Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-30
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CONFUSION.
Spirit of The Press.

The great Cheatham-J ohnson confusion
is the all-absorbing topic of the day, and
all parties are interested in hearing what is
thought about it. We present extracts from
number of exchanges:
| Fayetteville News.l
| General B. F. Cheatham was nominated
by the convention which met at Nashville
on Tuesday, for Congressman for the State
| at large. General Cheatham is a soldier,
but not the man for Congress, but he be-
| fore Andrew Johnson, two to one.
Shelbyville COMMERCIAL
We are for the nominees, and would have
been for them, no matter whom the con-
vention had chosen.
We sound notes of warning, The indi-
cation is that Andrew Johnson will bring
the people of Tennessee into much trouble
He is taking advantage of our disorganized
condition. We shall very soon see.
Memphis Appeal
Andrew Johnson proposes to represent
the State in the Lower House of Congress.
Brownlow's successor will be chosen by
the next Legislature, and Johnson propos-
es to control this Legislature, and become
Brownlow's successor. He would thus
smash Ben. Butler first, and then extermi-
nate Cooper, This is the eX-President's
programme OF the obstacles he must
overleap we will speak hereafter.
Memphis Avalanche
The Nashville Union and american still
clings to the fence, but casts loving chances
at A. j., while General Cheatham's name
is on the ticket on its masthead. From
his perch on the fifteenth rail the editor of
the late "organ" slowly and sadly, between
his signs, quotes from Burns:
''How happy could be with either
Were 'tother dear charmer away"
Memphis Ledger.
The enfd,lt terrible is at large. At mass
meeting held at Nashville last Saturday,
the great "circle-swinger" announced his
determination to Stump the State as q
candidate for Congressman for the State at
large. Andrew Johnson is a man of I'M
questionable ability, and notwithstanding
his furious loyalty displayed when Military
Governor of Tennessee, he deserves credit
for his fight on the impeachment question
against the leaders of the Republican par
ty, whose nominee and candidate he was
at the time of his election to the Vice-Pres-
idency. He is outspOken on all subjects
except one, and his lips has been ever seal
ed on that, Notwithstanding the ''calls" up
on him to rise and explain. That is the
part he took in the murder of Mrs. Sur
raft. This may be the griHning, CHASTITY
skeleton in the Andy johnson household
"a thing of terror, of which it is impossi-
BILE to speak. Public opinion has fastened
this terrible crime upon the ex-President,
and it is to be hoped that in his Memphis
speech he will not only be able but willing
to clear his skirts of the bloody deed; if
not, it may be said to him, as was said to
Robespierre .. Wretchi the blood of Dan
ton chokes thee!"
Chattanooga Times
We infer from an editorial of the Knox
Vile Press and Herald, wherein it de-
clines to support the regular nominee of
the party, that the people of East Tennes-
see are in immediate danger of some dead
Iy peril. The Press and Herald says the
people of East Tennessee will support An
drew johnson as the SureSt means of self
preservution.n We are sorry to learn that
the good people of upper East Tennessee
are in peril, and are alarmed. We take
pleasure in assuring them of refuge from
all their enemies in Chattanooga. 1t
would open their eyes to come out of their
mountain seclusion and live in a city
where they could meet people from all
over the world, and thus be enabled to as
certain that East Tennessee is not the uni
verse, although it is the Switzerland of
America.
The Democrats, Conservatives and Lib
eral Republicans of Chattanooga see moth
ing in Andrew Johnson's candidacy, but a
determined, premeditated effort to destroy
all party organization at the very moment
when such organization is essential to sue
cess. They know that if Mr.. johnson had
responded to the intimations of his friends,
when delegates were being selected to the
State Convention, it would have been next
to impossible for any other candidate to
have secured the nomination; but Mr..
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self. preferred to do as he has done; and
now the men in this community who were
Mr.. Johnson's most ardent supporters for
the nomination, declare that they cannot
sustain him in his effort to destroy the or
ganization' of the party in the face of the
enemy.