The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1869-09-09
ANDREW JOHNSON.
Why He should be sent to the
Senate by the People.
From the New Orleans Times.

From the New Orleans Times.
We regret an effort on the part Of
certain political managers and aspirants
to defeat the just expectations Of the
people of Tennessee for the election OF
the eX-President to the United States
Senate.
The opposition to 'And' is based on
two very opposite and antagonistic
grounds.
The first is an appeal to Confeder-
ate preiudices, and refers to his yio-
lent course and sentiments, toward
the South during the war. The second
springs from an apprehension that his
appearance in tue Senate will cXasper-
ate the Radicals and Grant, and pro-
woke further measures Of hostility
against the South.
Neither appears to US to be justly
founded and wisely urged.
That Andrew johnson was violent,
extreme and even yindictivc, during
the war, when that war was wagcd as
he believed, for the Union and the pre-
servaton otrepublican principles, may
be admitted without desparagement
of his consistency and honesty how
much soeyer it may be censurable on
the score of temper and moderation.
He is Justly entitled to large charity
in view of his deep and earnest con.
victon of the right and justice of his
cause, and ofthe iminent peril of the
country. His eXcesses were those ofa
sincere, honest, intense man and even
his bitterest eremics, and the largest
sufferers from his violence now that
the war has closed, and all its sad
memories and exciting passions are
sought to be obliterated, ought to par
don the same in consideration of his
honesty. That honesty has been at
tested as that of no other of the prom
incnt chiefs in the war has been. 1t
has stood the trial and come forth
with lustre which ought to cast into
the shade of oblivion, all his violent
and prosecuting deeds and words. 1t
has furnished an ample justification or
palliation for even his exccsses. He
has shown that with him it lcally was a
war for the Union and republicanism
and not for scccsion:.lism, for the North
and negroes. What the others falsely
and hypocritically pretended, he has
shown was by him sincerely felt and
faithfully acted out. We may forgive
in him what ought never to be forgiv
ell in them, for they did violent and
outrageous acts under false pretenses
and for ignoble ends; what he did and
said of like character were prompt
ed by honest convictions and for wor-
thy purposes. And now we find equal
ly positive, tenacious and uncompro-
missing in combating his false and
faithless allies against the South in the
war for the Union, as he was in that
contest against our section. They pro-
pose to abandon, ignore, to prove trail
tors to the cause, for which he fought
and ne now turns upon them the wrath
which once blazed so iiercely against
the South. 1t is events, the relations
of parties, the views and passions cor
rupt false and hypocritical politicions
and time servers, who have changed
not Andrew Johnson. He stands
now where he did in the Senate OF the
United States in 1861, when he was
the only brave and defiant combatant
and fearless adversary of the fierce and
powerful Southern leaders of the Sc
cession movement: where he stood at
Nashville in 1863-4-5, and SO heroic
ally resisted the "rebel host" A man
with this record will not appeal in vain
to the generosity, magnanimity, sym
psthy and confidence ofa people Of the
South, who are not prone to revenge
full feeling toward those who have even
been violent and extreme, but honest
and consistent IN their warfare.
AS to the second ground OF opposi-
ton to Andrew johnson it is hardly
worthy of q brave and manly party or
people. That he will not please the
Radicals that he will excite their bitter