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Show Here is a description of Andy Johnson, by Watterson, f the Louisville Louis-ville Courier-Journal ; "He is merely a melodramist; in his nature a conservative con-servative philosopher placed by destiny des-tiny in the position of a communal leader, in his mind au humble seeker after truth, at heart a cynical and arrogant ar-rogant leveler, perpetually at war within himself; an object of interest always; certainly not a mountebank or charlatan; but in uo sense a safe or Btablo guidejn principles or in conduct. con-duct. 4s an independent journalist he would have be?u a rival to Greeley with a touch of Dennett thrown in to leavon the lump. As a statesman he will rank with Garibaldi and (Jam-betta. (Jam-betta. If Tennessee sent him to the senate, as the young lady of Gloster married her importunate suitor to get r.l of him she did probably the best she could under the circum-Btances," |