Juniata Sentinel

PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
Secretary Seward made a speech in Auburn, New York, last week, in the course of which he alluded to the efforts of the Democracy to make the President unfaithful to his principles and his friends. Mr. Seward said:
Some of you seem to have been slightly disturbed by professions or demonstrations of favor toward the President, made by parties who have heretofore opposed his Administration, as well as the Administration of his predecessor. [Laughter.] And you ask, may not the President yet prove unfaithful to us?
For myself, I laid aside partisanship, if I had any, in 1861, when the salvation of the country demanded that sacrifice. It is not, therefore, my purpose to descend to mere partisanship now. Andrew Johnson laid aside, I am sure, whatever of partisanship he had at the same time. [Applause] That noble act did not allow, but on the other hand, it forbade, collusion by the friends of the Union with opponents of the policies of the war and of reconciliation which the Government has found it necessary to pursue. Duty requires absolute and uncompromising fidelity to the supporters of those policies, whosoever, and of whatsoever party they may be. [Applause,] Andrew Johnson has practiced that fidelity against the violence of enemies, to the sacrifice of his fortune the hazard of his liberty, and even the peril of his life. [Enthusiastic cheering.]
The same fidelity is still identified with the success of those policies, and, of course, is necessary to the achievement of their magnificent ends. [Loud applause.] Why should he now abandon those policies, and desert time-honored and favored supporters, merely because the dawning success of our efforts has compelled former opponents to approve and accept them? [Renewed applause.]
Patriotism and loyalty equally, however, require that fidelity in this case shall be mutual. Be ye faithful, therefore, on your part, and although the security I offer is unnecessary and superfluous, yet I will guarantee fidelity on his part. [Renewed cheering.] Those who hitherto opposed the President, but now profess to support him, either are sincere or insincere. Time must prove which is the fact.
If they are sincere, who that has a loyal heart must not rejoice in their late though too long delayed conversion? If they are sincere, are we either less sagacious, or have we less ability now than heretofore to counteract treachery to the national cause? Perhaps you fear the integrity of the man. I confess, with a full sense of my accountability, that among all the public men whom I have met, or with whom I have been associated or concerned, in this or any other country, no one has seemed to me to be more wholly free from personal caprice and selfish ambition than Andrew Johnson; none to be more purely and exclusively moved in public action by love of country and good will to mankind.