The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-10-08

Mr.. HERALD:-I have read some
where in the books, of certain kind
of dog called Spaniel, which the more
you whip it, the more it loves you. III
there are any two-legged spaniels in
Tennessee they are, surely, well quail
fed to be johnson men, at the present
junctilre. Has any one forgotten the
thousands of dollars, drawn from the
citizens of this county, with his appro-
baton and consent, when military
Governor, by Gsn. Negley?
Has any one forgotten the $4,000
collected, at the point of the bayonet,
for Mrs. Briggs, which she says she
never got? Has any one forgotten his
fierce orders, when Military Governor,
ordering retaliation on secessionists, If
union men were misused in any neigh
borhood? Has any one forgotten his
orders making the nearest secessionistS
responsible, pecuniarily and otherwise,
if any telegraph poles were cut down or
molested in any locality? Has any one
forgotten his tyra.nical seizure and
imprisonment, in the penitentiary, of
peaceable quiet non-combatants be-
cause they happened to be opposed, in
politics to Andrew johnson? Has any
one forgotten his imprisonment of the
clergy of Nashville, and closing their
churches, unless they would preach
such doctrines as he dictated? If there
is any one that does not know that
when he was running on the ticket
with Mr.. Lincoln, in 1854, and an effort
was made to get up a Mcclellan and
Pendleton ticket in this State, and a
meeting was called for that purpose, in
Nashville, by Union men, Andrew
Johnson sent for the Captain Of COM
pany of East Tennesseans, camped
near the Capitol to come to his room in
the Cdpitol-pulled money out of his
pocket and gave him-told him to
buy whiskey, make his men drunk,
and break up that meeting for he
would be damnad if any such meeting
should be held in Nashville. Accord
ingly the drunken soldiers entered the
meeting, bayonet in hand, and dis
persed it, and nearly killed Bailie Pey-
ton who was instrumental in getting it
up.
Who has forgotten Mr.. Lincoln's
oath of amnesty and that it did not fill
the measure of Andrew Jolmson's love
for his fellow citizens of Tennessee,
and he had to make them new one
and a better rome? Has any one forgot
ten that in 1866, by military force, he
radically changed the organic law of
Tennessee and him-elf proclaimed the
act legally done by a convention of the
people, when he well knew that the
body whom he termed ia convention"
did not represent the sentiments of one
man in a thousand of the people OF
Tennessee? Who does not know that
by means of this pretended convention
of the people of Tennessee, he set in
motion the machinery which has
ground and oppressed the people of his
adopted State as no people on earth
were ever oppressed before? And
during our long night of oppression,
what word of sympathy did he utter:
What finger did he raise to Tighten the
burden he had himself imposed? He
sat supinely back, in his seat at the
White House, and let his machinery
grind on. And then after his removal
to Washington, as Vice President, who
has forgotten his bitter, vindictive
speeches? His rejection of the John.
ston-Sherman treaty, whichwould
have effected all he afterwards
pretended to be trying to effect for the
people of the South? His completely
in the murder of Mrs. Surratt? His
offering 100000 for the arrest of JEFF
Davis to try to connect him with the
murder of Mr.. Lincoln? And finally,
his pressing the trial of jeff Davis and
Gen. Lee for treason, and which he
would have done but for the manly
interference of Gen. Grant? Is not
the very man for the people of Tennes.
see to love? Surely they will not fail
to heap on his shoulders whatever
bonors they have to bestow. M.