Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-06-18
4 Copperhead Lie Nailed.
We find the following soekdolagsr in
Yesterdays Times:
For ths Evansville Tinss.
COY. JoHssog--A CORRECTION.

iFor ths Evansville Tinss.
COY. JoHSsos--A CORRECTION.
Ia sour issue Of this morning End
The following ANDY johnson, Of Ten
uesses, who was nominated yesterday At
Baltimore by the Republicans for Vice
President, IS knowa 10 be one Of the
most eonSammate demAgoguss living,
In. addition to thousaad other little
tricks resoFted TO By him to make
himself popular with the masses, We are
told that he keeps standing, in front Of
the elegant mansion ia Which he lives, n
smal ons-story shAniy ia which be once
worked as ioaERayman tailor; this be
points out 70 his visitors. telling them
The story Of bic early struggles in life
lie forgets, however to tell them one 9th
sr thing connected With hia "humble" or
igiu; how be has an old mother. more
than seventy years Of age, whom be sat.
fors 70 traEers the stFsele Of Philadei-
phia with basket on her arm, selling
tripe for a liviBg. Ie who have hearts,
only think Of ihlsi nan who ID rolling
IN wealth and sspires 70 the position Of
/, Vice President Of this great country,
suffers BIZ old mother 70 trudzs about
the streets Of large city, hawking tripe,
that shs nag bay bread 70 keep her poor
soul and body together Ingratitude can
assume no darker shade than this
WasA. Or. Constifasionaf linton
Much as dislike 70 appear 10 the pa
pers, and widely as Ihave differed with
Governor johnson Ia general politics, q
sense Of duty requires me 70 contradict
the foregoing statement. When az home
/ reside ia the same. village with Gov
srBoT johnson, and / am quite familiar
with bis personal history.
When Andrew johnson acquired the
trade of tailoE, and set out in life for
himself, be brought bis mother from
North Carolina to Tennessee in q one
horse wagon, walking himself and lead
ing the animal. At Greenyille be was
about out Of fnnds, aud procured a bed
tor bis mother and slept under a shed
himself For many years be supported
his aged parents By the labor of bis own
hands with his needle and shears, and
kept them far above want His mother
died many years ago, and was buried in
his family burial ground at GreenVille,
Tenn, and was never in Philadelphia in
her lie.
Governor johnson is not "a man roll
ing in wealth, nor did be ever live in
on elegant mansion. His pecuniary az
fairs we're easy at the beginning Of the
war, but he has lost the most Of his
means (being invested in Tennessee
bonds, ]. 81 the war. His acquisitions in
property have not kept pace with his
fame as an orator aud statesman.
His residence at GreenviIIe is a small
but neat brick building with four rooms
aud one-story L, and has been assd for
three yesrs by tha rebels as pest-house.
His "one-s.ory shanty in which he so
| long worked as tailor is still standing
! ia another portion Of the town, used
As . shoemaker shop By ", II Brown,
I the present owner.
The political career Of the Union
candidate for the Vice Presidency is
certainly open to review. and 50, perhaps
is bis personal history, bat hold it to
be the duty Of eTen a political adversary
I to correct such q statement as the above.
A. J. FLETcHER.
Evansville, June is, 1854.