Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-09-18
Tennessee Politics.

In his speech at Memphis, Andy John |
son paid his respects TO Il. G. Darlington,
of the Democratic State Central Commit |
tee and Clerk of the Supreme Court at
Nashville, who recently spoke Of him as q
traitsr, in this wise
Now, mark you, wasreeenily charged
with being traitor, q deserter, and that l
had abandoned the 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 pardon for doing the very thing
that he says Twas a traitor for not doing.
Applause and laughter, and cries of give
to him, Andy.1 / 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 [great APP
plause, and shouts of Burn him up-he's
a id rascal ~ aud yet ] am traitor ana
lie is a patriot"
GENERAL CHEATIIANr.
The following dispatch appears in the
Memphis Appsal of Thursday:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Sept. IL, 1879.
DR.. Frank Rice:
| have lust arrived in Nashville too late
to go to Memphis. ! will meet johnson
and Maynard, by appointment, at chat
tanooga. Say to my friends everything is
working well in Middle Tennessee,
B. +. CHEATarAM.
STANCE TALK.
The Memphis .ippcdl. which, until late
| ly, had no words for the eX-President but
| those ofobsequious praise, talks out as fol-
| lows in recent number
No man in this broad Union has tram
pied in the dust the constitution az 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 Me-
Clellan and Pondleton ticket from the state
by the bayonets of his ru1lian 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 brothel and bawdy-
house that he constantly, in his speeches,
insulted the most respectable and worthy
families of Nashville ; thai. he disgraced
the State in his Inauguration that he en-
deavored to hang Lee, whose sword even
Grant refused to accept on surrender thai
he withheld an amnesty proclamation thai
Lincoln would have promptly issued, sc
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
g constitution as rope of sand, and his pro
fessional love for that sacred instrument II
arrant demagoguery.
INTERVIEWING ANDY.
1 The editor of the Clarksville Tobacco
Leaf, who has been after the eX-Presiden
with "sharp stick" has been to Nash
vile and accidentally met him. He says
was talking to Gov. Brown at the heao
of the stairs, when a. j. came up an'
9. spoke to Gov. B. and then to me- saying
have just read your paper. 1t opens ul
the whole war. / am sorry this is TO b.
done. Is there no amnesty for me. Yol
accept Mr.. Greeley and pardon him, but
am to have none. replied that he mus
q thank himself for opening up the part il
his Gallatn speech, that his attempt t
: array the officers against the privates, tn
/ rich against the poor, and to compel US t
eat dirt for him, and endorse his course q
g the expense of our own dignity and ou
o sacred convictions of right, opened up tn
past, and for one proposed to give hin
i the whole of it, sickening as it might be
e and as to Mr.. Greeley, he was only askin
us to stand with him now, simply to fol
= get, not to endorse or TO admit anything
nor to say we were wrong or he right. w
: Just came together for the present and fl
ture, and don't mention the past; but Nh
q johnson wouldn't let that slumber; hi
ambition demanded more.
4 THE MRS. sURRATT BUSINESS.
n believe that the Surratt case is gnaw
|, ing him like cancer, and that his coucl
i is nightly haunted by the murdered wo
J, man, swinging in the wind as she hum
on the gibbet. 1 believe her shrieks pierre
: his ears. He looks like q miserable am
3 unhappy man, with remorse gnawing hi
+ guilty soul. He said you might as wei
1 accuse Coy. Brown of murder, in not par
e doning a convict sentenced to death.
: replied that Gov. Brown would never b
in the position of himself in the Surrat
/ murder That she has been tried by
I military commission when the war wa
e over. He answered (the man of peac
: who detests the military, defending mill
tary commissions