The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-01
From the Cincinnati Commercially
Sketch OF the Life and Adventures Oh
an Andy Johnson Man.

an Andy Johnson Man.
The President has appointed Thomas
Reed, Inspector of tobacco, cigars and
snuff, for the Sixth Kentucky Dis
trict, cice George M. Clark, removed.
This appointment has produced an
extraordinary cOmmotion in Coving-
ton and that contiguous and mysteri-
Gus territory known as back of Gov
ington.''fa The citizens of our sister
city are enabled to know what sort of
man an Andy johnson man really is
"a question recently greatly disputed.
The late rebels have claimed to be
Andy johnson men with considerable
confidence, eand, while many of. the
Union men have not been willing to
concede ii, they were constrained by
the logic of events to admit that the
question was open. The thing need
full in Kentucky was an appointment
made by the, President, showing the
kind Of friends he cares for. The APP
pointment of Mr.. Reed removes all
doubts. He is well known, almost
famous, and the testimony furnished
is explicit. So remarkable charac-
ter Is this specimen johnson man,
that we have called upon a gentleman
who has made large collection of
historical matter relating to the con-
ditioneo of. the border land during the
rebellion, for a sketch of his career
his life and adventures during the re-
bellion. We give it unabridged, that
our Conservative friends in Kentucky
may know what sort of man All Andy
johnson man is:
Mr.. Reed, during the whole war,
was par excellence, the blood and
thund maniof the Union party of
Coyington-the man of muscle. He
knocked down and kicked more rebel
sympathizers than all the other men
of Covington put together. He was
the terror of sympathizers, not only in
Covington, but in all the surrounding
counties. When a Democrat from
Boone, Grant or Pendleton, would
come to Covington, big Tom Reed was
the first man they wished pointed out
to. them, so that they might give him
a vide berth. Ee was the getter-up
of all the big Union meetings, torch
light professions, &C., during the four
years of the war
The disturbing of Democratic meet
ings was always laid to Toms door.
When Geo. Pugh attempted to adj
dress a meeting of sympathizers, on
Main street, one night about two years
ago, Tom. Reed got up on a block
near to. him, and spoke so much lou
der than Pugh that the latter could
not be heard. Finally the stand from
which Pugh spoke was torn down and
burned, and. the pole which the sym
pathizers erected cut down and burned
also. The Democrats always con-
sidered that Reed superintendent this
job, and was the prime mover in all
the deviltry enacted there on that
night. That was the night that Pugh
was in too great hurry to wait for
facts He was whirled away in car
riage by some of his friends, and they
do say that Tom. Reed chased the
vehicle clear across the suspension
bridge into Newport, intending to-
scclp Pugh if he caught him, but
horse flesh triumphed and Pugh got
across the river at the Newport Ferry
in safety, wiser and certainly bet
ter man. .fa .sis
Reed was one of the Grand Mar
shals of the Union procession from
Covington which was attacked by, or
attacked, the Fourth Warders, in this
city, in the fall of 1864-in which
woman was killed. Tom. acted with
his accustomed zeal on this occasion.
He was not charged with the shooting
of the woman, we believe.
There is scarcely a Democrat in
Cevington that has not had his face
slapped, or his posterior licked, or his
nose pulled, or his person menaeed in
some way by Tom. Reed, during the
past FIVE years. ies1a
AWhile Reed was in Washington,
seeking the present appointment, Col
onel r. B. Carpenter, who also hap
pened to be there, met him at Will
lard 3, and, in a crowd of Congressman,
said, in loud voice, so that Reed
could hear him, Tom. Reed is no
Andy Johnsonman. He is Radical,
Of the strongest kind, and was in favor
of killing ninety rebel sympathizers
per day, In Covington, until they were
all disposed of Since Reed has got
back home, he charges this on Car
penter, and the latter does not deny it.
At Green Clay Smith meeting,
held at the Drovers' Inn, during the
last Congressional campaign, Reed
made oneof his characteristic speeches
in which he said: a
"' Every rebel guerrilla, every rebel
horse thief, every man who bush
whacked Union soldiers and burned
Union mems barns, every man who is
in favor of repudiating the National
\ debt. every man who owes his washer
woman, will vote the Democratic
ticket to -morrow.
4 3 Shortly after Governor Bramlette' s
election, it will be remembered that
he got kind of weakened in his
Unionism, and went around through