Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-19

JOHNSON AND HIS AsSATLANTS.
The editor Of the Clarksburg West
Va) Telegraph, (R S Northcott, who
will be remembered as the editor Of Muir"
freesboro (Tenn.) Telegraph before the
war; seems to know something Of the
secret history Of the Baltimore Conyen-
ton that nominated Lincoln and johnson
for President and Vice President. In his
paper of the 18th inst, he tells show
Andrew johnson received the nomination
for the Vice Presidency" in which this
statement occurs ~
In the Union Convention in Baltimore
IN 1864, there were many delegates who
had never been strictly identif ed with the
Republican party. There were men there
Of pro-slavery prejudices, but whose loyalty
to the Union threw them into concert with
the Republican party, because that party
was the organization that was prosecuting
the war for the suppression Of the rebellion.
This Conservative wing Of the Union party
was represented in the Baltimore Conven0
ton. The nomination of Andrew johnson
was effected by the representatives Of this
Conservative wing led by the friends of
MIR. Seward, chief among whom was then
Gov BrownloW, of Tennessee, who was
then classed with the Conservative Repub-
Ecans, although his progressive spirit has
since caused him, like all true Southern
loyalists, to keep pace with the party of
liberal ideas.
In the fierce war that has been made
upon President johnson, he has met his
assailants by declaring that he stands
where he did when he was nominated
for Vice President, and that it is those
who have assailed him who have
changed. Here is one of his bitter re.
vilers furnishing the proof of what Mr.
johnson has said Gov Brownlow, says
the Clarksburg editor, was then classed
with the Conservative Republicans, but
has since kept "pace with the party of
liberal ideas Because, fOrsooth, Press
ident johnson has not abandoned his
convictions and the platform
upon which Mr. Lincoln and himself
were elected, he has been denounced as
a usurper and traitor by the men who
have kept " pace with the party of liberal
ideas. The Clarksburg editor states
that Mr. johnson was nominated because
he was Democrat and Union man,
and because he has not played false to
these distinctive characteristics, every
species Of opprobrium has been
heaped upon him, and a wild and
reckless party of liberal ideas
have, it seems, stopped not short of the
5ubornation of perjury to connect him
with a great crime, and to impeach and |
degrade him from the high Office he now
fills. Here is the testimony Of as Radical I
a Republican as Tennessee could pro- |
luce, that Mr.. johnson was nominated |
because he was a Democrat and Union |
nan, and that this was done by the rep
of the Conservative wing of |
he Republican party, with which he was
hen in unison. Their progressive
pirits induced them to leave him to
axe up with strange gods, and then de-
iounce him because he does not "keep
ace with the party of liberal ideas =
hat party who now insist that the rebel
ion was an accomplished fact, and that
en- Southern States are to-day out of the
MISUNDERSTANDING some of them
re older than the Union-and that they
an be readmitted to the Union which
hey helped inaugurate only upon the
onditions which a Congress of liberal
leas" has prescribed.