The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-06-06
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SOCIAL. AsSASSINATIO
The Work OF Andrew LOhu-Om's
Encmie~---A NirGuou- and In
mocenu woman nDonr uo
Death Nv Simmderoms
Tongues.



7 The Nashville Banner, paper that
has been consistently hostile TO EXPIRES
I ident johnson. has the following:
Some two OF three weeks ago vague
/ rumors commenced 90 reach Nashville
/ seriously affecting the reputation Of eN-
/ President johnson and a lady Of Greene
ville--wife OF the postmaster OF that
place. We made inquiry. were informed
on good authority that the statements
were bascless, and RETAINED from making
any allusion theretoin our columns. But
\ the gossips would not desist, all manner
OF reports concerning the lady and gel
/ tleman mentioned were persistently kept
in circulation, and We finally tolegraphed
To prominent citizen OF Greeneville, who
answered, several days since, rs follows:
There j. not an atom OF truth in the
alleged scandal. Lying tongues have
driven a virtuous, Christian lady 90 in
sane suicide This Is a candid statement
Of the facts.
Convinced Of the foul injustice that
had been done, we still forebore out Of
respect Tor the parties involved. to give
it undue publicity. but the following dis
patch from Brooklyn, New York, to the
| indianapolis Journal, shows that the
slanderers were determined not 10 be de-
feated of their purpose:
"A few DAYS since il was announced
that Mrs. Emily Harold, wife of the
postmaster at Greenville, East Tonnes
see. had committed suicide by shooting
herself through the head with arevolver.
| 4 letter Just received by resident Of
Greeneyille. now in Brooklyn, attending
/ the Methodist General Conference. CON
views the intelligence that Mrs. HarrOl 1t
had been seduced 10y eX-President John
- n, and that discovery and exposure led
/ her 10 the commission of the rash act
| Great Indignation j. expressed among
\ the citizens of Grecneville against the eN-
| President, and many of the best citizens
refuse 10 speak 10 him on the street
We have had every opportunity TO
/ learn all the circumstances so grossly
mii stated in the dispatch above quoted,
and have no hesitation in saying that for
heartless cruelty on the part Of the instr
gators and perpetrators. this affair stands
unparalleled in the annals of social muir
/ der Ii was frequently referred % by
prominent East Tennessee Republicans
\ during the State Convention of their par
" recently held here, and they were un-
animous in declaring that the reports
which rendered Mrs. Harold insane and
4 led her 10 take her own life were as false
as the malice of those who invented them
was inappeasable and devllish. All of
these gentlemen were Mr.. Johnson's po-
Iitical opponcnts-someo of them his per
sonal enemies--yet they all expressed
the frmest conviction Of his innocence
all bore testimony to the lifetime piety
Of the lady with whose name bis had
been SO fatally associated. They eN
planned that Greeneyille is a gossiping
village Of some thousand inhabitants, and
that Tor Mr. johnson 10 do 20 much a.
bow To lady on the street b sufficient
to make her the social prey of his enc
mics His moral conduct since lac re-
tired from the Presidential chair 20 hi
home in that place has been irrcproacha
bic. Even had such not been the case
he would hardly have been base enough
10 betray the wife of his oldest friend-o
the man who toiled beside him IN tho
same shop and who was not forgotten II
the days Of his fame and prosperity.