The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-29
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S
ACCOUNT BOOK.


philadelphia Record.
AAlfeW johnson. thc seventeenth
l.-s'afnl OF thc United States. was .u
early .ite a tailor and bis taii0rs ace
count book is here Boo PhIad llh.a. Ilc
entries Dos DO read ike th.s
be-- -3.-James Patterson Dr.
TO cutting up pants. l-5J
Thomas %. Arnold. Dr.
10 m-Hdius one c3at........ 100
John DyCe. Or.
hr lour lej ibaI............ -..t
The account book Is in srzed ease
locked Win two locks. iu t1e library OIL
the DrtNcl institute. Beside DO Dr. the
neautliuI manuscript of ThackerIy
oul George ITO lts leli ls -le rlanu-
script of our Mutual Friend Near &c
are manuscripts of Poe. of Byron al
Walter scott 0f Wordsworth. These.
WIN la0 other priceless relies of efeal
men are q part of the drorsc W. Child
eollecuou in tne DreZel institute
III don know where Mr. Chllds see
cured this Andrew Johnson account
D1oA' SAID inc superutenocnt of the
DfeHel institute. There is, though. mo-
doubt OF It's authenticity.
ite raised the cases heavy ld ot glass
ana oak and took out thl account book
carefully. Here 90 is. Doe saldi ANDY
JohIsnu.s account book.
we volume ls long aud SLIM about
eighteen Inches long and about eight
Inches wide. DO is bound Iu pasteboIrd
lhdt la covered with "a pale brown -
rum DO ls little faded but IT'S state of
preservation is excellent. There are even
loose slips of paper irlns here and there
amohb lis leaves. slips covered with
cu.auons ln Johnsons UNFRAMED and diff
ucult hand
The book proper. shows that thc Young
mana tailoring business was neither
very huge nor very profitable lt shows
that his prices were extremely low. il
shows that De was often glad 90 take lu
payment for his work flour. potatoes and
wood.
Andrew Johusous handwriting was
bad and his spelling was faulty. It Is
not strange that these things should Doe
80. Tor he did not learn 90 write until
aLteI le was married. His wife taught
his fellow w1rllmeu when be- was "a tail
or.s apprentice. Tie never went 10 school.
IN the circumstance surrounding IN
onJect poverty of bis early life there s
something strange and pathetic. Andrew
Johusou's father when the Dad was
only + years DID, died from injuries that
he received ODD lestulug druWuln= .
person. He left his family in want au0
ttHdirW, az the age of ip. was dppfeh-
tlced Co "a tailor By the time Dr. was
lh De- was skilled enough Go De a jour
He2 man, and he worked iu that capacity
ga LautenS Court House. s.. O.. Do ISL
n arrived boz "a tFo-wheeled cart. drawn
hF blind pony. ll GraelNue Tenn. and
do tsreeuFille Doe set up iu trade for him
self. married. learned 90 write. and es-
tdnlishCd The reputation that led him
ultimately Co the presidency.
Johnsuu's wife was Eliza McCardle,
She % was who educated him. A woman
OF intelligence. refinement and erucroS-
ltl. she devoted her lire 90 her husbands
culture and development. and deserved
no NIUE share of Che credit of his sue
ln lS-9 at the age of "a Johnson enc
tered politics ie organized iu Green
VILE "a Wurhuemeus party. and was
elected Co several local offices. lie served
n che state legislature. he was iu con-
Erese from 1888 Go 1858, in 1885, and again
. Don 1880. he WAS elected governor of Ten
senator
Johnson was strong against secession.
When Lincoln Was elected DE made
powerful speech iu favor of the preserva-
lion of thg Union. This loyalty sub
5eete4 him 90 grave personal danger from
me Tennessee secessI0nIst- when Pc Tee
turned 90 that state t0 organize Union
party.
in lsf3 Lincoln appointed Johnson mill
iiarE governor of Tennessee. difficult
and dangerous post. Iu which be served
so Wei mat though originally "a Demo-
GRAFT DE was nominated ou the ticket
with Lincoln Don 1864
His later life was stormy. Immediate
lN on bis accession Co the prediceucV az
I.lucolus death he began dissensi0u
with congress as 90 the conditions upon
which che seeding states should be ale
lowed tu RETURN 90 the Union. Johnson
vetoed bin after bin. but congress passed
them over his veto, Boo 1906. attended by
members of his cabinet he made "a tour
through several of the northwestern
states deuOuuciug the action of con-
gross as rebellous and appealing 90 The
people t1 support him. But al Tho C0u-
gressIonal elections of that wear the
policy of congress was iudorsCd bv large
ma i0ritlCs
Finally tho house Of preventative
lmpeached the president for high crimes
and mlsdtmeau0TS. ana De was tried be-
lore the senate and acquitted. he died
iu 1870. just after De- had been elected a
United States senator.
The account book uf this man. who
filled the highest and. most honorable
office n the United States. shows him tO
have been lu early life very IIIterate and
very poor. Tho book ls lesson 90 poor
boys. au incentive 90 industry. and 90
ambition