Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03
what Some of the bourbon Democratic
Papers Say.

Papers Say
The Lebanon Herald of January
9th, says OF Johnson's election
Tennessee has too many and too
deep wounds made by his hand, to for
get the alacrity with which he betray~
ed her, and assumed the role of the
military despot. 100 numerous are
the wrongs and crimes which passed
free and sanctioned by the power he
held, as he laid aside his loved consti-
tuition and replaced ii with the scourgp.
Andrew Johnson is the great constitu-
tional Beckett in his speeches, hedged
I'm 10y public opinion, but freed from
such restraint aud at liberty to exer-
else his will, he has been as arbitrary
and absolute rs any Caesar. He is not
great, but thought to be great This
man who pnurs his wrath upon in
novatOrs, is the most Radical of them
all. Never was a soul more determin-
ed than his to rule or ruin the laud.
Do his followers blinded by their very
ianatcism, forget his sycophancy when
asked to receive u nomination for the
Presidency, subsequent to his retire.
meut from that high position? He
expressed himself as being of no par
ty, but supporter of the Constitution
Tennessee has received the prUdigal
back TO her arms. She has hugged the
offender and forgiven the otieuse She
has crowned her "bastard C9sar;n 1t.
Chappelet is CanOuised at last. Let
the great ac.or pass from the stage, old
in years and foul in character. Let the
curtain fell on the political stage and
screen from view this paragon OF
treachery and Idol of self worship.
The Somerville Falcon of the 2Slh
says: Well, Andrew johnson has beer
elected our United States Senator
! To say that we are surprised and panied
| by this result would but poorly indi.
cate our sentiments. We are shocked
mortified, indignant beyond express
sion! We are at loss to understand how
a Legislature, calling itself Democrat.
| ic, could select such man as Andrew
| Johnson as its representative to tn,
| National Senate. We suppose that Tia,
members who voted for johnson have
| their reasons for their action-some o
| them very SubStdntjalreasons we opine
We advise them to prepare their eX
| plantations, because the people will AS
suredly call for them. They will wan
to know why Il Legislature, over
whelmingly Democratic, should elpc
to that high and responsible Office
man, whose every eXertion, during III,
past four years, has been directed Il
the breaking up OF the Democrats
party and the formation of persona
organization Of which himself shoult
be chief? a man, whose sole motto i
now and ever has been Ego Ct Ego.
Andy and myself! a man, who il
the time of their greatest peril, desert
bed the people that had heaped honor
and emoluments upon him and risin
from a seat to which he had no RICH
the authority that sent him Their
having recalled him-advocated tn
use of coercion to force back the Sc
Ceding States, and asked that Northern
soldiery should be sent to subjugate hi
native as well AS his adopted State
a man who declared To applaudinj
Northern mobs that Treason mus
be made odiousn and "reboIs should b
hanged ~ A man who disgrace,
American civilization, 10y presenting
himself in state of heastly intOXiCa
ton to take the oath of Vice-P President
to which position, mark you, he Ia,
been elected 10y Republican votes
man who as Military Governor O
Tennessee, ordered out of his line
helpless, unofitnding women Am,
children, and bulally babe them e
seek their rebel friends and relative
4 4 man who signed the death-wal
rant of an innocent woman, and sane
toned one of the most deliberate auI
| cold-blooded judicial murders lha
ever blackened the annals of civil
lied nation! But il is useless 90 "a,