embers of the body. As a lawyer, he has
been acute and learned; as a statesman, generally able, though hardly
profound; as an orator, not graceful, but forcible and earnest. His
patriotism was, no doubt, zealous and entirely disinterested; but
certainly ill-directed, and not adapted in the application it made of
principles to the exigencies of the times. Representing the most
respected and most prosperous of slave States, and being considered in a
manner as the statesman upon whose shoulders had fallen the mantle of
the illustrious Clay, his influence was considerable, both with
adherents and antagonists.

With sincere satisfaction, we turn to contemplate the character of a
true-hearted and undaunted Southern patriot, Andrew Johnson, of
Tennessee. Coming as he did from a section in which secessionism
predominates, and representing a mercurial and sensitive people, he
stood out fearlessly and zealously in behalf of the maintenance of the
Union at all hazards. He is an admirable example of the self-made man,
having received no education in his youth, and owing to the application
of maturer years the historical and political information he now
possesses. Born and bred among the lower classes of society, and
engaging in an occupation suited to his humble sphere, by perseverance
and patience and a very superior natural ability, he has won a deserved
place in the United States Senate. He is universally considered as one
of the leading intellects in that body, and by his speeches during the
last Congress, in which his enthusiasm as a patriot lent brilliancy and
energy to his naturally forcible declamation, he attracted to himself
the confidence and affection both of his auditors and of the country.
His personal appearance is rather ordinary, not at all imposing, and yet
his countenance indicates a sound judgment and a pure heart. His whole
manner is open and frank, his bearing that of a gentleman by nature, and
socially he is universally liked. His oratory is also of an ingenuous
character, calculated to impress one at once with his thorough honesty
and humanity. Sometimes he rose to admirable passages of virtuous
indignation and scathing rebuke, as he warmed with the subject of
Southern delusion, actuated by unprincipled leaders, and few of the
Senators who sat on the Democratic side escaped from his truly
formidable denunciation. Lane, of Oregon, a compound of conceit,
ridiculous ignorance, and servility to Southern masters,