Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-31

;. ford county will ever say, Well done, tn,
good and faithful servant. In voting {
J. Mr.. johnson first, last, and all the time,
e did his duty, for in so doing he reflect,
n the wishes and sentiments of large m
o jority of those who elected HIM TO the Legi
|, lature. Unlike other members, who,
. total disregard of the viii of their constitl
: ency. voted against Mr.. johnson to graft
y their own party prejudices, thereby helpin
: to bring upon the anti-Radical party
ayowed candidate and champion disgrac
3 and defeat, he, waving all personal prefel
D ences under the heavy and embarrassin
: circumstances brought to bear, stood u
like man and did the viii of the people
: For this act of devotion to duty they neve
, will forget him.
Ii HONOR TO WHOM HONOR Is Mot
. | withstandine DR.. Russell, (the Represents
tive from Rutherford and Bedford) up t,
the last ballot, voted for MIR. Ewing @
Rutherford for United States Senator, il
compliment to Mr.. Ewing and portion O
his constituency, yet, in the trying hour
when the foes Of Radicalism had combined
together to defeat Mr. johnson, the
peoples choice, and had succeeded in de-
coyipg off from Mr. johnson some of those
who had voted for him, and who were
looked upon by their constituents as anti
Radical and incoTTuptible, he stood, like
the surf-beaten rock, firm and immovable,
and voted for Johnson. Had others who
were there representing the people
followed his noble example and discharged
their duty, all would have been well; but,
Judas-hke, they betrayed their constituent
| cy by going over to the ranks OF the enemy
in the hour of need
| PoLIcY MEN.-We have in view some
men who are trying to sail with the doIni-
nant party. In the late senatorial contest
we knew men who professed to be the
strong friends and defenders of Mr.. John
son, and who were, at the same time, Sc
cretly stabbing him in the back through
the columns of the Nashville Banner, the
acknowledged organ of the opposition party
in Tennessee. While our Judgment was
convinced at the time that such was the
fact, yet we were 10th to think that it was
so. But since the result of the senatorial
contest has been made known, said indi-
yiduals have publicly declared that they
had done these things. These men may
attain to political distinction at the hands
of the Radicals, but we doubt their ability
to ever again obtain the support and con-
fidence of the anti-Radical party.
Had Andrew johnson been successful
these men would have been found on the
side of the successful champion of the
people. They never would have divulged
the fact that they did all in their power to
bring about his defeat. Such men are not
to be trusted III the public councils of the
nation. The people have had enough of
political gamblers. They demand honest |
men who knowing their duty dare openly |
maintain. Ergo we write their political |
obituary in one short sentence;
The end of the political deceiUer is polit- |
ical death.
From the Albany Argus
That Andrew johnson still retains the |
confidence of the people of his own State |
is evidenced by the efforts which many of |
them have made to elect him to the United |
States Senate, and the number of votes |
which were recently cast for him in the |
Senate. The fight which his |
friends made in his favor and the peril |
nacity with which they advocated his |
claims, notwithstanding the desperate eff |
forts that were made to defeat him by his |
enemies in all parts of the country, are con
elusive evidence of the ex-President's pop
ularity and future vitality. Although |
beaten upon this occasion, it is highly /
probable that Johnson will yet live to
plague his enemies, and retain the conf |
dence of the people of his own section suf-
ficiently to enable him to prominently as
sist in the death of Radicalism in Tennes-
see and elsewhere. Such a doughty de-
fender of the constitution, and of State
and popular rights, will not be permitted
to sink into oblivion as quickly as his Radi-
cal detractors may desire.
From the Selma tAlA-) Times, eyt ~.
When we contemplate the fact that the
battle for constitutional liberty is not yet
ended. that the usurpations of the Radical
party have not been discontinued, but are
on the increase, and know that Mr. John
son reveres the constitution and could not
be bribed to join in the Radical usurpa-
tons, we confess that we would have re-
ioiced to know that the Tennessee Legisla-
ture had deputed him to once more do bat
tie to preserve what is left of the constitu-
ton. When we remember that Morton,
Yates, Chandler, Pomeroy, Wilson, and
others of the impeachers, are still in the
Senate, we desired to see Mr. johnson re-
turned to that body that he might hold these
men 20 severe account
That he is honest, able and competent
is unquestioned; that his return to the
Senate would have been thorn in the side
Of the Radicals that would have agonized
them, We have not a doubt, and that his
defeat is their sweetest consolation, they as
good as admit. Mr. Johnson has been
by the Conservatives coalescing
with the Radicals, and his defeat is regarded
by Radicalism, in and ont of Tennessee, as
a great victory for them.
From the Harrisburg pa Patriot
Perhaps no event since the election of
MIR. Buchanan as President of the United
States has afforded John W. Forney such
heartfelt Joy as the recent defeat of ex-
President johnson for the United States
from Tennessee 1t takes an
entire column of his Press to give full ex-
preston to his gladness. Nor is his exul-
tation to be wondered at Not only has a
political opponent been worsted, but For
ney and his co-conspirators against the
peace and dignity of the Republic, have
escaped the exposure of their dark and
devilish plots to overturn the constitution
which no man in the Union could have
made but Andrew johnson. Democrats
and other honest and decent people,
therefore, regret the defeat of the ex-
for the very reasons that furn-
ish such miserable spoilsmen as Forney
occasionfor rejoicing.
But the great Tennesseean is not dead yet
The savage Joy of Forney over what he
fondly imagines the political end of Andrew
will yet be turned to bitter pain.
If a smiling Providence permits the ex-
President to live a few years longer, he will
yet be heard from in the councils OF the
republic. He will be elected to succeed
Brownlow, OF will be sent to the lower house
of Congress from his own district. The
mighty spirit which deied the whole band
of radical knaves at Washington, will yet
alike over his own enmies and
those of constitutional government.
From the National InteIlgencer, Oct. y.
Ever since the name of President John
son was first used in connection with the
vacant senatorship in Tennessee, and so
long as there seemed a strong probability
that Mr.. johnson would be elected to fill
the vacancy. the Radicals, from very dread,
have experienced continuous nightmare,
and borne themselves from day to day
with fear and trembling In the defeat Of
Mr.. johnson, therefore, and the election Of
Mr.. Cooper, they breathe again, the night
mare is over, and they seize an early oppor-
tunity to formally express in resolutions
the load that has been lifted from their
minds, and to thank God that the appre-
hended expose which Mr.. johnson would
have made if elected to the Senate has been
prevented.
On Saturday evening last it seems that
some Tennessee Radicals and other uneasy
men met at one of the hotels in this city,
for the purpose" as set forth by the
Chronicle. "of expressing their gratitude
for the defeat of Andrew Johnson" THE |
parlors were filed to overlooking" con-
Times that journal, "by the friends of the
Republicans from Tennessee, which indi-