The Montana post., 1869-04-09
JoHNsON,s SPEECH.
"Thus do all traitors;
lf their PurgatiOn did consist in words.
Ihey are all innocent as grace itself"

lf their purgation did consist in words,
They are all innocent as grace itself"
While bad men live, the possible
depth of infamy to which they may
sink cannot be fathomed. The more
utterly deprnved and blacksned with
crime, the more brazen>faced are they
in their assertions of innocence and as
saults upon those against whom they
have sinned. We have a remarkable
instance of this in Andrew johnson.
He has been a traitor 10 everything un-
Ger heaven but his own selfish vanity
to the Democracy that lifted him from
a tailor's bench 10 legislative halls; TO
the negroes, whose Moses he promised
TO be; To the party who gave him the
second office in the nation, and to Booth
whe gave him the first; to tie princi>
Piles he espoused. TO the friends who
sacrificed themselves for him, and to his
country. His Knoxville speech has vim
dicated impeachment, and shown that
his tongue only refused utterabce to the
traitorous venom of his heart during
his administration, because utterance
would have been conviction and re-
moval. The allegations that he pro-
nounced Congress a reasonable body
were then denied, and be CO.. cred his
repudiation scheme in his last Message
with mass of verbiage To render IL un-
indictable. But now, no longer an Off
Ger, he boldly proclaims himself the
enemy of this Government. He wishes
the Government could not have bOr-
rowed a dollar TO carry on the war. The
inevitable result of that would have been
the success of the rebellion, and in view
of that fact he uttered it. He pronounces
in faver of a monarchy over our Ameri-
can Government, proving the charges
of Republican papers that he was en-
deavoring to revolutionize this country
into an absolutism He shows his hands,
crimsone with the blood of thousands,
and black with the inkstains of Mrs.
Surratt's death warrant, and claims from
the loyal and disloyal that he has
washed his hands though the damned
spot" will not "out." He stulti6es him.
self by claiming his honors have not
been gained through the blood of
wounded soldiers" and denOuncing the
bond-holders whose crime is, as he says.
that they "dii not shed a drop of blood
for the country. He will retire TO pri-
vate life merely because he cannot sue
cessfullycompetewith Stokes an vim
dicate his native State from obloquy," "
InOuEu ne WAS ltS -hAAA
tary Governor, and is
Elected out of Church and State,
And all things but the peoples has.
He asks to vindicate his record: Does
he remember when Mrs. Surratt was
condemned, and by his order, TO be
hanged-that his servants drove from
his doors, by his orders, her anguish
stricken daughter. craving hearing
closed his ears to woman's appeal for
mercy. and that he pardoned Mudd, her
accomplice, Martin, the confessed 4 Boston
| Bank thief for years, Randall, who stole
thousands from the Portland letters,
the Depuys, of New York, for whisky
frauds, JEFF. Davis, that he offered $780,
900 reward for aud denounced Grant for
his leniency toward Does he realize
that he was inaugurated drunk that
his whole administration was a debauchg
Does lie know that Oblivion would be
mercy TO him, and that he made fear
full mistake the other day when he did
not die If he does not, he should.