The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-10-31

From the Richmond WhiR.l
There seems to be some men
sent into this world tomalle as Hauehl
trouble and mischief as they can -
Mr.. johnson seems to be one or
those fated individuals. He has
been in hot water all his life-BeYer
satisfied with aiIythtIg ana qparrel-.
ling with everybody around him.
BY chance or fate, as he announces
in every speech he makes, he has
filed every Office in the land, from
the lowest TO the highest-and in all
his Quarreisome characteristics have
been conspicuous. As President of
the United States, at a crisis with
out precedenti he possessed extra
ordinary powers, which, judiciOusly
employed, might have allayed strife
and promoted the general welfare OF
the county. But this wFangiing
spirit, and narrow views and selfish
aspirations rendered abortive what
ever efforts he made for the public
good. and all the vast powers. with
which he was invested, were frittered
away, and his career closed in a
miserable quarrel which ruined the
country without benefitting himself.
One would have supposed that his
hitter future at Washington would
have cured him OF ambition, and re-
lconciled him to the walks Of private
life. But his restless nature, his
pugnacioHs instincts, predominated
over all sense of prudence and pro-
/ priety. lie had scarcely reached
his home from Washington when he
began To intrigue for an election to
the United States Senate. Baffied
/ in that aspiration, he now seeks to
crafty his maIignity and his ambi
ton by thrusting himself forward as
& candidate for Congress. Always
the demagogue and adroit in stirring
the dregs, he has recently gone to
Nashville and got up an oyatiOn,-
He delivered one Of his wonted har
..Hguos, told Of his devotion to the
people and to the CONSTITUTIONAL
his wrongs and the ingrat!tude to
which he had been subiected-Of his
disintercstedness and long suffer
ring; protee ted that he was no can
d.date- wanted no ofice-and in
the same breath begged for a nomi-
nation from the mob--and abused
the Convention which refused to
nominate him. Seeing the popular
feeling in favor Of Greeley, he ayow-
ed himself for Greeley, cas- an honest
man, who could not be bribed," but
at the same time took a course best
calculated to jeOpardize the success
of Greeley. After all his protesta-
lions Of Observation-Disclosures and devo-
ton to the pcople-being not can
didate and wanting no OfIice-he
announced himself an independent
candidate for Congress and promised
to carry the flag into the hottest OF
the fight.
4 "What renders the conduct of this
I'll oontrived man the more Temarka-
BILE is that his special friends, those
+ who have been foremost in con
demning his past, are the very per
sons who got up the Convention
which nominated General Cheatham,
and whom he now bitterly assaiIs.-
The Nashville Union and AmericG9s,
whose editor is the Chairman of thc
4 Democratic Committee, under whose
auspices the Cheatham convention
was he'll, who guarantees the fair
ness of that Convention; the Mem
phis Apesal, the Chattanooga Times,
and all the old Democratic organs
in the State which have been pallia-
ting Mr.. Johnson's past offences,
and striving to open a fresh future
for him, fall under his malediction.
He talks Of ingratitude to himself
but like genuine demagogue lie
forgets his ingratitude to others.
e'T'he course OF this man produces
great confusion in the canvass in
Tennessee. 1t is not believed, how
e yer, that he can seriously affect the
/ success of the Liberal movement
The worst result apprehended is
that, by distinguishing the party, De
may succeed inelecting two or three
Radicals to Congress" .. III