Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10
PREsIDENr JOHNSON AAO TDE
NASHVILLE BANHER. AZ

PREsIDENr JOHNSON AID TDE
NASHVILLE BANNER. -
1t was some months after the war
was over when the Banner began
its laudations Of President Johnson,
1t did not cease to speak his praises
until after his retirement from the
Presidency. As matter of course /
all that President Johnson had done
as Military Governor Of Tennessee
was well-known TO tho Banner
when il commenced its eulogies
Of him. All that President
Johnson had done as the Chief
Executive Of tho United States
was familiar 10 the Banner bes
fore it ceased its eulogies,
If President Johnson were
really the officer and the
man now depicted by the Banner,
why did it indulge in such extrava-
CANT Qualifications ofhim ? Was it
sincere in its long continued and
ardent defense of him, or was it
only innocently indulging in hto
tie of that "adroithess of tactics
which induced it in May last to
express itself Gin favor Of seeing
returned to the General Assembly
such Republicans as Mr.. Roach,
MIA. V. S. Lindsey, Mr.. Fletcher
and others of that liberal school,"
those gentlemen being then under
stood by the Banner to be "for
Stokes for Governor 2" 1t was only
Six weeks before the last election
that the Banner thought that if the
Legislature were sail Republican
SO much the better, as there will
be fewer jealousies, old records,
old feuds, old issues, old bones OF
contention, to distract the members
thereof from graver legislation. y
Three days later we have the
following: --aa f. Ha.. .- 7.
| We say again, and we say it in all earn
estness and sincerity that it is our sober
| and deliberate conviction that it would be
| best for us all if the next legislature
should be exclusively Republican, provid-
ed it is decently and periodically Repub-
| lican, than that 1t should be miscella.
| neous chaos of all creeds and dogmas.
| Better to let the old firm assume the liza
biIities, close the books and settle up the
old business, before we begin to rush up
the new sign. Since we are stalking 30
heavily on the issue, now that We are per-
mitted 10 see the trump cards in each
hand of the players, we can more safely
hazard our little on the outside, than by
ysingloriously and conceitedly demanding
to "play the hand ourselves" Otherwise
there will be trouble.
| A day later We have the follow
ing: 10
Il SPARE US, GOOD LORD
Republicans will furnish major ity Of
the Assembly. Who'll send US sharp,
active minority Pres and Times.
If anybody does, we shall begin to ber
lieVe the fools are not all dead yet, and
pray very earnestly for an epidemic. We
have had enough of minorities-enough Of
minority reports, and the gssconade and
rhetorical Vaporings Of champions who
could do US no earthly good but talk. We
do not need any talk. We've had enough
Let the minority go into the woods and
bay the moon. The humbugs and shams
who may be fondly looking forward
10 good time in the mex
Assembly, ventilating their beautiful
records to the admiring galleries and
through the newspapers, will be disap
| pointed. So far as this journal is con
cerned, we announce at the outset thai
we shall not be guilty of the ain Of en-
coursging demagogues, even on our own
side of the question, by occupying ouI
columns with their platitudes and COM
| monplsces. II it is all the same TO the
Press and Times, We prefer no minority
we prefer no opposition. Factious opPo'
sition is losing game TO us, hence We
have abandoned it.. II there is any minor
ity in the assembly, let it be one in favor
of perpetual Acknowledgement, AID as little
of that minority as possible.
| On the 10th of June, under the
heading, "a WICKED SELL AT
TEMPTED" the Banner declined the
request of "Msny Voters" to an,
nounce Gen. GeorgeJ J. Stubblefeld
native Tennesseean, an old line
Wing, and an earnest OppOser Of
Radicalism, as q candidate for the
State Senate.
On the 10th Of July, the Banner
published the announcement Of Col
Paramore as candidate for the
House of Representatives from this
county, and bespoke for him the
unanimous vote of the COnserya
tives and Republicans of this counr
ty, who have at heart the success
of the universal suffrage ticket. -
If this policy of the Banner had
succeeded, our Representatives,
Messrs. Rhea and Walker, would
now be in private life.
We are at q loss to know when
the Banner is in earnest, or when
il is practicing "the adroitness oil
tactics"
On the 10th day of April last,
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