Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-09-11
Tennessee Politics.

says that Mrs. Surratt ought to have been
pardoned for keeping boarding house,
| ought himself to be hanged for treason.
This is plain enough. No man can be in
| doubt longer. Vote for the infallible Brig.
Gen. Johnson or go down into history as a
traitor to your country, and be thankful
| that he no longer has the power to hang
you as he did Mrs. sSurratt. What a pity
| it is that omnipotence and Immortality are
not joined to infallibility in the person of
Brig. Gen. Andrew Johnson! Then we
should have perfect government and the
| Constitution would be preserved in all its
| pristine vigor to all eternity, IN soeculd
! soecuLorun1. Amep.
THE BIG ORGAN.
The same paper gives the big organ in
this city this complimentary notice.:
The Knoxville Press and Herald is on
the fence getting ready to jump to Brig.
Gen. Johnson. Il
SEVERE ON THE BRIGADIER GENERAL. :
The staid old Jackson Wing and Tribune
has this touching testimonial to the past
services of the distinguished "Brigadier
General" /" who aspires to seat in Con-
gress: - 8
We think it unfortunate that Andrew
Johnson has seen fit, in his turbulent har-
augues, to denounce Confederate Generals.
We deprecate the re-opening of issues
which the war has settled, and still more
do oppose illusions calculated to arouse
personal hatreds. .E 90 20
Andrew johnson was a general during
the war, and, to his disgrace be it said,
made war upon the old and honOred citi-
zens of Tennessee. He imprisoned such
men as Harding, Guild and Baldwin, the
first eminent as farmer, the second as a
lawyer, and the third as minister of the
gospel, and either of the three the superior
of Andy in all the high personal traits
which constitute gentleman. But, per-
haps, tits natural that Andrew johnson
should make war upon Confederate Gener-
ais. When Cheatham was on the outside
of the trenches and forts at Nashville, gall
lantly struggling to redeem the CAPITOL
from the hands of the invader, Andrew
Johnson, drunken and besotted, was on
the inside, melting negroes and mercena-
ries to shoot down the young men of Ten
nessee. His hate is consistent: In war,
to slay such men as Stewart, Bate and
ChestHaln, ne resorted to the musket in
the hands of black janizaries OF power
since the war he would defame the same
men by an unbridled tongue on the hust-
ings Nor does his hatred, more insatiate
than Norway's whirlpool, stop with our
representative Southern men. Can you
attack Christ without making war upon
that plan of salvation which he came into
the world to inaugurate ?nsr
DEFENDS CONVENTION,
The same journal enters into vigorous
defense of conventions as follows:
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown, ]" says the old saw, and it is no less
true in o-called-America,
than elsewhere. In May last convention,
numerously attended, enthusiastic in spirit
and absolutely unanimous in sentiment,
assembled at Nashville, and nominated the
present Governor of Tennessee, as cam
didate for reelection. He accepted the
nomination, the convention adjourned and
everything seemed lovely, and "the goose
hung high" until few weeks ago it was
announced that Ed. Baxter would take |
the. field as "independent'' candidate,
which caused visible fiutter in the camp
of the faithful. Baxter, however, for rea-
sons best known TO himself, declined to
take the position, and it was supposed that
the feeling of opposition had subsided, and
the present incumbent would be allowed
to float into office on "fiowery beds OF
ease.p --,fR arr-.-.--TE
Then convention was called to nomi-
nate candidate for Congress for the State
at large, and an elector for the same. The
names of General Cheatham and Andrew
johnson were freely canvassed for Con-
gress, and the friends of each had delegates
appointed to the convention.
When that body met and it was ascer-
tanned that Cheatham's friends out-num-
bered those of johnson, the friends of the
latter--many, but not all OF them-with-
drew from the convention, and johnson
became an independent candidate. The
idea seemed at first to strike the popular
mind. and now, in humble imitation of the
we have Colonel Arthur S.
Colyar, of Nashville, announcing himself
asan independent candidate for Governor
following in Andy's wake, and thinking on
his supposed popularity, to ride into office.
Then we shall have Horace Maynard as
the Grant candidate for Congress for the
State at large, and General George Nancy
as the Radical candidate for Congress in
the Nashville district, besides divers and
sundry complications of an Independent
character. and if the political situation in
Tennessee does not look little squally,We
confess our optics deceive us very much.
Greeley ought to carry the State by
cool hundred thousand majority, and all
ten of the congressman by handsome
majorities but will he carry the state at
all and how many congressman will we
be able to put in?
APPOINTMENTS FOR SPEAKING.
Governor j ohm =. Brown anu HULL "a
A. Freeman, candidates for Governor, VII
address their fellow citizens at the follow
ing times and places, to-wit:
At Lebanon, Tuesday, September Il.
At Carthage, Wednesday, September 10.
At Murfresboro, Thursday, September
10.
At McMinnville, Friday, September 20
At Sparta, Saturday, September q.
AT Shelbyville, Monday, September %.
AT Gallatin, Tuesday, September a.
At Franklin, Wednesday, September %.
At Columbia, Thursday, September 26.
At Pulaski, Friday, September q.
Appoi ntments at other places will be
hereafter announced.
"A canvasser for the Life of Horace
Greeley importuned st. Louis man to
purchase copy, which he declined to do,
when the following dialogue ensued: "Are