Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-23

WE have before US q somewhat f1llel
report of the speech OF Andrew johnson
at Gsllatin than we have hitherto pub
lished, which we find in the Union Gnc
american, under the caption "SpeecI
from ex-President Johnson-POwerful ar.
gument for Constitutional Government
After a careful reading, we are al a loss
to find the powerful argument" except
in the enunciation Of q few truisns
which everybody understood and be.
lieved before. The speech reminds US
rather forcibly Of the occasion when &
certain advocate was asked by a judge he
was addressing, to have the politeness to
proceed on the presumption that the
court knows something" After wearing
his audience out pretty thoroughly, re-
captivating in decentralization the
record of Andrew, which nobody
was assaiIing, he insisted on,
and produced an abundance OF
high authorities on constitutional gov
eminent to show that a constitution is
the fundamental law, Containing the
principles on which the government is
founded, and regulating the distribution
of sovereign powers" He thought Con-
stitutions were made by authority of the
people, and could only be changed by
them. He said there were three forms Of
government, democracy, s~ristocracy and
monarchy. He defined Democracy as
being a government of delegated powers,
and said that of late, laws had been Gre
ated oppressive and in sntagonism to the
organic lsw of the land. he thought
the cardinal principles of Democracy
should be maintained, and that
now our political north star was OBJ
soured, and the whole people seemed to
be going psll-mell." These grave and
well established conclusions, hardly
needed repetition for the purpose of in
duencing a Democratic people, who were
not disposed to depart from them. Ger
not the supporters of John C..
from whose support it was the
Of the speech to bolt. And even in
Of f'my policy - he furnished no
plausible reason for such an Argument.
Proving himself a Democrat, which CON
Iumed half his time, did not call for that,
Except as a demsgogueism in which
.omething was to be gained by creating
dust, and mixing up truth with soph-
suns in order to render them more
He had always believed that
no State had been out Of the Union.
nd he reiterated the same opinion now.'
Ven, who doubts it, and what is the use
T that, when an argument is to be made
gainst the Brown PLATFORM Did he
ink.Mississippi a sovereign State in the
'nion when ne deposed her lawfully
lected governor and appointed VIM. L.
.hsrkey to rule In his stead2 He avoSsd
hat he chad seen n of the departments
Z the Government absorb all the others"
nd "the Judiciary quail and sink into in
.gnifcance," and that cardinal p.in-
pies to which he had referred" should |
, supported.
But what has all this to do with sup
orting my policy" against Brown,
i'd my GreenviIle resolutions against
le platform adopted in Convention by
10 honest ~suffrsges of his fellow clti-
ms? If Congress has absorbed the pow
s of the national executive and judiei-
y, did he, Andrew Johnson, do no abb
when, as Governor Of Tennessee.
ruled by the pretended voice Of only
le-tenth Of its people, and ruled as a
vereign dictator and tyrsnt too at that
" cardinal principles he asserts are
ne enough. But be sets the example Of
to them very badly. He
iither obeys the Constitution as the
1vernor OF a State, nor as a Democrat
g majority voice Of his party, in his re-
eet for it as a citizen. The fact is, That,
oagh nothing now but plain Andrew,
th respectable talents and defective ed
alton, his will Is imperial and jndomi-
BILE enough for 9 Caesar, and monarch Of
| he surveys he Is determined to be. He
u rule or ruin. How should so great a
an, in his own estsem, turn IKE Cincin-
tus to the pillow, and become once more
'lain citizen, and nothing bat a ~tolIns
srry Andrew at the honorable ave. (
lion Of the tsilor's benehY In his
rangues over the dignity of labor and
noble elevation of the dear people. he |.
" be eloquent OF grandilequent; but
will take better care of Andrew than
like a soldier once elevated by his
oslterns from the ranks, he should ever
urn to them again and become once
IRE 3 poor private and a plebsian, as lie :
s before the people trusted his prom
5 and believed his devotion great !
ough to share their disasters as well 40 {
receive their gifts, rejoice in their pros- :
,ity and wear the crown they had placed /
him. ar {
hey who think for themselves, the d
'ple Of q great State, their five h~undrea Z
egates selected from among the most s
and well informed citizens.
ny his peers and some his superionS
1ld not bow to the individual opinion
Andrew johnson, President, or An.
W Johnson, demagogue, johnson the /
ocrst or johnson the plebeisn, johnson 7
er or Johnson drunk. What a wonder
world is this, to betoken secession, n
and reconstruction Surely
world is going "pell-mell." Ia view
this ALARMING QaIunnffv AZ, -z.