The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-04
The Finale Of JOhnso onIsm.
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s,danov of Andrew johnson. Elected Vice
president by the great party that carried the
renublio successfully through the trials and
struggles incident TO the most formidable
sshaiaion known, and speedily elevated to the
pyasideucv by the pistol OF a Rebel assassin,
hs dishonored his Inauguration as Vice Presi
dsnt and disgraced his country by uttering
drunken. incoherent farrago OF nonsense be-
foya the official representatives OF all civilized
natiops. while the gaze OF mankind was nxed
upon him, and signaized his accession to the
Presidency by most intempsrste oenunoia-
tions of vepgeful infictions on the now pros
trate Rebels-ipdiciioDs often imposed on the
vauouisbed but never gloated over in advance,
nor boasted of, by victors who respect them
salves or the opinions of mankind. His sub
segment transition from "bresthing out threat
aninos and slaughter" against the Rebel chiefs
and Insisting on his right to hang some OF
them in defiance of General GRANTS parole, to
complete Identification with their views and
inteiests and the mest sweeping condonation
of their ofenses is characteristic Of his selfish,
passionate, capricious, headlong career.
throughout his Presidential service II is
ouite within the truth TO say that he has done
his best to earn the detestation of those
who elected and the oOntemptuous plaudits
of those who would much sooner have voted
TO hang him-who eagerly profted by the
treason, but despised the traitor. Mr.. john
son will leave behind him in Washington
the good will of every man who exulted over
the Rebel triumph at Bull Run and ardently
lonred for the triumpbal entry of Lees army
into the capital; he will return to Tennessee
escorted and cheered from city to city by
those who wished success to the Rebellion,
and stunned by nineteen twentieths OF all
who wished that Rebellion overthrown. II
he becomes q candidate for Governor of Ten
uessee, he will reosivs the votes of nearly all
\ n l.sIl A.. a.
could, and will be badly beaten by the votes
Of nearly all those who rejoiced over him as
the one Tennessee Democrat whose soul was
uutainted by treason.
Mr.. Johnson was closely followed In his
apostacy by three United States Senators, and
little way by several others, whom a whole
some dread of their constituents soon returned
to the path of loyalty and duty. We propose
to speak here only Of the fated three.
Mr.. james Dixon was twice Gin AS and '47)
chosen (from the Hartford district) Repre-
sentative of Connecticut in Congress, and has
since been twice Tin '56 and 1927 elected by
the Republicans to serve full term of six
years in the Senate. An amisble and courte-
GUS, rather than an earnest or strong man,
Mr.. Dixon owes much to his personal ASST
duty and tact in pushing his own fortunes
yet even he cannot doubt that few men ever
received SO much from great and intellectual
party who gave go little in return for 1t.
Wing by education aud conviction, he
became Republican through the force of cir
cumstances, and had hardly secured his
second term in the Senate W hen he was seen
to falter by the way. In the Presidential can
vass OF 1854 though Connecticut was one OF
the most doubtful of the many hard-fought
States, persistent efforts to induce him to
raise his voice for Mr.. Lincoln's reelection
were bafiled; heart disease was (very properly
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not even be induced to afix his signature to
the avowal-"I desire the reelection o.
Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency" O
course, he sank naturally into the
slough of JohnsOnism, and has for two
years past been in full afRliation with tn,
sham Democracy, who gave him their votes
last summer for third term in the Senate
and are now running him in his cid distric
for the House. And this is as 1t should be
Let him descend all the rounds of the ladde
he asOended, and, having been run out Of tn
Senate for his apostacy, let him be exclude,
from the House for the same reason. He will
then be just where he started, save that b
has got over to the wrong side Of the fence
and will henceforth find his friends anon
those who throughout his better days wei
Mr.. James r. Doolittle of Wisconsin bega
his career as New York Democrat, and {
such participated in the ''Barnburner" revo
of l848-impellsd, we must conclude
rather by his affiliations than his conviction
or his sympathies. When that revolt W,
auelled, he went back to his first love; sui
porting Barstow for Governor and Pierce
President. When the Republican party W
organized, he stood alooi till late in '68, wh'
he became satisfied that 1t was oerta
to triumph In Wisconsin any how.
thereupon went in, and had hardly be-
three months in the Republican par
when he became its candidate for &
United States Senatel Whether his abili
or his assurance was the more infuent
therein, we cannot say: we only know th
he had the address to bs preferred
better men who had never cast an anti-R
publican vote, and was duly elected.
stayed with us just long enough to secure b
reSleotion--some six years and half in all
for which ne was rewarded with twelve yea
In the Senate. II any one can shave the vii
closer than that, We should like to see hi
try, Able, adroit, and early schooled in t
arts of the self-seekiDg politician, he has
years done his ''level best" against the par
which SO hOnored and trusted him; and
figured In our late Presidential CANVASS
CRairman OF the Seymour aud Blair DEN
cratic National Committee. He worked Ii
a beaver, with tongue and pen, to defeat Gel
raj Grant, and his labors were crowned W
the largest Republican vote and the mi
sweeping Republican victory ever realized
Wisconsin. We believe the majority th'
would have been 10000 had he remain
faithful; 1t was swelled to "a, l52 by the
tensity Of the popular detestation OF Doolitt
his works and his ways. Being now out O
situation, We respectfully suggest to Mr.. ID
little the expediency OF emigration. Wiscon
has had a surfeit OF him; but this city-wh
has absorbed Jack Rogers, Sunset Cox, a
avay m muoh more of the debris OF past ca