I only dread him when he would go in disguise, his footsteps noiseless.

If it is blood they want let them have courage enough to strike like men." The speech produced a very unfavorable impression upon the country.
Its low tone, its vulgar abuse, recalled Mr.Johnson's unhappy words at the time of his inauguration as Vice-President, and produced throughout the country a feeling of humiliation.

His effort to make it appear that his political opponents meditated assassination was regarded as a thoroughly unscrupulous declaration, as an unworthy attempt to place himself beside Lincoln in the martyrdom of duty--to suggest that as Lincoln had fallen, sacrificed to the spirit of hostility in the South, so he, in pursuing his line of duty, was in danger of being sacrificed to hostility in the North.

The delivery of this speech was the formal forfeiture of the respect and confidence of the great majority of the people who had elected him to his place, and he failed to secure compensation by gaining the respect or confidence of those who had opposed him.

A few Democrats who wished to worry and divide the Republican party, the place-hunters who craved the favor of the Executive, a few deserters from the Republican ranks unable to pursue the path of exacting duty, represented by their combination a specious support for the President.