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

Ii is claimed that because Frank
Cheathanl is no orator he ought not
TO be sem to Congress. IL would
astOnish those asserting this maxim
TO know that the best working men
in Congress are not orators, and that
those who make the greatest num-
ber Ofspeeches in legislative halls are
the least benefit TO their constitu-
ents. IL is cOntended that Andrew
johnson should be sent to Congress
in order to fight Butler and other
GRANTEES. This wordy combat
would be of little interest 10 us,
and its results unimpOFtant to the
State. We want a Congressman
who can allay the passions of the
hour instead of exciting them into
activity. We want a Congressman
who has no ''iost policy" to venti-
late, who has 10 private war to
make on political enemies. We
want a man who will labor in the
interests of peace aud for the gen.
eral welfare. Frank Cheatham is
not a professional politician. He
has always taken a lively interest in
public affairs. He has been volun-
teer soldier whenever the necessi-
ties of the country demanded his
services. In peace he has been an
industrious citizen. Possessing in
tegTity of character and that kind
of talent which charaeterizes some
of the most useful men in Congress-
plain, practical common sense-bei is
exactly the kind of man to repre-
sent the South in Congress. lie is
no political fire-brand who would
array at once all the elements of op-
position. He does not aspire TO be
an agitator at home or elsewhere
Andrew johnson could have driven
Washington from the stump" be-
cause Washington never made a
speech In the zenith of his fame he
once attempted il, failed, aud gave
it up confused and abashed. In
framing the Constitution of the
United States the labor was almost
wholly performed in committee, of
which George Washington was
chairman. In the convention he
made two little speeches of few
words each. The convention, how
ever acknowledged the master spirit,
and historians affirm that had L not
been for his personal popularity and
the thirty words of his first speech.
pronouncing it the best that could
be united upon, the Constitution
(Which Andrew johnson pirates so
much abou) wOuld have been re-
jected by the people. Thomas JEFF
fersOn could not meet the Tennessee
"MoEes" on the stump. He never
made a speech. He couldn't do il.
yet he has left his mark upon the
history of our country, and will be
remembered long after Brigadier
General A. johnson is forgotten
The greatness of a man is not meas
ured by the length and number of
his speeches. There is something
more than that necess sary, and Of
these necessary elements is Andrew
johnson destitute.-Ledger.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02
Military CsnlmissioHs.


Andrew johnson in his Memphis
speech spoke of the fair trial had by
Mrs. Surratt before a military COM
mission, and referred TO the armed
camp at Washington, martial law
and suspension OF the writ of habeas
corpus. Some time after the killing
of Booth certain individuals claimed
the reward offered for the capture
of these parties connected with the
assassination of Mr.. Lincoln. Judge
Olin, a Radical, in deciding these
claims uttered the following re-
markable words: ''The parties ar
rested. tried and convicted were
tried before q military commission
appointed by the Executive Depart
ment of the Government. These
persons Booth, etc. were not in the
military service of that government
or in the military service ofthe sham
Confederacy organized for the over
throw of this government. The
crime committed by thess persons
was committed in this district.
Martial law never was proclaimed
here. Courts of law had been estab-
lished and were daily engaged in ef-
forts to punish crimes and redress
wrongs. do not see upon the prin-
ciples announced in ex parte Mich
igan, 4th Wallace, p. 2, how any ae-
tion in this case can be maintained.
twill not, | think, be cOntended il
none of the parties arrested had been
tried and convicted, or having been
tried had been acquitted, that an
action could be maintained to recov-
er this reward. 1t that be so the
questin snspessarily arises whether
there was a legal conviction of any
of these parties before military com
mission. If there was not, the com
mission were but little better than
mob, and were themselves guilty
! of murder
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02
OUR OPINION.
The CIarksvlIIe cAroniele ave:

The Clarksville Chronicle SAYS:
Those who loudly proclaim Andy
JohnsOn's greatness will confer fa-
vOr upon the public by specifying
the deeds he has done for the glory
OF his country and the prosperity OF
its people. The true standard OF
greatness is, first, goodness, aud then
the origination OF ideas repiete with
benefcenee, and the modes by which
those ideas can be reduced TO prac-
tice for the enhancement of the gen
eral welfaTe-the reatest good TO
the greatest number: Tried by this
standard, Andrew johnson is a very
small, instead Of q very great man.
As far as we can now recall his his
tory, be has never made q speech or
suggested a proposition that did not
look, directly or Indirectly, to the
promotion OF his own selfish ambi-
tiOn- His forte is in a leVeling, dis
organizing demagoguism-and his
ingenuity, in this role, has won for
him his reputation for great ability.
AS an eXpounder of the cOnstitu-
ton, he has displayed great tact ia
giving the semblance Of originality
TO thoughts embodied in the writ
ings of the truly great men who
preceded him. As man, he proved
himself q usurping tyrant as soon as
possession of the requisite power
gave him the opportunity. AS n
lover Of the constitution, he so sat
uFated 1t with the foul breath of full
some and insincere adulatiOn, that
II fell, in tatters, at his feet, as he
tore from the hallowed instrument
the provisions that confronted his
despOtic will aud bade hisn stay his
lawless proceedings. Ii this be evil
dence of greatness, we frankly con-
-cede ta1c pre-. egRinence claimed for
him by many who were wont Ia.
look upon him as a foul traitor, and
who ought to view him as one seek
ing 20 regain lost confidence and
again to make Tennesseeans the
stepping stones 10 his vaulting am
bitiOu
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02
ranny Fern,. Last nemenI..

The last moments of Mrs. Parton
Fanny Fern"-were marked by the
same calm courage that helped her
to win the many hard battles of her
life. She had long been afflicted
with infiammatory rheumatism, and
since her return to the city from
Newport she has not left her room.
Even here she could not lie down
without causing intense pain and
difficulty ia breathing, so she was
forced To sit in an easy chair, sup
ported by q frame, for two long
months, and here, surrounded bv
loving and mourning friends, and
the beautiful flowers in which she
always found such delight, she pass
ed peacefully away. She was per-
fectly conscious up to the last mo-
mant, and sent affectionatc messages
10 distant friends. Early Thursday
she knew her end was approaching.
and at three O'Clock in the afternoon
She called around her easy chair, in
which she expired, her family for a
last farewell. 4 sorrowful group
obeved her summOns-Dr. Parton.
Miss Eldridge, her daughter, her
two sisters, Miss Julia Willis, and
Mrs. Bumstead, and a little grand
child. DR.. Sturges, her physician.
then ioined the group. The diving
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02
VIVA. Prsvsns. uarrlaEs..

There is no question that our
costly style of living diminishes the
/ number of marriages, aAd indirect
! ly recruits the ranks of the vicious
Z and depraved. So long as fashion
I demands q style of living which
only q millionaire can really afford,
and young married couple must
I support an expensive establishment
or be excluded from the circle in
which they moved before marriage,
a bar is raised to matrimonial en-
| gagements which only the very
[ courageous or the very unscrupu-
lous will have the hardihOod to
oVerstep. The opportunities and
lures 10 a single life of easy indul-
gence and dissipation have q con-
stantly increasing influence over the
young men of our cities; while a
continually increasing number of
| young ladies are educated TO a life
of case, display and extravaganza,
which only few young men can pos
1 sibly support them in and be honest.
! So our fashions put apremium upon
bachelorism aud vice on the one
hand, and untold waste and wretch
edBess on the other. What is want
ed more than anything in our socie-
ty to-day, is the courage ON the part
of young men and women to break
away from the present thLaldom,
and set a new and nobler fashion
of Independence and economy. A
score or two of examples of that
heroism which defies the foolish
sentiment and custom of the time,
and dares to be true to the noble
instincts of the heart, and live sim
ply and honestly in a small and quiet
way, would create q reform, If not
a revolution. The question comes
to every young heart: Which shall |
sacrifice, the instincts and affections
of the heart, or the shows and shams
of society? Alas, that so many
yield the former TO the latter! For
love is the religion of the young,
and whoever suppresses it for the
sake of ease and display, whoever
sacrifices it for fashion, commits a
sacrilege for which nothing On earth
can atone. Love is not a thing TO
be ashamed of or laughed at, but a
sen timent to be cherished and glo-
ried in; and, at any sacrifice il may
require, is cheap so long as it adds
fuel to the precious flame which pu-
rifles the heart, refnes and ennobles
the character, and makes a charac-
ter, and makes a manhood and a
womanhood worth the saving and
worth the name.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02
THE QUAKER,s GOLDEN WE'D
DING.
BY IDA wHIPPLE DENHAM.

]
BY IDA WHIPPLE DENHAM.
The snow looks in At the window
In a bold and fr6Iicsome way.
Not lighter the newborn snOw-dnR.
Than IehabOd's locks Of gray;
| Not purer the newborn snOw-driits
From worldly taint and sin,
Than the life Of Margaret Tayl,r.
Ichabod's wife, hath been.
''Hither Margaret, HE thec,
have a thoughtt 70 tell;
Nay, never mind the shutters.
The night doth please me well.
Margaret, can thee tell me
How many years tits
Since thee and were married.
On a winters night like this.
''Think once again. my good wife;
knew thee never would guess,
The days 80 by so swiftly.
That only are born % l.lsss;
Thy mother-heart viii tell thee
IT'S eight-and-forty years
Since our irst-born came TO thrill US
With tenderest hopes end fears.
t.Yes, Margaret thee has guessed II;
Full fifty years have sped
So silently and SO softly
We scarce have felt their tread;
But. watching the gliding snow-hakes.
The hickory Goals and thee.
The memory OF that evening
Came wandering back to me.
''True. Margaret, we were happy,
Frustful and very glad,
And prouder was I, l fear me,
Than beseemeth Quaker lad;
Yet, not for the good years vanished,
II the right OF choice were given.
Would change this peace, my darling,
For the pleasures OF that even.
ave have had cur trials, good wife,
We have she'd some bitter tears,
But a sure, dear hand hath led Us
Through all these precious years.
He hath kept US long together,
And I've been bold to pray
That our meeting in the New Land
Be a golden wedding day.
The snow looks in at the window,
And what do the snow-nakes see
But Quaker Iehabod Taylor
With Margaret on his knee!
The hickory Goals in the fireplace
Sleep in their jackets white,
But the love of tried and true hearts
Steadily burns tonight.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02
saturday, NOVEMBER 2, 1872.

odioas'-themselves among the tai
tors-ought to support Andy, who
has made it superlatively odious by
his own personal bearing, in the es-
tlmatlon OF every Tennessean who
loves the Constitution as il was, and
the rights guaranteed by it.
None, save those enumerated, can
vote for him without violating pre-
ylously expressed convictions, or
acknowledging that those cOnvie-
tionS were feigned in order to sub
serve a purpose, or that they had no
convictions at an, and are bIindIy
led by knave who has no other use
for them than as rounds in the lad
der OF his ClarksUitLe
Chronicle.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02


ALL who approve the cOld-blood-
ed murder of Mrs. Surratt, by a
drumhead court martial and the
Presidents order, in defianee of the
Constitution and the Civil Code,
will vote for Andy johnson as the
exponent of their peculiar ideas of
justice, the sanctity of the Cohstitu-
tion and the rights of the citizen.
All who endorse his repudiation
/ of the Sherman-J ohnSon treaty, and
l can PalEiate all the snfferings of the
South consequent upon that repudi-
alton, will vote for Andy.
| All who endorse the infamous
Schedule to the Constitution OF
Tennessee, and the brutal admins
| tration of BroWnloW under that
schedule, can, consistently and con-
scientifically, vote for Andy.
Ali who have forgotten the nau-
seous taste of the horrible oaths he
/ invented and made them swallow,
or accept imprisonment or banish-
ment as the alternatives, ought to
vote for Andy, because there is 9
/ peculiar fitness of adjustment be-
tween the man and his seFvile sup
porters.
All who approve the disfranehise-
ment of the whites of Southern pro-
clivities, and the erection of State
government upon the basis of one
tenth of the voting population, must
vote for Andy, or be considered
very ungrateful as well as inconsis-
tent.
All who endorse the justice of &
Z 81 -
erty-hOlders, in order to raise fund
for the support of Union refugees
from the front, are the natural a lies
and supporters of the heartless ty'
rant who assessed the tax, and col.
lected 1t at the point of the bayo,
net.
All who believe that the Constitu.
ton sanctioned the imprisonment
or banishment of highly respected
citizens, without regard to age, sex
or condition, for no other crime
than the expression of their honest
sympathies and convictions, to be
consistent, must repudiate Cheat.
ham, their fellow-traitor, and hug tC
their bosoms the loyal patriot and
defender of the Constltution-Andy
johnson.
All VINO enGorse the proposllon
that the property of Southerner:
ought to be cOnfiscated to pay the
losses of Union men, must confess
that Andy is their man.
All who commend the noble con.
duct of the Bible Moses in redeem.
ing his own race from captivity and
bondage, who believe that his impi
Gus impersOnatOr enacted the same
role in forcing his own race into pO
litical bondage and despoiling his
neighbors of their righful property
cannot believe that they are doing
otherwise than serving God by sup
porting Andy-the Moses of the
Egyptians-first kidnapped and theI
sold into bondage by his pious puri
tan allies.
! All who desire to make "treasol
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02

The Coffee County Democrat
says:
We receive frequent inquiries a
TO how Coffee will vote in the elec
ton for Congress from the State at
Large
We can assure our friends that
Coffee win give a large majority Tor
Cheatham. Maynard will be next
IN the race. lie will OF course carry
the full Radical vote.
There are q few men i'm the county
who talk for Johnson. The know
ing ones among these are at heart
for Maynard, and talk TOR Johnson
with a view of dividing the Demo
cratic vote to secure Maynard's elec-
tion, and we wish especially to call
the attention OF our people TO the
fact that nearly all OF these johnson
m n are either now Ofiice-holders
under Grant, or they were Office
holders under Brownlow. Look
around-see il this is not so. We
are satisfied that almost every one
OF these men will vote for Maynard.
But our friends abroad may be as
sured that all the votes they can
muster for johnson in Coffee coun-
" will not exceed two hundred.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02
no ouR soLpIERs.

Go TO the ~CIties Of the dezIis Ii'z
Where sleep our nartyred braves,
And tell me do your comrades all
Fill Ignominious graves.
, Though dead, they live iu every breast
Where beats a noble heart,
Their honor lives, defend it boys,
And act comrades part.
You will not brand them traitors; you
who battled side by side;
81 For Tennessee g0E fought and lived;
For Tennessee they fought and died.
Great Godl and has il come to this
In proud old Tennessee, Oh.
To ask a eomrade OF the dead,
To brand with infamy
The memory OF her gallant sons
Who lie beneath her sod?
Their fame Is all that's left 70 us,
Their souls are with their God.
You will defend iT one and all;
Their noble deeds remember,
By voting for old honest Frank
For Congress next November.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02

PUr 1T DowN.-Young man, why
will you do ity You cannot afford
to drink. That single glass of whis-
XIV that you take costs you only 25
cents, does il? Let me see. II cost
your father 4 shudder. IL cost
your mother a heartache. 1t cost
you the loss of your purity. 1t digs
deep into your manliness. II cost
your young friend, perhaps, his
soul, for he followed your example.
It countenanced a traffic in human
lives and souls. 1t dishonored God.
II helped on the fioOd-tide of drunk
enness in which our land is drown
ing. 1t "put an enemy in your
mouth TO steal away your brain"
It united you for steady, thought
full work. 1t paved the way for an
other drink, and that for another,
and that for another still, and these
for numberless others, and all to-
gether will make you asOt, and pave
your way to q drunkard's grave and
a drunkard's hell.
Young man, for Gods sake, for
the sake of everything true and
good, put down the glass.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02

tution"-with q ruthless mob of
armed and drunken soiTiery at his
back, invading without a shadow OF
q pretext, q peaceful and lawful
meeting of loyal citizens, whose
only ofiense was daring to support
q candidate in opposition TO him,
and driving venerable and venera-
ted gentlemen into the streets al
the point of the bayOnet, ordering
the assassination of a Union soldier
for hurrahing for a Union General,
and shamelessly proclaiming his de-
tiance of the constitution and the
laws. How do the people like the
picture?
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02

A Chicago lover went to visit his
girl one evening recently, but for
some reason, possibly that the fire
had changed his condition in life, she
received and treated him eooIly.
He remained standing in the parlOr
for a few minutes, but finally made
a movement toward the door, re-
marking that "he guessed he'd CO."
ooh, said she starting from beagti-
full condition of semi-unconsciOus-
ness won't you take chair?"
''Well, L don't care ifI do, was his
reply; and he took the chair, thank
ing her kindly, and carried it home.
He says it is a good chair, made of
walnut, with stuffiBg and green cov-
er-just what he wanted. But he is
down on that girl, aud declares
he wouldn't marry her-nOt il her
father owned a brewery.
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lie Columbin Herala sars /:

4 ~ ANAdiH Dtet AAGl A4u n1l . .HHf
There We're, Entil within the last
few weeks, thousands of good and
true men iu Tennessee favorabiy iu-
clined to the election OF Mr.. John
son TO Congress, who, since they
have come clearly 10 comprehend
his efforts TO have his course daring
the war endorsed at their expense,
and his willingness 20 break down
aud disrHrf aii i11Teof. ~
tha CONSERVATIVE snls Ut q
nessee, aud thereby promote the
cause Of Radicalism, are now earn
est in their determination TO secure
his defeat. With all the cOmbind
efforts OF Mr.. johnson and COlyai
to disrupt the Democratic party, IL
is now evident that the people are
becoming aroused. and the work OF
organic alton Is going on throughout
the State, and that the suceess OF
the Greeley and Cheatham tickets Is
almost an accomplished fact. Much
doubt, however, remains about our
Congressman in several of the dis
tricts, and about the Legislature
The countenance and encourage
ment which oyer-aspiringm gmen III all
parts Of the State have received from
the JohnsOn-Colyar party, bas
brought out q multiplicity OF eandi-
dates in large number of the coun-
ties and Congressional Districts, and
unless the Conservative masses,
whose interests are periled, act
promptly and energetically in the
way of organization and harmony,
the Legislature may pass into the
hands of the Radicals, and several
of our Congressional Districts be
misrepresented by them in Congress
But, If 10 be " forewarned is TO be
forearmed," then the work OF organ
ization wi go on, and selfish poli--
ticians win be taught salutary les
son. The danger is great, if we fail
TO organize; victory is certain, IL
we do. 70
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authOress said a few words of edIfio-
nit on until she had reached the last,
and then asked DIR. Parton to send
her grandehild TO bed early, and, il
she died at night, not to say any
thing about it until morning. Soon
after this sad scene DIR. Sturges
stepped forward and felt her pulse.
The auihOress fixed her gaze upon
him and asked firmly: doctor, am
[ dying:' The doctor answered .
Yes" She continued TO sink, and
at g her pulse had stopped. and she
had breathed her last. Once she
said, ''let no stranger gaze upon me
when l IN dead" and her request
was complied with.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-02

The papers in the interest of
that champion demagogue, Briggs
dier General Andrew Johnston lie
with deliberation and malice fore
thought, when they assert that the
refusal of the Convention of the eth
OF May, when it. declined to put Cen
Cheatham in nomination, did so be-
cause it tcds opposed to his nomina-
tion. The writer of this was in that
convention, and voted to lay the res
olution on the table, because the
State svas not, at that time entitled
to Congressman from the State at
largel 1t was not certainly known
that the bill giving the State tenth
representative would pass, and it
was to prevent the appearance of
nominating for an Office which did
not exist, and mightnever exist, that
led to the laying the resolution for
Gen. Cheathan's nomination on the
table. The "truth of history" re-
quires this statement, and the truth,
which must be indicated, even at
the expense of A. j., and his "or-
gans" also requires it.
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IN CHANCERY AT LEXING.
|, TON. TENN.

Original BTll-Ooteber Rules, 1873.
Parthenia Laslie, j. S. Gordon, r 4. Cor
don, NJ argaret Inman and others, vs Pi-
city Morris, Elizabeth Gordon, jackson
Cozart, Barrett Bruce and others.
1T appearing from the bill, verified BY af-
y fidavit, that Z. f. Jordan, one Of the
defendants is a nonresident OF Tennessee,
and hts whereabouts unknown to COM
plainants, 50 that he can not be served with
process. Wherefore it is ordered by the
Clerk and Master that publication be made
in the Whig and Tribune for four eonsccu-
tive weeks. commanding the said z. +. Jor-
dan TO appear before the Clerk and Master,
1T his office in Lexington, county and State
aforesaid, on the first Monday, being Rule
Day, In December next, snd make his de
fence to said bill, or the same wifth be taken
for confessed, and heard ex parte as to him.
j. W. G. JONES, e. & NJ.
Taylor & Woods, and J. W. q. Jones, Soils.
for Complainants.
Oct II IS72-4f