Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-06

Fx-President Andrew Johnson,
died on Saturday last, at the resi-
dencc of his sister, few miles from
his home at Greenville Tenn, from
the effect of shock of paralysis
he had suffered few days before.
There are very few of his country
men who will not receive this an
nouncement with profound regret.
Mr.. johnson was an extraordinary man
and his career was full of exciting in
cidents and interest. From an OBJ
scure origin, favored by no advan-
tages of wealth, family or education,
by his own indomitable energy and
strength OF character, he arose to the
highest place in the government.
His life was stormy one, necessari-
ly SO in the beginning of his career,
from the struggle which he was COM
PEELED to wage with the privileged
classes of Southern society before he
gained recognition. He had many
faults and vagaries; he came into bit
ter contact with those with whom he
should have acted in harmony; he
suffered an imperious temper to lead
him beyond the bounds of prudence
and good judgment, but with all
these errors, he was an lnfexibly
honest man and Il patriot. No stain
of official corruption ever attached to
Andrew johnson, and it is but truth
to say that his friends and neighbors
in Tennessee who knew him best,
were his most devoted friends. But
the brightest page in his history was
his patriotic devotion to the Union,
when all around him were falling in
to treason and rebellion. His aban-
donment of party for his country.
and his gallant and determined fight
against disunion in Tennessee, Mt a
time when patriotism required a
heavy risk and sacrifice, will ever
preserve his name with honor in tho
history of the country, and obscure
the faults Of temperament and educa
ton.
The following briet biography of
Mr.. johnson, who was the last sur
viving ex-Prcsidcnt, is from the Chi
cago Tribune:
He was born Dec. 20, 1908, and was in
the 6Sth year of his age His public
record is a remarkable one. At 10 years
of age he was apprenticcd to tailor, and
worked at that business Ill Raleigh N. c.,
until he was IS, -teaching himself to read
With his widowed mother, he moved to
Greenville, in East Tennessee, where he
worked at his trade and married. At 20
years he was elected Alderman of the
town; was Mayor from 90 to 20; Il mem
Der of the Legislature from 81 to 81 can
vasscd the State as Presidential Elector at
80; and, during ten years continuous ser
vice, took an important and conspicuous
part in legislation; served four years (un-
til 1857 as Governor of Tennessee; was
then elected United States Senator for six
years, arrayed himsely on the side of the
Union and against Rebellion; was appoint
ed Military Governor of Tennessee from
1862 to 1865; was elected Vice-Presidcnt
November, 1868, inaugurated March 4,
1865 succeeded as President OF the United
States April 18th in the same year; retired
March 4, 1869; and in February, 1875, was
elected United States Senator, taking his
seat on the fourth of March. From his
election rs Village Alderman in 1920 to
the time of his death he was continu
ously in elective office, except during the
time he served as Military Governor, and
the SIX years following the expiration of
his term as President.