The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-20
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Andy Johnson in France.

Start not reader, nor be surprised Notorety
is one thing, character worth having another. 1t
il not our intention to ecanvass the merits of
Johnson's message" We have all read it, and
in the language of the Richmond Eng rer Dem J
pronounce it 'strange document" We o lv
wish to give readers the benefit OF a criticism
upon it tat the time it ssued) fom French pa-
per- the Constitutional. of the most respectable
and largely circulated journals of Paris. But
right here wish to correct the Constitutional
Says that journal: 1--WE should not speak of the
strange language of Mr. johnson, il it was not
the echo OF the theories and the aims of an entire
Party" This is far from being so. The great body
OF the Democratic Party, at any rate that part
which combines much OF the responsibility its think.
ing force &c. is conservative, much SO as could be
be desired. We presume that or transaqueous
critic, from misapprehension, has unwittingly at.
tributed the characteristic of French democracy to
that which is called American. After commenting
upon the great material prosperity of our country
dnrng the last fifty years, this French Editor thus
speaks
at is thus that we find in one of the journals of
the Union, the history Of the governor of one Of
the thirty one States who does not fenr to place
himself before the world revelator. We refer
TO one Mr.. johnson, Governor of Nashville aud of
Tennessee, who, in al address to his lie gi~ature,
informs them that ne has discovered the true Cod
of America-This God, like the devil who has for
according TO Gov. johnson, is an eternal principle
inherent in human nature, and constitutes the
divinity Of man, divinity progressive, which increase
from generation TO generation, and OF which the
power is to increse 10 in6nity, so that man may
one day rival God himself. Man, in the theory Of
the American Governor is only the asymtote OF God
he is called to confound himself with him. 1t IA
democracy that is TO accomplish this great work, in
rendering man more and more perfect; for the Dem
ocratc party has undertaken the political red emp.
ton of man and sooner or later il will succeed
Democracy is for the political world what christi.
anity Is for the moral Christianity and DemOcrA-
CIV do not march alone, says Mr. Johnson; they
follow neither divergent or parallel lines; they con.
verge, on the contrary, one towards the other
Progressive democracy corresponds 70 the church
militant, and both tend necessarily to approach
each other and to unite. At what moment in
the future will this be accomplished The Governor
az Nashville does not prophesy. But he does not
hesitate TO announce that whendemocracy and
christianity shall have terminated their eSoutous,
the man becomes perfect the church militant
will cease TO exist TO give place TO the church tri
umphant progressive democracy, thereafter useless
will be replaced by thsocracv.
ORe should not expect perhaps to lind in America
the old dreams Of the millenariAns. Moreover, We
should not speak Of the strange language OF Mr.
Johnson IL it was not the echo of the theories aud
the aims Of an entire party. The Governor OF Ten
nessee pretends 10 represent the Young America
party. He does not hesitate to predict TO the young
men Of the Union that they will find in Democracy
another Jacobs Ladder. On this immense ladder,
which issues from the bowels OF the earth and loses
itself In the heighths Of the heavens, Young Amer
lea according to Gov. Johnson has arrived already
on the superior steps; it will continue to mount
until il shall have scaled the throne Of God Then
the divinity Of shall have attained It's complete
Developments, the voice Of the people shall be
veIitably the voice Of God, or rather the divinity
shall be abolished, and Democracy shall succeed r.
In these blessed times the lion and the lamb viii
be seen grazing on the same plain, the sucking
child playing in the serpents cave, and throughout
the earth shah be proclaimed the political and reii'
gious redemption OF man.
IL Is with such folhes, where the memory OF holy
books is shaneiully coupled with the ineoberent
rawlings Of the utopists of France and Germany,
that the American Democracy saps little BY little,
the foundations Of all belief aud OF all anLhoaity.