Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-16
A. johnson Alive Again.

WE have before us the visible evidence
that the late Andrew johnson, who re-
Gently shed such lustre upon the appclla.
ton OF Moses, and who was announced 10
have positively and for the last time re-
tired from the stage, has reappeared, by
particul request, in the entire new role Of
lazarus. Were the late A. johnson TO
present himself 10 us in the body mere.
ly, we might doubt his identity, for faces
aud forms are traBsitory and deceptive
Every man sits down in bran new outfit
Of flesh and bones every seventh birthday.
But whom Andrew Johnson speaks we
to say, "This Ia the very johnson no
other could have made this speech" He
whom the Tenure OF, Office law could not
restrain, nor the Senate impcsch, alike dc
fies the undertaken. and holds the sexton
mt bay. lie has returned TO us, he says,
with bis back, though bent, not broken by
the storm. IL will be interesting 10 behold
the ex-President swinging around the cir
Gle with his back bent. This Is the first
instance in which the male animal has
ever adopted the Grccian bend unless
brought 60 Il by gripping OF the bowels.
But, though his back bent under tho
gale, II did not break. Like the ship
wrecked mariner jited by faithless Nellie
Gray, he had s
---beon In many a gale before
But never such blow.
II might have stranded others ON the
breakers and broke them, but II only sent
him on bender that leaves him bent, but
not more cracked than usual.
Having reappearcd to vindicate his Off
cial life to posterity, he is now only wait.
ing for posterity to make an appointment
with him Imagihe posterity holding it's
breath while Listening to the following
logical and lucid proof that the resurrec.
tiOn and the President combined are supe-
rior TO Congfess and the grave:
Since have seen In the papers my own obitu
nry, / suppose may be regarded as one risen
from tho dead, and think Que coming from
the grave should be believed. tell you, as one
speaking from tho dead there Is danger IN the
goyorament, and that danger is in the Legislative
When the question shall come up fer
decision in the Supreme Court Audrew.
Johnson's RESURRECTION must be regarded
ms on argument that cannot be met. For
Congress, after dissolution, there ia no
resurrection.
=. johnson next appears as "the blame.
Ices Prince"
" LIST me tell yon horewithal a wlee and good
Prince Is Infinitely better than despotic, arbi-
trary CongreHs.N HfF .rF ..
Congress are like the eleven obstinate
jurors preventing u verdict Napoleon
cannot make laws; neither can the French
Courts. But "a Legislature, under pre-
tence of making laws, can strike down
the liberties Of the people" How fortu
nate, therefore, that France has an EN-.
peror to protect the liberties of the people
from being trampled under foot by their
representatives. The United States, since
Andrew johnson retired, have lost their
Emperor, and hence their liberties
One of the most effective points in An
drew Johnson's speech was that wherein
he exhorted his hearers, should the storm
again arise and the pillows roll mountain
high, so that their spray extinguishes the
stars and should the ship, of State give
heavy lurch to the lceward and scud
away under close-reefod topsails and
spanking jib, with orders from the Captain
to port the helm and should the ship
spring aleak and all hands be ordered to
the pumps, but find 1t no use and should
the order be given. to the despairing
passengers TO man the life-boat and
should the life boat be capsized
and swamped with all on board-then,
and in that case he recommended to his
nautical friends of East Tennessee, as
their best mode of getting ashore, to
"cling to the compass" We claim that
this peroration Is unequalled in the clio
qucnce of ancient or modern tines Like
the works of the great masters, postority
may study but cannot sdrpass H. With
alldiilidence and modesty, however, we
venture 70 suggest TO the revived johnson
that still more certain mode of landing
his hearers safe on the shining shore"
might be to recommend them, instead of
clinging TO tho compass, to adhere to the
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