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Andrew Johnson Defying The Rebels

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Day
24
Month
May
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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The "Washington National llcpuhli" Saturduy ga ■' Vo have board réliabiy frörti Senator Johnson na late as laet ÍJonday, whèn I -iy :ni!es weSfc of Kno'xville, oa bis panvana of the Si itoj whieh votos on Ui a 8th of June the qucstion of socession. 'Mr. Jóhnaon ani his frieods were, at t!i.it hopeful, The passige of the ordinanco of sccosion by the Ia proves np'hiug, aa tb at body has bèon lor secossion fromhe êtart. A' Knoxvilla the Uaion man woro asfi:::: Sa ryer. The noraiiir.tion oí a Union candidato for Guvei-aor, Mr. Caí: the convention presided over by H. Polk, brothcr f the late Presic! ',;ns fiven aninialio.il to.thü' . Tho c!-vüon tor öoVernw oomes p2 in "Tie etylo of Mr. Jühnson'a canv ing niay bo jiidgocl of from the co:nOf his speech at Gievchind, TBD8eö, whera threats against him had büv-n iftdilged i;i. He toid tho crovvd thnt 'ho ' did not como hore to bo shot bHt to f 'loot,' that if t to bo a fight, h and bis frieads wore reády for it, and that ho preferred to finwfc up the fighting beforo making hia f=poeüh. Nobody ooming farward to fight, t!io ritrepicl Senator procceáad to spöall, and by tho time lie had tinishod, nineteen-twciitiotiis of tho aiuücnco woro witli him. Ha told thwi, among oüier things, that Jcff Davis and tho Govornor of tho State onght !o bo hanged and would be hanged, ar. that not7'ai-dis!:i:it period whon the judicial powor of tho government could bo brought to liear ápoa them.''

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Michigan Argus