Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-10-24
NO. WALLACE, ]
Andrew Johnson and the
Democracy.

President on the ticket headed by
Abraham Lincoln. The opposing
candidates were George B. McClel
Ian, a General in the Federal
army and George H. Pendleton, a
War Democrat. Exercising the
right OF free thought and free
action of which no suspicion of
,disloyalty had ever deprived them,
a number OF gentlemen of the
highest standing, among whom
were ex.Gov. William B. Camp.
bell and Col. Jordan Stokes of
Lebanon, Emerson EtheriJge, Bal,
ley PeytoD, Edward H. East, and
other prominent Union men, took
steps looking to the formation of
| a Mcclellan electoral ticket in
Tennessee. How that enterprise
prospered under :he fostering care
of Andrew Johnson, Military
Governor, is best told in the doc
uments which we append. The
first is extracted from a .commu-
nication to the Columbia Herald
of October Sth, 1869, which was
copied into the Nashville Banner
of Oct. 10th: #8b
"When he johnson was run.
ming on the ticket with Lincoln
10 1864, an effort was made to get
up a Mcclellan and Pendleton
ticket in this State. A meeting
was called for that purpose in
Nashville by Union men. An
drew johnson sent for the captain
of a company of East Tennes-
seeans, camped near the capitol,
to come to bis room in the capitol,
pulled money out Of his bocket
and gave him, told him to buy
whisky, make h5 men drunk and
break up that meeting-for che
would be damned if any such
meeting should be held in Nash
vile T. Accordingly, the drum
ken soldiers entered the ms eting,
bayonet in hand, and dispersed it.
"Ai."
Appended is certificate from
the author of the communication
which we have just quoted:
COLUMBIA, Sept. %, 1872.
"The article copied into the
Nashville Banner from the Colum-
bia Herald, in reference tolthe
outrages Of Andrew Johusohl du-
ring his military reign at Nash
vile, was written by me and
my authority for that part of ii
which charges Andrew johnson
with having inspired the mob and
directed the breaking up of o
meeting of loyal citizens, conf
posed in part of soldiers OF the
Federal army, who were simply
exercising the privilege of Ameri-
can treemen in a ticket for sup
porting a President different from
the one he was running ON, was
Mai. j. ]. Moab, an officer in the
Federal army, and for some time
Attorney General of this Judicial
Circuit after the War. Maj. Noah
is now residing somewhere in the
North, and, if applied to, will, |
am sure, confirm my statement
of his report to me.
DAVID MeCAw." Y
Below is a letter from Hon. Ba-
lie Peyton. confirming the state
ments of Esquire McCaw:
"GALLAT1N, Sept. l4th, 1872.
DEAR SRI have received
your letter of the 9th inst, en-,
closing an extract from the Ban
ner of the 10th of October, 1869,
copied from the Columbia Herald
OF October Sth, 1869, relative to
the breaking up OF Mcclellan
meeting at Nashville during the
Presidential canvass of 1864; and,
in reply to your enquiries, state
that, soon after a Lincoln meeting
had been held at the capitol, a
Mcclellan meeting was called to
be held at the courthouse !; and
having consented to become an
electoral candidate on that ticket, |
| attended, with others, TO address
the meeting. An orderly crowd
assembled in an upper room Of 1
the courthouse, and soon after
candlelight the meeting was or
ganized, and Col. of the
U. S: Army (whose name 1lhave
lorgotten) address d the meeting.
After the Colonel concluded a
very temperate and respectful
speech, arose to address the
meeting, but before l had time TO
commences speakinga United States
officer, with a file of soldiers
dressed in uniform, with muskets
and bayonets, rushed into the
room and with a loud voice, ut
tering oaths and threats, denounc.
ing those assembled as damned