Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-26
ANDREW soN.
His Political TerglVersatIons, Luck and
caiamItIes---HIs Last Dodge.

| lectual giant. His passions are
strong and great like his massiye
intellect. His enemies, having intel
ligence and truthfulness, have never
denied him these extraordinary en-
dowments. In business life he has
been singularly fortunate in maintaining,
as he deserved, a spotless reputation. Be
yond all this we AVE never doubted tbat
Andrew JOhnson's first and strongest
native impulse directs him TO es-
pouse the cause of the many against
the few, of the poor against the
rich. This proclivity was infinitely
stronger when johnson was not sc
now when history paints his portrait with
wondrous art, and fame syllables his
name among the nations.
THE APPEAL AND ANDREW JOHNSON.
Few have served Andrew johnson with
half the zeal and earnestness of those who
now and in former years have directed the
conduct OF the APPEAL. The APPEAL led
the way when Andrew JOhnson's head
was first visible beyond the mountains,
and was the first to crown with
honors the then Red Republican
Democrat. His first inaugural address
was the marvel Of the age. Hepro-
claimed the identity of Democracy and the
religion of our Savior, and the world was
amused oven as his party conceived his
zeal and extravaganza of expression, une-
%quiVocal evidence of his unalterabIe
fidelity to thetfundamental theories and
philosophy of Democracy. There was
no man il Tennessee, and despite occa-
sional c-oarseness or rudeness, who so
adroitly appealed to the passions, preju-
| dices and Instincts of the masses as this
self-same mobocrat from beyond the
mountains. He was always" to use
his own felicitous language, "going TO-
paTd the people, and nay competitor is
always going from the people," and he
could get down lower and wallow in as
filthy pools of hate and prejudice n ig-
norence as the most famous d-emagogues
of this or any age or country. de was
often sublime in the absolutely terrific
denunciations which he hurled at
the head of the hideous monster,
KnOw-Nothingism, and in this We
deemed Andrew johnson the peer
less exponent of Democracy, no less
worthy Of immortal honors than the il
Iustrious hero and statesman of Virginia,
Henry A. Wise, whodealt the foul end its
first deadly blow.
JoHNsoN's BECOMES A CRIME.
But johnson was ambitious as he was
| great. He supported B~reckinridge, and
they who dwelt in Heaven and saw fall
len angels at war with Omnipotenee and
Baneicence, were not more amazed than
we ourselves when Andrew johnson in
1901 leveled his first blows at those who
had never faltered in devotion to
himself, and had never questioned his
sincerity when he aroused Tennesseeans
everywhere to oppose the elevation of
Bell and Douglass. 1t happened, however,
that Andrew Johnson and Jefferson
Davis met in the Senate Chamber and
widely differed from n another in all
their instincts, tastes, early training
and modes of thinking. They had
only concurred in theories of gov
eminent that constituted the fun
damental creed of the Democratic
party, johnson and Davis. His private
letter to George W. Jones, stolen and
/ published by a Federal soldier, and writ
ten in the winter of 1901, tells us how
Johnson thought the fires of 'infernal
/ ambition were consuming the soul of the
Senator from Mississippi"
This trihing fact OF antipathy to Mr..
DAVIS had much to do with the subse-
uuent conduct of Andrew johnson. He
detested Davis, and not the less because
he thought Mr.. Davis the strongest man
! in the South, and the very impersOnation
! of the taste and moral and intellectual ex-
cellence of the South. Davis wa palpably
the strongest man in the coming cOnfed-
eracy, and thus was Johnson repealed.
There was another consideration that in
HuEuGb Lut dkIdAAdn obudbOls IO saw
that every great intellect, every
statesman and scholar, and every
citizen who rose above his fellows
and was distinguished as a statesman and
orator, and had won the affections and
confidence of the people, and was drawn
by q resistless force into the movement
that contemplated Southern identity,
unity and independence. johnson stood
alone. He became at once, when allied
Nth DnAsnnlfgnn nv AhnlttfnnTGnN TIM
strongest feature in the wonderful pic
ture presented at that hour by the kali
eidoscope of the cOuntry's fortunes. He
saw the opportunity, and seized and
welded it with all the adrOitness of a
lifelong thoroughly practiced politicians
and party leader.
HIS TRANSFORMATION.
He became, by a single summersault
the chiefest acrobat that wrought mira
cles in political and partisan transfOrma-
tiOns, and was only revealed 10y a New
Englander whose name is the synonym
Of personal and partisan pertidy. The
New Highlander betrayed a party, and
Johnson, a people and a party. Johnson's
was also a treason to himself. In advocacy
of Breckinridge's claims to the Presidency,
IN 1860 he had adopted and approved all
the theories expounded and pOpulariZed
by Mr.. Yancey, and subsequently illus
trated practically in the formation of a
new government at Montgomery.
HOW JOHNSON CLIMBED.
johnson may not be a statesman but he
is surely, at times, a prophet. His vati-
cinations, in 1S6O-I were fulfilled. He
was left alone, the sole representative OF
Southern Statehood in the highest coun-
ell chamber of American empire. This
fact of solitude made him most conspicu-
Gus. The South, fortunately for Johnson,
reviled and despised, and the North con-
sequently honored the great unwashed
Democrat, the natural enemy of the
'slavehOlding aristOcracy." 1t is even
wonderful, under such extraordinary cir
c-umstances, that johnson did not take
precedence of Lincoln in the Baltimore
Radical Convention, which declared him
its candidate for the Vice Presidency.
AN EPIToME OF WONDERS.
OF Johnson's drunken accession to
office, of Lincoln's death which forty mil
lions of Americans,deplOred, of the mem
orable revolt of. the President of the
Union against Thad Stevens autocracy,
of a rotten dead duck pelted by the taste
ful elOquence of a President, of magnif-
cent State papers of rude but unques-
toned power, of his unfortunate contest
with Cooper Tor the ~SeDatorship, in which
lie lost prestige and suffered his first
overwhelming defeat--all these recent
facts rise up before our memories familiar
as events of yesterday. 1t was a terrible
blow given the vanity of the "retired
Statesman ITO be beaten, and that too
by one indebted to himself for greatness.
Johnson deemed Cooper's election trea-
son dOubly foul. A party and a friend
had both proved false. Such was his SON
struction of facts that changed the whole
current Of MS feelings and purposes. He
began to reflect that his conduct in 1901
was not forgotten, that they who were
misled as to his purposes in the memora-
bic triangular contest for the Presidency
had not forgiven the wounds inflicted by
his betrayal of friends and party. Beaten
by Cooper, c~hagrined, full of hates
which tact repressed, the old monarch of
party who imagined that Tennessee and
all honOrs which Tennessee could lavish
upon her children were peculiarly his
own, went silently and sullenly away to
GreenVille. There was a settled fixed
purpose born when the disaster befel him
TO avenge he calamity. He was
again identified with the Democratic
party. He had led. and finally betrayed
the Republican party because he could
not brook the rivalry of Thad Stevens.
he demanded al undivided crown, but
Congress and Stevens sharing it, he sep
srated himself from those whom he had
used and sought strength at the hands of
the party which he had betrayed, defeat
ed and abandoned. For reasons defined
Andrew Johnson this hour claims the
support OF the Democratic party.
In our Linen Department we offer this
week a new lot of Richardson's Linens at
35c, also Dew Drop and Damask Doylies
at SIC per yard. MENREN BROS,
NEW stock Ribbons at
b. LOWENSTEIN 81 BROS.
NEW stock Jet Goods-Chains and Sets
cheap at r. W. JOHNSTON & CO.'S
CARPETS AND OIL CLoTHs.-New and