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

Andrew johnson declares that he
cares nothing for a seat in Congress
and we believe he is sincere in the
assertion. His present candidacy
springs solely from desire TO vim
dictate his public life before the peo-
pie, and to have them ut the ballot
box set their stamp of approval on
his political history.
Very well-that is the issue be-
fore the people Of Tennessee. Now,
let us see IL there are not some
things in the conduct OF Andrew
Johnson which the people of this
State can never, by any stress of cir
cumstances, be brought TO approve.
One item will suffice for the pres
ent:
On the 18th day Of January, 1860,
Andrew johnson made a speech be-
fore a Republican Convention at
! Nashville. That speech was pub
| lished in full in the Nashville Dis
patch of January 14th. Its failure
to appear in the Dispatch of the 18th
| showed that Mr.. johnson had with
held it from publication until he
could carefully revise il, and the
speech, as published, is consequent
| " not the hasty utterance OF po-
! litical orator, made on the spur of
| the moment, but the cool, deliber-
ate, dispassionate opinions OF its au-
| thor, which must be taken word for
/ word as they appear in print
| From that speech we take the fol-
| lowing paragraph-and we ask eve
/ ~ johnson man in Wilson county
who sympathized with the South
| during the late war to read il care
| fully and deliberately, and then ask
/ himself if he can indorse ii and its
author by his vote in November:
"Treason must be made odiOus;
traitors must be punished, and
made to feel that they have been
! guilty of high crimes; and we must
make provision, by the CoNFIsCA-
| TON OF THE PROPERTY OF REB-
ELS, to compensate our impoverish-
ed Union men,"
! Confederate sOldier-yOu who,
actuated by that purest of all the
motives which can move aIman to
/ deeds of daring, the love 81 coun-
4 try, shouldered your musket in
! SiXty-Onc, and went forth 10 battle
in a cause which you believed to be
| right, Just and holy-you who, fol-
four years, marched and starved
and fought, side by side with your
brothers and your ncighbOrs, and
came back at last with nothing but
honor left yOu-do you believe thai
Bob Hatton was a traitor, that the
memery of John X. Howard is obi.
Gus, that You yourself should have
been strung up like q dog when you
laid down your arms and came back
home, and that your fathers house
should have been taken from him tC
recOmpense some guerilla who rob
bed and harassed and may be muir.
dered your people while you were
gone? Yet Andrew johnson ask:
you to acknowledge all this, by in.
dOrsing = record of which these
sentiments constitute a part.
! Old citizen of Wilson, Wing OF
Democrat-yOu who, too old or in.
firm to go yourself, yet babe youl
boys go and fight for what you anC
they believed to be right-do goa
think that the son whom a mercifu
Providence spared to come back "a
you should have been punished
for what he did, or that the boy
| whom a Federal bullet laid low al
Gettysburg or MnrfreesboTo or Shi.
lob, whose chair is vacant around
your hearthstOne, and whose memo.
ry is green in your heart, was {
"traitor," whose name should bS
"odious," and whose lonely grave
should be spurned and spit upon a
the last resting-place of a malefac
tor? Do you believe that the prop
erty which life of honest industry
had enabled you TO accumulate
should have been ruthlessly takeI
from you to ''prOvide for" the camp
followers of the Federal army? Do
you believe that the Military Gov
ernor who imprisoned our feebll
and gray-haired men, and cursed
and Yilified our women, deserve
your support? And vet Andrew
johnson asks you to subscribe 4
all this by an Endorsement Of hin
and his record.
People of Wilson county-can yol
indorse such a man! Can you vot'
for Andrew Observation-Disclosures
Herald.