Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1879 — Buford and Johnson. [ARTICLE]

Buford and Johnson.

One good word is spoken for Buford, the Kentucky assassin. When ex-Pres-ident Andrew Johnson went to Lexington, in 1861, he found the famous raider, John Morgan, there and the town swarming with Southern sympathizers. Johnson was put forward by a few Unionists to make a speech, but the crowd jostled and pushed him and swore that he should not open his lips. Buford shoved his way to the front of the stand, and, brandishing a revolver, declared that he would kill the first man who dared to interrupt the champion of Northern rights. And Johnson poured out Union eloquence for an hour.