Excerpt from The Old Guard, Vol. 7: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Literature, Science, and Art, and the Political Principles of 1776 and 1860; April, 1869 I said to him that he was dealing with lunatics, (fanatics, ) the most dangerous that ever threatened the safety of human society, and if he quailed before them he was lost, and the country with him and all men will surely admit the former, for of all the public men in our annals, Andrew Johnson is at this moment the most isolated, absurd and contemptible. And yet, alas! This man might have been the fore most man of all' this world, by simply refusing to perjure himself, and, wonderful indeed, all the isola tion and contempt now poured out on him by millions of his country men, are the unavoidable conse quences of his faithlessness to the Constitution, as he himself under stood it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.