Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-10-02
Nashville Union, as the appeal says. ste
be erioyed by his Ioyal friends:u

be enjoyed by his loyal friends"
1.-The new prison at Knoxville was vas hi ned
when left. Cummings, Branner, Mabry ana |
is going to arrest old Bob Mckinney; hope
he will be in Jail when I get back; hundreds |
of the scoundrels are gone old Dr. Ramsey |
among them"
Asan evidence of Andy's loyalty"
a portion of his Knoxville speech deliver
ed in the spring of 1864, is given. That
speech was heard by.-a large number of our
people. He said:
The time has arrived when treason must be
made odious: When traitors must be punish
ed-impoverished, their property taken from
them, whether it be their horses, lands or ne
groes, and given to the innocent, the honest, the
loyal, upon whom the calamities of this wicked
rebellion have fallen. It is easy to stand here
and declaim, but am not declaiming. It is
easy to utter bombast, but I am not uttering
bombast You know something of what have
already done for East Tennessee. You must
join hands with me, and with one another, and
swear to do what have already told you must
be done-to make treason odious-to make trail
tors suffer as you have suffered as your wives
and children have suffered.
Again, October "a, 1864, A. J. gave evil
dence of the loyal zeal which burned in
his bosom by saying as we find in this
record :"
Henceforth all men shall have fair start in
the race for life. This corrupt slave aristocracy
of Nashville taunt the friends of free labor with
negro equality. Walk along High street.
among the people whose sons are now skulking
in guerrilla bands close to our city, robbing and
numbering, and you can see as many mulatto
children bearing unmistakable resemblance to
some of NashVille's aristocracy.
We do not wish to be understood as TAX
ing any part in this unpleasantness be-
tween Mr.. J Johnson and his political friends.
In the language of Horace Greeley, Shak-
speare, or some other man, we can say:
Flight dog, fight bear,
There's 10 dog of mine there"
We can view the conflict from our stand
point with perfect serenity. When Andy
says that those opposing him are "nlil-
itary ring" of rebel officers, we can say
amen When Cheatham says that Andy
wants office and opposes conventions only
when he fails to get nominated, we are pre-
pared to believe it. The State will not
lose anything from; the castigations Andy
gives Cheatham and his military friends
and the public peace is not likely to be ma
terially disturbed by any exposures of
Andy's crooked record.
One thing is very evident now, and thai
is that A. J. is to have warm reception
throughout the canvass, in the Middle and
Western portions of the State. He is to
hear of things long since forgotten. He is
to be held responsible for great many
| things, he would gladly get rid of before
the people from whom he expects votes.
! He will find before the canvass is over, that
he has gained no strength by taking up
| and supporting Greeley against his better
judgment. He will find, if he has not al
ready found, that he never can regain the
position with his party that he lost by his
loyalty to the Government.