Col. Forney writes from Washington to the Philadelphia Press:
Andrew Johnson is as bold in denouncing treason in Nashville as he was in Washington. He does not hesitate, as some of our Northern politicians do, when seeking to find the authors of our calamities. In Tennessee he could safely locate this responsibility upon the abolitionists and Black Republicans; he could imitate the Breckinridgers of Pennsylvania and other Free States by criticizing and condemning Republican legislation. Disdaining all such shallow tricks, however, he tells rebels that it was not Mr. Lincoln and his friends who refused all compromise, but the Secession leaders, and that these latter could have carried the Crittenden proposition if they had not persistently determined to break up the Government and to dissolve the Union. When the day of reckoning comes, when the public stewards go before the people to render an account, Andrew Johnson’s words will drive the plausible falsehoods of the Breckinridgers away, like so much chaff driven by the whirlwind. – They will talk against the tax, against the Republicans, against confiscation and in favor of a dishonorable peace. He, and the millions who believe in him, will assume a high and manly ground – that, as the war was begun by the rebels, they must be made to feel the indignation of the Government they have assailed, and that they are no patriots, who, in their sympathy with the rebels, labor only to restore them to power by embarrassing and misrepresenting the Administration. This will be the ground of Johnson and the honest masses of the United States.
– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Wednesday, April 9, 1862
Andrew Johnson is as bold in denouncing treason in Nashville as he was in Washington. He does not hesitate, as some of our Northern politicians do, when seeking to find the authors of our calamities. In Tennessee he could safely locate this responsibility upon the abolitionists and Black Republicans; he could imitate the Breckinridgers of Pennsylvania and other Free States by criticizing and condemning Republican legislation. Disdaining all such shallow tricks, however, he tells rebels that it was not Mr. Lincoln and his friends who refused all compromise, but the Secession leaders, and that these latter could have carried the Crittenden proposition if they had not persistently determined to break up the Government and to dissolve the Union. When the day of reckoning comes, when the public stewards go before the people to render an account, Andrew Johnson’s words will drive the plausible falsehoods of the Breckinridgers away, like so much chaff driven by the whirlwind. – They will talk against the tax, against the Republicans, against confiscation and in favor of a dishonorable peace. He, and the millions who believe in him, will assume a high and manly ground – that, as the war was begun by the rebels, they must be made to feel the indignation of the Government they have assailed, and that they are no patriots, who, in their sympathy with the rebels, labor only to restore them to power by embarrassing and misrepresenting the Administration. This will be the ground of Johnson and the honest masses of the United States.
– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Wednesday, April 9, 1862
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