Nashville union. [volume] ([Nashville, Tenn.]) 1851-1853, 1853-05-14
The Spirit of the Tennessee Democratic Press
THE NOMINATION OF ANDREW JOHNSON.

THE NOMINATION OF ANDREW JOHNSON.
We continue below our extracts from thu. demo-
cratic press indicitive of the manner in which COL
JoHNsoNs nomination has been received in al por-
tons Of the State. Our private advices corroborate
the tone of the press. The democracy are ralying
! to the standard of JOHNSON with enthusiasm, and
confidently anticipating victory under lis lead.
The people, wherever he is known personally or his
| history is familiar. look upon him with admiration
and respect. That large majority of them viii
cast their votes for him in August no imam viii
doubt who takes the pains to make himself ac-
quainted with the current of popular feeling The
democracy have but to do their duty-their whole
duty-earnestly and untiringly-they have but to
disseminate the truth and rebut the false charges
made against their candidate and the vicOry as Ger
tain. Up then, fellow democrats AND DO YOUR DU-
TY:
FROM THE LINCOLN JOURNAL
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE another place will be
found the proceedings of the Democratic State Con-
vention, Of the 9th nit, which nominated Hon.
Andrew Johnson as the democratic candidate for
| Governor. This is the very nomination we de-
sired one which we are gratiGed to say meets with
hearty and cordial sanction from every democrat
we have met since it was known; and one that we
confidently believe viii redeem the State from wing
| ascendency The nomination made by the
democratic people of the State long before the
meeting Of the Convention, and that body has on
" given an authorised expression of the popular
will, which will be more triumphantly ratified at
the ballot-hox.
We have frequently told our readers that John
son and Henry would be the candidates. events
prove that we did not read the signs and indica-
eoft. o,acf.r fi,a
same signs and indications point unerringly we
think to the certain election of johnson and de-
feat of Henry.
The whole current of popular feeling, sentiment
and event. is setting strongly against the whig par
ty throughout the Union.
The Democratic President having received the
electoral votes of twenty-seven Of the thirty-one
States; and in every subsequent State election the
democrats have triumphed with increased majori-
ties. There is no indication anywhere that
this current ofdemocratc success has abate1 i'll the
least degree or received any check to its further
advancement Under this state Of things the can
vass opens in Tennessee-our candidate has risen by
his own unaided exertions from the humbi. walks
OF life to an honorable position among American
statesmen, and enjoys the full confidence of his
countrymen of all classes and vocatons His pri-
vate reputation is unblemished. and his public life
has been marked by such sound judgment, untiring
perseverance and devotion to the public interest
and welfare as to win enviabe fame asa wise
and patriotic legislator. With the wing candidate,
Maj. Henry the people are familiar he has can
vassed the State several times already. lie is doubt
less gentleman Of pleasing manners fine talents
and an orator Of the first order; but we think he
viii find that his special pleading and studied elo
cution. will be unayailng in the present canvass-
that high sounding defamation and rhetorical -four,
ish, will totally fail to arrest the tide of popular
sentiment which seems destined to flow until the
last vestige Of whiggery is washed from the land.
While we are free to admit that Maj Henry is as
available candidate as the wings could present,
we declare most CONSCIENTIOUS that under the IA
vorable circumstances referred to, and with john
son as our candidate we enter the canvass with a
confidence we have rarely had at the opening Of
canvass This confidence is founded upon his pc
culiar acceptability to the people-on their admra
ton Of him as man and as statesm;n-and
in the zeal with which we believe every democrat
in theState will rally to his support.