Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-09-14
Tennessee Politics.

| In his speech at Memphis, Andy John
son paid his respects TO +. G. burlington,
of the Democratic State Central Commit
tee and Clerk of the Supreme Court at
Nashville, who recently spoke of him as a
traitor, in this wise 9aafr-E
"Now, mark you, I was recently charged
| with being traitor, a deserter, and that l
had abandoned { rights of the State.
Now this very man who makes the charge,
appealed to me in person for pardon, and
his application was granted for what
Why for a pardon for doing the very thing
that he says I was traitor for not doing.
Applause and laughter, and cries of give
to him, Andy.] / have his appeal here,
and in the very face of that pardon he adj
mits that he is to be relieved from heavy
penalties for his participation in the rebel
lion. Cries of who is he, and give his
name.] Frank Huntington, Clerk of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee lgreat ap-
plause, and shouts of Burn him up-he's
id rascal " and yet am traitor and
he is a patriot" ..r....s..E
a. GENERAL CHEATHAM.
The following dispatch appears in the
Memphis appeal of Thursday; ..
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. II, 1872.
DIR. Frank Rice;
l have just arrived in Nashville too late
to go to Memphis. 1 will meet johnson
and Maynard, by appointment, at Chat
tanooga. Say to my friends everything Is
working well in Middle Tennessee.
B. f. CHEATHAM.
STANCE TALK. ga Er
The Memphis Appeal. which, until late
ly, had no words for the ex-President but
those of obsequious praise, talks out as fol-
lows in recent number:
No man in this broad Union has tram
pied in the dust the constitution as often as
Andrew johnson. What clause of the con-
stitution made him Military Governor of
Tennessee The true lovers of the consti-
tuition in Tennessee remember that An
drew Johnson forged the chains of dis
franchisement that he invented the oath
against armistice or quarter to our blood
and kindred that he expelled the Nc
Clellan and Pendleton ticket from the State
by the bayonets of his ruffian mob at the
Capitol; that he imprisoned aged men and
ministers of the gospel that he dragged
innocent women before his coarse tribu-
mails to swear the Infamous oaths of his
own coinage that he turned the Execu-
tive chamber into a brothel and bawdy-
house that he constantly, in his speeches,
insulted the most respectable and worthy
families of Nashville ; that he disgraced
the State in his inauguration that he en-.
deavOred to hang Lee, whose sword even
Grant refused to accept on surrender that
she withheld an amnesty proclamation that
Lincoln would have promptly issued, SO
that men might be brought on their bend
ed knees, to owe their pardons to him.
While Military Governor of Tennessee,
and an accidental President, reconstruct
ing the South, Mr.. johnson regarded the
constitution as a rope of sand, and his pro-
fessional love for that sacred instrument is
arrant demagOguery. ETI# sEat
st INTERVIEWING ANDY. "A #tt'
The editor of the GAINESVILLE Tobacco
Leaf,.who has been after the ex-President
with sharp stick" has been to Nash
Vile and accidentally met him. He says:
I was talking to Gov. Brown at the head
of the stairs, when A. j. came up and
spoke to Gov. B. and then to me, saying /
have just read your paper. It opens up
the whole war. I am sorry this is to be
done. Is there no amnesty for me. You
accept Mr.. Greeley and pardon him, but I
am to have none. / replied that he must
thank himself for opening up the part in
his Gallatin speech, that his attempt to
array the officers against the privates, the
rich against the poor, and to compel us to
eat dirt for him, and endorse his course at
the expense of our own dignity ana our
sacred convictions of right, opened up the
past, and for one proposed to give nlm
the whole of it, sickening as it might De;