Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-12
I'm Memery Of Andrew Johnson

Nashville World, yesterday: No more
expressive tribute TO the memory of
great man, and no more signal demonstra-
ton of the fact that heroic characters sur
viye their entombe ent, has been afforded
than simple gift of which yesterday Mrs.
Martha j. Patterson, the only surviving
child of Ex-President Andrew johnson,
was the recipient at her apartments in the
Maxwell House. The circumstances sur
rounding the presentation indicate
noble veneration for this dead chieftain
and an admiration for his virtues, which
could o'ertop the petty jealousies of an
epoch in national history and yield to an
imperial mind that tribute which its in
herent grandeur demanded. When the
tears of a nation fell upon the bier of
johnson, and the Union bowed its head
in grief in the hour OF his death, the
aldermen and councilmen of New York
passed appropriate resolutions which were
engrossed, but here the difficulty arose.
The authorities of New York were ig-
norant of the fact that the dead President
was survived by either wife or child, and
were in quandary whittier to send the
memorial. For eight years it lay amid the
municipal archives, but was restored
in consequence of information furnished
by Mr.. Andrew B. Martin, who, learning
that the Council had framed this memo
nal, but knew not to whom to send it,
promptly removed their erroneous opinion
and did them the favor of stating that the
immediate family of the ex-President was
represented by living daughter in Nash
vile. Immediately correspondence en-
sued, the result of which was the receipt
by Judge Frizzell, on Saturday last, of this
memorial, with the request that he would
present it to this daughter, Mrs. Martha
j. Patterson.
Judge Frizzell performed this pleasing
duty yesterday afternoon, when accom-
panied by the Hon. NJ. Burns, he pre-
sented it to Mrs. Patterson, in her apart
ments at the Maxwell House. The me-
mortal, of which the World was kindly
granted view, is the handsomest we have
ever seen. 1t is a full Russian bound
album of large proportions, encased in
dark blue velvet cushion. The resolutions,
which are signed by the committee, clerk
of the Common Council and mayor of the
city are Autographed and stenciled in
perfect taste and EXTREMIST skill through
the volume, and, page by page, the pro-
found sentiments of the Council are un-
folded in characters as artistically beauti-
full as they were nobly conceived. Deeply
imbedded in gilt on the protecting cushion
are the words: Martha J. Patterson,
daughter and only living representative of
Andrew johnson, of Tennessee, A. D.,
1884" On the face ofthe volume is inscribed
'From the Common Council OF the city OF
New York, to the family of Ex-President
Andrew Johnson" OF the numerous at
tractive leaves Of the memorial none is
more expressive, none so pathetic, as the
representation of Liberty, the guardian
| goddess of America, standing yelled in
profoundest sorrow at the grave of him
who throughout an eventful life served
her with the fidelity OF son, and the dis
interestedness OF patriot. The apprecia-
ton which Mrs. Patterson expresses in
receiving the gift is full worthy of the
graceful and creditable motives of the
donors. The only unp!easing sensation
she experiences in viewing it is the some
what sad reflection that her mother was
denied knowledge of it's existence dur
ing the four months OF her survival of her
husband, the President. OF course, had
the Council been aware of the fact thai
| the wife OF the dead chiefta in was alive
this regret would have been spared the
daughter in the hour of an extreme pleas
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