The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-10-17
PRESCRIPTION IN TENNESSEE

PRESCRIPTION IN TENNESSEE.
The Memphis Avalanche docs not
welcome us to the Congressional
canvass in Tennessee. But there is
a reason for this. It's editor is him
self candidate for Congress; ard
who could expect hospitality under
such circumstances?
The tgingular race between John
son, Cheatham and Maynard, be-
sides having some peculiar features,
is Of moro than local interest
Each Of the tiro has a national repu-
tation, and the result may be said
to bc not without q certain national
significance. In addition to this
excuse for our intrusion we venture
to ssuggest, with proper modesty,
that our audience in Tennessee is
! perhaps as large as that Of the
Memphis Avalanche, and more gen
eIal and difnsed, which joined to
some special knowledge Of Tennes-
see affairs, which we claim to possess
seems to Justify the freedom and
cardor we have employed in discus
sing the situation there. Indeed,
the fact that we are concerned in
the contest would of itself give us
some right.to speak in it, since con
eern Of this sort implies a sympathy
with the people Of Tennessee--and,
in this case, a very genuine and
deep sympathy-and, sure it is, that
we have desired simply to throw
little light on a few points about
which we feel ourselves properly
qualified to give Information, but
on which the press Of the State has
been strangely silent.
Thus the personal justice we un-
dertook to do Governor Harris was
due that gentleman, and, on the
other hand, it ought to be known
that, during his entire career as
President, Andrew johnson not
merely neglected, but sacrificed Ten
nessee, disappointing and disgusting
the few friends at home who steadi-
ly stuck to him in the hope that he
would not prove the wretched hypO-
crite and migrate which he is. Eve
rv word which the Memphis Ava
lanchc said Of him two years ago Is
true. It is as true now as it was
then; and, If he is elected, the Ava
Ianche will find itself reduced to the |
alternative either Of tacking itself
on to the personal fortunes of low
and vulgar partisan, or of carrying /
its independence and liberalism into |
the Radical market as the only |
place of available disposition.
All this, however, is merely spec
ulativc. We meant to speak of
things more immediate and practi-
cal.
The kcy-hote of Johnson's cam
paign-the sing song of the Mem
phis Avalanche-is amnesty, obli-
WON for past ofenses, liberalism
johnson said the other day that he
was sorry he had allowed Mrs. Sur
ratt to be hanged, adding that he
wished he had caused the handing
of Mr.. Huntington. And why?-
Because he has to explain away /
uis conduct in the case OF Mrs. Sur
ratt, and is obstructed in his ambi-
ton by the present course of Mr.,
Duunington. These reasons are
very illustrative. The claims ofjus-
tice in the service of a human life;
the appeals Of humanity; the appli-
cation of the court of conviction; /
the shrieks of Anna Surratt; the /
earnest words of the widow of Doug |
las, sympathy, manhood was moth
ing, when they might have been ef-
fecuive, with this mean-spirited, sell
fish coward, who understanding him
self to be suspected Of the murder of
Abraham Lincoln, and knowing
himself also to be guiltless, had not
the courage to interpose his hand to
stay the execution Of one as inno-
cent as himself, because his act might
be construed as clemency to an ac-
But, i. being too late for
rcpining. he can gush about it Hol9,
and regret that he did do what q maa
Of sense, nerve and feeling would
have d one at the time he was called
upon to do it. On the other hand,
he regrets that he did not hang Mr..
when he had a chance.
Mr.. Dunnington is a very civel,
oeaccablc, scholarly gentleman; a
man from whose opinions we differ
MS much SIS Mr.. Johnson docs. Why
should Dir. johnson regret that he
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