Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02

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dependent supporters of Andy John
son squirm:
J0HNsoS's CRUELTY TO OLD wo-
MEN IN 1924.
The Tenfses ssean says that during
the war, and while Mr.. johnson Wss
Military Governor OF Tennessee, the
house of Major Dick MeCauE was
burned by the Federal soldiers. Ma
jor McCann was at the time in the
Confederate army, and his family
ought to have been cared for by An
drew Johnson-that is, if his "eon-
tributions levied on wealthy rebelsp
was honestly applied ''in aid of the
wives and children of Confederate
soldiers" Did Andrew johnson
aid them, or permit it to be done by
others? No q thousand times No
On the contrary, when Major Nc
Cams aged mother applied to An
drew johnson for permission to as
sist the distressed family herself, he
treated her with the rudeness of a
barbarian, and repulsed her with a
ferociOus brutalism which would
have brought q blush to the cheek
of the cold-blooded assassin, General
E. A. Payne, who at about the same
time was wreaking his vengeance
upon the people of Sumner county.
And yet johnson attempts to insult
the Confederate soldiers who dared
to flash back their resentment for
such wrongs? Mr.. johnson talks
of men being "led into the ~
Thank heaven no Tennesseean re-
quired then, or ever win require, to
be "led" to strike the man, or the
party, who insults the wife of his
bosom, and the children of his affee-
tion. Men of Tennessee contrast
the ''records" which the war devel-
oped, and then say, if you viii, that
you would not prefer to have been
| the War-Worn but honorable soldier
in defense of fhome and family, than
| to have been Military Governor with
''record'' that could be printed in
| the blood of the women and chill
dren of Tennessee Answer at the
ballot-box on the fifth of NoYem-
Der.
JoHNsoN's ARREST OF THE CLER-
GXMEN.
We append q statement made by
one of the victims of Andrew john
sons Vindictiveness, and we invite
Mr.. johnson to deny it If he dares
, to do so. On the eighteenth Of June,
1862, Rev. II. B. G. Howell and Rev.
r. Ford, of the Baptist Church, Rev.
DIR. Wharton, OF the Christian
Church, DeV. DR.. Baldwin, Rev. DIR.
Sawrie and Rev. DIR. Sehon, of the
Methodist Church, were arrested
and placed in the Penitentiary at
Nashville. The above were all min
listers of the Gospel, and engaged
only in their sacred work. AT the
same time were arrested Rev. G.. D.
Elliot, of the Nashville Female
Academy, DR.. j, z. Ford and Judge
7. Foster, and these were subject 70
like treatment with the Ministers.
Drs. Howell and SehOn were not re-
moved from Nashville. The others
were held in penitentiaries, jails and
prisons, here, in Louisville, in Indi-
ana and at Camp Chase, Ohio, until
the following November and De-
cember-all this by the order of
Governor A. Johnsan, and without
assigning any reason. "Close con-
1inement and prison fare" were in
all his orders from first to last, and
in many cases these orders were
strictly enforced. G.. ID. Z.
Nashville, October. 1872.
JoIISsoN AS AN OPPONENT OF DE-
MOCRACY.
The following from Bailie Pey-
ton explains itself, and tells the sto-
nv of the most infamous outrage of
the rights on record:
GALLATIN, Sept. IA, 1872.
have rnaafuan UnmR
letter of the 9th inst, inclosing an
extract from the Banner of the 10th
| of Oct. 1869, copied from the Co
| Iumbia Herald of Oct. 8, 1864, rela-
| tive to the breaking up of Me-
Clellan meeting at Nashville during
| the Presidential canvass OF 1864;
and, in reply to your inquiries,
state that soon after Lincoln meet
/ ing had been held in the capital,
! Mcclellan meeting was called to be
| held at the courthouse, and having
consented to become All electoral
with others, to address the meeting.
An orderly crowd assembled in the
| upper room OF the courthouse, and
soon after candlelight was organ
ized, Colonel -, Of the United
States army, (whOse name l have
| forgotten), addressed the meeting.
After the Colonel had concluded a
very temperate and respectful
speech, arose to address the meet
ing, but before had time to com-
mence speaking, a United States
officer, with a file of soldiers dress
ed in uniform, with nuskets and
bayonets, rushed into the room, and
with q loud voice, uttering oaths
and denouncing those assembled as
damned rebels, ordered them TO dis
perse, and extinguished the lights.
The surprise and panic were great;
/ the crowd rushed in wild confusion
pellmell down the stairs, over which
many OF them were precipitated IN
the darkness. No person was shot
or wounded except by falling over
the banisters. Alter the retreat OF
the crowd, the Colonel and myself
locked arms, descended from the
stand, groped our way out into the
Square, neither OF US being injured
or assaulted by the military. Some
! friends at a lawyers Office on Cedar
street informed me that as the sol
diers passed from the courthouse to
the capitol, some of them remarked:
'Well, boys, we rousted old Bailie."
''Yes," was the reply, ANDY will
stand treat for this, sure" Shortly
after the suppression of this meet
ing-the next evening, l think
Governor johnson addressed the
soldiers and crowd of people, near
the capitol, in which he referred to
the Mcclellan meeting which had
been broken up, and said 'that no
such reasonable conclaves should
| be held in Nashville"
During the delivery of this hsr-
angue, a United States soldier in
the crowd, said to have been some
what intoxicated, cried out ''Hur-
rah for Mcclellan" whereupon
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