Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-17
ANDREW JOHNSON AND THE Az
AUANCEHE.

What, says the Memphis Appeal, has An
drew johnson done since April that has SO
turned the head of our neighbor of the Aoa-
lanche against. him (? If he would do then,
he will do now. On the ID of April, 1863,
our neighbor said:
'Andrew johnson was not born with
silver spoon in his mouth. He detests cod
fish aristocracy He did not stalk into the
world on the stills of the First Families,
and never had the support OF influential
connections. He has never been proppeu
I'M. like a barrel, on three bean stalks. God
Almighty created him peculiar genius,
and sat him down on stump, there to talk
and speak, and be a peoples man. having
sprung from the people, he knows what
the people want and what IS to their inter
est He has no taste for It'd bits, sylaouos
and ambrogia, but loves bacon, greens, cab
bages and honiny. Everything he says
strikes homo to the heart of the masses,
the yeomen Of the hills, the plebians OF the
hollows, who whistle ms they hoe com and
sweat as they split rails. "
That is certainly a good man for the peo-
pie who knows so well from sympathy what
the people want. If he came cut of the
Presidency poor, there is no harm in that.
A great many people are poor, and it is
rather mark of honesty than otherwise
a badge Of honor, Just now. Again on the
DIST of April. 1869. our neighbor spoke as
follows
''We give place this morning to an elabo-
| rate ANALYSIS of the character and
peculiarites, we might say the lido
syncracies, of ex-President JOHNSON
and his administration. We think
| it scarcely does him justice in making
him the aggressor, when, in fact, he was
| but the defender of the great principles OF
| the constitution, and his own fame, from
| the most ruthless and continuous assaults
| that determined, factious zeal could de-
| clare. We did not think him, ''Out OF
| place in the Presidential chair" On the
| contrary, he was eminently fitted for 1t.
| His knowledge of the science of govern
| ment. his familiar acquaintance with par
| ties and public men, his incorruptible hon
| esty, admirably qualified him for its ard1-
| Gus and complicated duties, made more
| onerous by the Vaccinations of an unscru-
| pulous and usurping Congress, intiamed by
| what it was pleased TO consider his obsti-
nate and contumacious opposition to It's
| encroachments on the rights of the people
and the coordinate departments of the gov
| eminent. What should we have done,
what would have become of us, if he had
succumbed, or his place had been occupied
by one less resolute, or more tractable and
willing to swim with the current wherever
| it might float him. Howsoever the mere
diplomatist or politician may have objected
to the bold, frank and open course he
adopted in conformity with his nature and
whole political career, all who love their
country and its noble institutions, and
trembled at the dire assaults imperilling
them, gratefully admired the Spartan firm
ness with which he met every shock, and
stayed, if he did not turn back, the tide o.
revolution. The writer of the article which
| is taken from the Atlanta Constitution, O
the 10th inst, does him no more than sim
pie justice in attributing to him unimpaired
undiminished influence with the people
and the elevated position he still occupies
despite the curious and envenomed shaft
of calumny and the various arts and effort
to destroy that influence. 1t is not claimet
for the ex-President that he is perfect, o
is not liable to human errors, but his hon
esty and integrity are above reprOach, an
his people will not consent that So muc
energy, so much experience, and such In
{ | domitable will, shall subside into the mer
6 quiet country gentleman, when a life {
such public usefulness is yet reserved fo
| him