Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-07-06
ANDREW JOHNSON.


Congressman for the State at large,
and is dwelt upon by some members
of the "press gang" witha al JUNCTION
and pathos worthy of god cause.
We aVow boldly that we are the
enemy of Andrew johnson, and
will do all that lies within our pow
er honestly to defeat all his political
aspiratiOns-andw we can do nothing
for any man who faYors his eleva-
ton. To show that we are not
alone in our feelings of opposition
to Mr.. johnson, we subjoin the fol-
lowing extract from that sterling
Democratic paper, the Lincoln coun-
ty Nelcs, edited with fairness and
ability by w. p. Tolley, late Scna-
tor from Lincoln and Marshall, and
now candidate for representative
from Lincoln county. In speaking
of the convention, called for the
2Ist of August, that paper says:
BY that time public opinion will
be the better made up as to a choice.
The discussion and reflection that
will ensue, will dismiss that casual
thought by which some good men
are mislead, that Andrew Johnson
is the man for the place. To which
conclusion they are induced by the
sympathy excited by the circum-
stances attending his defeat for U.
S. Senate, by Cooper; forgetting
that now unlike then we are not
restricted in our choice, we can
choose from among our best repre-
sentative men, true and tried. That
now unlike then there is ne public
necessity conceivable for taking up
the arch-traitOr that never espOused
anything or any cause that he did
not betray, except Andy's own am
bilious ends. By that date the So
Der reflection of those who have the
good of the party at heart will have
taught them that powerful element
of the party can never be recOnciled
to his support under any .circum-
stances.
The Tullahoma TimeS-one of the
Invest and most able of our contem-
poraries of the democratic press
thus puts its veto upon the unholy
ambition of that pestiIent dema-
gogue, Andrew johnson. We cor
daily and heartily endorse every
word of it:
We knew Mr.. johnson to be man
of strong prejudices, and any one
familiar with his antecedents, is
aware that it is characteristic of
him to carry them into public af-
fairs. He is really a bundle of re-
sentiments. His personal grievances
he considers so numerous, and his
desire to avenge them all is so great
that we do not believe he could, if
he would, carry into the national
councils, that abnegation of self,
that sacrifice of personal pride to
the public veal which Southern
craftsmanship SO cmphatically de-
mands. The principal arguments
used in Mr.. JOhnson's favor by his
admirers are, that he will give this
fellow and that "fits," when he goes
to Congress-thath he will effectually
avenge himself on the persistent enc
mics Of his administration, whom
he was unable to reach while Presi-
dent, owing to his high station and
elevated position. We are certain
that the people of Tennessee have
no desire to send him to Congress as
a symbol of defiance to the northern
people, and to revive old grudges
and quarrcls, that cannot but accrue
to their terrible disadvantage. Are
we never to be done with the past?
Are we to sacrifice the golden OPP
portunities of the present-the
glowing hopes of the future, brim-
ming over with promise for the
young South, merely to allow some
decayed politician, hopelessly we'd
ded to old party traditions and COM
pletely enveloped in self, to crate
in Congress, and impede the pro-
gress of a great people. Mr.. John
sons administration is committed
to history. Some of its acts we ap-
proved. Some we as heartily con-
demned. But it's errors and its
faults should alike be reviewed only
atleisure. The people of Tennessee
have too much work to do now
have too many present engagements
to meet and fulfill which affect the
future prosperity and progress of
the State to waste time idly ponder
ing over such history as that. Mr..
johnson is not of our day. lie be-
longs TO class of political teachers
who are enjoying an indefinite rest
from their labOrs for want of pupils.
He is an atom of salt that has lost
its SAVIOR.
The McMinnville Ne,0 Era in an
article upon johnson and FoOte, ex-
presses itself as follows. We omit
the allusion to Foote, as he is not
candidate:
In the first place we feel that Ten
nesseeans have more than cOmpen-
stated Mr.. johnson for all that he
has ever done for them. They have
honOred him with the highest po-
sitions in their power to bestow;
and it would not be out of place to
enquire how he has requited the
people for the honor thus conferred.
In 1861, in the United States Senate,
he used his position to the injury OF
the section which had honoTed him
with the position ne then filed.
When he counselled the Federal
Government to subjugste the South
ern States and hold them as Su6ju-
gated provinces, be forfeited all |
claims that he held upon their res
peCt or admiration; and proved |
himself a traitor to his section and |
to the people who hat honOred him,
and raised from the humblest |
walks of men TO the highest stations |
in his own commonwealth and in /
the nation. When his people were !
bleeding st every pore, we find him |
bloody haraugues 10 the ne !
grOGS of our own State, on the steps |
of the State Capitol, in which he /
claimed that he was their Moses" |
and was raised up to lead them ont |
of the Egyptian bondage with which /
they had been so sOTely oppressed. |
We regret that we have not this
speech before us in order that We
might make copiOus extracts from
it for the qualification OF our read
ers. Entertaining the political views
that Mr.. johnson pcrsistentiy
lVOWed, and which we respected
and endorsed, up to the lime of his
icscrtion of his people, we cannot
view him in any other light than
traitor to his section, and to all his
announced political dog