The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-11-02
Exit Party by the Name Of johnson.

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The best friends of the late President
should experience the more qualification
over the extinction of his Senatorial as
pirations. If he had been elected he
would instantly have constituted himself
the bore in ordinary of the American
nation, and his tediousness would have
filled the world. He has never been
wise person, nora discreet one. His
ublic utterancea while he WAS President
were probably the most astounding Civ
.ings forth which ever emanated from the
lips of a ruler-they we're without form
and void. and darkness rested upon the
face OF them. The disastrous error Of
his election to post which rendered it
possible for him to become President
was expiated in Our national shame and
humiliation, the bitterness whereof has
not vet passed away. There is just
cause for thankfulness in the circum.
stance that he is going to stay at home.
Tennessee, in keeping him to herself,
acquires a new claim to our admiration
and new lien upon our gratitude. The
nation don't want him. It has had him,
and he don't agree with it. The strict
er and more protracted his retirement
the better he will deserve Of his fellow
citizens. 1t is stern verdict to pass
upon one who has worn the highest hon
ors which the nation can confer; but
can any one, even his partisans for the
late canvass shows that he is not with
out them) say that it is undeserved!
II is not pleasant to have TO speak
thus disrespectfully of great men. But
it is sometimes a duty. Great men Tin
station) are sometimes absurd; they are
sometimes stupid; they are sometimes
dishonest. Al rare intervals one Is
found who unites these qualities, and to
them superadds other attributes OF a
heavy and Objectionable character.
Such man we found in our late Presi-
dent He was one whom destiny kick
ed up stairs from the first story of for.
tune to the garnet ESQ to speak), and he
seemed to learn nothing and to forget a
good deal on the way. The nation is
generous; it is not very exacting of its
rulers in the matter of brains or capaci
ty But johnson tried the full measure
of its forbearance. His intellectual
| density was. compared with ordinary
| obtuseness, what midnight is to a cloudy
afternoon-whatt the fog of the Hebrides
is to the haze of Tivoli. His tedious.
ness surpassed all other tediousness as
much as his obtuseness surpassed all
other obtuseness. On any subject upon
which he discoursed he employed three
t times as many words as another person,
| and one of his words was dul1er than
| another persons three. He was not
! merely incapable Of the simplest process
| of reasoning, but he had no command OF
| the instruments of expression. His
| verbs never agreed either with their
| nominatives or their hearers, or any
thing else. His rhetorical usages werf
injurious and insurrectionary. He was
| wont to enunciate the worst of princi
| pies in the worst of grammar. We are
verv glad that he is not coming to Nlt
Senate. He would have talked intern
inably to no earthly purpose, and taker
| up time which wiser men may put te
better use. And yet we would not b.
hard upon the nan. If he must crate
i and he seems to burn with that inextin
guishabie desire, let the Legislature o
Tennessee set aside small apartment
somewhere in the Capitol wherein h
NAV swing round the circle at will. Ca
riosity will allure thither q sufficien
number Of persons to constitute a suita
BILE audience, and the yoluble statesma
can relieve himself from his rhctorics
accommodations without making Of him
self an ignominious spectacle in til
eyes of Mankind, or exciting in til
minds of his countrymen emotions mir
gled of pity, derision, and shame.-EN
. Y. Tribune.