Year: 1872

military mon Is the constitution to be expounded
and the laws explained by fellows who have


WORN SWORDS AND RPAULETs ALL THEIR IIyEsf
They subordinated the civil to the military. They
knew, as an thinking men must know, that gov
eminent such as ours requires study TO under
stand the constitution nor the laws OF his country
for II he did he would never have taken the side o.
qns ne
.NOw who do you expect to support You ~


"well, the original Union men win support me:
the thing settled within the lines OF the Union and
against secession when Davis and the rest packed
"But are these men Of any numerical accountS''


ayes. They are not here nor there In majority,
but they are scattered all through the State IN
~ AsDY,s REooNsrnucrRD SUPPORTERS.


.Who else have you I" ,s,uoa
with the secession movement, more or less but
who never went I'm the army. They don't want
They are reconstructed and they see secession was
mistake Now here Is Chcatham-a lighting rep
resentatye Of secession y win DO the sn state no
~ am told good many rebels In Nashville are
bitterly opposed to you and In favor OF CHEAT
"Or course they are. There Is a ring Of these fel-
lows In mat CITY, such as Bates DICK Cneatmam mrn
tion society OF rebel officers, and they can talk
about Chickamauga and the ike, about the battles
for them, and the man Tor such characters as Har-
ris, who ran away with the school fund OF the state
m RON Nashville Tee peoem % 81 c "a oe
to Nashville they'll hear from me-"


II see Maynard delights q good deal In reading
your speech at Nashville in '64 about making trea-
son odious and furnishing traitors"


MAYNARD'S GAME or DIVISION.
element against me and drive them over to Cheat
ham, Now, II Cheatham had any brains nc would
have taken up this point first and read that speech
OF mine every time he stands up, but you see the
man knows nothing. Maynard's game Is to divide
the vote equally, but it's Of no use. The demo, emo
it would give Cheatham and myself 10000 each.
The radical vote is only $4,000, so that you see
Maynard in any case cannot come IN between u.s."
"Of course he can. He must know he can't be
elected but he can make capital for the adminis-
Chow will 1t be with him, though, If Greeley gets
eectedr'


"Oh he can have iudgeship and Greeley can't
"Do you expect TO get any OF the colOred vote ?"


ANDY SURRENDERs AFRICA


9 No not fifty. The colored @ vote VIII 20 to man man
''Do you suppose the surratt affair will hurt you
mot at all. It's all clap-trap-all talk and no
influence. Not ten men in the State attach any
real Importance to the story"


81 heard you say at Bristol that General Grant
trial. How was that ~


'That was exactly SO. Grant at every OppOrtu-
nifty used his influence for the success or impeach
ment. lie tried to tamper with Henderson up to
the last moment. was not without knowing what
the little minded intrguer was doing. II you want
other authority 90 back to the Tribune, which
came out one day and said 1t had the most positive
and reliable assurance from Washington that


GRANT FAVORED MY REMOVAL.


Think OF that. Think OF its being said that this lot
terry General, this small scheming accident of civil
war that the blind folly OF fortune lifted from his
natural station OF littleness and Obscurity, as a
whlrlwlnd sometimes lifts rotten and
worthless log above its place In the
mud should dictate to the nation what
to do with Its rl0htiul Chief Magistrate;
Yes; Grant, the petty Drained imp0sture, worked
hard as he could to bring about my removal. He
knew what thought. OF him, OF his shiftings and
lodgings In the Stanton affair, OF his lies and his
not in the mans nature to forgive"


election ?"


at will show strange want OF intelligence on
the part Of the people II they elect him. They are
offered the opportunity or electing who Is as
far superior to him as the heavens are above the
EARTH Mr. Greeley may have been opposed to me
in the past, but / say, as l have been saying al
along III this canvass, let the past be forgotten,


LET US HAVE RECONCILIATION


and amnesty, and let us go forward to build up 0ul
Union on fraternal and imperishable basis.o


Mr.. Johnson, as you will observe by the foregoing
conversation Is as vigorous OF speech as ever and
indeed you have only to look at him and hear hin
In the present campaign to marvel at his unfagginl
energy and spirit.