The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-06
ANDREW JOHNSON.

A telegraph dispatch Friday ammo unced
that Andrew Johnson, eX-President of
the United States, and but lately chosen
United States Senator from Tennessee,
had been struck with paralysis. Anoth-
er dispatch on Saturday forenoon an
nouuced his death at his daughters resi-
dence, in Carter county, Tennessee, IN
the sixty-seventh year of his age.
Andrew Johnson has filled so large a
place in the public eye during consid-
erable part of the last ten years, that his
life and character III that period are well
known to every one at all cCnyerSant
with current history. II is therefore
necessary only to recall the leading
points in his history. He was born in
Raleigh, n. c., December 29th, 1SOS.
When but four years old lac lost his
father, and at the age of ten was placed
an apprentice with a tailor in Raleigh,
with whom he remained until the au-
tumn of 1924. In that time he had not
received a single days schooling, but lie
taught EimseIfto read. His apprentice
ship ended, he removed TO st. Laurens
Court House. s. G. where he worked as
a journeyman until May, 1896. His
mother was still living and he was her
her with him lie set out for the West in
September, 1896, and stopped at Green
vile, Tennessee, where he worked at
tailoring. There he married, and be
cane known as an honorable tradesnhn
and good citizen. The appreciation of
his fellow townsmen was shown by his
being elected alderman in 1928, 1929,
and 1880, and by his election as mayor
I.
elected member of the Legislature,
and was again elected to that position in
1899 In 1910 he was one of the Presi-
Dental electors of his State, and took an
active part in the canvass. He was
elected to the State Senate in 1871, and
two years after was elected to the U. ).
House OF Representatives, where he held
his position for five successive terms.
During that time he took Il conspicuous
part In the leading debates, among other
things advocating tie annexation of
Texas, the tariff of 1876, tEr war meas
ures of Folks administration, and Z
homestead bill
At the close of his congressional
career he was elected Governor of Ten
nessee, and retained the Governorship
for the four years from 1858 10 1857.
He was tl,en elected United States Sen
ator for the term OF 1857 70 1865. His
bitter opposition to secession is IA matter
OF national history, Us are his energetic
efforts In support of the Union cause in
the early days of the rebellion. When
Nashville was re-Occupied in 1852,
President Lincoln appointed him Miiii-
tary Governor of Tennessee. He was
nominated for Vice President by the Re-
pubiieans in 1864, and after that fatal
fifteenth Gf april, 1865, became Presi-
dent of the United States as a conse-
quence of the assassination OF abraham
Lincoln. What followed-how lie be-
trayed the party that had elected him,
disappointed the friends who had stood
by him, and falsified the record of his
previous life-is fresh in the recollection
of the people, and it is needless to recall
it. His recent brief history i'll the Unit
ed States Senate, which he re eentered
towards the close of the last session add
ed little to his honors.
But with oil his faults, it must be said
of Andrew johnson that he was incor-
ruptibly honest, and that his mistakes OF
Judgment, which he persisted in with
firmness that degenerated into mere
stlbbornness, were mostly made i'll his
endeavof to do what he thought was FOR
the best. Not only tennessee, but the
United States, suffers Il loss By tue death
of such an uncompromislngiy honest,
entirely independent, though exceeding
ly obstinate SenatOr.-CteUeiGRd Her
ed.