Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-09-18
8nuXrillr It'rrklY Chronicle.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1s, 1872.
Tennessee Politics.

Here is infallibiity, pure and simple
To doubt is to be damned, The man VIII,
says that Mrs. Surratt ought to have beer
pardoned for keeping a boarding house
ought himself to be hanged for treason
This is plain enough. No man can be il
doubt longer Vote for the infallible Brig
Gen. Johnson or go down into history as
traitor to your country, and be Thankful
that he no longer has the power to hang
you as he did Mrs. Surratt. What a pity
it is that omnipotence and immortality are
not joined to infalliblity in the person oil
Brig. Gen. Andrew Johnson Then we
should have perfect government and the
Constitution would be preserved in all its
pristine vigor to all eternity, in spculo
sGcUlorum. -imcn.
THE DIG ORGAN.
The same paper gives the big organ in
this city this complimentary notice:
The Knoxville Press and Herald is on
the fence getting ready to jump to Brig.
Gen. johnson.
SEVERE ON THE BROADER GENERAL.
The staid old Jackson Wing dadTriJuac
has this touching testimonial TO the past
services of the distinguished "Brgadier
General" who aspires tc a seat in Con-
gress:
We think it unfortunate that Andrew
johnson has seen fit, in his turbulent har-
We deprecate the re-opening of issues
which the war has settled, and still more
do oppose illusions calculated to arouse
personal hatredS.
Andrew Johnson was general during
the war, and, to his disgrace be it said,
made war upon the old and honored citi-
Zens of Tennessee. He imprisoned such
men as Harding, Guild and Baldwin, the
first eminent as a farmer, the second as a
lawyer, and the third as minister of the
gospel, and either of the three the superior
of Andy in all the high personal traits
which constitute gentleman. But per-
haps, it is natural that Andrew johnson
should make war upon Confederate Gener-
ais. When Cheatham was on the outside
of the trenches and forts at Nashville gall
iantly struggling to redeem the caritol
from the hands of the invader, Andrew
Johnson, drunken and besotted, was on
the inside, melting negroes and mercena-
ries to shoot down the young men of Ten
nessee. His hate is consistent. In war,
to slay such men as Stewart, Bate and
Cheatham, he resorted to the musket in
the hands of black janiZaries of power
since the war he would defame the same
men by an unbridled tongue on the hust-
jngs. Nor does his hatred, more insatiate
than Norway's whirlpool, stop with our
representative Southern men. Can you
attack Christ without making war upon
that plan of salvation which he came into
the world TO inaugurate?
DEFENDS CONVENTION.
The same journal enters into vigorous
defense of conventions as follows:
Uneasy lies the head that wears
crown,n says the old saw, and it is no less
true in so-called-America, !
than elsewhere. In May last convention, |
numerously attended, enthusiastic in spirit |
and absolutely unanimous in sentiment, |
h ad OF wi oh u
present Governor of Tennessee, as a CAN
didate for reelection. He accepted the |
nomination, the convention adjourned and |
everything seemed lovely, and "the goose |
hung high" until few weeks ago it was |
announced that Ed. Baxter would take |
the field as independent candidate |
which caused visible fiutter in the camp |
of the faithful. Baxter, however, for rea- |
sons best known 10 himself, declined to |
take the position, and it was supposed that |
the feeling of opposition had subsidized, and |
the present incumbent would be allowed |
to float into office on "tiowery beds of |
ease.n
Then a convention was called to nOmi- |
nate candidate for Congress for the State |
at large, and an elector for the same. The |
names of General Cheatham and Andrew |
johnson were freely canvassed for Con- |
gress, and the friends of each had delegates |
appointed 10 the convention.
When that body met and it was ascer-
tanned that Cheatham's friends out-num- |
bered those of Johnson, the friends of the |
latt er-many but not all of them-with- |
drew from the convention, and johnson |
became an independent can didate. The |
idea seemed at first to strike the popular |
mind, and now in humble imitation of the !
ex-President, we have Colonel Arthur :. |
Colyar, of Nashville, announcing himself |
a. an Independent candidate for Governor |
following in Andy's wake, and thinking on |
his supposed popularity, TO ride into office. |
Then we shall have Horace Maynard as |
the Grant candidate for Congress for the |
State at large, and General George Nancy |
as the Radical candidate for Congress in |
the Nashville district, besides divers and |
sundry complications of an Independent |
character, and if the political situation in |
Tennessee does not look little squally,we |
confess our optics deceive US very much. |
Greeley ought 10 carry the State by a |
cool hundred thousand majority, and all |
ten of the Congressman by handsome |
majorities but will he carry the state at |
all and how many Congressman will we |
be able to put in?
APPOINTMENTS FOR SPEAKING.
Governor Ohm G. Brown and Hon. A.
A. Freeman, candidates for Governor, will |
address their fellow citizens at the follow
ing times and places, to-wit:
At Lebanon, Tuesday, September IL.
At Carthage, Wednesday, September Is.
At Murfresboro, Thursday, September
10.
At McA1innYille, Friday, September 20.
At GnaFta. Saturday. ERntan her d