The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-08
RecO1Iec lions of u Former Marshal
of the District of COIumbia

David S. Cooling, Of Greenfield who was
marshal OF the District of Columbia during
the term Of President Johnson takes excep-
tons to some Of the statements made in
the article on Mr.. Johnson in the Journal
last Sunday, says the Indianapolis Journal.
Last week he said: "A grave error is con-
firm advocate of the right Of a state to
secede from the Union Andrew Johnson
never believed in the right of any state to
secede from the Union, and never so ex-
pressed himself. On the contrary, in his pub
Tic speeches and private conversation he de-
MED the right Of any state to secede from
during the war or afterwards was out OF
the Union; but that the attempted secession
was illegal and void, and that the people
engaged In the rebellion were rebels and
traitors, but that the states still in
the Union. Therefore he was in favor Of
restoration policy such was attempted by
President Lincoln and afterwards by him
self, and which was repudiated by the Re-
publican majority in congress- and a recon-
struction policy substituted instead Of the
restoration policy. Of Lincoln. The diff
be stated further than that that of the
restoration required no readmisson OF the
states into the Union by act Of congress,
but only return Of those in rebelli3h to
their former allegiance to the United States
government and submission to it's authority
and laws, as before the war. The congress
congress readmitting the states into the
Union. thereby admitting that by their acts
Of secession they were out Of the Union.
1T is true Andrew Johnson was states
constitution, were all other Union Dem
ocrats, but never secesSlon1st. He never
at any time professed to be Republican,
but always Democrat 1t is also true that
during the war for the suppression Of the
rebellion he, with Stephen A. Douglas, Gov.
Joseph A. Wright and many thousands Of
other Democrats and Republicans all over
the United States. without abandoning or
recanting their political principles, united
in a Union Party organized for the sup
preston Of the rebellion. The truth Of his
tory requires 1t to be said that in 1854 Abra-
ham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson were
nominated for president and vice president
by a Union National convention and not
by either Republican or Democratic Ma
tional convention.
I'm 1864 the paramount and almost only
question was the suppression of the rebel
dent Lincolns administration and his re-
election. In aid thereof the Indiana Union
State Convention presided over by Gov.
Joseph A. Wright, was held at Indianapo-
lis Feb. "a, 1864. This convention unanimous
ly adopted resolutions in favor of the renom-
ination Of Abraham Lincoln for president and
Andrew Johnson for vice president and Oliver
P. Morton for governor. This was the first
state that presented the name Of Andrew
Johnson for vice president, and it came about
In this manner: / was of the comm1 ttee
on on resolutions. Col. R; v: Thompson was
tary Of that committee. The resolutions in
favor Of Lincoln for president and Morton for
governor were read and unanimously adopt
ed. l then suggested the name of Andrew
johnson for vice president, giving some rea-
sons therefor. and, not having a written
resolution drawn. requested the secretary to
draft it, which he did, and it was thereupon
adopted by the committee, and it. with the
other resolutions, was reported by the chair
man to the convention, and all unanimously
adopted. Therefore Henry j. Raymond was
not the first to present the name of John
son."
Can you recall any personal recollections
Of Mr.. Johnson?"
81 first met with Andrew Johnson in 1868
at the residence Of Gen. Lewis D. Campbell,
at Hamilton, O., where Johnson and Maynard,
Of Tennessee, we're refugees. Afterwards as
presidential electors at large in 1864 for Lin
coin and Johnson, | made speeches with him
In june 1865, without any recommendations
therefor and at his own pleasure, he appointed
me United States marshal for the District of
Columbia, which office 1 accepted, and held
until after the close of his presidential term
in 1869. During all that time our relations,
personal and political, were the most intimate
and confidential No one had better oppor-
tunities than myself to know his political
views from his public speeches and private
conversations, and l know that he did not
believe in the right OF a state to secede from
the union. l never knew man more devoted
to the constitution and the union than Presi-
dent Johnson. He has been so much mis-
understood and misrepresented in the past
arising out Of his conflict with the Republi-
can congress on the reconstruction question
that fear that he was mistaken when he said
to me in the White house, when talking on
the subject or the reconstruction and the i'm
parchment trial, that history would vindicate
him. My relations to him, my knowledge Of
his views, the truth Of history and justice to
his memory forbids my silence, and is my ex-
cuse for seeking this interview"