Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-05

| and ObedieuE to her laws as a magis.
| tTate, honorable and true as a citizen
aud of exemplary moral rectitude in all
| his trans actions. Though capable Of
employing bitter epithets against Op
| pOnents, he was kind, gentle and 7neT-
Gus toward his neighbors. Whatever
| political enemies he may have had, and
| however much his course during the
war may have disguised and dissppOint-
ed the great msJSrity of his fellOW-cit
Zens, he was endeared to great numbers
| by his genial nature, his cordial man
ners, and his kindness Of hesrt. Hehad
| to deal with opponents who were often
| vindictive, sometimes unsCrupulOus, and
occasionally malignant and savage, but
| by ruling his temper he made these faults
OF his enemies react upon themselves.
! He was essentially aself-made man. He
never attended school of any kind for
! single day, taught himself to read and
| acquired a good practical education
without help. He was equally self-re-
liant and persistent in all ne undertook.
New York Verdi
After passing through perils and
| emergencies quite unparalleled in the
personal experience of any other Amer
lean who has ever filed so high a place
in the public eye, Andrew johnson yes.
terday died in the bosom of his family,
upon the soil Of the State which had al
ternately heaped upon him her highest
honors and devoted him to execraUiOn,
and assured, at the last, Of the respectful |
sympathy and regret OF men Of all par
ties, in all sections Of the country, which |
he Enthusiastically loved with an antique |
earnestness and passion OF patriotic de-
vOtiOn. We have seen so much, during |
the dismal years which have followed |
the triumphant close of the great war |
for the Union, OF low personal aims in |
lofty public places; so much Of cynical |
nepOtism and Ofvulgar, shameless greed, |
that little by little the recollection Of |
Andrew JOhnsOn's Unstained loyalty to |
his own conceptions, such as they were. |
of public duty, has sOftened the public |
Judgment of these conceptions, and BGs |
brought his bitterest political RntagO- |
nists to kindlier thoughts of the man, of |
his aims and of the work of bis long and |
singularly checquered life.
Now that the north and the south, once |
more united in clearer comprehension |
than ever OF each others qualities, pur-
poses and feelings, stand side by side at |
his opening grave, ii is possible for both !
sections TO see, and it is but simply just |
and decent for both sections to say, that |
and fearless always by the law Of his ma
ture, dared to Withstand the south when |
he believed the south to be pressing the |
Union of the American States to it5 ruin, |
and dared, too, to Withstand the north |
when he believed the north to be |
making the reunion Of the American |
States GelusiOn and dream. :
In the last public position which he
lived to occupy, he had most fully and
VIGOROUSLY reclaimed this glory Of his !
earlier senatorial yesIs. Elected to the |
senate from Tennessee in December last, |
after prOtraGted contest with the man
who for time had succt eded, when the |
worst Passions OF the war were at their |
worst, in making Tennessee, not bull !
wark of the Union, but batteTing-ram
of hot sectional passion against the
south, Andrew Johnson Teappeared in
Washington just long enough to lift his
voice with dignity aud with fervOr in
behalf of the local Independence of the
States against 3 remOTseless centraliza-
ton, in behalf of honest government
agaiIs! shameless public robbery, in be-
half Of the sovereign law against an au-
daciOus military usurpatiOn. 1t is scarce |
ly probable that during the new conflict
over new issues, now before US, he could
have bettered the brave good work
which he last winter did for Louisiana
and liberty.
New York Herald.l
The death Of Andrew Johnson will |
excite feeling of universal sorrow. 1t |
is the close Of a romantic and extraOr- |
binary carer. Only yesterday, and he |
was preparing to enter upon the canvass
in Ohio, to take his part in the Demo |
cratic movement to retain costTOl of |
that State. He had just returned to |
public life after a contest of extreme /!
bitterness, in which he had been victO- |
riOus over extraordinary obstacles. This |
return to him was not merely victory, |
but vindication. 1t was the vindica-
ton of Tennessee from the charges upon |
which he had undergone trial as a crimi- |
nal, law disdaining President. Even as |
men 60 in our hurried life he ws.s a |
young man. He at least might have |
hoped to have served one or two terms |
as senator, and to have taken part in |
the canvass against Grant and Grant |
ism, which we can well believe to have
been the darling aim Of his life. Re-
firing from the Presidency six years
ago, amid the excavations of the party,
to whom he owed the office, and the
scarcely concealed contempt of the
Democrats, who did not deem him,
with all of his services, as worthy OF !
mention in their conventions, he re-
turned to the senate amid general re-
spect and esteem. He was believed to
have earned the honor. The Democrats
felt that he was entitled to the tardy |
vindicatiOn; the Republicans rejoiced in
the opportunity of meeting q foeman |
worthy Of their steel. In time of sus-
picion and corruption Andrew Johnson
was known to be an honest man. Upon
his character even SANDER could leave |
no stain. He was welcomed as bold |
and manly statesman who believed he |
was right, and thus believing dared all |
opprObrium; as one who inl erIted the |
traits of Andrew Jackson, and who, if
he had posse 3ed the tact as well as the !
fortitude of his great prototype, might |
have made IS deep al impression upon |
the country. Even as it is, he will be |
remembered with the Jscksons OF our |
history-a narrow, honest, brave, IN |
yielding and persistent leader, who |
never allowed party allegiance to be-
come party slavery, and who was gov
erned by no ambition but that of serv- |
ing his country with sincerity and cOuI-
age.
Andrew Johnson will be remembered |
pot only as an honest and brave man,
but as one whose life is full of comfort to |
the lowIy and aspiring. His personal
career is one Of the MODEST in our his
tory, for it is the career Of one who rose
from the lowliest beginnings to the first
station in the republic; who never feared
a responsibility in the performance Of
duty; who stood by the Union in its
darkest hours, and, when his voice was
more powerful than an army, meyer
faltered in that devotion. That wss his
creed. In it he lived aud died, leaving
behind him q name which, no matter
what criticism may say, his countrymen
will not soon let die.
Richm nd (Va,) Enquirer
No more thoroughly representative
| American than Andrew johnson ever
| lived. He was American in his powers,
| his principles, his passions and his pref
udices Though far from faultless, and
| oftimes led astTay by the defiant strate-
| gy If a stubborn will, yet no opponent
! ever doubted his courage or found him
| aught else than foeman worthy of his
| steel. There was too
much OF the Unyielding in his DISPOSE
| tiOQ. In his determination to be no
MANS man, he sometimes made enc
mics unnecessarily, and defeated his
own highest PURPOSE, Then again he