The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-02-05
ANDREW JOHNSON.
What the Newspapers say.
I Knosoilie Press and Herald


will draw "a great breath of relief this
morning. Andrew Johnson has attain
ed his ambition, and fnr six years to
cOuse neighbor will not say TO neighh"r
in the faith, brother will not prupnuhd
to brother in the same political house
hold the inquiry, Are you, or are YOu
not for A andrew Johson 2 The great
principles of cur common faith will
unite as as we move onward to trium
phant progress. AMI Yuw begins aus
other chapter in one Of the NEST event.
full civic care rs of which history gives
Us any account. For siK years more
Andrew 5ohson will, if life be spared
him. figure upon the most conspicuous
stage of American politics. Should be
approve himself, as We cordially wish
he may, worthy of this superadded honr
or, it viii be Fitting climax to the
storniest life in the history CT politics
Little Rock Gazette.
Andrew Juhson vas yesterday elected
to the United States senate FROM Ten
nessee We are glad of it. Tennessee
will have man in the senate during
the next six years who, if he does moth
ing else, will let the country kno~ that
| Tennessee has u senator IL the Ameri
can congress Our sister State Is to be
congr tulated on her selection.
ST. Louis Democrat
Andy JOhrsnn goes back to the sem
ate, and by the aid of Republican votes.
| The seat which he SO hOnorabiy filed
! years ago, and from which he uttered
The most savage phillipics ever deliv>
cred against Democracy, will once more
be occupied by that man, who is prob
ably more hated than any ether by the
bOurbuns of the south johnson cannot
be expected to act with the RepubIi>
cans, but it will be almost impossible
for him to cooperate with 81 sb Demo.
Gratis as now represent the south in the
senate.
st Louis Globe.
We have no tears to shed over the
election of Andy johnson in TeRnes-
see. He was the best OF the LOT, the
| only one among the candidates who had
opposed secession and rebellion, and the
| only one whose triumph you'd not haYe
be, claimed as victory for the rebel
element lie will have his uses as a
| senator, too, and ne will be perfectly
harmless, because he will be in the
minority.
LSt. LcUisRepuLliean
| The election of Andrew johnson to
! the senate of the United States Is the
most magnificent personal triumph which
| the history of American politics can
! show lie was not carried to victory
| in the arms Of his friends, nor even by
| the inherent strength Of the principles
| he advocated His friends, indeed,
were true, and his principles sound, but
both united would have failed to make
Roadway against a powerful and deter
mined opposition had they been enlisted
in behalf OF u candidate Of less decided
! character
But this triumph has n broader and
| better meaning than any which can at
tach to a mere individual, however able.
MIR. johnson represents a certain phase
of national policy, which he had the
moral heToism to advocate and enforce,
as far as was in his power. when men
! less courageous and conscientious would
have yielded to the clamor of thu par
iisan mob
/ Andrew Johnson IS one of those who
may be said to have touched both ex-
ire mes of fortune Is it not at least
| possible that fortune has not quite done
with him get? lie has been President
once by accident may he nos, perhaps
be President again by the popular Wilt
One thing, at least, Is sure-that il
will be sxcedingly fortunate for the Nd
| ton If the next incumbent of the chiei
magistracy has as much selfsacTihCiug
patriotism, as much unsuliied and ineor,
ruptible integrity, as much hearty scOrn
of Sffcial meanness in every share, as
! III uch love Of right and haired of wrong
and as much reverence for pure and
indebted Democracy as the new sena-
tor frUTs Tennessee.
St Louis Times.
1t is a triumph for the old man Of which
he may we'll be proud, and even those
! who like him least will scarcely begrudgC
him the browning honor of his life
| Opinions differ widely as to the holiness
of his patriotism and statesmaOship
but there is only one opinion of his IN
dom table pluck, his inc0rTuptible hons
esty and unJretentions common sense
That he will again become power al
Washington, and power formidable to
tyrants and plunderers and corruetion~
lists Of every degree, We all believe, and
without distinction of party mOst conf,
IDENTIFY hope.
CinciRnafi Commercial
| AnuIeH OOuHSDD WAS OeSteTudy erect
| ed to she senate t. succeed RarsOr
| BrOwnlOw whose term expires Oh the
fourth of March next. The struggle
has been prOtFacted one, and the re-
salt was so uncertain that no one would
have Yentured to predict 1t up to tue be
ginning of the decisive ballot The
friends of his accidcncy were all along
fearful of a combination that would de-
feat him, but they stood firm, and finally
aud probably to their surprise, found
that cons fancy and perseverance paid
in the end The election of AIr john
son will not be likely to please tha ul>
traa on either side, bUs the people a
large have an abiding faith in his pa
triUtism and integIity-qualities not, IN
fortunately, as conspicuous IN pubic
men as they once weTe-and will re-
ceive the news of his return to the sem
ate with sincere qualification.
[ From the Louisville Courier Journal
The election of Andrew JohnsOa,
which is announced this morning. will
be received with a species OF exuItant
yet hazy satisfaction all over the cuuH~
try There is notion that the EXPIRES.
ident wall be thorn in the side Of the
Radicals, and there is sympathy with u
certain Ubdurate outrage he has DIS
played throughout his fight in Tennes-
see, which unite in giving him an ex-
tensive, and, IN some respects, an unde-