President Johnson And His Friends

Froni th(! Roch etter l'iiinti. We ncftiec liiat in sornc qunrtirs thure is a dispositiun among Democrats t(i j ourlook ai! Iho permanent göod Presi(U i,t Johnsou's [Kiiicy ol Ieatoration :s rieMgued to accomjtjich, wliile holding 1 1 i l 11 to u su iet ucuouiitabihly tbr lentporary evils, nearty all of wiiich are unavnidably ttendant iipyo the i t ion l'rom a state of w&r (o n stilte of ' peace, or are inÜictsd by subordínales lioin lio bas beeu. tori:d by : Ktances to tciuporaiily r.etain in sorvice. j The evita nrn at most incidental and ! transitory in their etmracter, and wbilo it is proper Ibut thy uliould lie steruly ruprobated lest ;vcquioscuiico may establish tbem ín preoodunts to return and plaque the comttry ut boiuo luturo time, it is also but just to the Prcsident that hú true friends should cousider bis situatiou acd t'ir tliliicult part he has had to porl'orm. Ceaiing into office by reason cf thü assassraa'fibn of a muu just re-clccled nud re-inaugu:ated Presideut, uitb the loyal porfioa of the couutry heaved to its uttorinost deptlm by tlio tragic ovenr, ai.d the rebul section slill UPgaged in warfare against iho governinent ; all the offices, high and low in civil aiiairs, fillod by radical partisans; the two housea of Oongruss radical íq their '.sjoritics; the Supremo Couit partiallv if uot in the majority of its iudges radiculizod ; thü general officers of the army ar.d navy mostly debauchcd by the nianipulations of Stanlon ; and ubovc all huviug been elected YicePresident by radicáis whose votes he Tould nover have received had thoy forescen that he waa to become the ineuiubent of thü ñist office; thussurround cd, with the rebellion to quell aud the Uniou to restoru, President Johnson had a taak befure htm bcyond the conception of any man. Thesu tilinga all and duly considered, and t must be admitted thut he has done remarkably well. The rampant radicáis he haa from tho first held at arm's lengtb and with a finn grasp. - In no speech or paper has he yet given tiicm any comfort - anything but vague genéraUtiea ato ut treason being a crime that must be pu nishei, Lis restorntioa pclicy being an experiment of which ho is to bo the judge, &c. Meantime he bas brought tranquility to the South, aud the work of restoration, uuder provisional governors acceptable to the people and by the action of the people themselves, is progressing rapidiy and satisfactorily, The action of the Migsissippi Convention and the Presidentes congratulatory addresa to its inembers, are signiiicant on this [)oint. Aod meantime, also, the radicale, rank and file, are by the ears and vvïll in due season destroy each othcr after tho lashion of the Kilkcnny eata, while the Democracy are rallying as a unit and taking in the conservativo and healthy element of the late llepublican party. Soon matters will be siifiioiently ripe for tho Presideut to begin casticg out tke black slieep froin his offimul Üocls. The appointment of Ex-Vica President Hauilin, discarded by the Baltimoro Convention, to the Boston Coüectorsbip, of Preston King to the New ïork Goiiectorship, and of Mr. Odell to the New York Naval Office, cannot be misunderstood. The two foraier were, up to the phase the slavery question assumed in 1855-6, life-long Demócrata. That question is now happily settled and out oí the way ; and aa on all other subjects of publio concern they have been througbout and still are Deinocruts, they muet of necossity gravitate towards those who alone advocate their tirne-honored prinoiples. The appointment of Mr. Odell, a straight-out Dernocrat, who voted for Mcölellan and Pendleton last fall, is too sigaificant to cali for remark. Aside from the indications, patent to every one as to the President's action and aiia, there is abundance of direct evidence as to the democracy of his views. Gov. Perry, of South Carolina, in his report to his people of the interview between Mr. Johnson and the Palmetto delegation, says : " Tho whole delegation was deeply impressed with tho courtesy, dignity and ability of his Excellency. His politieal views expressed to us were those of a patriot and statesman. He wished to see the country once more quiet, peaceable, happy an( prosperous. In regard to the relaüv powers of the State and Federal Gov ernments, his opinions were identical wit mj own, bo long expreseed in Sout Carolina. He was equally opposed t the centralization and consolidation o powers in Congress as he was to the secession of the States." The Rockingham Regitter and Advertiscr gives an account of an audience had with the PresU dent a few days ago by Judge Charles Mason, President of the National Democratie Resident Committee, Colonel Thomas li. Florence, editor of the Conititutional Union, and Mr. Shade, a prorainent lawyer of Washington. Mr. Johnson gave thera to understand that he was a Domocrat, had always been one; and that now he was too oíd a man to change his politics - tho country had more to fear " Ironi Ocmsolidation thau "Seces8on ; " and that tho " States ''have rights that cannot be ignored un"dor the Constitution." The Buffalo Courier states that a prominent Democratie politician of Pennsylvania recently had an interview with President Bon, and it so happened that be was ushered iüto the excoutive presenco just as Senator Sumner wasbowed out. The conversation which ensued took a wide scope. ïho Peunsylvaniau, while assuring the Presideut that the Demoeraey approved his restoratiou polioy and hia deiermination that the right of the States to control tho questloa of suffrage lor thom.selves should be respected, coinplainod in strong terms of the usurpations of tho War Department and the trial of civiliau8 by courts-martial organized. to convict. The President replied : " Tho rnatters of which you com"plain ure of minor importauce, and wil! "be remedied in duo timo. The great "thjng to be done now is to restore the "normal rebttions between the Southern "Statea and tho Government. To tuis "all my enei-gies aie diiected, and must "continuo to ba utitil the meeting of "(Jongress. In the earryin out of the "plan I have adopted, 1 am'opposod by "the class of men of whioh Senator "Sumner is n represüntative, and it is of "the utmost importante that ropresenta"tives in Congress from the Southern "States should bo ja thoir seats, not lv lieuauso tiity have a rigbt to bo "ilu'iü, btit beca use thur volrs nud oo"o[icri:tion are neeetwirv to tlio leston' lion of tho Union.'' As to tlio Cabmct n'icriled f'r'in Mr, Lúcoln, fnr lbo rutention of whicii the Pre-ídont is blnmed, that, it iy ikiw jut'tly ell undeiütoud, I vvill bo rlianged in Jue scason. Ono i riüSOR. tliat we Iüivc hcnri] aiivaiicmi, fiuni a vei'y liiyli tjuwter, why changes are not now iiiado, is that tlio President delire tobuve the Southern States back intü tht'ir places bc foro he recinstiuots bis cabinet. He dfire the Soutli to be represente in it And when restoration ia pfrfecíed llien we sknllhave as of olil Secretarles Irotn efcr}' scctii'H of tbe Union, wIki will work in liannony wkh the Executive aud the party suppocting bim. In short President Johnson declares that bis principies are thoso of bis lifo, hU record - that they aro those of tbe CoDStiiutioo. ïhis in effect eaying that they nro tboso of the Democratie party. Tbua holding principies in common the President and the Deinocracy nust como together. There is nothiug ii)ie certaiu in human philosorifcy ikan lis. And they tbus holding to tho rinciples of tho Constitution, thore U o ground left fur any party of opposition o stand upon except that of Sumner, jhaso & Co., agaiust the fundiimental nstruinent us it was foruied and adininstered by tho fathers of tbo Itepublic. 'here is no room for any individual, who would eustain the Constitution, to -and upon outsido of tbe Domocratic arty. Tbo friends of the President vho agroo with him in principie should lavo patieuce and even charity.