New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-25
and is making good though quiet canvass
We hope to announce his election next week.
EXIT A PARTY BY THE NAME OF JOHNSON

EXIT A PARTY BY THE NAME OF JOHNSON
The best friends of the late President should
experience the more qualification over the ex-
tinction of his Senatorial aspirations IL he
had been elected he would instantly have con-
stituted himself the bore in ordinary OF the
American nation, and bis tediousness would
have filed the world He has never been wise
person, nor discreet one. His public utter
ances while he was President were probably
the most astounding gvings forth which ever
emanated from the lips of q ruler-they were
without form and void, and darkness rested
upon the face of them. The disastrous error
of his election TO post which rendered it pos
sible for him to become President was ex-
plated in our national shame and humiliation,
the bitterness whereof has not yet passed away.
There is lust cause for thankfulness in the
circumstance that he is going to stay at home.
Tennessee in keeping him to herself, acquires
4 new clam to our admiration and a new
lien upon our gratitude. The nation do MT
want him. Ii has had him, and he do MT agree
with it. The stricter apd more protracted his
retirement the better he will deserve OF his
fellow citizens. 1t is a stern verdict to pass
upon one who has worn the highest
honors which the nation can confer; but can
any one, even his partisans QOr the late can
vass shows that he is not without them) say
that it is undeservedl
1t is not pleasant to have to speak thus dis
respectfully Of great men. But 1t is some
times q duty Great men Tin station) are
sometimes absurd they are sometimes stupid ;
they are sometimes dishonest At rare inter-
walls one is found who unites these qualities
and to them supcradds other attributes OF
heavy and Objectionable character. Such
man we found in our late President. He was
one whom destiny kicked up stairs from the
first story of fortune to the garrett ESQ to speak,
and he seemed to learn nothing and to forget
good deal on the way. The nation is gener-
GUS; it is not very exacting Of its rulers IN the
matter Of brains or capacity But johnson
tried the full measure of its fOrbearance. His
intellectual density was, compared with ordl-
nary obtuseness, what midnight Is TO cloudy
afternoon-what the fog of the Hebrides Is to
the haze of Tivoli. His tediOusness surpassed
all other tediousness as much as his obtuseness
surpassed all other obtuseness. On any subject
upon which he discoursed he employed three
times as many words as another person, and
one of his words was duller than another per-
sons three. lie WAS IOJ merely lutdpdbiO VI lliO
simplest process of reasoning, but he had no
command of the instruments of expression
His verbs never agreed either with their nOmi-
natives or their hearers, or anything else. His
rhetorical usages were injurious and insurrec-
tionaIy. He was wont TO e9unciate the worst
of principles in the worst of>grammar. We are
very glad that he is not coming to the Senate
He would have talked interminably to no
earthly purpose and taken up time which wiser
men may put to better use. And yet we would
not be hard upon the man. If he must crate,
and he seems to burn with that inextinguishabe
desire, let the Legislature of Tennessee set
aside Il small apartment somewhere in the Capi-
tol wherein he may swing round the circle at
will Curiosity will allure thither a sufficient
number of persons to constitute suitable
audience, and the volube statesman can relieve
himself from his rhetorical accumulations with
out making Of himself an ignominiOus spec
tacle in the eyes of mankind, or exciting in
the minds Of his countrymen emotions mingled
of pity, derision and shame.