Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-27

critically rogues' accounts however arttully |
balanced, and dissect the nervous system |
and measure the volume of Congressional |
patriotism with such nicely and so critic
ally, that fiber would not be destroyed !
nor an atom escape.
Referring to the condition by which
Johnson's defeat was effected, the |
Chronicle and Sentinel says ii may be |
styled Grants revenge, on account OF a
little late 'unpleasantness"
The Montgomery Advertiser, the old
Democratic organ at the capital of Ala
bams, says:
Eve desire emphatically TO express our
sincere regret that eX-President johnson
was not selected for the vacant Senatorial
seat. There was a speaking fitness In his
election under the circumstances, that we
did not believe the Legislature could pos
siblv overlook. After mourning the risk
of Impeachment in defense of the consti-
tuition and of the rights of the States,
compromising justice should have spoken
trumpet-tongued in his behalf to the hearts
and the brains ofall, who Yereso intimate
" concerned in the issues involved IN that
tremendous battle. 1t was due to An
drew johnson that he should have been
permitted to meet Sumner on the fioor OF
the Senate. We cannot now understand
how majority of the Tennessee Legisla-
ture could forego the satisfaction OF see
ing the fatted Massachusetts Calf expiring
under the avenging, butcher-hke steel OF
the remorseless ex-President.
The Atlanta Constitution, an able and
efficient organ Of Southern opinion, says:
''The intelligence came last week, that
Andy johnson was defeated by four votes.
He made gallant fight. Probably no
local event of the day has caused more
general interest. 1t shows that Andy is
still a power-that he is feared by the
Radicals, that he has some warm admirers;
that many think his day of usefulness is
not over. We had hoped for his success,
not that we think Andy has been fault
less, but because we believed him an
able and honest foe to Radicalism. The
secret of his defeat was plot formed
bv the weaker candidates. They double
teamed on him.
Andy had against him the ultra-Rebel ele-
ment, that he had fought during the war,
and the ultra-Radical element whose en-
nifty he has gained by fighting reconstruc-
ton Sc fiercely These elements united
and defeated him. 1t has
become the fashion to predict the politi-
cal death of a man because he gets soundly
whipped. 1t sometimes does happen.
But we question the rule. And we snail
certainly be much surprised if a man of
Andy's indomitable vitality, lively ambi-
ton, varied experience and big abilities,
viii stay permanently shelved by little
defeat. His pluck is too deep. 1t is bosh
to talk of burying Andy, unless he Is con-
tent to be tOomed. "
The New York HcrGIG, which claims
the honor of having first brought Grant
forward for the Presidency, says;
After a gallant fight in the Tennessee
Legislature, Andy johnson, as candidate
for the United States Senate, has been de-
feated by Henry Cooper, brother of Ed
mund Cooper, who was Mr. Johnson 5
private secretary in the White House. The
| decisive ballot stood-Henry Cooper 30,
Andrew johnson 81. Cooper, a member
Of the State Senate, is said to be an able
and rising politician Of the Conservative
school. We are disappointed in the re-
| suit. We had hoped and expected the
election of Andy johnson, and we desired
| it because he was the very man wanted
in the Senate at Washington to stir up the
impeachment Radicals, to expose their dc
Iinqucncies and coTnptions and 10 keep
| the fire up and The pot boiling.
but Andy has failed, and we have 10
lament his defeat We lament it because,
at his time of life, wefear il is the last of
johnson. He fell between two fires
between the rcmOrselessi Radicals and the
implacahle cx-Rebels who combined
against him. On both sides the record of
| Johnson was used to defeat him. The
| Radicals produced the record of his war
! with Congress and his impeachment; the
| ex-RcbcIs Haunted his Tennessee record
as Military Governor, his speeches to the
| NEGROES promising to be their Moses, and
| telling the Rebels that they must take
back seats; and his Washington record as
- Radical. including his reward of 500,
| coo. for the capture Of jeff. Davis and
| the hanging of Mrs. SuTratt. Among the
| chivalry Of the Tennessee Legislature this
was the objectionable offence, the hang
inc of Mrs. SurTatt No account was
| taken of the terrible excitement and con-
| slernatiOn in Washington at the time, and
the tremendous pressure upon johnson
against the conspirators in the Lincoln
murder, and especially against Mrs. Sur
| raft.
This is a strange ending of the pOliti,
cal life of johnson, considering his mum,
berless pardons to Rebels, beginning with
his twenty thousand dollar schedule and
ending in his final amnesty, which swept
the whole bOard-MasOn, SlideD, Jake
Thompson, jeff. Davis and all. But al
this did not suffice to atone for the hang.
ing of Mrs. Surratt. Yet Andy made
good fight, and would have won it but FOL
the fourteen remorseless Radicals dead sci
against him and dead set against Ether
idge. There is some comfort in the defeat
of Etheridge, for he has the reputation
of nothing better than a bag Of wind;
but we regret the defeat OF johnson.