The Opelousas courier., 1872-11-23
E'Ee RemOrselessaess o. Parties

Another instance of the remorselcssness Of
partleS Is seen III the treatment ex-president
Johnson received from the Radical party.
WhIch he had SO faithfully served.
II Is u!.:s".iit to estimate the iiiricuSc HCNctt
he conferred on the i.ldicui PARTY bv I;~ 49,
nerehce 10 thcm at the opening. and dnrmg
me continuance of the war. He was the only
democrat from the South who remained in
his seat III the Senate OF the United States. al
ter his State had seeded from the Union of
the United States. BY this course. he gave
c0untenance to all the Democrats at the
North VINO. with him. abandoned the princ-
pies OF the Democratic party. and helped to
cement by blood the consolidation Of the Gov
ernment of the United States into q central
despot1sm. Mr.. Davis. from ktntncky. a
wing, was the only Senator. we believe. from
q southern State. vino remained with him in
tie Senate after the war began : but Kentucky
had not, like Tennessee. seeded from the
mon OF United States and Mr.. Davis soon
saw the TataI tide to desp0tism on which the
tToNeInnent had entered, and tried to arrest
1t. Not so, Mr.. Johnson He zealousl " upheld
every tyrannical usurpation the Government
assumed, from the military seizure aud i'll
generation of the Legislators Of MARYLAND. to
the arbitrary arrest, by the United States
suultry, OF every man throughout the North.
who dared to express opposition to the tyr
anhical rule at Washington: and. in TeunP<-
see, his course was equally subservicnt 70 the
interests Of the revolutionary consolidation
party. They used him to blind and deceive
the South It's to their designs. Ivy adopting un-
anllnouSiv the resolution he Offered in the
Senate. declaring that The object of the war
was not conquest. but simriy to restore the
mon ot the constitution. with all the rights
powers and institutions the States uninInair-
eh: and they made him Vice President ul, the
Chlteu states, where he could do no harm
ana the SoHth might see how they valued and
rewarded their alhtrtnts of the South The
war ended, ard President Lincoln was aS>as-
sihafed. ami Mr.. Johnson became the prc<i-
deht 0l The tnited States. 1t now deyulvcl
upon him to redeem the pledge he had pat
forth to the world. as 10 the sole pnr1.nSn of
the War-tnd TO realize the constitutional
fact (which he and his Radical brethern had
asserted throughout the whol" warl, that So
ces~lon could not and had not dissolved the
Union. and thereby put the Southern ~tat9s
heTond its pale IFS obligations or rrotact:on
InHF made hlm eat his own words and ire II
the Southern STATES rs connuer"d Provinces
Having thHs utterly dehasrd him. they had
Ii" patience "hCn he presumed to give forth
SH'1e signs OF conscience. and attempted 70
arrest. by his vetots. tIler measures OF nolicv
over the SoHrh. carrying ont the principle he
had HaTguratnd, that shc Southern rrnp,n
WFere conquered people, to 'so dealt with at
the mercy af the conGn@rors His vn+ops did
not prevail: and ii would annear most rpas-
onabIy, III view OF the faithful. efficient and
huinoie compliance with which he had So long
served them, to his own utter deha&fInprt.
that he shoudshe LET alone But not so. They
proved themselves not tu he the creatures he
IN ioTmfr days esteemed them to BE-, but ra-
gt@g zeaIots OF cOHSalitlHtiUn,~A After depriv;ng
mn. ia spite Of t!re constitution. of all power,
even Of appointing his own executive officers.
they lmpeAched him before the Senate As Il
n%ieiacter He was acquitted hy the virtue
OF two men. But Scorned and hated through
out the North. he fingered ont the remainder
OF his Presidential term, with no sympathy
nut from the people hr had helped to rain an,I
suniugate. He learned. when to late. that all
parfIeS-especiaIT money OligaTc cIies-are ut
teriy remorseiess III their pursuit OF uHin or
power; and that when men like Nr. Seward
dr. Greeley or himself lend themselves t.
war and revolution. they open the Hooi-gat~s
Of Ucprivity and violence. which seldom fail 10
sink beneath the waters all the virtues essen
tlal TO government. ana to lift up to power all
The wees which establish and uphold dpsno-
tlSms. But Mr. Johnson seems eager again
to enter into the service of Tennessee She
refused to send him to the Senate of the Uni
ted States and, tire late election. she has re-
fused TO send him to the House of Representa-
tlves-a Yankee Radical being elected over
him. We cannot doubt that like Mr. Davis
OF Kentucky. now more. if lie had under.
stood the designs of the Northern consulida-
tionsts, in making the war he would have
been with the South. and would have left the
record of a brave and honest man. striving to
save his country from one of the most renorse-
less desp0tisms low railing in the world
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