C LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDREW JOHNSON, SEVENTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WRITTEN FROM A NATIONAL STAND-POINT. BY A NATIONAL MAN. A man's first care should be, to avoid the reproaches of his own Heart; his next, to NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 448 & 445 BROADWAY 1866. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern PREFACE. THE author of the following pages throws himself on the generous forbearance of the reader, so far as any shortcomings of style, or' of systematic arrangement, may be involved. Having thought much, and feeling very deeply as he does, in regard to the present state of the country, the author considers it a matter of very great importance that President Johnson's position, his relations to the parties engaged in the late unfortunate struggle, and his views and opinions in reference to the proper policy of the Government for the future, should be thoroughly understood and appreciated by the public. The author has waited, to see if some more competent pen would not undertake the task. Every one must admit that President Johnson's position is one of transcendent importance at the present time. From the very necessity of the case, the task devolves on him of having to readjust the component parts of a great empire shaken by the conflict of four years of war, without precedent to guide him, and with the public mind yet in a state of effervescence and anxiety. It is indispensable to the success of the Gov |
