Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-09
A Democratic ent on President JOllnsOn's .sFuture.'

Washington Cor. Cincinnati Enquire.
 Few ofour Presidents have ever re- tired from the White House with less of real regret than will accompany MT. Johnson's tarewelllon the 4th of March. And with equal truth it may be said that few, i'll retiring, have ever better deserved the thanks and good wishes of the American people for sincerity of purpose and an honest desire to ad- minister the office for the best interests Aof the country. In saying which l do not mean to De understood as express ing the belief that the United States has never had better president--but that, judged by the purity of his mo- tivcs and his unsei6sh intenions to do his whole duty, he iar. surpasses any of our recent Executives. That he has committed great errors, he himself will, l suppose, not be disposed to deny. Itcould hardly have been other wise with q man surrounded by the adverse circumstances that have .beset him since the beginning ofhis adminis- tration. For some of these he is res- ponsible--as, for what may be called the father of them all, which was the failure to surround himself with a Cabinet of strong, vigorous men in hearty accord with him, instead oi retaining the evil counselors of his predecessor. But it is easier to criti- else now than it would have been to act then. Judging his Administration as whole, the conservative people oi the country must indorse it and thank him for it.
 In former letter ] intimatad ,he. |. nf fIA nD sxF,atI n party in Tennessee to nominate Mn. Johnson next fall for Governor. This understand now to be fully deter mined upon. Little doubt is enter tained of his election. At any rate, he has always been extremely popular in Tennessee. He knows the people there, and they know him, and believe him to be sincerely and honestly de- voted to their interests. l do not know who will be his competitor in the race, but probably some carpct-bag scrub from Massachusetts, or some Radical convert of the Stokes pattern, who wanted him hung in lS6l for be- ing Union man. If elected Governor, he will undoubtedly be chosen to the Senate ill the place of Fowler, whose term expires in 1871 and then we may look for lively times in that chamber of giltedged imbecility and loyal gam mon. It will be worth while to go to some trouble to elect A. J. to the Sen ate. just to give him chance to viudi- cate himself and his Administration, which l understand to be-his sole ob- ject in remaining in public life after the 4th of March. His natural eombativc- ness. not always in place when eXhibi- ted from the Presidential Mansion, will have full vent in the Senate de- bates, and know enough of what it is in his power to expose to promise rich developments in his "bouts" with some of the leading Radicals. He will ex- hibit some of the recent inner work ings of the Radical party, to the intense delight of all but the Radicals. So let every Conservative man in Tennessee and elsewhere put his shoulder to the wheel and give A. J. all the help he can to get him into the Senate. If he do not pull the mask of patriotism from some of the hypocrites in that body then am soused gurnet.n
 MACK.