Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-09-16

| day they are at loss to know whai il all meant
| They have their thoughts, but like prudent mel
keep their own counsel. But they cannot hell
feeling that the Banner was the most strangely
| misunderstood newspaper ever published in
Tennessee.
Our respected contemporary is again on the
war path. He is now making himself very I'M
happy over the prospective election Of Andrew
johnson to the United States Senate. He pours
the seven phials Of his wrath upon Andy's de-
voted head, regardless of consequences be evil
IDENTIFY fears the election of johnson as Gala
nifty more to be dreaded than the comet or the
Democratic party. He lifts his pen on high
against it.. lie sounds the alarm long and loud
and sends 1t reverberatiDg over the state like
rolling thunder. The mercury In his thermo-
meter has long since mounted above blood heat
and is still rising. He threatens to demonstrate
the possibility of spontaneous combustion and
thus settle forever that long mOOted question.
object to the manner of demonstrating it.. We
cannot afford to lose our sprightly and sparkling
friend in that way.
Though. We would not, of course. presume to
send any advice that had about it the offensive
odOr of penny royal" into the fragrant pre-
cincts Of DeadeIick street, we trust we shall be
pardOned for humbly suggesting TO the lead
ing" journal that thunders from that classic
locality, that the people who live IN the pen
regions, though ignorant, are honest.
and they are at a great loss to understand the
furious war that the Banner is making on Mr..
Johnson and his administration. Has not that
which has passed into history,
been sufficiently Warred on by the Radical party.
or does the Banner think that party has failed OF
its duty in that respect and needs it as an ally,
N defacing the only monument to constitutional
liberty that stood erect during the rage of Radi-
cal vengeance? 1t would be hard TO believe
that any one not in sympathy with the Republic |
can party could pen such a paragraph as the
S 4 he Mas
more complete failure. perhaps, than James
Buchanan, and of all the Presidents who had |
preceded him, no one ever retired from the /
W hite House amid such YOlleys of sibilatiens /
and other symptoms of popular disfavOr,"
'VOlleys Of sibilationsl" Who fired those vol
eys against Buehanan's administration The 1
anne men who fired their vOlleys against the
south during the war and have kept up the hre
ince. And why were they fired? Because Mr.. |
Buchanan dared to stand By the constitution Of |
us country and use all his efforts to prevent |
he war. His defence Of his administration, |
written by himself and left as legacy to his 1
ountry, is monument to his integrity as a |
tatesman that will survive the cloud that fren- I
led malice raised about his name. 1t the ad- |
Illustrations Of Buchanan and johnson were
ailures. then the constitution itself IS failure
nd the government established under 1t, No |
wo men in American history ever stood up I
lore firmly for the constitution than james |
Buchanan and Andrew johnson, and to speak
them sneeringly as failures. because they |
ere unable to breast with success the torrent !
nat beat against them. is to give aid and com
'rt to their enemies, whether SO intended or
u II
ndrew johnson, as President, was failure | i
UGH an announcement, to say the least OF
is premature. Nor do we agree with
in the statement that the only |
asOn Mr.. JOhnson's supporters wish him sent
the Senate is to fret and annoy the Radicals.
ever the constitution needed a fearless and
de defender on the floor of the American SEN
e, now is the time. If ever the goyernme Mt | r
squeathed to US by our fathers needed friend
hO would stand to it through all perils. now is
q time. In looking around for such defender | I
I'd such friend, the popular mind turns in
Inctively to Andrew Johnson. He has the in |
Ilect to comprehend the situation, the moral | .
urage to defy every threat, and the honesty to | l
Orn every bride. Power cannot appal, titles
duce. wealth corrupt, nor opposition intimi- |
tie him. He has in him all the elements of | II
eat and successful leader; just such leader
the country needs at this time. Hence, we 7
leve the best,iuterests of the country demand
5 election. These are the reasons the people
G for him. They know that corruption foul
q reeking stalks uRrebuked in Washington | m
ty, at MONDAY. They know that this govern Z
ant Isl drifting to ruin-that the constitution |
8 become a byeword, and the rights Of the | G
ltes a reproach. They know that Congress
S bullied down all opposition in the capitol.
d reels in drunken revelry above the liberties
the people. They want to send an honest | q
IN there whom these corrupt spoilers cannot
ghten or buy; one who has the will. the | =
rye, the power to meet them and dare to | '
ike blow for the constitution IN the very |
AXIS of the enemies. 4