At all the principal cities and towns along the route large bodies of people assembled.

Democrat and Republican, Administration and anti-Administration, were commingled.

The President spoke everywhere in an aggressive and disputatious tone.

It has been the decorous habit of the Chief Magistrate of the country, when upon a tour among his fellow-citizens, to refrain from all display of partisanship, and to receive popular congratulations with brief and cordial thanks.

President Johnson, however, behaved as an ordinary political speaker in a heated canvass, receiving interruptions from the crowd, answering insolent remarks with undignified repartee, and lowering at every step of his progress the dignity which properly appertains to the great office.