The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-08-02
ANDREW JOHNSON.


at the residence of his daughter in Car
ter county, Tennessee. last Saturday.
The news of his sudden death has Gre
ated a profound sensation throughout
the country, and is deeply deplored by
the people everywhere.
Andrew johnson as born in Raleigh,
North Carolina, in 1903. The extreme
poverty of his parents prevented him
from receiving even a common school
education, and at the age of ten be was
apprenticed to a tailor. A gentleman
was in the habit of visiting the shop
and reading extracts from the speeches
of eminent statesmen, in which young
Johnson became deeply interested. He
determined to learn to read, aud having
done so devoted all his leisure hours to
the perusal of such books as he could
obtain. To avoid the consequences OF
boyish scrape he ran away a few
months before his apprenticeship ex-
pired, and in 1926 returned to Raleigh
and apologized for has misdemeanor.
after which he removed to Tennessee
with his mother, who was dependant
upon him for support. In 1876 he or
ganized Nottingham party. aud was
elected alderman il Greenyille. Having
married meantime. under his wife's in
struction he learned TO write and cypher,
and became prominent III a debating
society formed by yoang men Of the
neighborhood and the students OF
Greenyiile College. In 1885 be was elect
ed to the Legislature, where he served
three terms, and in 1Sl3 was elect
ed to Congress from the first district Of
Tennessee, and held it by successive r :
elections for ten years. In 1888. he was
elected Governor of that State, and was
reelected in 1855 over Meredith L.
Gentry, candidate of the Wigs and
Know Nothings. In 1867 be took his
seat in the United States Senate. to
which he had been elected for fail
term from Tennessee. and opposed the
bill introduced by Jefferson Davis to
Increase the standing army because OF
the troubles in Utah In 1861 he was
burned in effigy lii nearly every city In
the State, because Of his opposition 10
secession, and in 1862 he was appointed
military Governor OF Tennessee by
Abraham Lincoln. In 1854 the Re
publican Convention at Baltimore u0ni-
mated him for Vice President, to which
position he was elected and succeeded 10
the Presidency at the time Of Lincoln =
assassination in April, 1860. His re-
construction policy did not meet the
approval Of majority of the Repnbli-
can leaders, and in 1868 the House Of
Representatives preferred articles Of
impeachment against him. lie was
tried by the Senate and formally ac-
quilted, all the Democrats and such
Republicans as Sumner. Grimes aud
TrumDull voting not guilty. At tue
Democratic National Convention in
1868. his name was presented as can
didate for the Presidency, but be did not
receive the nomination. In 1870 he was
defeated for United States Senator from
Tennessee by two votes, and last win
ter was elected to that position for a
full term. He appeared III his place III
the Senate at the extra session Of that
body last March, and in a speech on
the admission of PincLback as Senator
from Louisiana attacked the admins
tration and exposed its hypocricy and
prohigacy. Through his eyeniful life
he maintained an unLlemished reputa-
ton for honesty aud integrity, and, I'M
like his successor in the White House,
accepted no gifts, and had no hand in
Ring jobbing.
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