The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-21
A.,dy John.on,s Platform.

ANDY JohnsOn's Platform.
Andy Johnson was serenaded at the Lamar
House in Knoxville the other night Andy
Johnson made speech. He put in bid for
seat in the United States Senate, and Andy
johnson put his foot in it-not in the Senate
Chamber, but in his prospects for reaching
those easy, velvet cushioned arm chairs-f0r
the present at least. We publish Andy's noe
tnrnal serenade speech. He said he was not in
Knoxville for the purpose Of making studied
address It is a pity he had not devoted a
little time to the study of what he intended to
say-if he intended to say anything He de-
clared that popular revolution had occurred
in the State. That is true; but he neglected
to state that Parson Brownlow was at the head
of that revolution and himself at the tail, if
anywhere 1t was Parson BrOwnlOw's revolu-
ton, not Aady Johnsons, and from the love the
twain bear each other it will be like an attempt
to reunite the Samese twins after they have
been once carved asnnder, and expect that
their flesh vii! again join and their blood inter
mingie naturally in the veins of each, az to i'm
agine that Brownlow and Johnson will again
become sealed in common bond of fellowship.
Be that as it may, however, Andy johnson
has planted himself upon rotten PLATFORM
platform upon which no honest man should
ever expect to be elected to the United States
Senate. He has evoked the skeleton OF regal
empire based upon our national debt, and he
exclaims, preserve the republic let the debt
CO." This is reputation in its worst form.
1t is treason to the credit and the honor of the
republic. As the ex-President declared
more than once during his Presidency that
treason should be made Odious and traitors
punished, 80 now respectable citizens will de-
mand that reputation be made odious and re-
pudiators punished-by being lett severely
alone in the distribution of the honors and
emoluments of official station. Andy John
son ought to have the gumption to know that
the true way to save the republic is for the rs-
public to pay it's debt. To repudiate it is paw
ing the way to bankruptcy, anarchy and
eventual ruin. Then may follow chaotic en-
pire such as a distempered Imagination might
conjure up, but not until then. And, thank the
Lord and the good temper Of our tax-payng
citizens, such an event is as remote as the
sound of Gabriels trumpet. Furthermore,
Andy Johnson seems to be in a muddle about
the fifteenth amendment, allowing negroes 10
vote. He does not seem to comprehend that
that amendment is foregone conclusion, that
il is q fixed fact, and that the sooner it is
looked squareIy in the face 80 ~'.."
tho hsttor for ocates as are likely
:. Ne most affected by its operations. The
conservatives in Virginia accepted it and
elected a Governor and Legislature upon the
ISSUE The conservatives Of Mississippi have
accepted it, and are prepared to act upon it,
The same may be said with regard to the re-
spectacle portion of the conservatives in Texas
Hence, so far as the three outstanding States
are concerned, there is nothing in the fifteenth
amendment that should create much of an out
cry, and so far as Andy Johnson and Ten
nessee are concerned there is nothing in it that
either himself OF the people of his State, whom
he has for so many years represented In vari
ons capacities, should make hue and cry about.
We shall be sorry to learn that the Southerners
are not able to manage the negro vote after it
shall become a merchantable article among
politicians like that Of other class voters in the
North and West. Taking all things Into con-
sideration we rather think Andy Johnson will
be found wanting in his claims for the United
States Senate when the time comes to test his
popularity upon his reputation and anti
suffrage platform.