Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-08-06
Andrew Johnson.

In the death of Andrew Johnson we can
but feel that the nation has sustained 4
great loss. Since the close of the civil
war we have seen so much of corruption,
and shamelessness of greed and nepotism
in the high places of the land, that when
we look back at the time when he filled
the Chief Magistracy of the nation and
lett it with his garments unsoiled by per-
sonal pelf, we can but, by contrast, elevate
him high above those who claim par en-
cellence to be lovers of their country
Through long life, which reads more
like a romance than a history, he never
once faltered in his pure, unselfish devo-
tion to that country. Call him dema-
gogue, if you please, call him weak, ego
tistical, vacillating and changeable, and
he was all these at times, yet the love OF
his country was ever his guiding star, and
he was always as true to that as the needle
to the pole. He is gone now, and at a
time too when all luminosity against him
had lulled, and his countrymen standing
beside his newly filled grave can truthful
ly say che was an honest man, who loved
his country"
Time nor space permits us to review his
remarkable and checkered life, u sketch OF
which we give elsewhere. 1t may be held
up as an example to the humblest youth
in the land, as showing what laudable
ambition and perseverance when backed
by industry and honesty will accomplish.
Born in poverty, reared as an apprentice
to the unmanly craft of tailoring in an in
land village, he was early taught that self
reliance which was afterw Yards so marked
u characteristic in him as sometimes to
seem but obstinacy and self-will, and anon
to mount up to the bravery of heroism.--
BY the force Of his own rugged nature he
won his way from the tailor shop to the
highest office of the nation. And this too
not by any sudden enthusiasm, by bril-
liant talents, or gifted oratory, but step by
step he climbed each round of the ladder.
First alderman of the village, then mayor
then in the State Legislature-thent the
State Senate--Presidentia elector-mem-
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Vice-President, and President. All this
was done by the innate energy OF the man
and without that polish which education
gives, for he never went to school single
day in his whole life, and it was not until
after his marriage that he was taught by
his wife how to read and write. Here is
a lesson. from which brains and genius
Struggling with poverty, may take heart.
His career in politics has been as remark
able as his rise from obscurity to power.
At one time he was the admired of the
South which lavishly honored and reward
ed him. Then a change came and he was
looked upon as a recreant to the home OF
his early manhood. Then he was regard
ed bv the North as one of the faithful
among the faithless found, and his untal-
tering devotion to the Union was in the
mouth of ALL Honors were heaped on
him and he was placed on the Presiden-
tial chair only in a few months to be looked
upon, by those who had thus elevated
him, as a traitor worthy of Impeachment.
But now all that has passed. His race is
RIM. With all his faults and errors, be-
cause of his fidelity to what he believed
to be right, and his indomitable determi-
nation to stand by the Union, his courage
in withstanding the North when it sought
to make reunion OF the States a delu-
sion. his memory will forever remain fixed
in the admiration and respect OF his coun-
trymen, and truly the nation could have
better spared better man.