Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-10
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST.
The Rivals in Tennessee-Andy John
son, Governor John C. Brown, The
Savage, and Judge John d. Lea.
The Probable Result Of the Great Tri-
angular Campaign-WhO is to Win
the Coveted Honor.

BIundering Abuse Of the Ex-COnfeder-
stes-An IgnOramus in the Columns
Of the New York Herald
From the New York Herald.l
NASHVILLE, October 26.-EX-Presi-
dent Johnson has swung around 10
Nashville again on his way to keep his
spDointmeufs in Middle Tennessee.
His business on the stump is TO tell the
people that he still wishes, as he did
four wears ago, to be their United States
senator in place of poor, afflicted old
BrownlOw, whose mental
vipor is consuming the remnant of his
bodily strength, and whose prejudice is
50 strong and partisanship so narrow as
TO make it impossible for him to repre-
sent ANYTHING outside Of the little band
of saints and martyrs that compose the
Brownlew faction. There are probably
not many persons nOrthward, eastward
or westward of Tennessee that have as yet
taken to thinking seriously of the proba-
bility and the effect of Andrew ] JohnsOn's
in public life. Neverthe-
less. it is q sober fact to-day that few
things in politics are more likely to hap
pen in the next few months than his
election to the United States senate by
the Tennessee legislature, in obedience
to
A POPULAR DEMAND
of the kind that Tennessee politicians
are accustomed to obey, and which john
son, with his strong everyday sense and
knowledge OF the people and their poll
ties. knows how TO call out. 1t would,
perhaps, be a deathblOw to the senatorial
hopes of an eastern politician to mount
the stump and claim the coveted place
from the people, who do not elect,
instead of from the legislature, that
does: but, as first said, Mr.. john
son knows the locality and the peo-
pIe, and has shown real sagacity
in taking the field in the way that be
has done. And it is safe to say that if
he gets the voters on his side this time
it will 90 hard with the officeholders,
who may try at the State capitol next
winter to defeat him by logrOIling, pipe
Isying, buying and selling, or any other
President has an opponent in the field
who is pursuing just the same course as
himself-thst is, going about the State
and telling the people that he wants
their legislative delegates to elect him
TO the United States senate by their
command. The manner of this gentle
man and his treatment of his distin-
guished rival is well illustrated by his
II ~ &c 1rf aoTn IN dnrnro
ton OF ignorance of the manly, if rude,
qualities Of mind and heart OF Colonel
Savage.
THE RIVAL CANDIDATES.
What the platform Of the two senate
rial gladistors may be it would be very
difficult to gather from their public ut
terances. They are both against the
civil rights bill, and would fight its pas
sage as bitterly as though they did not
believe what seems to be now generally
nderstood-namely that 1t is uncOn-
stitutionai and could not survive the
carving of the first case under it up to
the supreme court, and that il is now
kept standing only as device to keep
the cOlored voters in the Republican
traces a little longer, till something
newer and better can be invented. IL is
probable, too, though he has said moth
ing Of the kind as yet, that Savage Is at
heart quite as willing as johnson to hold
that the national bOndhOlders have got
enough profit out OF their investment to
Justify the application OF future interest
10 the wiping out of the principal.
But il they keep along in COM
many so far, they certainly go
no further together. The real issue
between johnson and his opponent, or,
rather, between johnson and bis two
oppouents (for Governor John c. Brown
msv be said now to be fairly before the
DeOpIe for the United States senator
ship, has not yet been fairly brought to
the surface, though il is as well under
stood here in Tennessee as it is a matter
of prufound ignorance at the north.
That issue, lamentable as it is to-day, is
inst this: Whether the State is to be
ruled by those who tried or desired to
destroy the Union, or those who tried
and desired to preserve 1t.
TRAITORS AND LoYALIsTs.
It is rather startling, is it not, to see
that, ia good old Tennessee, which WAS
imperiled, saved, reconstructed and re-
deemed, all within the space Of ten or
eleven years, the vital question to-day
before the people is the same as it was
in the spring Of 1851, namely-shall the
Unionists or disunionists control the
State? OF course it is not meant to say
that disunion itself is the issue, as it was
nearly fourteen years ago, but the peo-
ple are divided into the same classes as
theu-thOse that love and have always
loved the Union in one class, and those
that do not love and have never loved
the Union In the other. And 1t is here
ia that the surprising strength OF john
son in Tennessee lies; for, with all his
faults, blunders and vagaries as Presi-
dent, and dispite his el0cutiOnary rant,
fustian and buckram in all his public re-
lstions, Andrew johnson is and
ALWAYS has been 8 sincere and
hearty lover of the Union, and
every man, woman and child
in Tennessee knows it, whether
friend OF foe. The people have not for
gotten how an intemperate and unprin-
cipled governor, aided by q gang Of the
worst political bandits that even this
rude State has nursed into life and pow
er, paralyzed Union majority of sixty
thousand votes in 1851 and carried Ten
nessee into rebellion, civil war and de-
vsstation, and they are intensely sus-
picious and anxious to-day, when
The Union msjority is quite as great and
equally averse to being betrayed by 3
small band of political adventures. By
the term "UniOn majorities,n is not
meant party majority for the admin
istrstion at Washington, which, mat.
ter OF fact, has now but q slender follow.
ing outside OF East Tennessee, and oi
/ those some way dependent upon the
government for a living, and Is regarded
| bv many of the Unionists as a burden
instead Of a support, but the people who
| love the Union Tor the Unions sake, ,anC
love our form of government a
laid down in the constitution, with
It's attractive Democratic equality
Of rank aud privilege and il
| due preservation Of personal liberty anC
local independence. This is the kind o.
| Unionist that johnson is, and If the va
| rious DemOcratie-C Conservative ti'keti
| are successful in the approaching elec
tion and ths number of his enemie!
elected upon them exceed the number
of his friends who are on the sans tick
| cts. they must beat Mr.. johnson with 1
Union man for the senate, or they viii
not beat him at ali, unless they betray
| tbsir constituencies. II the Radical
carry the State, they Of course viii hay'
tbe most to say about the senator to b
elected in place Of Brownlow; but IS tn
| Radicals stand now, they are more at
ting subjects for the thoughtful pen o
| the speculative philosopher than thu
hasty pencil Of the live Journalist.
CoNFEDERARE sYMPATHIES,
Colonel Savage, it should be said, /
more OMEN than johnson in touching
/ The issue that lies below the surface. Il
one Of bis great speeches he vent 50 IA
/ % 70 make the hOnorSd name of th