The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-23

johnson made speech He put in bid for
a 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. vevet-cushoned arm chairs-for
the present at least. He said he was not
in Knoxville for the purpose of making a
studied address. 1t is pity he had not de-
voted a little time to the study of what he in
tended to say-if he intended to say anything.
He declared that a 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 him
self at the tail, if anywhere. 1t was Parson
Brownlow's revolution, not Andy Johnson S,
and from the love the twain bear each other
it will be like an attempt to reunite
the Siamese twins after they have been
once carved asunder, and expect that
their flesh will again join and their blood in
termingle naturally in the veins of each, as to
imagine that Brownlow and Johnson will
again become sealed in n common bond Of
fellowship. BE that as it may, however, Andy
johnson has planted himself upon a rotten
platform-a platform upon which no honest
man should ever expect to be elected to the
United States Senate. He has evoked the
skeleton of a regal empire based upon our
national debt, and he eXclaims. preserve
the republic: let the debt 60 This is re-
pudiation 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 repudiators punished
by being left severely alone in the distri-
button of the honors and emoluments of
official station. Andy johnson ought to
have the gumption to know that the true
way to save the republic is for the repub-
lie to pay its 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
coniure up, but not until then And thank
the Lord and the good temper of our tax
paying citizens, such an event is as remote as
the sound of Gabriels trumpet. Further
more Andy Johnson seems to be in a muddle
about the fifteenth amendment, allowing ne
grOes to vote. lie does not seem to cOmpre-
hend that that amendment is a foregone con-
culsion, that it is fixed fact. and that the
sooner it is looked squarel v in the face as such
the better for such States as are likely to be
most affected by its operations. The conser-
vatives in Virginia accepted it, and elected a
Governor and a 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 portions of the conservatives in
Texas. Hence, so far as the three outstaud-
ing States are concerned. there is nothing in
the fifteenth amendment that should create
much of an outcry, and 50 far as Andy John
son and Tennessee are concerned there is
nothing in it that either himself or the peo-
pie of his State, whom he has for 50 many
years represented in various 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 consideration,
we rather think Andy johnson will be found
wanting in his claims for the United States
Senate when the time comes to test his popu.
larity upon his reputation and anti-suffrage
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