Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-04-13
THE TENNESSEE DAVID AND JONATHAN.


1t might have been supposed that among other
effects of Senator Andrew Johnsons speech on
Southern affairs would have been the rousing of
the sleeping lion couched in the person OF Ex-
Senator. otherwise Parson" Blownow. The
proyocaiion offered by the hero of my policy"
was of sort precisely fitted to bring the farson
out, and out lie has como tearing, with roar
sufficiently reverberatory to unset all corrupt
politicians. Mr.. Bfownlow, indeed rather weak
ems the force OF iis yengofnl leap by declaring
that Andy and he made war on each other thir-
ty eight years ago and have kept it up ever
since That sort Of admission rather conveys
the idea that the Parson would have made fight
over Ills successors speech i'll tho Senate, no
matter what it had contained, and solely upon
the principle established 80 long ago. Still,
much allowance must be made for the heat of
noble nature.
Mr.. Brownlow review just published, Of his
antagonists career, preliminary to his IDEAS
of Mr.. Johnson'- speech i'll the Senate, will un-
doubtedly attract the attention of the country,
and will most likely give the smart writers for
the London papers another text upon which
to dilate the swift destruction of
political morality in the United States. 1t il
quite easy to understand the attention with
which these remarkable revelations will be re-
ceiyed. In the first place men are so constitu-
ted as to be always ready to take interest i'll II
fight, and i'll the second place Brownlow and
Johnson have both been rather the butts of the
public. 'Whetler lie kill Cassie Cassie him
il a matter of Indifference to large number of
people, and it is this impartial frame Of mind
which renders the Johnson -Brownlow fracas so
inviting. No Americas Atateeman was ever
more vigorously complimontrd than the great
swinger of the CIRCLE le by the Kentucky parson,
but the compliments are of decidedly
left-handed sort. Tins, when in
paraphrasing the old aiage "put a
beggar on horseback" Ne. Brownlow suggests
substituting "Johnson for "beggar" and
white House for horseback" the aluaion
becomes far from tasteful to the Individual re
ferred to. Further on, Mr.. Browuox becomes
in a manner inspired i'll inventing new forms OF
giving the '' lie direct" Thus he says that " in
all tue history Of the Arabian Nights or Don
Quixote there il nothing moro fictitious than
Andrew Johnson's statement OF the Tennessee
case This il certainly charge covering the
whole ground, and this singular tribute to the
character of a cotemporary Is full of such pow.
erfnl presentmants. Unmitigated lying" il
tho milaest of the ''prolosue4 TO the nnper.a
theme y which the Parsom allows himself to use
!" Bnlly," " Dead Dog " Lawlea4 Presidential
Consrrator are u few of the aI5ctionate terms
applied to Andrew by his fellow citizen from
Tennessee. How could Dickens have named
one of his seulest and most amiable characters
after one of the most ranpageon4 individuals Of
whom there any record
Bnt nov " all wait in pleasing -n-pense to
hear what Andrew will have 10 -.-y. The Par
s'n adinro- 'Mat,lgT' to clay on'-rnot a very
f'lieltous challenge. -oeins that "MAcnI got
decidedly the best Of it-aud We may be sure
there Will be an answering roar before many
hours. Cool kindy old men what pity for
their own pleasure, that they have not got thr-
ty-eight years more in which to make fur fly