The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-08-28
Ex.President JOhnsOn.His Chan
CeS for the United states SEM
ate.

Ex.President JOhnsOn.His Char
Ces for the United states Sem
ate.
The Washington correspondents 0
the New York papers seem to thinl
that ex President johnson will nov
stand some chance for election to tb
United States Senate. This opinion
it is stated, is based upon letters re
ceived at the national capital from
prominent tennessee Republicans, sup
porters Of Sentet, but strong oQonent
eof Mr.. Johnson" who Erite to thei
friends in washington that Secretaries
Boutwell, and Creswell's letters indors
ing Stokes have contributed largely tt
the probabilities of Mr.. Johnson's elec
ton. One writer says:
"These letters Of Endorsement hat
theSefect IF exasperating those Repub
licans who supported Senter in goot
faith upon the platform and good prin
ciples enunciated by the Chicago Con
vention. They assert that they have
always, in connection with Senter, stood
and now ttand,; upon that platform
while Boutwell, and Creswell have
sought to ignore it so far as the fran
chise question is concerned. These Re
publicans say that Andrew johnson ano
his friends were shrewd enough to take
advantage of the fact that these two
Cabinet officers were arraying the Ad
minise eation against the most prominent
O.. Grants supporters in Tennessee, and
that therefore they were to be whipped
in like set of ours upon the caprice
of ambitious aspirants for the presiden'
tial succession in 1872. It being well
understood that Andrew johnson would
be the most obnoxious person to Gen.
Grant and his Cabinet that coald be
sent from Tennessee to the United
States Senate, sympathy for Johnson's
success in that regard has been aroused
on the part Sf prominent Conserva'
tives who would otherwise have opposed
him with strong probabilities Of
success. This sympathy for Mr.
Johnson has also been materially height.
ened from the fact that Grant has neg
lected or refused to contradict or qualify
the terms of these mischievous letters OF
the Secretary of the Treasury and the
Postmaster General"
The New York 7ribune's Washington
correspondent writes that the prospects
of Ex- President johnson for the Senate
" are now considered almost certain, hut
the Tribune editorially says
elf the news were little less vague
we might know how much to be fright
ened, but we are confident that no such
afaiction is in store for the Senate yet
awhile, Gnd Mr.. johnson will have
abundant time to fulfill the promise he
made in public speech little while
ago, of beginning once more at the foot
of the ladder of official promotion, and
mounting from the rank of alderman Of
his native village up-well, up as much
higher as he can get"
The New York Hlra7d, under the
heading mot Dead YETI editorially
says:
ANDY Johnson's returrst to the Uni.
ted States Senate, in view of the re-
result in Tennessee, is almost certain,
This is not the least satisfactory result
of the contest in that State. Andy is
a boldj positive exponent of that class of
political ideas that is least agreeable to
the blatant Radical rulers. He has the
one grand virtue that he will not be-
put down and therefore, discussion in the
Senate will be the lesss monotonous
for his presence. He has Union rec
ord that no man can impeach. He is a
Southern Senator not open to the
carpet bag objection nor assailable on
the Copperhead sneer. He is genuine
in all senses, absolutely fearless and
honest, and will "make Rome howl"
from his place in the Senate with much
better effect than be ever did in his
He is the first President
since John Quincy Adams whose politi-
cal Vitality has rot been exhausted by
the Presidency
The New Yak Journal OF C0nanaerce
editorially say:
FLUSHED with their grand success,
and freely indig -ant for the interfer-
enee against them, there is possibility
that the new conservative Legislature
will send Mr.. Andrew johnson to the
Senate; not by any means because they
like Mr. johnson much, but they want
to plant thorn in the Presidents side.
Mr.. Johnson's talents as a nettle are
well known. If returned to the Senate,
we may expect him to devote his time,
for the rest of Grants term, to thrusting
the sharpest of spikes into him and his
policy. He will be to the President
what Brownlow has been to himself, or
Stokes to Senter, personal, malignant,
and implicable persecuter. Allof Which,
if it happens, will be a disgraceful exss
hibition to the country, but, politically
speaking, will be but fair return for
the Presidents med6lesome conduct in
the Tennessee election. By taking sides
unnecessarily in the contest he has de-
cended into that political arena where
blows are given without mercy and the
cry fer quarter is unheeded. The Pres
ident never will hear the last of Ten
nessee till be has got out of Office and
settled down on his farm at Long Branch
or elsewhere @ .. -. .as.-~s yf -.
A dispatch says that in recent speech
Of over three hours duration at Blounts-
vile, Tenn, the last he made before the
election in that State, ex-President
Johnson took strong ground against the
who, he said, bad already
received the amount of their Investments.