Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-05-14


qnarrel between uau and wife. Hon
esty, unfortunately, is Of little or NJ ac-
count tiu tho days of revolutionary rancour;
and the honest man in such a time, like the
unhappy wight 10 'lIuiibrss,' learns to his
cost, metaphorieAliy, IL not literally that
They who In quarrcls ini.rpose
WI often wipe bloody n0se.n
Even in milder eases Of party-quarrels.
when there is no BIO ,dshed, but merely the
inveterate war Of words and recrimin Itions.
the moderate man is not generally popular.
4" In moderation placing all his glory
The Tories called him whig and Wings
Tory"
said the sarcastic poet in the days of Q teen
Anne, and such, with a violence unknown,
at least In the present age, to our party
strife, was the fate and reward Of Andrew
Johnson. ii /, did not show himself very
wise man but he certainly showed himself
to be brave and Conscientious one-sn ex-
cellent fighting soldier, but very ind f;r-
ent gensral-the very man TO volunteer for
and lead forlOrn-hO2e at the request of
superior authority born comhatsut, but
one who, With ell his pugnacity, would new
er fght In cause that be thought TO be q
wrongful one, whatever might be the sue
cess and the reward Of his herojsm.
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and the cloud under which he is for the
present obscured, is not likely that he viii
retire for any long period from the field OF
American politics. Unlike Mr.. Buchanan,
who subsided into the peaceful pursuits of
agriculture aud the quiet Of his study, Mr..
Johnson Is not an old man, but still in the
prime OF his mental and bodily vigour.-
With a rough tongue that be knows how TO
use, with love of political life for the ex-
citement which it brings, with a keen in
terest in all the great even.s of his age aud
country, aud with iery blood, like that Of
the war-horse in the Book OF job, "that
goeth en- to meet the armed men that saith
among the tu npets, Ia ha aud smelleih
the battle afar off, the thunder Of the cap
tains, and the shouting, ,"-he is all but GER
tain If be lives, to turn up again in the great
arena of debate, either as a senator or a
member Of the House of Representatives,
or & ,vernor of his native Tennessee, which,
IN linly by his fearlessness and patriotism,
was retained in the Union, while all its
slaveholding sisters we're seeding, and thus
preserved from the fate of unhappy Virgin
ia. Tennessee felt bu. little of the horrors
Of the war, to Viii Ii her geographical posi-.
ton would have exposed ber had she cast
in her lot with the South, which she ives at
ohe time we'll inclined to do, and which
L was most likely she would have
done had it not been for the frm hand and
the firm faith of Andrew Johnson. And for
this result the people OF Tennessee, whose
farms and plantations were saved from the
torch Of the war-demon and the hoois of
trampling armies, owe their great country
man a debt Of gratitude, which it is very
likely they will endeayor to repay By ssnd-
ing him again to the Senate.
The in iomitable, or, as his enemies might
call il, the pugnAcious, spirit Of the cx-
President was as apparent in his farewell
ad iress to the American people as in any
other act of his ofgi ;ial life. "Ds FGutlace,
et tong ours de Fdudace," might be his motto,
though, as We have 5 zen, he does not so time
his audacity as to gain any thing by it. ln
this remarkable document-whlch Mr.. Reu-
ter's agens and the o her p1rveyors Of news
dill pos think it worth while TO telegraph to
Europe under the waves og the Atlantic
Mr. Johnson reiterated all his Old opinions,
discharged a perfect Il ght of Parthian ar.
rows at the advancing hosts Of the new
Presidency, declared the Civil War to be q
mistake, and reatfirmed in all its roupdness
the sturdy doctrine Of ate rights, and
proved himself to be Democrat of the old
jackson type-o1e who Is all for the Union;
and who will not allow that even such a war
as ravaged the fAirer portion of the United
States tor nearly four years can have obit-
Grated the ancient landmarks. He Is all
for conserving the Stdtu quo ante bel!lm or
for res Grafton of the status-if the reyolu
tionists have overthrow il. Upon this plat
form he takes his stand, looking apparent
ly to the time when that doctrine will need
a champion, and Offering himself for the
post OF honor aud danger.