Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-11
PEN-PICTURES.
Andrew johnson and Isham G.. Harris,
Rs Painted BY the Courler-JOurnal.
Pictured TO the Life In COlOrs
that viii Never Fade-The One De.
Tended, the Other Betrayed,
the state.

From the Louisville Courier-Journall
There are many stories as TO the orig
| inRl quarrel between johnson and Hsr-
I ris. The likelihood is that a split was
/ inevitable. Tennessee was not big
enough FOR both Of them. They were
ambitious; they popular; they were
l able. They were bound to become rivals.
/ They did become rivals. Harris took
| the Southern chute early in the strug
/ gle. johnson, older and more cautious,
l wsvered. AT length the crash came.
\ Harris was an open, avOwed, daredevil
/ secessiOnist. Johnson was a tempOriZ-
I ing, cunning Southern Rights Demo-
erst. Harris made a square fight in
February, 1861, for the South, and was
sQuarely beaten. Johnson did not lift a
hand either way. He did not appear at
home. He remained at Washington CO.
quoting with both sides. There is not the
least doubt that, II Johnson had seen the
smallest show for il, he would have gone
into the Confederate movement. It is
easy to explain why he did not. East
Tennessee was the other way. He was
personally at outs with each one Of the
Confederate leaders. He had ouarreled
violently with JEFF Davis who hated
and despised him. He was detested by
his secession colleagues in the Senate.
There was no hope for him in the South
So, after having clung dOggedly to
Washington City, refusing all active as
sistsnce to the brave men who were
making a game fight in Tennessee, he
fell with the strong side-which, as far
as he was concerned, was the only prac-
ticable side-when the war began. We
a - ..H.. T.n-
total insincerity. There was a struggle /
in his mind. Unhappily, there is al
ways a struggle. He is a natural tenn I
pOrizeT, who can never be worked up to .
square issue unless his private 4
interests and personal feeling-his /
ambition and his piques-are directly .
involved. By habit, he was an ultra .
Southern-rights man; by nature, he is |
not a positivist, violently as he ex-
presses himself He thought Of Davis,
TOOmbs, WigfaN and Iverson, who ab-
sOlutely lOathed him. He thought Of
Harris, his Immediate adversary. he
thought Of East Tennessee, and, after
much and sore travail, he went for the
Union; became an invader, and per-
secutor, and, finally, reached the Presi-
dency. where he tried to fOrtify himself
and build up johnson party by COM
pelling the personal allegiance Of al the
and influential people Of the
South. He failed, as he should have
failed, and has since disgraced himself
not only by most undignified conduct as
. candidate for Office, but by shameless
and notorious private indulgence as 8
man.
Harris, on the other hand, took pot
luck with the South Of his choice. He
Is an impulsive, warn-hesrted, ccurag-
eoUs man, open and intrepid, but with
Al, possessing judgment OF no mean or
der in business and in affairs. A truer,
} more genial, more generous, a more
more vigorous man, is to
be found nowhere. johnson calls his
light from Nashville "dastardly.n It (
nay have been precipitate; but its pre-
sipitatiOn had no reference TO his per-
,Onal safety. He was net merely 2
brave man upon the field, but a fool
hardy. He was more. He wss the
riend and companion Of that COnf-d-
rate soldier with whom Johnson in
yidiOusly compares him. His pres
nee at the front was synon-
rmOus with a coming battle. As
urely as be appeared upon the lines it
vas nuttered from one end OF l.,s army
]
There's going to be a fight, boys.n ,
Johnson says he ran away with the
chOOl fund and stole it. This is absO-
utely false; he carried it South; he pro-
ected it as il it were his life's blood; he
,rought every dollar OF it back in safety.
md JOhnson's friends-JOhnsOn's ap-
DOiDtees-stole it. Everybody in Ten ,
lessee knows how thzt was. But every !
'Ody does not know that johnson being
resident Of the United States, he was
,ppealed TO, entreated to do something
o say some little wOrd-fOr the relief Of I
tennessee at the critical moment Of dan
,er, and that he refused it. We make
his statement. We declare that Jshn- :
on not only betrayed Tennessee, but .
it TO bis own cowardice and
.mbitiOn; and we know perfectly well
What we are talking about.