Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 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 appeiia-
ton of Moses, and who was announced TO
have positively and for the last time re-
tired from the stage, has reappeared, Dy
particul request, in the entire new role OF
Lazarus. Were the late A. johnson to
present himself to US in the body mere
iy, we might doubt his identity, for faces
and forms are transitory and deceptive.
Every man sits down in a bran new OUTFIT
of flesh and bones every seventh birthday.
But when Andrew johnson speaks we
have an unerring test. We are compelled
to say: "This is the very johnson; no
other could have made this speech" He
whom the Tenure of. Office law could not
restrain, nor the Senate impeach, alike de-
fies the undertaken. and holds the sexton
at bay. He has returned to us, he says,
with his back, though bent, not broken by
the storm. 1t will be interesting to 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 Grecian bend, unless
brought to it by gripping Of the bowels.
But, though his back bent under the
gale, it did not break. Like the ship
wrecked mariner Tilted by faithless Nellie
Gray, he had
-been in many gale before,
But never such blow.
1t might have stranded others on the
breakers and broke them, but it only sent
him on bender that leaves him bent, but
not more cracked than usual.
Having reappeared to vindicate his OIL
cial life to posterity, he is now only walt
- t., 20 10
with him. Imagine posterity holding its
breath while listening to the following
logical and lucid proof that the resurrec-
ton and the President combined are supe-
rior to Congress and the grave:
s'Since have seen in the papers my own obitu-
ary, 1 suppose may be regarded as one risen
from the dead, and think one coming from
the grave should be believed. l tell you, as one
speaking from the dead. there is danger in the
government, and that danger is in the Legislative
Department"
When the question shall come up for
decision in the Supreme Court Andrew
Johnson's resurrection must be regarded
as an argument that cannot be met. For
Congress, after dissolution, there is no
resurrection.
johnson next appears as "the blame
less Prince"
Let me tell you herewithal a wise and good
Prince is infinitely better than despotic, arbi-
trary Congress-"
Congress are like the eleven obstinate
jurors preventing a 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 leeward and scud
away under close-reefed 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 it 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 elo-
quence of ancient or modern times. Like
the works of the great masters, posterity
may study but cannot surpass 1t. With
all diffidence and modesty, however, we
venture to 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 the compass, to adhere to the
anchor Chicago Tribune, 7th.