The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-10-31
Cheatham and Johnson.
From the Memphis Appeal.

II Greeley be elected, no living man
would WELD less influence with the ad-
ministration than Andrew Johnson. Be
tween him and Horace Greeley there
exists deeper and bloodier chasm than
that dug by bayonets. Greeley has ever
been the foe of Andrew johnson, and
disastrous to the country aswas Andrew
Johnson's administration, its utter fail
ure was due rs much to the unrelenting
hostility of FAIr, Greeley as to the fatal
blunders which characterized the con-
duct of the then President, from the
time of his Mosaic to his reconstruction
dispensation and abortion. II Horace
Greeley be the next President, no sane
Tennesseean. wishing well for his coun-
try, would make AndR ( Johpson the
foremost of Tennessee Congressman.
Infinitely more unfortunate for Tennes-
see would be Johnson's election, if
Grant be reelected. In such event
Grant will probably control a majority
of Congress, and with Grant and his ad-
herents johnson would be worse than
impotent. Whatever he proposed would
surely be defeated, and Johnson's friend
ship would he more ruinous to the
South than the enmity Of Ben. Butler.
In fact, to secure the enactment OF any
bill, it would only he necessary to secure
the opposition Of the brawliDg dema-
gogue from beyond the mountains.
What we want is practical, simple leg
islation. No tiresome, endless har0n-
CUES in Congress illustrative of the wis
dom of "my policy" are needed by the
people of Tennessee or of the South
Within the first month Of CLeath0ni S
sojourn in Washington, he would be-
come as popular MS to-day in Nashville,
or as he was in the Army OF Tennessee.
He would magnetic Sunset Cox in a
day, and if the Beast of Massachusetts
had twenty instead OF ten, hours, he
would smooth his wrinkled front in the
presence of the genial, deyil-may-care,
generous, impulsiyo representative OF
the trde people of Tennessee. Elastus
Wells, of ST. Louis, never made speech.
Men are his books, and the only books
he ever read. He has done more for
the great central city of the West than
any Congressman honored by st. Louis
with the position he holds, His re-elec-
tion, without opposition, is conceded
and thus the wisdom Of the people Of
St. Louis is confessed Such q repre-.
sentative Of Tennessee will be Frank
Cheatham. His faults, if he have
any, are all on the surface, 50
transparent that they conceal none OF
his peculiar virtues. His practical good
sense, truthfulness, courage, simplicity
and integrity of character would give
him power in any body Of men; and il
Tennesseeans would promote the inter
ests Of the State and serve the South
they will not fail to support the true
man Of the people, the frank, fearless
soldier and gentleman, Frank Chcatham
Northern people. misled by publication,
like H0yYcr'S IJndiry, still believe that
representative Confederate soldier
must needs be vulgar bully. His boot,
must he outside his breeches; he mus
wear slouched hat, u dirty shirt, re'
peater in his belt, and squirt tobacco
juice while lounging lazily in the shade
Of bar room. Frank CLeatnam is t
representative SoutheIner He dresse:
in good taste, never forgcts to respect
! himself, and therefore has no trouble ii
exacting respect from others, and since
the Effectiveness OF speech-mak'D9 is 1T
more, and great ends are now accom-
plished by those agencies in tie use o
which Gen. Cheatbam is an adept, il
must be confessed that no act of folly
could he committed by Tenn ssccar'
more absurd than the election Of Andrew
johnson.