The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-02-10
AFFAIRS IN TENNESSEE.
Andrew johnson to be the Conserv-
alive Candidate for Governor.
HIS PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
General Stokes tho Coming Moses of
the Radical Faction

[Cor. Of the Courier.Journal.l

!, I will give you briefly, but accurately, ,
pen.picture Of the situation in Tennessee,
ut the present moment.
, Andrew johnson 10 expected to arrive
I here by the middle of March. He has
written to bis friends to say that be will be
. candidate for Governor. No one will Cd
pose his nomination. Il will be made
spontaneously by the Conservatives and
bis platform will consist of " universal am.
nesty and impartial suffrage" on which the
people of Tennessee have risked their
claims from the first.
He is expected to do two things:
lst. He will talk to the negroes % no
one else has ever talked to them.
I'd. He will waken the East Tennessee
loyalists to sense OF the perils Of the
present State government as no one else
can waken them.
johnson is not . wit like Etheridge.
Nor is no IN orator like Colyar. But he
is prodigy Of muscular power before the
Tennessee masses, who consider him child
OF destiny, marked by Providence to be
their next Governor.
Johnson,s purpose is to secure Q con.
sentative Legislature, which will return
him to the Serate of the United States in
place OF Mr.. Fowler. But Tor their faith
in him tho people of the Stately whom
mean the DISTINGUISHED masses-would
make no contest this summer. They con.
slider the existing system . machine; and
they regard its operation a. little Lees than
certain. johnson does not. He says he
has fought worse tight, and won it. He
says he can break up the loyal leagues a. |
he broke up the Know Nothing lodges.
He will denounce the Kuklux in upmeas-
ured forms. He will take strong national
ground on eli national questions. and he
expects to carry all before him.
The Radicals themselves apprehend his
coming. Moreover, they arc disunited.
Fletcher will probably 70 into the State
Senate, which will elect him Speaker.
This will give him the Gubernatorisl suc-
cession in II. He is an able msu-the
sb.est IN the State on many points-and is
Republican, bat not Radical. He is
Backed BY . growing sentiment in his
party.
Senter, the present Speaker of the SEN
.te-is in the line Of safe presidents. III
should die or resign, Scatter
you'd be Governor; bat BrownIow de-
lines to do either, and Senter Is secretly
lisconcetted. Shrewd Radicals already J
ook on him with distrust. He Was q /.
uasi-rebel in 81 and is smart East
tennessee lawyer with some taste aud
Pirit. Ii Brownlow does not give him
that he considers bis right-t6at is the j
sovernorship-he will do mischief. 4
'rownlow's term a. Senator begins the Q
tn Of this coming March. His term ss 1
Governor does not expire till the following n
october. Will he hold on to the State OF. a
ce until it expires and then 20 to WASH 6
'gt0n and draw his back nav as Senator n
ON the I'd of March, He viii. Il is =
lain cliphering to man who has nothing ],
loose. But there are other consider. :
ons. There are personal and prudential 4
otives-motives which be cannot resist !,
at impel him. Il he should give up the a
overnorsn'p to Senter, what would be- a
me OF his present deputiess !;
FOR tennessee, You must know, like
auI, is divided into three parts. These
9 severaiIy designated East, Middle and
est Tennessee. DR.. Pearue. Methodist
eachcr at Knoxville, is Governor of
ast tennessee. DR.. Boynton, a son-in-
= OF Brownlow, and Buck Lewis (color.
are the principal Governors Of Middle
but when. they are absent or
ng about loose, 1t is customary for those up
10 have public business TO transact to 20 N,
and hunt down . Governor or two from oc
'ong the negroes and carpet baggers oil ye
lshvi!ie. The Governor Of West Ten. d,
ssee Is DR.. Pesrne No. 2, brother of an
Knoxville Governor. All these Gov ge
'ors net in the name of Brownlow, who no
D. nome With the palsy, having ceased to lcoI
OF any significance or to possess any in,
lse OF responsibility. The Radical paf. y
Is controlled by strangers and kept going sol
negroes, and the coming Moses is an
,kes. ,o ra or
This Moses is . large, thick set Moses. a AM
ses With bald pate aud red face, and ~
ce % loud - that Of Bottom, the Wes- The
. Moses passing the wit of man 10 sav 10,
It manner of Moses he is or il mot. sai
Crimson is also Moses, str
And when Moses meets Moses, SOL
Then comes the tug of war" bis
think it is inir TO predict that the chan. 20
are even that the fight will be sharp gle
close and that johnson NAV come eye
OF It with flying coloss. VOL
he Kuklux Khan has de0ene,.to,a into maG
ing of desperadoes. It has not the
patty OF any part Of the people. Its \
.Os01 "o w 'uuSeT PuNitic0l, u tney ev- Ar,
ere, out predatory; and the militia bill -
martial law proclamation are mere pre- ann
9 on the part Of the Radicals to carry tina
election BY force Of arms. VA,
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PRESENCE OF MlxD.-Iave
following is related by the Alpine old
vada) Herald: VIII,