Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-03


peniteptiary for life. @
Il. That he hung HRS. Surratt in viola |
ton of the common law of England and OF |
America, and the constitution of the United |
States and every State in the Union. bis |
friends may plead for mercy, but be Is with |
out defense. If had him before an hon |
est jury of whites, with Judge Fife, or any |
other avle Judge of Tennessee, with the |
question of venue waived, could hang him |
as easy as hung John PressWoOd for the |
murder of Mrs. Billings.
p. That he is neither a frs6, nor |
second Washington; he is q nineteenth
Washington, which, in the language OF
Cribb2ge, is nc Washington at all. His
name cannot be written among those OF
the great and good men Of the world. He
must take bis place IL history among the
demsgogues and tyrants who have fatter-
ed, deceived and betrayed mankind. Pi-
sustratus, Calligula, Nero, Robespierre,
Danton, Titus, and sHch characters, a4e his
compeers III history.
%. He is a man "whose character is
marked by every act which may define a
tyrant, and is unfit to be ruler Of free
people," or TO represent tennessee in Con-
gress.
Gentlemen, those are the charges make
against Andrew johnson. He has been at
tempting to bolster up bis sinking rep uta-
| ton by grasping at every office within his
reach, but in this case, he will fail and he
is bound to be sent to bis home in Greene
| vile.
The time allotted me has expired, but ii
you will stay and hear my rejoinder,
| promise you | will sustain every count in
| this Indictment, Enthusiastic applause.
Mr.. Maynard followed Col. Savage in
two hours speech, and he was followed by
| Mr.. johnson in a speech of equal length.
RHJOINDER OF COL. SAVAGE.
At the close of Mr.. Jobnson's speech,
| Col Savage replied as follows:
Ladies andGentlemen:-As you have already
listened nearly five hours to the speeches which
| have been made to-day, win detain you but
| short time, but cannot leave you without n
! hasty review of Andrew JohDson's speech.
Every argument he has made before you to-
! day is
| UNWORTHY or CREDIT.
| He has said a good many nice little things
which any one could repeat.
He pays high compliment to the ladies pre-
| sent. The lades-GOd bless themi they have not
| better fdend in the State of Tennessee than
| John IL. Savage.
'sWoman like virtue, when well matured,
| Inclines us up to God and heaven
BY law of sweet COmpulsion strong and sure
| AS 10
Yes, ladies, although am an old bachelor
| have the highest opinion of you.
'Woman is the beauty of the earth,
And like the stars of heaven sheds light
| Upon the dark ways OF mans misfortune"
| [Applausel
When spoke the other day, my honorable OPP
| pOnent ran or just as he is doing to-day, and an
| old negro in the crowd called out, "Dat old man
is guilty; see how him run" daughter. A
voice, 1.-The Radicals are going with him'')
| Yes, he and Maynard are working together. The
| very beautiful manner in which he clio ed his
speech to-day was very fine, but the trouble is he
! took it from one delivered by Gen. Cass in 1874.
| (Laughter.)
He talks to you about "clinging to the old con-
| stitution"-he talks abOnt the constitution that
| Washington and jefferson made; wish to God
that We had that constitution, that We might fall
down and worship it; but we have not got tit
is the constitution that Andrew johnson and
Abraham Lincoln made that he wants you to
| fall down and worship.
Andrew johnson says he is ambitious Napole-
on was ambitious; his ambition was to crush ont
Europe with his military power; Johnson's am
bitiOn is to put his foot upon the neck OF every
man in Tennessee? He has tried TO make the
people Of this state believe him to be one whose
| shoe latchets we are unworthy TO loosen. He
has had good deaf to SAY about ''yelpers" and
| "Httle dogs" He exalts himself as a kind of
political saint'-as infallibility not TO be
questioned; he Affects TO look down
| FROM HIS BAD EAuNENCE
upon the people of the State, and calls me anC
| all like me who choose to speak and vote against
him, 'dogs'-.little dogs" Now may, or may
not be a little dog, but there is one thing which
no man can truth. ully deny, and that is that
Andrew johnson is the biggest dog IN America
and it may be well said that every hOnests man;
| dog ought to bite his leg, (laughter) and that
every hand in Tennessee ought TO have a whip
to scourge him back TO Grccnevile, and there
let him remain to wrestle with the
. VOICE OF a GUILTY CONSCIENCE
so long as he may live. (Applause) A man Xix,
him, who has no respect for the rights o. others
is entitled to no respect from any human being
(cheers). He cries persecution" He is initial
ing that man spoken of in history who, in Orde
TO get the sympathies of his people, went into thu
woods and cut himself all over his body, an,
then claimed that it had been done by his enc
mics, and he was SO successful in this, that b.
was crowned king of Athens.
Mr.. johnson tries to excite public opinion; b
appeals to the prejudices of the people, instea'
of TO their reason. In his speech in the EXpOsi
ton building at Nashville he said that by maxim
tube OF popular prejudice and creating
vacuum, sufficient force could be brought I
| bear TO remove Grant. He wants 10 excite pop
, MAR prejudice and public opinion, so as TO ban
4 ISL the Confederate soldiers and then we wOul
} | have the pure air of Andrew johnson. Why,
the whole black race were gathered together il
q one deep sepulchre, they would not create tn
stencil which comes from Andy JOhnSOn'S pOliti
cal corpse. (Laaghter) He comes here unde
| the plea of :" not gullty"-whch is what tn
2 | pretending to plead that he is not guilty Of tn
1 blood, misery and woe of the late war, indirectl
: asserting that the Southern people are. He is
LIKE TIE OLD PHARIsEE;
he thanks his God that he is not like thOs
| bloody COnfederates.
: Ladies, bear with me q moment; let me shOv
: you what kind OF man tais is, and 1 will prov
, TO you that he is the ta'est man that ever lived
! He has neither respected age. sex nor condition
{ 1 read from McPherson's History. l find tn
name of An drew johnson recorded in this history
not with that of Washington, but on the sam
page with Ben Butler-''Beast' ButleT-yOu a
) remember Butler, don't you? A voice: ''SpOOn
= Butler?l Yes, that's the man. lLaughter.l >
: this page l find that the Rev. DR.. LayCOck, ID
Goodrich and Mr.. Fulton, OF the EpiscOp;
Church, declined TO read the prayer for the Pres
i idenJ OF the United States, tor which they WEI
8 at once arrested and Imprisoned in Fort Lafal
: cite.
Here is Buffers order Furnishing them; b,
e cause they w0ald not pray for Beast Butler an
the President of the United States, they ar
4 sent off to prison. Here's JOhnsOn's order pu
= ting DR.. Howell, DIR. Ford, DR.. Sawrie and Rev
7 DR.. Baldwin in the Penitentiary at Nashville
d | Because these holy men would not pray IL
Andy johnson anu the President OF the Unite
States, they were sent OF to prison. / Challeng
o any to go TO their old musty books of hiStOT
g | and find where any tyTant that ever lived hi
q done such deeds as have been committed
; BEAST BUTLER AND ANDREW JOHNSON.
Their names will go dOwL to posterity linkt
e together. But have not come to the most of
|. yet; when do, everyday IN the land will wis
y, she had a dog to bite Andy JOhnsOn's lie
(Baughter.) Here is what johnson says:
: 81 would suggest that no encouragement
should be given to that secession spirit and fee
, | ing which are manifested by numerous Offering
of dencacies etc, by sympathising friends"
He would not let the ladies give food to tho!
b | poor prisoners who were in such great need
J. food; he would not let them give food to tho
: holy men Of God, and yet to-day that
Al SMOOTH TONGUBD HYPOCRITE
claims to you that he never oppressed anybody
2 He talks about Crozier's dog, and the collar
:. | wore. He wants to put collar around the ne(
~ of every man in Tennessee and mark on it ga
q drew JOhuson's dog" As for me, 1 would rath
wear Crozer'5 dogs collar a thousand yea
q than to wear Johnson's collar a single da
daughter and applause.) But you have wo
. his color; he put collar up
is | you IN 1S65-maTked "disfra
n | chiSement," and you wore it, and in 1868 he
: sued a proclamation, and put another collar VI
% on 70 ur necks He destroyed You as freeme
Is and trampled you down, and as dogs he put
n collar upon your necks, and wrote upon TIL
"a collar "Andrew JOhnSOH's big dog"
u In 1868 he made you swear to an oath, whit
oath, among other things contains the followin
J. 81 sincerely rejoice in the triumph of the armi
and navies of the United States, and in the d
> feat and overthrow OF the armies navies, az
Z OF all armed combinations in the interest OF II
y sO-Galled Confederate States; that will co
? daily approve all armistices or negOt iatiOns
- peace with rebels in arms; that take this GA
fe freely and voluntarily and without ment
" reservation. So help me God"
3T He did not do these things because he was
q Union man, but because he was a tyrant, al
he made dogs of 10000 of you. At another TN
he broke uD Mcclellan meeting and drove son
d OF our best men out of the State. These men ~