The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-06
Cheatham and Iohnson.

The kes1iRg 81 East Tennessee.
From the following article taken from
The editorial columns of the Knoxville
Press and Herald of. a late date, the
reader can get pretty clear insight into
the condi;ian of affairs Ia East Tennessee
as regards the race between Gen. Cheat.
ham and Andrew johnson:
We have declared to our friends, else>
where, that the Democrats and ConserTa-
tives Of East Tennessee according TO
present Indications, will 90 almost en-
BsaSSe for Andrew johnson further
-advices from different points in this end
of the State confirm this statement. The
feeling that prevails is not one ofpe-son-
al hostility to Gen. Cheatham. So far
as We know, he has not a personal enemy
on this side the mountain There is
nothing of personal bitterness in the feel
ing against him. Those who know him
respect him as a man of honor and hber
atty of seDtimeBb-oourageou IN war
aud gentle In peace. And yet the dispO~
sition not to support bin for Congress is
wide spread, Fixed, almost universal We
might trace the causes that have, in q
great part, led to this state of feeling, but
it is not necessary for our present pur>
pose.
While this is SO, the great personal
popularity of Andrew Johnson among
the masses of the people, though never
fairly tested since the war, Is proverbial !;
and especially since his defeat, by an
extraordinary coalition, for the Senator
ship, there has been al earnest desire on
~ e -
to give expression directly at the ballot
box ia his favor There has been a per
va ding feeling, whether justly or not,
that Andrew johnson was Wronged in
the matter of the Senatorship and that
the people would remove the slight" If
the opportunity should ever be afford ed
them. Hence, it is not strange, IA view
of the facts stated, that the popular feel
ing, as between johnson and Chatham,
should be found mauifesting itself as We
have represented it The appearance of
Mr.. johnson among the people, on the
stump, will no doubt, as In Nashville,
give a still livelier and more impressive
demonstration Of the fact
We deal only with facts as we find
them. We deplore the fact that we have
not perfect harmony in cur ranks. We
are devoted to our party and 10 our party
associations We have labored AMI are
still laboFing for the success of the party
with which we have been Unidentified.
md it is because We desire to prevent
the prostration of that psrty--6eealtse We
desire the success of our prineiples-be>
cause we desire to maintain our OrgGni>
zed resistance to RGdicdLjSm IN the field
Ehere it is strongest, shat we have not
I
with al the circumstances attending it.
was fraught with almost certain ruin to
our interests in this end of the State.
Dun friends must bear in mind that the
whole interest Of the struggle before us
is not conferred in the contest for n single
seat in Congress. We have nine other
Congressman to elect. We have Gov
ernoF to elect. We have members Of the
Legislature to choose aud we have, too, a
Presidential ticket to uphold Men who
look only to the question whether An drew
johnson or Gen. Cheatham shall sit In
Congress, for two years, as Represents
stive of Tennessee, lose sight Of the
heavier interests that may be in jeopar-
dY. We NAV divide as we please q,
and will no doubt be much divided In
the one contest, throughout the State,
OAI ~ Tie CtuoES We hidJ pE09ous bA III
broken column. That our column may
not be weakened, is the end for which
the Press and Herald shall labor, and a
union of our forces against tn common
enemy, when such an union is possible,
shall be our watchwOrd. The Radical
foe has already marked its "OppOrtuni~
ty." 1t already swells with expectation
of great advantages from Our division.
Yet, by prudence and vigilance on the
part of Democrats and Conservatives, the
very state of things from which it hopes
so much, may be made the source of
Radical discontinue. Let us watch and
wait.