Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-25
ANDREW JOHNSON.
He lnveighs Against the New Departure
He Would Make Property Pay the
Public Debt.
He{DeheuHees the Tariff, and Believes in
GOId-He is 10 Robust Health, and
Doesn't Love Grant

GREENvILLE, August %, 1871
The door was open. We stepped
from the street into the hall where
ex- President johnson received us.
The parl0r walls are adorned with a
few excellent engravings. A portrait
OF MIR. Lincoln and one of Mr.. John
son r side by side. The apartment
is small and the furniture by no means
costly. The ex-President enjoys robust
health. His step is more elastic than
when he was last in Memphis. His
face was beaming with good nature,
and he asked many questions about
his friends in your city. Colonel Will
liams congratulated him on his ex-
cellent condition. He said that he
was busily employed in improving
his property about the village and
that Greenvilie contained some eX-
celIent books. When l said that Mem.
phls, II the people could endure for a
brief period burdens imposed by rail-
way builders, would soon boast of
half a million inhabitants, and that he
should dwell in the chief city of Ten
nessee. He,answ9red atherindefnite-
ly. Twas told afterWard that he re-
mained hereas a matter of duty. His
wife has long been an invalid and Mr.. |
Johnson cares for her with the utmost
tenderness. His local attachments
are strong, but when he said that he
went almost every day TO the railway
station, that he might see sometime
of the busy,world, and meet his friends |
and acquaintance from different |
States and cities, / thought I detected
in the confession a share of WEAKNESS
with his mOnotOnous modes of life in
this secluded village.
POLITICS.
Finally reference was made to chr.
rent political events. 1t was remarked
that the result of the recent Ken
lucky elections illustrated the folly of
those who proposed TO abandon the
creed Of the Democratic, and accent
that of the Radical party. The Dem
ocratic press and candidates in Ken
lucky adhered 10 the Seymour plat
form OF 1868, and surely had lost moth.
ing by inhexible devotion to principle.
Mr.. johnson said that however cor
rupt party leaders, became, we could
not despair Of the Republic until the
masses of the people assented to the
exchange Of principles for spoils.
The new departure; departure! DE-
APRTUREli Departure from what? u
It departure from principle, from the
s0untry's organic law, from theories
we have cherished through all the
,ountry's history? 1t is a shameful
confession by Democracy that if the
will give no offices, we will,
Democrats, administer the
as disastrously to free
iom and constitutional law as those 4
Who propose TO obliterate State lines.
md that we fought for, in order toI
the Union. How often shall [
We make departures? Morton has
made another. Shall we follow? It i
the purpose Of the present masters
I the country to destroy our present Il
Orm Of government. The Ku-Klux
i'll was designed 60 prevent, If ne 9
essary, the participation Of those O
tates in the next Presidential cleo 9
ion. HG6eGS corpus viii be suspend 4
d and armies ordered into the South. I
intellect is a narrow one. He :,
utterly devoid Of genius and want c.
lg in intelligence. He has daring,
aultlng ambition and would sacrifice 2
million men and laws and oaths and Ii
rganle law 20 retain the s'emptysi \
lace he Ills. II we succeeded In car 3.