Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-23
CHEATHAM AND JOHNSON.
From the Memphis Appeal


If Greeley be elected, no living man
would WELD less influence with the admin
istration than Andrew johnson. Between
him and Horace Greeley there exists
deeper and bloodier chasm than that dug
by bayonets. Gree.ey has ever been the
foe of Andrew johnson, and disastrous to
the country as was Andrew Johnson's ad-
ministration, its utter failure was due as
much to the unrelenting hostility Of Mr..
Greeley as to the fatal blunders which
characterized the conduct of the then Pres
ident, from the time of his Mosaic to bis
reconstruction dispensation and abortion.
If Horace Greeley be the next President, no
sane Tennesseean, wishing well for bis
country, would make Andrew johnson
the foremost of Tennessee Con-
gressmen. Infinitely more un-
fortunate for Tennessee would be
| Johnson's election, il Grant be re-elec-
ted. In such event Grant will probably
control majority Of Congress, and with
Grant and his adherents johnson would
be worse than impotent. Whatever
he proposed would surely be defeated,
and Johnson's friendship would be more
ruinous to the South than the enmity of
Ben Butler. In fact, to secure the en-
actment of any bill, it would only be neces-
| sary to secure the opposition of the brawl-
| ing demagogue from beyond the noun
| tains. What we want is practical, simple
| legislation. No tiresome, endless haran-
CUES in Congress illustrative of the
wisdom Of "my policy are needed by
| the people of Tennessee or of the South.
Within the first month of Cheatham's
sojourn in Washington, he would become
| as popular as to-day in Nashville, or
as he was in the Army of Tennessee.
| He would magnetic Sunset Cox in q
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, devil-may-care, gen
erous, impulsive representative of the true
people of Tennessee. Erastus Wells, of
| st. Louis, never made a 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 hon
| ored by st. Louis with the position he
| holds. His reelection, without opposition,
is conceded, and thus the wisdom of the
people of st. Louis is confessed. Such q
representative of Tennessee will be Frank
| Cheatham, His faults, if he have any, are
| all on the surface, so transparent that they
| COHC6dI HOu0 Vi HIS PcCIuidI EubuOS' AiS
| practical good sense, truthfulness, courage,
simplicity and integrity of character would
give him power in any body of men; and if
Tennesseeans would promote the interests
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
Cheatham. Northern people, misled by
publications like Hdrper'S Weekly, still be-
lieve that representative Confederate
soldier must needs be vulgar bully. His
boots must be outside bis breeches; he must
wear asIouched hat, dirty shirt, repeater
in his belt, and squirt tobacco juice while
lounging lazily in the shade of a bar-room.
Frank Cheatham is representative South
erner. he dresses in good taste, never for
gets to respect himself, and therefore has
no trouble in exacting respect from others,
and since the effectiveness of speech max
ing is no more, and great ends are now ac-
complished by those agencies in the use OF
which Gen. Oheatham is an adept, it must
be confessed that no act Of folly could be
committed by Tennesseeans more absur
than the election of Andrew johnson.