Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-02-26
- 'sThe FallacIes of H0De.'

The mere hopeful Democrats profess
cheerful faith that the Republicans already
doubt " General Grant "They doub
him; they doubt him % exclaimed Mr.. w
w. Eaton, with great ZEAL in the Connect
icut Democratic Convention and thu
doubt which he so vehemently affirmed
appeared to give Mr.. Eaton peculiar salts
faction. And so also many Of the chic
Democratic papers chuckle with great de
az light at what they believe to be the signs
ofhthe coming trouble between the new
80 President and the Republican party Z.
.ast.lisIt would seem, indeed, that the Demo
1sacratic, experience of the withdrawal of Mr.
Johpsonp fro from his party, and the total
s,Want' Of any Substantial benefit in conse-
@duence to the hungry Democracy, should
be hardly inspiring enough to justify much
enthusiasm over the prospect of a similar
4 detection. { The Democratic newspapers
! Etpadied p resident. Job nson to the utmost
but the World at last said that there was
only one way in which he could prove
that'his sentiments were truly sound, and
rIdsthatlwas in bestowing the patronage upon
odi the faithful. Congress, however, present
ed its little Tenure of Office bill, and now
Van not even the Connecticut Democracy, with
Mr.. James F.. Babcock, the great original
CONNECTICUT Johnsonian at their head, has
sodnnch' as asVortl Of sympathy or admi-
.srat.on or regret for the retiring distributor
.szr of the Constitution y 4 6'z .rp,ia1aS 2
1.-The next Democratic hope is, that Gen
eral Grant will initiate Andrew Johnson.
He1has not, indeed, hitherto 1showua re-
smafkable admiration for that EXAMPLE
but it is suggested that he is not party
President, that the Republican party was
compelled to take him, that he is not an
heE extreme man, that he has military train
,,,, ing-and, indeed, reasons are as plentiful
as blackberries when you have once made
up your mind that you. must have them
Bat at least there is one evident point OF
difference between these gentlemen. Grant
,-s is reasonable and firm; Johnson most de-
lightfully unreasonable and obstinate. II
.,,.,. would be hard to find anything more conf
~ cally absurd than his grave recommends
ton to Congress that, as the country ha6
-, nov finally decided against his policy, Con
gress should now proceed to adopt it
That was worthy of Sancho Panza il
Barataria. ....,,,..--.
A.. :. There is also another point Of difference
81. which is evident enough. Mr.. johnson
= was a Border State Slavery politician o.
= VI the poorest kind-of so poor kind in
n, deed that there has always been grave
question whether his hot Unionism was
80 not quite as much hostility to a certain
social class in his part of the coun.
-a'7try as their theory of secession. The
war and his position undoubtedly cast
- glamour upon him under which he
4 was nominated by the Republicans in
s. 1864. But he had never shown then
he certainly has never shown since, that
E.. he understood in the least the controlling
. cause of the war, and consequently what
hia must be the policy to secure peace. He
has been as stupidity contemptuous and
hostile toward the oolored population, to
whom he. proposed himselfas Moses, as
49,. he has been doginatic in urging his policy
,.t upon the, country. General Grant, mean.
while, has supported Congressional recon
struction upon the profoundest conviction
.. that it was the most practicable plan.
But it is not in any specific point that
-. the baselessness of the hopes Of our Demo;