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Andrew Johnson's Reputation 7
helped spread the view that Johnson drank to excess, not only seized
on the incident of his intoxication when inaugurated Vice President,
but also implied that lie was drunk when, on Washington's Birthday in
1866, he named as traitors three of the leading Radicals, Charles
Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, and Wendell Phillips. Admitting that
Johnson's official papers were judicious and well-written, Blaine avoided
praising the President, and, by crediting them to Secretary of State
Seward, implied that he was too ignorant to produce such works."
Hugh McCulloch, Johnson's secretary of the treasury, although
friendly, was not blind to his chief's faults. Like Johnson's enemies, he
observed that some of the President's offhand remarks "were in the
worst possible taste." Feeling that Johnson's propensity for making
tactless remarks was his greatest fault, McCulloch wrote: "If he had
been smitten with dumbness when he was elected Vice President, he
would have escaped a world of trouble." McCulloch also shared with
Blaine the view that Johnson's effectiveness as an executive was impaired
by his lack of decisiveness. The former banker was especially critical of
his chief for not removing Stanton as soon as it became apparent that
the Secretary of War had Radical sympathies. But McCulloch defended
Johnson against charges of intemperance, and praised his honesty and
devotion to the Union. The head of the Treasury Department felt that
despite his lack of formal education the President "had few superiors"
in intellectual capacity. Although admitting that the faults of his chief
"were patent," McCulloch ventured to predict: "... when the history
of the great events with which he was connected has been faithfully
written, thele will appeal few names entitled to greater honor and
respect than that of Andrew Johnson.""
In general agreement with Blaine were two other old enemies of
Johnson who expressed themselves in the mid -eighties. George Boutwell,
one of the managers in the impeachment trial, charged Johnson with
treachery, stubbornness, and indecision in the North American Review
for December, 1885." Carl Schurz, in a speech delivered the same year,
said that "President Johnson was, perhaps, the worst imaginable" man
sa James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, from Lincoln so Garfield, 2 vols.
(NorHugh McCulloch,lafe' and Measures sof 3
Half aCerrnry6,
(New York, 376-78.
4 1888). 88.
174, 391, 392, 394.405, 406.
sa George S. Boutwcll, "Johnson's Plot and Motives," Norlb American Reriem (New
York), CXLI (December, 1885), 576.
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