Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-27
HOW JOFUNSON's DEFEAT Is RE


dozen OF Radicals in 4he Legislature made |
easy work of il when their small force |
could decide the fortunes of the day,
and thai they paid the ex-President 'for |
his betrayal of them in 1866" BY "be-
trayal, ? the Chronicle has reference to
the fact that johnson threw himself into |
the breach when the Radicals were trying
to subvert the government.
The Chicago Journal, one of the most
malignant Radical sheets in the North
west, is delighted that johnson is defeated,
The New York Tribune, the great Rad
ical paper of the North, is overjoyed at
the result of our Senatorial election, and
exclaims; 'Hye congratulate the country
on the defeat of Andrew johnson as
candidate for United States Senator.
The New York Times, which has he
come intensely Radical since the death OF
Mr.. Raymond, exclaims "The capital
and the country exult in the consciousness
of a great deliverance And this Radi-
cal organ is further comforted, for it says:
''The same combination which sends
Johnson to Greeneville and Cooper to
Washington is capable, under proper man
agement, Of grinding the affairs of the
Legislature and making it a source OF
strength to the Union rather than an oc-
casion of annoyance and injury" How
hopeful this Radical organ!
The Philadelphia Press, the most i'm
placable hater of every body and every
thing Southern, except a scalawag and
negroes to vote for earpet-baggers, is so
delighted over the defeat of the eX-Presi-
dent, that it can scarcely find words to ex-
press its joy. Listen how this reviler of
the South reioices:
"The country win say Amen, to the
verdict of the Tennessee Legislature Z
! But johnson has undergone another trial,
not less interesting to the political student
| than that beforethe bar of the Senate. His
ambitious effrontery caused him to arraign
| himself before the Legislature of his own
| State That Legislature was precisely
| such an one as he could wish for. 1t was
a fraud upon the loyal people of Tennes-
sec 1t was composed in great part of
rebels and political trimmers-a jury
1 packed for his benefit. lie presented his
/ claims with characteristic adrOitness. His
gold was measured to the doubling, his
| threats were levelled at the stubborn, his
dattery was lavished upon the time-serv-
| ing. Time was an element of success,
| and time was given.
| We look upon the humiliation of the
! Great Accident as the more complete
because, when he left the Executive chair
and the circles he had neither edited nor
ornamented, he confidently appealed to the
! people of his own State for Yindicati0n.
| lie went home to meet his reward. "
The St. Louis Republican, the old
Wing organ Of Missouri, says in its issue
Of Oct %:
''Hemy Cooper was yesterday elected
/ United States Senator by the Tennessee
! Legislature, defeating cX-President John
/ son. This Is a result which will undoubt.
edly prove a disappointment TO the great
mass of Conservatives throughout the
United States; for, though Mr. Cooper
| will probably vote the same as Mr. john
! son would. there was a very general feel
| ing that the latter, by his manly defense OF
| the Constitution. against all Establishments
| and threats. deserved to be sent as Sena-
tor to confront those who had conspired
| 90 deprive him Of his office rs President
The Cincinnati Eayuirsr, the organ of
! AIr. Pcudlcton in Ohio, says:
..TEr fact that the Democracy through
ont the country were warmly for Mr.
johnson, and that they have through the
press SO expressed themselves, was,
strangely enough, used as an argument
against him, and helped 10 insure his de
feat. Bat cur Tennessee friends, in their
determination not to please the Demo
| cratic outsiders, have done this, they have
| pleased the Republican outsiders. Moth
me has reioiced the latter more since the
defeat of Mr.. Pendleton than the failure
| If Andrew johnson in Tennessee =
The Republicans-that Is, the thick and
thin RadiCals-wOuld have gone for OId
! Nick himself rather than have the dreaded
| Andy return to the Senate. lie knew too
much for them. and would have exposed
their rottenncss and the hypocrisy Of their
| leading Senators, which was well known
10 him while President There is
| one feature in this election which is
| laurhable or not, as the readermay choose
| TO view it. That is, that those processing
the most violent opposition to the Repub-
Ifcan party have done their best 20 con
| tribute TO its delight and satisfaction, eth
| cr from want of knowledge Of its views,
or from old personal feelings of resent
mcnt, which they allowed to play into its
hands.
The Macon (Ga) Telegraph, an old
Democratic organ, says:
Last nights dispatch from Nashville
gives us the Notifying intelligence of the
| defeat of Andrew johnson for United
| States senator, in the Legislature Of Ten
| nessee. The writer is too familiar with
! the people of Tennessee and their attach
| mcnt to Mr. Johnson, 10 believe otherwise
| than that their Representatives have gross
| lv misrcpreScnted them in this matter. Il
! | IS the first defeat Andrew johnson even
, sustained in that State, and if the Sena
| torial question had been submitted to q
vote of the people he would have been
70 elected by twenty thousand majority Over
r all opposition.
p The indianapolis Sentinel, the old
Democratic organ Of Indiana, says
{ eve hoped that Andy would have sue.
cendei. As Senator, his services would
have been of great value to the country,
and besides, thorn in the side of the
d 1 IL