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The tour was a succession Post Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:12:11 +0000 Secretary Seward joined the party in New York. Everywhere great crowds met these eminent gentlemen to demand a speech and bandy words with the President of the United States. The tour was a succession of humiliating spectacles, but the most disgraceful scene occurred at Cleveland. Autor of the post: Undefined This was the journey Post Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:58:35 +0000 Mr Johnson was chaffed unmercifully by the crowd, and he replied to the taunts and jeers with coarse wit and undignified repartee. In a stump speaker this would have been well enough, and even effective; in the President it was not only undignified, but hurtful to his cause. This was the journey that was called " swinging around the circle. Autor of the post: Undefined Wool was very old Post Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:42:18 +0000 " One reason that made Cleveland more pronounced in its ribald treatment of President Johnson than the other cities in which he met the crowds on equal terms was its selection as the meeting place for a Soldiers' Convention in behalf of the Administration. This Conven- tion, over which the venerable General Wool was called to preside, met on the 17th of September. Wool was very old, and had not played an important part in the war because of his age. Autor of the post: Undefined The most conspicuous officers Post Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:26:23 +0000 The soldier of 1812 was completely out of his reckoning in 1866. He denounced the Abolitionists in the manner of the officers of the army before the war, so many of whom fought against the Union, while few of those who were true to the flag voted as they fought. The most conspicuous officers of the regular army who were active in the Convention were Generals Granger and Custer. Autor of the post: Undefined Ewing's defection would have been Post Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:09:44 +0000 The other soldiers who had been Democrats before and during the war were John McClernand, of Illinois; Denver, of California; Willis Gorman, of Minnesota; James Steedman, of Ohio, and a few others. The most noteworthy speech in the Convention was made by General Thomas Ewing. Ewing's defection would have been important if it had not been spo- radic, but as he was the only soldier in the Convention who had been a genuine Kepublican, it went for nothing. Autor of the post: Undefined Nothing was so cer- tain Post Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:56:31 +0000 Even had the Convention shown something of the character it arrogated to itself the effect would have been neutralized by an incident that marked the proceed- ings. A Confederate Convention, in session at Memphis, sent a tele- gram of sympathy, and was answered with thanks for the " mag- nanimity and kindness " of the message. Nothing was so cer- tain to anger the Union soldiers not so much against the Presi- dent as against his plan of Re- construction, and the response came in a great Soldiers' and Seamen's Convention at Pitts- burg, on the 26th of September. Autor of the post: Undefined Every loyal State except far- Post Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:39:03 +0000 The Pittsburg Convention was an echo from a hundred battlefields. It was a reunion of the line and staff, the rank and file of all the Union armies. Every loyal State except far- away Oregon was represented. Autor of the post: Undefined It was a convention Post Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:26:33 +0000 Chamberlain came from Maine and Macauley from Indiana, Palmer and Farnsworth from Illinois, and Schenck and Cox from Ohio; Cochrane, Barnum, and and Geary, Hartranft, Negley, and Collis from Pennsylvania. A private soldier, Edwin Dudley, was made temporary chair- man, and when the intrepid General John Logan was un- able to come to preside as permanent president the Conven- tion turned instinctively to the gallant General Jacob Cox. It was a convention that could have been turned into an army of 25,000 veterans in an hour. Autor of the post: Undefined " The President on his tour Post Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:08:25 +0000 The President was told that " his attempt to fasten his scheme of Reconstruction upon the country is as dangerous as it is unwise; that his acts in sustaining it have retarded the restoration of peace and unity; that they have converted conquered rebels into impudent claimants to rights which they have forfeited and to places which they have desecrated. If the President's scheme be consummated it would render the sacrifice of the Nation useless, the loss of our buried comrades vain, and the war in which we have so gloriously triumphed a failure, as it was declared to be by President Johnson's present associates in the Democratic National Convention of 1864." The President on his tour saw an aroused nation, but this state of feeling on the part of the people only excited him to greater anger. Autor of the post: Undefined Kumors of impeachment be- came Post Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:54:56 +0000 The result of the elections increased his fury. He not only exercised the veto power constantly, recklessly, ruthlessly, but despite the fact that, with a majority in Congress that would last as long as the Ad- ministration, and great enough to pass all vetoed measures in spite of the President's objections, the increasing tension could only have con- sequences that must prove disastrous. Kumors of impeachment be- came rife, and it was not long after Congress assembled on the 7th of January, 1867, when it became apparent that these rumors were not without foundation. 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