Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-03-13

see Tor our next COVCrnOrI we can
not-others may do as they please.
Well, but says another, do you not
wish Andy johnson may be the next
Governor Of Tennessee? We answer,
we do most sincerely do we wish 1t.
You ask again, why, If you wish his
election, do you not advocate his
nomination by the conservatives
democrats, If you see proper)? We
answer, simply because such q nomi-
nation insures his defeat. Well, but
YOU say he ought to run. Yes-and
wesay so, too--but upon his own line,
and not upon ours. He can not be
elected by our choice, because we have
no choice. Why, then, shall we at
tempt to deceive our people? Andy
has to clean out his own "Augean
stables" in Tennessee (for the filth is
his own deposit), before he can call on
us to help him. We believe, sim
cerely believe, that Andy wishes to
'restore himself, or be restored, to
practical relotions" with the people
of Tennessee, and of the entire South;
but the restoration is his act, not ours.
He wandered from US, not we from
him. If he wishes to return to the
land of his fathers, and become one
of us in fact and i'm truth, we say
amen TO it. We do not propose a
quarrel with him, nor even an argu-
ment now, as to who was right-he
or we. The time for this has past
We do not wish TO rub the scabs Off
of old sores. Let them heal up,
never more to be opened. But we
wish to say this, and it is not worth
while to be mealy -mouthed about 1t |:
Andy Johnson Is not now a represen-
tative man of the people of Tennessee.
You ask, then, can representative
man be elected Governor, and ought
one to be nominated. We answer to
both interrogations, no. Why? Be-
cause the people-the real people-the
landholders and the tax payers are
DISTINGUISHED and cannot vote, conse-
quently they cannot elect anybody,
and ought not to nominate anybody.
What, then, you say? Why, let
Andy and his progeny fight it out.
If he can stand it, we can. And to
insure vigorous fight, we suggest to
the Legislature now in session to dis
franchise Andy, and disqualify him
from holding office before they ad-
journ. They have the power to do
1t, and we will not be surprised If they
exercise 1t. Let them and Andy fight
| il ought. We had ne hand in the
organization of the State government
nor in the formation of political
parties in Tennessee. We were eX-
cluded. We were considered rebels
-aliens-barbarian unfit
to vote or to hold office, although we
surrendered (the last of a fOrlorn
hope) to General Sherman, and swore
that we would support, protect and
defend the constitution Of the United
States and the laws made in pusu-
ance thereof which we have faith
fully kept in fact and in truth, in let
ter and in spirit. We say this, not OF
ourselves alone, but of thousands OF
others in the State, who are now
treated as "boasts of burden" for the
favored few.
Can Andy relieve us from this state
of oppression and degradation p
Does he wish to do 1t? If he wishes
to do 1t, the way Is open to him. We
can't help him, even though we
might desire it--because our hands
are tied-we can't vote. The fact is,
the people in Tennessee are in a
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and has yet to be fixed. The strings
are tied on us, and as Andy helped
to tie them, perhaps he may be tho
best man to unite them, for he under
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