Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-09-14

We do not favor the election of
''Mosss." Wedo not desire his cleo
ton, for we do not believe his abili-
ties in Congress would avail us any
thing. Mr.. johnson is a''sore head"
He has quarreled with every body, Of
late years. He goes in for selfentire-
" and always wants to be on top, nor
can he be satisfied when there. He
has away of dumping the game" so
to speak, that is hardly fair. When
at the head offs victorious movement
Ssru is a bold leader, but we do not
admire that way he has of quarrel
ing with his friends and skipping
over on the other side just when he
has lead his party into a sort of ire
coverable pickle. Andy was the
leader of the Breckenridge Demo-
cracy of Tennessee in 1860, but
when the fight came up Andy was
the first man on the floor of the
United States Senate to preach coer-
cion. His old friends and follow
ers fought for estates Rights" and
Andy took the other side, and
against US, walking straight up
| hand over fist i'll the affections of
| our enemies, until four years had
passed by, leaving the Tennessee
| Democracy crushed to earth and
| bleeding -powerless and frieudless
while the great apostle of coer-
| cion, A. j., had anchored himself in
! the Presidential chair and stood
boldly out as the figure head of the
/ Republican party-President of the
nation by Republican votes.
| Unable to "paddle his canoe" in
| the stormy waters of that period,
he quarreled with his new Republi-
! can party, fell out with his friends
again, and bickered along to the
end of the term powerless for good
or evil. Three years ago we had
him back here Swinging round the
circle" trying TO get conservatives
| and peace men to send him to the y.
! S. Senate. But his fate was sealed!
Next we find Andrew trying to
wheedle himself in on the Demo-
cratic party for a seat in Congress
| from the State at large. While he
| thought he had Convention packed
| for his nomination we heard moth
! ing against conventions. But when,
upon counting noses at Nashville,
on the 21st day of August, johnson
| saw the people had repudiated him
I dAdA lie anu u lew O1 HIS
''bolted," and here we have him up
on us an independent Andrew J.
| Moses candidate. He wants to get
up johnson party in Tennessee,
| with johnson Legislature to elect
him to the Senate in the place of his
old deserving yoke fellow, Brown
| low.
Your fate is everlastingly sealed,
| Andy!
We do not want you.
We are tired and sick of you.
You have put yourself beyond the
/ pale of usefulness to your country.
! However great your abilities, they
have ceased to be available in any
cause that is near and dear to the
| people of the State of Tennessee.
! Were you to go to Congress it would
be but to destroy the little peace
that has come TO soOthe and quiet
the wounds which have too long
/ distressed our land. We are at
peace with other sections now
/ Prosperity and quiet begin to smile
upon us. The waters are rapidly
| subsiding. All we have TO do now
is TO keep such men as Andy John
| son, w. @. Brownlow, SC, out OF
Congress, and we will soon almost
forget that there ever was a war in
our land.
Send johnson TO Congress and he
forces us to take up his fight, to vim
dictate his policy" to fight the
world to make it believe that John
son was right, and everybody else
was wrong. This brings down all
parties in the North upon poor Ten
nessee, and we have it all to suffer.
If we are crushed, the inimitable
&RU VIII do what he has done tWics
betore-pop over and take the strong
side against US. We are against you,
Mr.. JOhnson.-BrOIcRSUitle Bee.