made
the greatest failure aud been the worst Presi-
dent. ever known thus far in the history Of
tunately the country has prospered under Mr..
Joknson's administration, but not a result of
his policy. Reconstruction has advanced
towards completion, not as a consequence Ofhis
influence, but IN spite of it. The process of pa.
ci6cstiou has gone on under the operation of
causes to whicn he has not contributed. He will
this we may thank the good sense of the Ame-
rlcan people, ami the boundless resources of
our country, rather than the purity or eff
cheney of his administration OF public affairs.
It is useless to dispute the fact that general
sense Of relief is the public sentiment, which,
untinged with personal il-wil attends upon
the close of Mr.. Johnson's administration, as
upon the removal of an obstacle which has
checked the restoration Of peace and retarded
the prosperity of the country"
The Tribune remarks editorially:-
"Mr. johnson has got tired OF sending fruit
less messages to Congress, so he discharges
this one at the unohending heads Of the people,
who certainly never did him any harm except.
ing TO refuse to vote for him. He Informs them
that he has lost faith in appeals to Congtess-
which is not to be wondered at, considering
the luck he has. had with his appeals,
from the days of the Philadelphia Con-
vention down. He has made up his mind
that the war was stupendous aud deplorable
mistake-which explains his constant acting as
if he thought the other side In 1t had won. He
is desrous of burying all hostile feelings in the
grave of the past-but he has thought better of
his fiercely announced determination to fill that
grave also with the bodies of great many
traitors. He tells us that he has refused kingly
poWers-which we take to be coy hint to
Spa n that he only needs little coaxing. Be
tore settiug out for that new field of reno wn,
he leaves with us his pocket copy of the Con-
stituuon and The flag with thirty SIX stars. BE
warns us how easily we may lose our liberties
TO tyrannical Congress-by pointing us to the
solemn and startling fact that, in spite of his
pro' esi ations we elected the Congress and
Wouldn'J elect him. Naturally aud httingly he
thereupou closes by a terrible story OF the deeds
this CONGRESS- has done, and call upon the
tongue tied pardon brokers to tell at whose
hands he has received any bribe. Exit party
by the name OF Johnson"
The World says naught, except to introduce
the message.
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