The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-02-17
WEST TENNESSEE.


The citizens generally of this en-,
of the State are highly s1ated at th'
election of ex President Johnson t.
the Z. S. Senate; and strange
though it seem, the event caused
more enthusiastic rejoicing out o
the State. Here, ''the Great Com
moner" had some inveterate enc
mics. There were those who had
other men in view, and it was to
their interest to decry him. And
then there were others who alleged
that Mr.. johnson, in the canvass
two years ago, denounced the nom.
inoes cf certain conventions as men
wearing collars, dog-fashion. etc.
Such men forgot that great leaders
arc sometimes prone to kick out of
the traces and shackles of party :;
they feel their superiority of fore
cast and Gre disposed to blaze out a
path for themselves at the risk of
forfeiting the allegiance and support
of their party. Such was the case
with those great party leaders, Clay,
Benton, Calhoun and Webster; each
one of whom should at one time or
another have filed the Presidential
chafr-and would, only for the sim
pie fact mentioned, and that they
were too great for the place-the
way things are managed by the mi
nor politicians.
In all that appertains to thorough.
practical craftsmanship. Mr.. john
son is probably the equal OF any of
the great names mentioned. His
exertions in the Senate, and his in
fuence will be powerful and welded
for the benefit of the entire country.
There are some cavilers, croakers
and sore headed bears in nearly ev-
cry neighborhood men of mole
eyed perceptiveness, whose political
sagacity extends not beyond the
borders of their town or civil dis
trict, Such men are they who would
have laid Mr.: Johnson aside. because
military commission condemned
Mrs. Surratt to death, and at time
when Radical tyranny was rough
riding over everything, he failed to
interpose with the pardoning power.
have seen 1t stated somewhere
that the petition to him for the par
don of Mrs. Surratt did not reach
President johnson. at all. having
been eliminated from tire papers
presented on that occasion, by those
Internal scoundrels, Joe Holt and
E. NJ. Stanton.
Are you not growing nauseated
over the much bruited Louisiana
Outrages?' For months it has
nearly filed all the newspapers to
the exclusion of everything else.
The Louisville Coerier-Jo,anaI says
Sheridan is just about as fit to man
age affairs at New Orleans as a bob
tailed bull with delirium tremens in
fly time is to take an invoice of
stock in a Wholesale crockery store
Quite correct. 1t is bad enough for
a bull to be curtailed of his caudal
'appendage in fly time-how vastly
must his madness be augmented by
fit of deliriom tremens
In the debate of the Louisiana
affair, some days since. in the U. S.
Senate. I was favorably impressed |
by some spirited remarks that fell |
from Senator Hamilton. Of Maryland.
The army did not belong to the
President" said he. '.but it belonged
to the people. If the President
used the srmy for improper purposes.
Congress could disband that army.
II could refuse to vote supplies for
it. and every armed soldier in the
land could be dispersed BY Congress.
Every vessel of war now before New
Orleans could be taken away by
Congress. It required no articles Of
to do tilat-no two
thirds rote-but . simple majority
Of the representatives Of the people
could do so. That was the remedy
Congress had against despotic ex-
ecutive. He argued that it vas not