Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-10-16
From the New York Tribun
The Presidents Party.


The kilograms from Washington are Of
ten sufficiently amusing, and never more so
than when they undertake to furnish GER
tain information of Mr.. Johnson's most un-
certain movements. According to the
latest intelligence, he intends to give to the
Republic q fresh, new, and vigorous party,
which will spring, all armed and resistiess
like young goddess from the brain OF the
White House Jupiter. 1t is the coolest
proceeding upon record The good man
getting up in the morning, while shaving
and washing and putting on his pantaloons,
and criticizing their fit with a professional
eve, concludes to have a party-a handy
thing to have-with an Interior intention,
we presume, Of being elected to the next
Presidency nice thing to be elected to.
He has hardly swallowed his first bottle Of
soda water before his plans ars all finely
cut and charmingly dried; and he is bust
ling with Impotence to communicate them
to five thousand confidential friends and all
the newspapers. We can immagine him
saying: MY dear friends and fellow-citi-
zens, having observed the situation, which,
indeed, it seems that the Union being In
danger, and SO we must fall back, my friends
upon the Constitution, and | will vindicate
the flag of our country, which l have
always indicated and mean to vindicate,
even after | lay sleeping in peace IN my
tomb, where l shall not hear any more ad-
dresses, and prayers, and hymns, being one
of the illustrious dead, but mean now to
live in friendship and peace, and as it were,
&c.. &C., &c. After this the party will be
formed, and will march to triumphant VIC
tory in all those States in which it does not
march to dissolution pretty nearly con-
genital. Then it will asleep silent in its
grave-yes, it will sleep in silence and
p eace, after the earnest conflict has ceased
yes, it will sleep silent in its tomb"
The new party, if we understand the
matter is to be an amalgam Of rehabilita-
ted Rebels and Of Northern Democrats
supposed to be invincible by themselves
upon the strength of arecent gain Of about
two thousand votes. But there is nothing
specially novel about this. Put all the Re-
bells and all the Democrats together and the
" demnition total is nothing more than the
old Democratic party which for years has
been almost nonentity. If you take out
all the Northern Democrats who are dead,
or have become Republicans, and all the
Rebels who are dead either physically or
politically, it seems to us that the prospects
of the JOhnsonian party do not become any
roster for the subtraction. The old Demo-
Gratis were beaten without much difficulty
in the full flush of a pretty extensive vital.
ty. Where is the evidence that they can.
not be beaten again, although they take to
their reviving bosoms all the Rebel vipers
all the recreant Republicans, and all the
Johnsonian nondescripts in the land? Per-
haps the Presidents recent neurological
studies have given him ideas somewhat
over-hvely of the chances of calling the
dead to life; but we can assure him that
though there may be resurrection of men,
there can be no resurrection of parties
His faith is charming but he must not trust
in it too confidently. He should not be so
sure OF the dead when be cannot ever be
sure of the living
His Excellency has no doubt heard in
his day of squeezed oranges He has seen
the dry and discarded fruit rotting in the
cutters, despised of the hungriest boys, and
rejected of the least fastidious beggars. He
may not know it, butyery soon be too will
be squeezed orange; the Democratic vam-
pyre, ere long, will have absorbed all his
juices, and he will be tossed into Tennessee
to grow old at his leisure. He does not be-
lieve it now; he would not believe it now,
though the Angel Gabriel should come
down to impart to him the distasteful in
formation; but his political demise at an
early day is just as sure as the taxes. When
he comes to make his mixture he will find
that one of his ingredients is suddenly miss
ing.
The Northern Democrats may be willing
enough to unite with the Rebels, but it viii
not be under the leadership of Mr.. Johnson
Would he like to know the reason? Well |
one of them is that he doesn' know enough; !
another is that he doesn't carry guns
enough; a third is that he isn't respectable |
enough. Still another is that he has pro- |
fessed to be Republican Lastly nobody |
would vote for him. The Democratic lea
ders are too shrewd to commit themselves to |
the support Of renegade Republican; and |
the gentlemanly Democratic magnates will /
like to have candidate who is also gen |
tleman. Mr.. Johnson they will use; we |
expect them to use him but Benjamin f. |
Buffers chance of their nomination for the |
Presidency is as good as his Some mourn
full day, in his retreat, whom he has nothing |
better to do, he may read this prediction,
and, with tears IL his eyes, confess that for
once we were right.
Meanwhile, we shall await the birth of |
the new party with considerable interest,
and shall watch with anxiety for its christ
ening, should it i've poor thing, to be
christened at ALL We have seen MANY
brats Of this sort in our time; various were
their names and curious theif constitutions:
but they were all as shortIi7ed as the flea.
exhibiting the feas energy. Mum
Der Three always comes to grief and Num-
Der Three, Mr.. Johnson's party, will GER
tainly be; while Number One must take
such excellent care Of Number Two that
It's alliance shall hardly be worth asking
for. Politics promises to be alittle confus
ed; but we rely upon Republicans to keep
matters mainly right.