The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-11-06
ANDREW JOHNSON NOT DEAD.

Those who fondly hoped that the recent
defeat Of johnson for Senator, by the Ten.
nessoe Legislature, would thoroughly lay
him out as q politician, and consgn him to
that privacy which they know he is not cal.
cuIated for, are doomed to disappointment.
be is not OF that class who surrender on
one, or two, defeats. His fondness for po-
litical life and his irrepressible vigor, give
him wonderful elasticity and recuperative
energy, 80 that when the Radicals begin to
congratulate themselves on his disappear,
ance from the political arena, he is only
girdng himself for a fresh onslaught.
1t is virtually settled that Tennessee is to
have convention to frame respectable
constitution for the State. To this it il said
Mr.. johnson will certainly be seat as del.
egate, as no combinations of scheming poll.
ticians can stock the cards on him in pop,
ular election. A Nashville correspondent
of the Louisville Courier.Journal, writing
that paper on Tennessee politics, and allud-
ing to the determination Of the people of
his county to send him to the constitutional
convention, thus speaks of Mr.. johnson and
his political prospects
The people Of his county want him to be
their delegate and he is not the man who
refuses to sacrifice his private interests for
the public good, so he will 60 to the coaven.
ton and help fix up the constitution. He
will have friends in the convention, and thew
will press him, aud he will press himself for
presiding officer. Then will come the TUG
of war, and olangor of resounding skulls.
There will be no peace for the wicked, and
the righteous will be pretty well stirred up.
There Will be pulling, hauling and sweating.
and swearing, and cauousiAk, aud arguing,
and mud throwing, and defaming, and bull
lying, and Dragging, and clustering. and
brow beating, and betting, and buying, and
bambooziing, and bsntering, to get him off
the track, but the more they try to get him
off the more he will stay on. That ia one
of Johnson's little peculiarities.
If he presides over the deliberations Of
the constitutional convention, and aids that
important body by the wisdom of his coun.
sells and benefit Of his experience. he will
stand number.one chance to receive upon
his shoulders the mantle of Brownlow when
that illustrious man shall change the trials
OF this world for the comfort of the next
The parsons health is very poor. and he
must soon pay the debt of nature. which
will leave vacancy in the senate, and
johnson will be on hand to fiji il. His
friends say that be was cheated out of the
position this time, and whenever a vacancy
occurs he must have it. His friends are
working set of fellows, and be is a working
fellow himself, and between the two bis
chances will be good. Besides, Cooper will |
be out of the way, and his brother, Edmund.
can come back to his first love.
Bot suppose Brownlow chooses to live his
term out, and not give up the
yhost for the next FIVE years, then what
IN such IN event congress will receive the
Test impsaohed, and not the senate 1t is
lresdy rumored that Andy will settle in
Nashville for the purpose of run ing for
ongrsss from this aistriet. Il 10 said that