The daily gazette., 1875-02-22
Prom the Nation.
ASsdresO JOIsasOn Back IN the
Senate. "a lice.

HIS FIRST sPEEcH-wHAT HE THINKS
OF IMPEACHMENT, AND THE WAY
THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED 10 I'M.
PEACH HIM HAVE CONDUCTED THEM.
SELVES sTNCE--wHAT HE THINKS OF
HIMSELF AN d oB HIS SUCCESSOR.
When Johnson himself now takes
W the Old articles and reads them his
grim features must, In spite Of his
want OF humor, often be lighted up
oy the broadest of the broad grlns,
ana unless he has in his seven Years
retirement lost some of his old fire. he
VIII when Congress next meets, treat
the senate to q speech in substance
somewhat as follows 81 felt when
was under accusation that INV enc
mics were making githendselyes tidicu-
ious, and that / had done nothing
wrong, and that though was perhaps
not one OF the greatest or most decor
GUS men who ever sat in the Presiden-
tlal chair, nevertheless not snly was
not the monster that was painted,
out worse men might come after me-
and without being prosecuted or de-
nounced. 1t is true / advocated a
plan OF reconstruction of: which the
party did not approve, but 1t was one
which Lincoln devised, and which he.
had he lived, would have carried out
and which 1t Is now plain an honest
ana patriotic man might very well
have supported. You have carried
out your own plan, and you are actu.
ally boasting of Its failure, and try.
ing 10 prove to us every day that it
mas resulted in leaving the South in
the worst possible condition. You
confess that 1t has deprived the ne
groes of all protection for life or prop
erty and has impoverished the whites;
and you must admit that worse re-
suit than this mine could not have
had. You said I was corrupt: but.
while l was in office.
fNEvRR ACCEPTED GIFT,
and | never put relative in any place
OF trust or profit or used the public
service to promote my private inter-
ests or those of my family. par.
doned, doubtless, some very bad Grim
inals, but no criminals of my pardoning
ever found their way immediately af.
terward into Government offices, l
never offered to q prisoner under
trial the hospitality of the national
mansion in which l lived nor had 1
over the ahdacity, much as despised
Congress, to nominate for high civil
functions man whom it had lust
legislated out of office for gross cor
ruption. My views on the national
flnaaces may not have been sound in
all respects. l had not the advantage
of all the discussion which the subject
has since undergone, but l put the
Treasury in charge of an experienced
finnncier-not an ordinary politician
who advocated and carried out so
long az he was allowed the very poll
cy for, which the wisest of you arc
now striving. The Treasury was
never made in my day the headquar-
ters of ring of informers and pecu-
lators, and, though you thought / was
regardless Of law, l never permitted
such tremendous assumption of
power as an issue of paper money for
political purposes, by single man
and in defiance of the opinion of a
committee of the Senate. Nor did
ever take the funds belonging to the
foreign service of the Government
from the hands of baking house,
and give them to a Wall-street adven
turer with small capital and less ere
dit. 1t is true told Emory that the
lawdirecting orders to pass through the
General of the Army was unconstitu
tional, but never shelved the Genera
of the Army completely, and sent or
ders without regard to him nor did any
army officer, with my permission, evel
! interferewith the organization of aStatt
Legislature, or issue
vITUPERATIvE PRoCLAMATIoNs.
directed against whole classes of citi
zens. Moreover, although I was no
successful in bringing our differences
with England to happy termination
| I honestly strove for that end as wei
as knew how l selected for the Eng
llish.mission. one. e.ofthe most distinguish
| cd lawyers in the country, who had
half O century of honored private
character behind him, and who, though
he doubtless was over-gushing in hii
relations with our enemies, came bach
without leaving stain on his name O.
on that of his country. No speculate
or adventurer even dared to approach
him with any scheme for the spoilatiol
of unsuspecting foreigners, and, so ia
as he was known in the society of tn
capital TO which he was accredited, b
was known for learning and ability ant
for an illustrious professional career
and If he did not conclude a treaty
neither did his successor. ! made, il |
true, some foolish aud yituperativ
speeches; but you had in Congress
plenty of men as foul-mouthed as
lwhom you honored OF laughed at an
If you expected me to become polisl
cd and self-restrained, choice in m
language and In my company, you wer
lmore exacting towards me than yo
have been since towards others. NJ
tongue may have been loose, and N
temper bad but can at least say fo
myself that the affairs of State wer
the subjects of which most loved t
talk and think that for forty year
they thad been my main interest an
that my own comfort or gratifcatio
l a Ill .