Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-28
ANDY ELIMINATED.
He is Characterized as a Stump Bully
OF Limited Ideas and Crude,
Unlettered Notions.
with Sehurz, TrumbulI, Blair,
Greeley, Brown, or LandOn C.
Haynes, He is an IgnO-
ramus.
The People OF Tennessee Must not Send
Him 10 COngress-Cheatham is
Thousand Times More Pref
cradle.
cIrBuRxE, Cross COUNTY, ARK

September Il, 1871
EDITORS APPEAL-For several years il mas
been a habit Of mine to study carefully the
characteristic Of public men, and TO endeavor
TO estimate them fairly and c~andidly. IL has
seemed 10 me that because y man belonged TO
the other side this furnished no justification
for belittling and disappearing him. We
all have a property in Americans who have
distinguished themselves by their genius, at
talnments and ability. p
For a good many years Andrew Johnson has
managed 10 keep himself before the people Of
Tennessee. He must have possessed a certain
kind Of force to have learned TO read and
write after he had reached manhood, and to
have raised himself from q tailOr's board to
the Presidential chair. His friends and adj
visers claim for him transcendent abilities,
/ and some Of his concede these to
him. As he is now bringing himself anew to
the voters Of Tennessee, there can be no harm
in examining his claims. When q man pro-
poses 10 himself one object for his ambitions
~ and considerable energy, he is quite likely
to succeed. Thus, II a man proposes to be
rich, and cares for nothing else, he is pretty
sure OF success, even If he is as big a fool as
LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER"
who sent warming pans to the West Indies,
and bought all the whalebone in the market
to construct the wales of a ship he was build
ing. SO If a man strives for political prefer
ment only, IL is nothing so marvellous If he
| comes to paSs through ali the grades of office
holding. from Alderman to President. To ex-
plain Johnson's success is 1t necessary TO as
sumo that he is a man of transcendant genius
or wonderful attachments? He began by talk
ing TO his neighbors, many ofwhom could not
read. II he quoted the multiplication table
TO such audiences he was regarded as a prod
ICY. 1t was before such audiences that his
reputation was acquired 1t was before them
that his manner and style were formed. And
il is not too much 10 say that only such audi
ences have ever found anything extraordinary
in his speeches. He has a commanding pres
ence, a bold, bluff, defiant manner, which pass
with many as evidence Of genius and ability.
But what do we find in his speeches? Simply
nothing. There is no statement which indi-
aaFau a alan Thara TG M a NfrrT mani M lnufa
and never a burst Of genuine eloquence. He
repeats until his hearers always expect il,
that he is in favor Of
THE CONSTITUTION,
but he never explains that constitution so as
to define and SHOW wherein he should be re-
garded as its champion and expounder. He
never fails, latterly, TO say that he has held
every Office within the gift of the people-a |
piece OF m OF which the people
were pretty well possessed before. Compare |
his speeches with others that have been
spoken and published duringt the present cam /
patgn. Take summers two great speeches;
take any Of Trumbull's; take any single one
OF Carl Schurz's, or Doolittle's, or Governor
Blairs, OF even Iandon Q. Haynesis Upton
speech. In arrangement, statement, argu-
ment, style and matter, JOhnson's speeches |
are simply ridiculous by the side of these. He |
talks about graYitation in his Memphis speech
rs If Il were something he had just discov-
cred, and as II he expected his audience TO be
astOnished at such a display of learning. |
Look through all his speeches and you will
find his Illustrations never rise above suck
s-CphOmOrism. He haSlately stumbled upon q |
mares nest, and it seems he is never to be done
cackling
ABOUT SIR. JOHN TREVOR.
After using it once or twice, and after the
newspapers had given II the rounds, good |
taste should have taught him to drop 1t. But
the poverty OF his resources is such that a for
lOrn thought has TODD perpetual duty when
ever he has seized it. He is an ex-PreSident.
He tells the people Of Tennessee that he wants
to represent them, not for honor and emolu-
ments, because he has had a surfeit Of these,
because he can do them so much good by
his superior ability. He displays his financial
wisdom by declaring that no nation ever paid
a big debt: that funding such a debt is ruin
owes a debt. Yet he is not for reputation.
proposes no solution to his puzzling
conundrum. He betrays a disgraceful ignor-
OF hlstOry-IOr every tyrO knows that
greater advances have been made in constitu-
liberty among the nations OF Europe |
within the last century than during
hey have all created funded debts dur
ng that time. Johnson thought he
talking to his old audience up in
he mountains where the SDeliing-book is a
classic and the multiplication table higher
mathematics; and where he has been in the
iabit of dOgmatizing as he chose, with no re-
except the shout-"Go it, Andy; let's {.
AVE another drink"
In view of these suggestions I think there
1ill be no difficulty in arriving at the cOnclu-
ION that Andrew johnson is a stupendOus
raud- He has never written a sentence, or
ttereu a speech that viii have any place in
history as evidence that he possessed any =
.hi1ty as a statesman, while passing through .
II the grades of ofice-hOlding, of which he is /
d fond OF Boosting. He is merely a stump
.ully, having gained such a reputation as is
My fOrcible among ignorant and unlearned :
uditOrs. History Will have no place for him
hitch Will add any honor to Tennessee. It is
D be hoped that Chatham will prevent his
dding further to the disgrace OF the State.
SAT.