Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-12
THE SENATORIAL QUESTION.
NliO Shall Succeed Mr. Fowler
In the Senate?
Views OF Correspondents and
bsd the Press.
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A VOICE FROM mrssouRr


been out as far as Lexington, Mo-, an
whenever it was found that l was fro
Tennessee, tle.e fret remark would be
We'll, | hope you will send Andy Johnso
to the Senate. We need him there
This was the talk all the way"
HOW THE CONTEST Is VIEWED AT WASH
INGToN.
A member of the Legislature has re
ceiyed letter from distinguished gen
tleman at Washington, in reference to III
Senatorial contest, 10 which the write
saye:
The assaults of the Banner upon ex
President Johnson are nothing more thai
a rehash Of Forney's attack upon hin
| during his administration. Sach ia tb,
light in which the Banners abuse of Mr..
johnson is regarded here, and, therefore
1t does him more good than harm"
THE DEMOCRATS OF THE NORTH ASK TENNESSEE 10
SEND JOHNSON TO THE SENATE.
From the Memphis Appeal, Oct. 10.
We speak TO- day, and. for the first time. de-
cidedly, for Andrew johnson for Senator
Whatever personal preferences we may have
aud however we might. with a clear field con-
tend Tor another nomination. we recognize the
duty Of the public Journalist rather to repre-
sent public sentiment than private wishes. likes.
dislikes, or antagonisms. Representing a no
incOnsiderable portion of the people of Tenpes-
see-the patrons of the Appeal and believing
majority OF our pubic desire the election Of
Andrew johnson to the Senate, we have no
disposition longer to stand neutral in the poll
teal arena wherein our friends are arrayed on
one side or the other. The Democratic North
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and the Democratic party of Tennessee chooses
him as the ablest and most efficient man who can
be selected TO promote the interests of the State.
The chief objection we have urged az ainst him
that he would go to the Senate to fight the
battles of Andrew johnson rather than to look
after the interests of the State and to support
the constitution. are removed by the infOrma-
ton that this Is no part Of his purpose but that
he will go rather to win the proud name of De-
fender of the Constitution. Ii is this for which
We mast battle. if we would have the blessings
OF Tree government restored TO US. We must
look to the great future. and not to the
dead 6nd wretched past. We must let
by-gOnes bef by cones, and forgive common
errors. as we would be forgiven. We have
elected to office on that principle officers from
the ranks of our late enemies, having no guess
lions to ask of them but whether they are our
friends and will endeavor to serve US nov. The
interests of the State are above all personal
considerations. and these; therefore. we should
cease to entertain when the pub ie good for any
reason requires their surrender. We have no
man in the State free trUm disabilities under the
fourteenth amendment, and who can therefore
go uneh9llenged to the Senate who Is so well
qualified to serve it as Mr.. Johnson From ie
day that he predicted that secession would be
the death of slavery" and exhorted Southern
men TO fight for their constitutional rights on
the battlements of the constitution and plead
for the Union. and declared duties are mine;
are COPS" He has stood firm to
the Union and constitution. Whatever else may
be said of him. and however he may have erred
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not departed from the constitution in anything
but some past war emergency and supposed ne
eesaity. He will support it still with that cour-
age he possessed when tainted. and brought TO
bay by his antagonists, he declared with firm
ness and dignity not to be forgotten. There are
men who talk labOut cOWardice, eOWards cOur-
rye, and all that kind of thing; and in this con-
nectl0n will say, once for all. not bOastinEly.
with no anger IN my bosom; that these two eyes
never looked upon any being, in the shape of
mortal man, that this heart Of mine feared"
The hope OF liberty. without license or anarchy,
rests on the strctest observance of the cOnstitu-
ton. and he who will plead with eIoquence,
power and effect for that, is the peoples cham
piOn. and will have the peoples support.
Mr.. johnson is now the strongest of the
candidates before the Legislature. If he il
elected by it, the enemies of the constitution,
the men of the higher law" will quail before
him. and man will be placed in the Senate
who will yIndlcate the South in that for which
alone the South now asks vlndicatiOn-the OBJ
servanee of the rights of the people which have
the guarantee of the constitution.
But there are, besides, other considerations
than those which pertain exclusively to our
selves. There are duties we owe to the whole
country. and to our friends who stand in the
North battling for constitutional liberty against
its natural and Yindictive enemies of the Radi.
cal party We cannot send stronger man te
their aid. lie knows the secrets and weak
points of the enemy, and will have power over
them in consequence which. IN these eircum-
stances. no other man Ill the State can
possess. In the language, Of the |
them in the great rebellion of politics which |
stood forward as the guard and protector of the |
endangered and assaulted by their |
Vaccinations. For three yeas he |
fought, them boldly and earnestly. He drove |
discounted. They found that so long as he |
stood forth on the watch towers Of the republic |
they could not undermine its pillars. His de- |
slruetion was necessary 10 their success. They |
him because he was the friend of the |
people and the incOrruptible guardian OF their
Liberties. lie defeated them and they CRASHED |
their teeth in their baffied rage. His term of |
office expired-they breathed freely and in re-
ief-the only enemy that could meet them and |
arrest their treason was Withdrawn from the |
fell.
He is about to return to the fight, and fear
comes upon them. Win the people of Tennes.
see be seduced or intimidated by these bad men? |
The whole Conservative sentiment of the |
country, from one end of it to the other, de- |
mands that Tennessee should be true 10 her
self and Just to the greatest Of her living sons.
I'm the Senate of the United States Andrew |
Johnson, with his vast experience, his enlarged |
and unequaled powers of debate. |
would vindicate and justify before the country |
those great principles upon which our institu" |
lions rest, and which Radical philosophy is dis
crediting and destroying. His plain and power |
full logic would scatter to the winds Summers |
pedanuc sophistr1es; and his powerful eloqaence
would expose to the country and the world all |
legislative and executive schemes to destroy /
the remnant of our liberties and pilter our peo
pie. The great Conservative and Democratic /
paTty-nOw unheard. though respectable repre- /
5ented in the Senate-wOuldi in him have a voice |
that would ring from ocean to ocean, and infuse |
thought into the minds and courage into the |
hearts of the people Do the people of Tennes-
see expect any good from Radicals and Radical |
ruler Their only hope is in crushing the Radi-
cal organization and destroying forever the |
Radiea! philosophy Of government. To pander |
to such system in the hope OF benefit IS TO |
warm into life the serpent that It may be yig0r-
Gus to strike its pTeserVer unto death.
We owe allegiance TO our friends IN the |
North who stand with US for liberty against the |
tyrant at ashington, and We must act W tn |
them to help their efficiency, and unite with the
W est as well as to benefit ourselves. Caring |
for principles and results rather than men, We |
seek the man we are convinced now most com
pleteIy combines the power with the will to ac- |
cOmplish them. That man OF all others in the |
State is Andrew johnson. the most violent of |
the Radicals. the enemies of the Democracy of |
Inc country tho DOnuuOluftlS dTlSlOCI duu
the interests which antagoniZe with the West |
and South, all oppose him as they do the rights |
of our people. The official e0rmOrants and |
Freedmen's Bureau negro drivers threaten us
with their hostility if We dare to elect him. |
But as that Is better than their friendship, We ]
can afford to incur it rather than obey the |
counsels or take take to our bOSoms the Radical
robbers of property and liberty. The majority |
of Tennesseeans like him the better for their |
eDmity. and because their gold and Treasury |
rings will neither buy nor lntlmidate him:
How it Is with Grant about the spoons we don't
know. but we are rather suspicious his soldiers |
did not take the silyerWare from his head
quarters at Oxford, as lately explained |
in his defense. But We, know that johnson
has never entered the gold ring or been bought |
with coaches or palatial houses. We be leve he |
is poor tailor who never rose to the dignity OF
having any Corbins or Dents for 6rotherS-ln-
ton as the gold spectators and bODdOerats will
fear and hate. He will know how to answer |
their arguments, expose their sophistries and |
open the ey of the country to their false pre-
fences and swindling designs: If he could have |
been bought by them we should never have |
heard of their antagonism. Ii is facts of this |
kind, saen by people OF the North. which I'M |
iuce their earnest call on Tennesseeans to elect 1
him, 1t is for a simil ar reason, and because we
are satisfied that, all things considered, he is |
most likely to be efficient and setul to the |
country and the State. of all men we have to |
send, that induces us to change cur position |
from that of neutrality to q distinct advocacy Of
The claims of Andrew johnson. Further argu- |
ment we shall give hereafter. CT |
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ORGAN AT WASHING |
TON ON THE CONTEST.
From the National IntelIigencer, Oct. 5. |
In all civil connections, when society is shaken |
and disOrganized by internecine strife, and prI-
yate rights and personal security are INSULT |
GENTLY protected by law, men have exhibited, |
more distinctly than under any other circum- |
stances, their true characters, and risen to- the |
height of the noblest achievements OF sunk to |
the depths of the most debasing acts. according |
as their natures were exalted or low.
The Southern States are now in this eondi- |
ton of social and political disorder. Their |
conqueroTs are using every act and device TO |
induce them to abandon whatever If political |
principle yet remains, and insiduOusly promis- |
ing benefits if they will exercise, for the per-