Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-03

Dut bnls man, VINO was ut that time
A GREAT STRONG TAILOR,
and could have stood storm thout.mhinching, |
and could holler SO loud that You could have
heard him from California to the Gulf OF Mexi-
co-he wanted to die for his country, OF course,
but ne didn't 90 to Mexico. Then we come to
this last unfortunate war, but Andy johnson
was not yet in any hurry to wrap the flag around
MIN and die for his country.
You know he used to call the Democratic party
the ''Jacob's LADDER of the earth-claiming
tn at its foot was resting upon the earth, while
the angels were running up and down, because |
ne used the ladder himself (laughter). He |
climbed up that ladder, but when he wanted to
reach the Presidential chair, he
JUMPED LIKE A MONKEY
from this ladder to the Republican ladder and
went up behind Abraham Lincoln. (Laughter.) |
He has preached that he could hang every
man, woman and child in Tennessee. Do you
not call that coercion? Was he not coercing the
state when he struck down your Legislature?
Aqd yet ne has the impudence to come here and |
say he did not coerce the people of Tennessee:
Here the speaker was interrupted by perfect /
shower OF boqnets, thrown by group of ladies |
who occupied seats near the stand.
The Colonel was thrown into considerable en-
barrassment by this entirely unexpected COM |
pllment After thanking the ladies heartily,
saying that it was something unusual for an old |
bachelor to be thus treated, and that he would |
always hold them in grateful remembrance, he |
continued:
johnson says there is as much Democracy in |
him as there is in forty conventions say there |
AEGELIsM IN THE DEVIL.
Laughter and applause.l An old lady heard a |
preacher say that if man died in his sins, that
he would 60 to hell for while, and after he had
been there a certain length of time, in proper |
ton to the sins he had committed on earth, then |
he would be released and would go up TO heaven !
and live among the angels. The old lady says, |
"See here Mister if that is true, you would be
pretty looking singed cat 10 go into heaven,
wouldn't YOU" Laughter j After johnson has
filed the Presidential chair and all the positions
he in he Ffv ba
be a
PRETTY LOOKING sINeED CAT
to come back into the Democratic party. be-
leve that Andrew johnson betrayed the Demo-
cratic party in 1851; believe he elected three
Wings TO the Legislature by bargain and sale.
voted for him in 1853, but it was under protest;
| voted for him again in 1855 but it was under
| protest When the bill providing pension for
| the soldiers of the war of 1872 came up in Con-
| gress, got it through the House OF representa-
| tives and then called upon Andrew johnson to
get him to favor it in the Senate; he promised
| me he would, but did not keep his promise.
johnson hates all soldiers; no soldier on earth
| ought to trust him. When he started out in this
| campaign, he said: 'If 1 fall, L want to
fall by force; 1 want TO wrap the flag
| of our country around me and die by
| force" l told him nobody wanted to hurt
| him; no man wants the blood of Andrew johnson
| upon his hands. L would as soon have the blood
| of a toad or a water snake upon my hands as
| that of Andrew johnson, and would not have
| the
| BLOOD OF MRS. sURRATT
| upon my hands, if l could be President of the
| United States hundred times, and when We
| come into eternity, you VIM ind not only the
| blood OF Mrs Surratt upon the hands Of Andrew
| johnson, but also that Of many poor Confeder-
| ate soldier.
| He talks about the clique that nominated him
| at Nashville. l would rather have a nomination
| at the hands of the people Of Sparta or McMinn-
vile, than to be nominated by the slush and
| scum of Nashville. Gentlemen, there is no use
| of wasting nomination upon
| DEAD DUCKS.
| Because you come here and listen to Andrew
johnson and treat him in gentlemanly way, he
| thinks you are going to support him. II 1t was
| advertised that that great beast which came out
| OF the sea and turned the water to blood and
! gave to men to drlnk-n that beast was TO
| speak here, you would turn out to hear MIN, but
| would not endorse or support him for all that
| So it is with andrew johnson, the
GREAT POLITICAL MONSTER.
You came to hear him, but you are not going to
vote for him. (Applause)
johnson has violated the constitution all the
way through, from the first word down to the
signature of George Washington, and l dare
him to deny it. l say he hung that woman in
violation of law, and dare him TO deny it. He
authorizing it. That is the way with wicked
men; they can always get some one to sanction
their cruel deeds. Henry the Eighth always got
an "OplniOn," and he hung half dozen wives:
| l say that the Attorney General of the United
States and Andrew johnson ought to be
HUNG ON TIE SAME LIMB.
| 1 can take a jury of ladies and make them I'M
| derstand law enough 10 hang these men. Here's
the old constitution. In article ), section = we
| find:
"The trial of all crimes except in cases Of i'm
| parchment, shall be by jury"
| In Art. 8, Amendments, you find this: "No
| person shall be held to answer for a capital or
| otherwise Infamous crime unless on the presen-
| ment OF indictment OF grand jury except in
| cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in
the militia when in actual service in time OF war
| or public danger"
This woman was poor clearinghouse keep
| err These cOnspiratOrs put up at her house, and
she was as innocent Of any crime as an angel in
heaven; but because these oOnspirators put up
! at her house, Andy johnson wanted her blood.
; He had already got thirst for blood, and she
| was hung although the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States declares that no person OF that char
acter shall be tried except upon presentment by
a grand jury. Yet she was taken up and uIeC
| before a military commission. The trial took
place in d dark room with
} GUARD OF SOLDIERS
standing armed, and when johnson tells US that
it was legal tribunal, he tells faisehOOd; it was
! done IN vOlstIOn OF Las, and he has no detensei
he may plead Tor mercy, but there IS no defense
2 In his speech, johnson plead guilty to the
| charge of class legislation in bis proclamation
| diyiding the people OF tennessee into hIteen
classes at the close Of the war, but he had moth
| ing to say with regard TO his sending Holden
2 | down as Governor of North Carolina. He sent
: holden down there with permission TO do as he
pleased Then, TOO, he has said he would dls-
2 | BroynlOw, in this State, IN substance, "HOlC
| down that Rebel =lement; don't let one OF them
' | yots and il you can't hold them down without
| the aid OF the m ItaTy, there Is Ten. InOmas
| army to help you"
). On the 18th of April 1865, johnson qualified as
: | President, and on the 2lst of April he makes a
speech and says the property OF the Rebels mus
3 | be coniscated by the government and they mus
! / be made Odious.
d | since the days of Washington, and that man L
4 Of Av.fl-a oil III n.
ROBERT Z. LEE,
e | the man whose reputation will 90 down to pos
| terity Unclouded-Tespected alike by friend ant
| foe; and that man Andrew johnson wanted L
: | hang. Is johnson not truly nineteenth Wash
4 Ington? This is what he proposed doing with u
: Quote from his speech made in WASHINGTON
=. | when the news of RichmOnd's fall was received
: April B. 1850 "Humble as am, when you ash
7 me what would do, my reply is Il would aTres
q them; would convict them, and L would ham
them"
J In the hour of
$ OUR DEEPEST DISTRESS
y that is the way we are spoken OF by this man
| and if he had had his way, you would, all of you
q have been hung up and after this he says in
- | speech which lie had carefully prepared DetOf
:. HYou can to a very great extent aid in mould
| ing public opinion and in giving 1t a proper di
II | rectiOn. Let US commence the work. We hav
: put down those traitors in arms; let US put then
doTn in law; in public judgment and IN tn
morals OF the world"
e He tried TO put you down in law, so that yo
u would be looked upon in about the same ight a
70 | were the tories after the revolutionary war.
Have you been told anything by Johnson
| coming here? Has he done you any good? LoOl
at the State of Tennessee and you will find n
ie | good that has been Conferred upon her by An
* ! drew johnson. His work is as barren of result
l. as the fig tree spoken of in the Bible was OF fruit
5r In February, 1865, Mr. Lincoln met our Com
rs missioners and said ''Dsband your armies, Sc
y. your negroes free, aud viii grant anything 20
II | ask" but these terms would not do for johnson
IN | He violated a compact. Here were two grea
u warning nations coming together, and they mad
5 a solemn COMPACT that when the one should Ia
, down her arms she was to resume the place sh
n ! had previously occupied. History records ths
is an ancient tyrant Invested castle-invested
II long, but failed TO capture the garrison. He ira
i, ly promised that if the garrison would surrende
"a that he would not she'd a drop Of blood. An
:; were we not told, surrender and CON
. back to your allegiance and there wi
= be no drop Of blood shed? We lai
q down our arms. The garrison acceded to I'll
9 terms proposed by the ancient tyrant, and SUI
= rendered; he kept his promise; he shed no drop
u blood, but he caused deep trench to be dug AL
II every man in that garrison was buried aliv
ai Has not johnson done the same with US? Has
n not
a BROKEN EVERY PLEDGE
"a made to us?
- But need say no more about johnson, nav
~ said all the good can of him, and have NJ
"a enough time TO speak of all his evil deeds. II