, 1864-07-22
More about Andrew Johnson.

a snort time ago we published some facts
in relation to the youthful history of An
drew Johnson-the Tailor of Tennessee
After stating that Andy was instructed to
write and cipher by his "better half" after
marriage, we concluded by saying that we
were not informed whether or not he had
afterwards learned anything further from
his wife or "any other man" Since max
ing that statement we have been pursuing
our investigations further in hopes of find
ing something more in relation to the career
and qualifications of this prominent person
age for the Vice Presidency. Our researches
have, in great measure, been successful.
| To those of our readers who desire to keep
themselves posted in regard to the history
and acts of the great Tennesse Tailor, we
commend the attentive perusal of the fol.
lowing, which we find in the Louisville
Journal of October 30th, 1868. The Joar-
nal, after stating that the work of restoring
Tennessee to her constitutional relations in
the Union appeared to be going backward
rather than forward under the Military Gov
ernorship of Andrew johnson, says;
'He has used his office not to restore Tennes-
| see to her place in the Union so much as to en-
throne abOlitionism as the ruling power over
the State He has worked for the abolition
party with little or no regard to the rights and
welfare of the State and of the Republic He
] has in
authorizing the enlistment of slaves through
out the State, in refusing to recognize the loyal
/ Governor elected cOnstitutionally by the people
in August last, in not permitting the people to
hold election for the purpose of reconstruct
ing their Legislature and of sending representa-
tives to Congress, in continually addressing alb
olitiOn harangues to the people, in pensioning
an abolition organ or hand-organ at the Capt.
tai, and in practically making aboitionism the
standard of loyalty in the execution of his Of
| hce. In these ways and in other ways he as an
officer of the General Government has labored
Consciously or uneonseiously to subvert the in
stitutions of Tennessee under the guise of sec
onding the efforts of her people to resume their
constitutional relations in the Union. Instead
of seconding such efforts, he has frustrated
them, in the interest of abolitionism. He in
his official character has done nearly everything
he could do to fulfill the visions of oppression
and of insult which in a moment of frenzy drove
Tennessee into rebellion The chief if not the
exclusive mode by which he as the representa-
tive of the Union has sought to promote the
! re-establshment of the Union in Tennessee is
virtually the offer of tyranny in return for allie
! glance.
What motive has prompted General Johnson
to pursue this unwarrantable and unpatriotic
course we know not. 1t hardly be delb-
crate conviction that slavery is "a cancer on
our society and 'the cause of our domestic dis
sensions and this bloody civil war; though so
he is now accustomed to describe the institu-
ton, for until very recently he as a champion
of slavery disputed the palm with the greatest
! fre-eater of them all, having even proposed in
the first stage of the rebellion that the Union
should be peaceably dissolved if the North
should refuse such additional guarantees for the
protection of slavery the South might unite
in demanding. AS late indeed as the beginning
of his services as Military Governor of Tennes-
see, he in his popular speeches habitually
coupled the abolitionists with the secessionists,
and denounced both alike. We, therefore, put
aside the hypothesis in question, as quite too
improbable to be taken into the account.
II is coVectured Uery aoideIy that Gen. johnson
has struck bargain less informal ,cith the
abolition leaders Of the North, according to chich
he IS to receive the abolition nomination for the
Presidency nert gear in consideration Of his either
restoring Tennessee to her place an the Union as a
free State OR NOT RESTORING HER AT
ALL, end that his official course in Tennessee is
simply the expression Of Uery conscientious deter
D'nation TO perform has part Of the BARGAIN.
The conjecture was probably correct, with
the exception that the bargain was to Sc
cure johnson the nomination for Vice Pres
ident instead of President. Who can have
any respect for such infamous proceedings
But again, to conclude the Journals article:
"We know not how this may be, but certainly
his official course in Tennessee would not be
different in any essential particular if the con-
lecture were true Yet it would be more char
! table, and more correct as we would fain be-
lieve, to ascrbe his official course mainly to an
arbitrary and vindictive temper, aggravated by
the possession of virtually despotic power over
population that notOriously regards him with
neither love nor respect. Be his motive what
it may, however, his official course ITSELF with
its pernicious consequences, is altogether incon-
testable. And this is the point which concerns
the country most. This point deeply concerns
1 the whole country. Is there remedy for the
serious evils pointed out? There is a remedy.
There is an effectual one. And it is at once OBJ
vious and easy. The people of Tennessee in
August last duly elected VIM. B. Campbell as
the Governor of the State. Mr. Campbell is a
tried and unspotted patriot, an able and prudent
statesman, and of all Tennesseans the most
loved and trusted by the people of the State.
The people have chosen him as the Governor of
the State, and he is in every respect pre-emi-
nently fitted for the office. Let the President
direct General johnson to permit the Governor
elect of Tennessee to be inaugurated, and the
axe will be thereby laid at the roots of the evils
that now paralyze the Union cause in the State
! With Governor Campbell in the Executive chair
of Tennessee, the State will be speedily reor-
| ganized in full under the State Constitution,
and will be fully represented in the next Con-
gress of the Union. In Short the Inauguration
of Governor Campbell will in ninety days re-
store Tennessee to her place in the Union un-
der the Constitution as it is.' And, when this
shall he done, the people can dispose of slavery
and of all other domestic interests according
to their discretion under the constitution and
laws of the State Until this is done, every at
tempt to modify the polity of the State is plainly
usurpation of the most odious and dangerous
| kind.
Such" is the disease of which the national
cause in Tennessee is languishing; and such is
the remedy for the disease We respectfully
ask the President to consider both. We have
set forth both in plain terms because we believe
the disease is serious and the remedy effectual
And in this belief we are supported by an over
whelming majority of the best and most patri-
otic men in Tennessee" ."