Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-09

domain, each having resolved TO win.
il honesty, integrity and energy could
prevail. Their friendship ripened
with the feeting years. johnson rose
from an alderman in his adopted home
to the Presidential chair, and when
be died his friend, G.. w. Jones, ad-
dressed the largest assemblage of peo-
pie eyer gathered together in East
Tennessee on the occasion of the lay
ing Of the corner stone of Andrew
Johnson's monument.
johnson did not remsin in Middle
Tennessee any great length Of time
but soon turned his wandering foot
steps back towards East Tennessee,
working a short while at each town.on
his way. At Knoxville he became
acquainted with a number of promi-
nent and influential men. At Dan
bridge be worked two weeks with G..
w. Tabler, who, at that time. was
one Of the best tailors in East Ten
nessee. johnson always dressed very
neatly, went to hear Father Nc
Campbell, q Presbyterian preacher.
who then preached in an old leg
church. In the evening he would
take a long walk for exercise after his
days work, and would keep the best
Of company or none. He said he
wished to associate with those from
whom he could learn something as his
education was very limited.
The great commOner owed much Of
his education to the lady to whom he
was married shortly afterward. She
was a woman OF great energy and pos
sessed a plain education. She taught
her husband to read, and many Der
sons have seen the two in the little
shop at night, he working and listen
ing attentively to the reading Of his
wife.
When Mr.. johnson had completed
the time with Mr.. Tabler for which he
had contracted, he left cambridge and
returned to Greenevillo, where he had
left his mother. On his way thither
be obtained the names Of several of
the most prominent men in the neigh
borhoOd, for whom he could cut and
fit clothes. He FIRST stopped at War
rensburg, on Lick creek, near the
Chuekey river. Hesaw Philip Moser.
who lived on Long creek; Colonel Jos.
Hamilton, a lawyer, who owned a
large river farm; Robt. Hill, who
owned the Chuckey bend; Major Ho-
gan, Major Conneway, Major Porter
Douglass and Mr.. Seruggs, who owned
a large river farm and had a little
store in Wsrrensburg. he made for
Mr.. Scruggs' two sons their first fine
cloth suit. He remained some time
making clothes for the people on Lick
creek and .Chuckey river, and his
work there made him very popular in
the lower end Of Greene county. One
Of Mr.. Scruges' sons, John, became a
teacher and Baptist preacher, and the
other, James, a trader, and afterward
a politician.
Returning to Greeneyille, johnson
rented a small frame shop, hung ont
his sign. Andrew johnson, Tailor.
and settled down steadily to work.
He married shortly afterwards. and
he, his wife and his mother lived On
one OF the back streets Of Greeneville
in a small frame house with two rooms
Forty years from the time he landed
in Gr%eeneyille with his blild pony and
cart, he owned large property, and
rose from a tailor to an alderman.
member of the Legislature, Governor.
Congressman, Senator, Vice President
and President Of the United States
lie learned Latin after he was elected
a member OF Congress the first time.
lie was studying whenever he had a
leisure moment on his hands. His
great desire waste benefit his children,
and give them a good education. He
sent them to the best school TO be-
found, and guarded over them with
care. His mother married a MAJ
named DOata and lived until her
death on a small farm which her Son
had purchased for her. 1t was said Of
johnson, even by his worst enemies
that he was an honest politician and
could not be bribed. He was per.
tectly devoted to his mother and
always visited her on every possible
opportunity. A similar example was
exhibited in the case of President
Andrew Jackson. He, too, was a poor
boy when he went to East Tennessee.
dis mother was dependant on him for
support. johnson and jackson were
hrm friends. General VIM. LoweTv
formerly United States Marshal foy
East Tennessee, but now a successful
banker in Atlanta, was also one Of
J%ohnson's best friends. He stood bv
johnson on every occasion. When
johnson became President he remem.
bered General Lowery's friendship
and desired to give him an appoipt-
ment, but this offer General Lowery
declined.
There are others in East Tennessee
who started out in the world witbont
a dollar, and afterwards owned thous.
ands. This they earned by their in.
dustry and frugal management; notify
railroad speculation nor on futures On
cotton and wheat, as SO many now do
by chance. The men Of those davs
would have frowued upon such spee1.
l%ations, which have a tendency to- ruin
50 many young men. Hugh and Byrd
Douglass went to Greeneville penni-
less and 6nalv o--I
VIM. Dickson, Of Greeneville. John
and George Stewart. of Newnori.
Hugh Graham and Col. Houston II
TazeWell, and John Fain and HuSb
Martin Of cambridge, Gen. VIM. Bra
zeltoa and Captain Jacques. of New
Market, nov ef Knoxville, and Others
have made fortunes by honesty and
hard work. Tillman A. Howard. Of
Newport, was a street gamin. He at.
iracted the attention Of a gentleman