Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-05
ANDY.s RECORD.
From orrIclaI sources.


following is a part of it, TO be fol-
lowed, from time to time, until we
give the whole of it. 1t is very in
tcresting reading about this time:
To the People Of Tennessee
The candidacy OF Andrew john
son presents some grave questions.
Whether we shall really bury the
past? whether dead issues shall
sleep unresurrected whether we
shall, in the development of our re-
sources, the repair of our material
wealth, and the restoration of our
ruined fortunes and devastated
homes, forget the issues, which are
only necessary to feed the ambition
of politicians, or whether we shall
again listen to the same constitu-
tional cry TO the same political the
cries which have before inflated and
elevated the political demagOgue
CONVENTION OF AUGUST -, 1872.
General Cheatham is the oandi-
date of a Conservative Democratic
Convention; called to nominate a
candidate for Congress for the State
at Large. Fair and timely notice
was given of the meeting of that
Convention, and ample oppoFtuni-
ty for all who took the slightest
interest in it, to meet and make
known their wishes. The Conven-
ton was held, and General Cheat
ham received very large majority
of the whole State, had all the coun-
ties been represented. 1t was the
largest and most respectable nomi-
mating Convention ever assembled
in the State except one. The second |
Convention which nominated Mr.. |
johnson for Governor had but
twenty-fOur counties represented,
while this one had forty-eight
1t was called because the Demo
cratic vote, divided with anything
near equality, will elect a Radical |
We have, on full vote, two hun
dred and sixty-iour thousand eight
hundred and twenty four votes in
Tennessee, of which sixty thousand
are negroes, aud about, on a full
vote, one hundred thousand Radical
votes. Divided equally, on fun
vote, each Democrat would get
eighty-two thousand four hundred |
and twelve. Distracted, divided, |
disorganiZed as we are, whilst they |
have the perfect organization of a |
minority, added TO the efficiency of |
a corps OF Government office-hold- |
ers laboring for their bread, we |
must expect to be beaten unless one |
of the Democrats should carry the |
bulk of the Conservative Democrat |
ic party.
Did we need any Justification for /
holding Convention, we might find
il in Mr.. JohnsOn's Columbia
speech, where he said
"When IA Convention reflects the
will of people fairly, and grows
out of the necessities of the times, |
it is entitled to respect and consid-
Grafton. When there are two par
ties, and it is necessary to settle dis
putes between the members of one
party by Convention, then they are
entitled to influence, if the will of
the people be honestly, fairly and
fully represented.
The will of the people was fairly
and fully represented. Full and
ample notice was given. There
was no reign of terror, or suppress
sion of free speech, such as obtained
once at Nashville under Mr.. John
sons reign. Large and respectable
delegations were in attendance.
There are two parties in Tennes-
see, and it was necessary TO. choose
between members of the same party.
1t is essential that we should have a
full delegation to Congress, as the
only means of obtaining control of
that body. If Mr.. johnson does not
mean to condemn every Convention
that fails TO nominate himself, he
must admit this one to have been
fair and representative. In any
L., a IL. /
stitution, for he declared that he
was not candidate, and said, in his
Columbia speech, that he never in
tended to go before it.
JOHNSON A CREATURE OF cONVEN-
TIONS.
Mr.. johnson is the creature of
Conventions, winning his way to
office by them, and twice running
for Governor as a nominee, and be-
coming Nice-President as the nomi-
nee of the Republican Convention of
1864, lie was before the Charleston
Convention of 1860.
This system was inauguFated by
Jackson, or by his candidacy against
the Congress caucus system, and il
has been continued down to the
present time as the only safe way of
attaining the will of party bent on
the triumph of a certain set OF prin-
ciples. 1t grows out of the princi-
pie that measures are first, and next
the best men are to be secured to
carry out principles. While, like '
all things human, they are not per-
feet, they are the best machinery de-
vised, certainly better than the sys-
TEN by which Mr.. Johnson processes
to have been nominated. Does he
pretend that a crowd, stirred up on
evening at Nashville, at
an Idle moment, reflects The will Of q
the people of Tennessee? This !
smacks too much of the Campus :
-HdriiuS in the degenerate DAYS of .
Rome, when he was the candidate ,,
who melted the largest crowd
However honest and patriotic NAV
have been the crowd that Mr.. John ;
son spoke TO land how many were
the voices that reached his willing !
ear nominating him?), it is bad
system to inaugurate. !
lie REVIVED THE PAST.
Those who oppose Mr.. johnson
would have been glad to let the
lead past sleep. Had he planted
upon the living issues of the
present, his past history would have
been remembered no more. But he
is not content to run upon the pres
ent. Nothing will suit him but in -
dorsement OF himself and abase-
nent of the people. He plants him
self on his record and demands in
lorsement of his course in the war, =
md says: 4
"Tcnnesseeans, you were wrong;
was right. Had you followed me
Ill would have been WELL"
In the same breath resurrecting
he past of others and denouncing
heir acts to justify his own, he de-
hands amnesty, saying:
You forgive Mr.. Greeley; am
Tot entitled to some commisera-
ion?"
But Mr.. Greeley runs not on his
last, but his future. In voting for
lin we make 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
IS to our past, nor no denunciations
Il his or our own course. We only
urn tO the living issues of the pres
Mt and of the pregnant future. :
He says in his Columbia speech: i; ~
1t WAS these politicians who got IA
he nigh places in guarded marques, W
nd ON horseback, and it was the di
rivatc soldier who made his hard %
ed on the ground and lived on NJ
ardtack in The trenches; but whel by
comes to the rewards of peace re
nd tho distinctions of civil office IN
when places of honor and profit T ro
re TO bo filled, YOU arc not taken m
nta considerations All The high sa
lacC~ are reserved tor the officers su
1 high military rank e,
OFFICERS NOT RAPACIoUs. pr
Why this utter perversion of at