Smyrna times., 1875-08-04
Death of Andrew johnson.

ing, at hali-past two o'clock, at his daugh-
ters residence, i'll Carter county, Tennessee.
lie was unconscious from seven o'clock ou
Friday evening, and passed away III that
condition. His funcra! took place at
'Teenville, yesterday, with military, Give
amt Masonic honOrs.
SKETCH OF His LIFE AND CHARACTEK.
Andrew johnson was born at Raleigh.
y. G., December %, 1908, and lost his
father when lie was only four years of age.
ut the age OF ten years he was appienticcd
TO tailor in his native place, with whom he
served seven years. His mother was unable
To afford him any educational advantages.
and he Was not at school Il day in his life.
When learning his trade he resolved to
make an effort to educate himself and hay
ln2 acquired Il knowledge Ot the letters of
! Tie alphabet, he borrowed IL book which he
had often heard read aloud. By pcrscy,1-
| ancc he learned to bread, and on Coml,lctiucr
hls apprenticeship, in 1924, went to LatI-
rens court house :. c., where he was
employed as a .jouneyman for nearly two
years. After working again for IA short time
at Raleigh, i'll 1896 he set out to seek his
| fortune i'll the West, taking with him his
mother, who was dependent upon him for
support. lie obtained work at Greenville.
| tennessee; remained there about twelve
months, and married; afterward went fur
ther westward, eventually settling ut Green
VILE, where he commenced business. Up
10 this time he had merely acquired =
! knowledge Of reading, but, under the
instructions OF his wife, he learned writing.
ciphering, &c, after She labors of the dav
were over. The first office he held was
that OF alderman of the village. to which
lac was elected in 1923, reelected in IS29.
and IN 1880 WAS chosen MAYOR, which posi-
ton he held for three years
In 1880 lie was elected to the State
| Legislature, where he took decided ground
against scheme Of internal improvements.
which he cOntended would not only fall.
but intail upon the State u burdensolur
| debt, and on account of the course he
adopted was defeated at the next election,
III 1887. He again became a candidate in
1899, when many of the evils he had pre-
dlcted having been fully demonstrated. he
was elected by large majority. In iS40
lie served as Presidential elector for the
State at large OH the Democratic ticket
In 1911 he was elected to the State Senate
and IN 1913 to Congress, in which, by sue
cesslve elections, he served until 1853.
IN 1888 he was elected Governor of Tennrs.
SEQ, and reelected in 1855, after a severe
contest. At the expiration of his second
term of office as Governor, in 1857, he was
elected United States Senator for full
term, ending March 4, 1863.
1t was during this term that the late
civil war broke out, and Mr. johnson un.
hesltatingly took decided stand in favor
OF the perpetuity of the Union.
After his term as Senator had expired he
was appointed Military Governor Of
tennessee, and no one man contributed
more than he to the success of the Union
arms i'll that section.
On the reelection of Mr. Lincoln u,
President, i'll the autumn of 1861. Mr.
Johnson was elected Vice President, and
after the assassination Of Lincoln, April Il,
was sworn in as President, April Is, 1865.
TN his accession to the Presidency Mr..
johnson at first manifested great severity
against those who had participated in the
late insurrection, or sympathized with the
insurgents.
The writer well recollccts a speech Mr..
johnson made day or two after his IN
auguratlon as President. lie had cstat-
lshed the Executive office in the Treasury
Department, for he gave Mrs Lincoln her
own time to leave the White House. Iii
that speech he took the broadest and
strongest ground against amnesty to the
insurgents. Indeed, at that time there
were IA number of Senators and other
Federal officials present, and they were not
a little Mortified at the strong extreme Ian
guage used by the new President
During Mr.. Johnsons administration
Congress adopted the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the Constitution. |
which were passed and ratified by the |
requisite majority of twothirCls Of the |
States. Measures of reconstruction, having
for their object the protection of the |
freedmen, and the granting of suffra. |
to them, were passed by Congress, and, |
though vetoed by Mr.. johnson, were passed |
over his vetoes. From the summer Of 1866 |
the hostility between Mr.. Johnson and the |
party which had elected him and its rep |
resentatlves in Congress grew daily more |
bitter. In a tour made through the |
Northern States in the autumn of 1866 this |
bitterness was intensified by Mr.. Johnson's |
denunciation of Congress, and of some of |
the Senators by name. His subsequent |
measures, such as opposing impartial |
suffrage, and his open quarrels with officers |
of the Government, especially with Secre- |
tary Stanton and General Grant, still |
further widened the breach. An attempted |
eopp u etot to gain possession of the War |
Office, led to his impeachment in February, |
1868, but on his trial before the High Court |
of impeachment, only thirty.five votes for
his conviction, and nineteen for his ac-
quittal (three less than the requisite two |
thirds) were given.
On March 4, 1869, his term of Office |
expired. He was afterward candidate for |
Governor Of Tennessee, but failed of cleo
ton. lie was more successful in his |
candidacy for the United States Senate last |
year, and after q short and spirited contest |
in the Legislature, was elected to succeed |
Senator Brownlow from March 3, of this |
year, and he took his seat at the special |
session of the Senate. Although elected as
Democrat, he refused to 90 into the party
caucus, but it was understood that on |
national questions he would always vote
with the party.
CHOLERA ISFANTUM.-Dr. r. G, Mackall, |
editor of the Cecil Democrat published at |
Elkton, Md, gives the following recipe as a
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