...well pleased with he change of Chief Executives, for their spokesman. Senator Benjamin Wade, aid : "Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there will be no trouble iow in running the government !" This was strong language, indeed, but, under he circumstances, it...

...country." When Julian and fellow Radical Ben Wade went to call on the new president, the latter said, "Johnson, we have faith in you. By the Gods, there will be no trouble now in running the government."13 A great deal of evidence illustrates Johnson's bitter frame of mind. Captain William...

...rushed to steel him to vengeance. On the sixteenth Wade led them to see the new Executive, and said, "Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there...will be no trouble now in running the government!" Julian heard Johnson reply, most satisfactorily, that treason, like rape, must be punished, and that...

...said Ben Wade, the chairman of the Joint Committee, to the new president when the group called on him. "By the gods, there will be no trouble now in running the government." Johnson seemed to satisfy his visitors when he replied that he held murder to be a crime, robbery to...

...upon the new president, who received them cordially. "Johnson, we have faith in you," Wade declared. "By the gods, there will be no trouble now in running the government." "Judge of my policy by the past," Johnson told the group. "Everybody knows what that is. I hold this:...

...postmaster general.1 Wade acted as spokesman for the committee and opened the discussion by saying, "Johnson, we have faith in you. By the Gods, there...will be no trouble now in running the government." Johnson made no commitments, but his reply gave the Radicals unintended encouragement when he said,...

...Reconstruction in spite of his ambiguous stand at lirst. Radical Senator Ben Wade once praised him: "Johnson. we have faith in you. By the gods. there will be no trouble now in running the government."488 Concerning Southern secessionists. the president consistently stressed. "Treason must...

...Andrew Johnson was sworn in as president, a group of Radicals waited upon him. Senator Ben Wade blurted: "Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there...will be no trouble now in running the government." This favorable opinion stemmed from Johnson's role in the Senate during the war. Johnson was a Jacksonian...

...lawmakers met with the new President. "Johnson, we have faith in you," declared Senator Benjamin F. Wade. "By the Gods, there will be no trouble now in running the government." To which the President replied: "I hold this: . . . treason is a crime, and crime must be punished." The Radicals...

...promised to make treason "odious," and Ben Wade jubilantly congratulated Johnson with the promise, "Johnson, we have faith in you. By the Gods, there...will be no trouble now in running the government." Julian was confident that the "influence of the War committee with Johnson, who is an ex-member, will...