Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1869 — A. J. [ARTICLE]

A. J.

The Senatorial contest in Tcnnwwc* end# in the defeat<rf Andrew Johnson’ and the elqfftfin of Coeper. who seem# to be known Wlfttle Mae than that he is the brother of Andrew Johnson’s former Private Secretary, and a capable member of St Jhoito& bf Wfe'tnWh TaOso throughout the war, and is now a firm supporter of Grant's administration. Wo have as yet np analrsu of the vote ns cast, but we prMinfe'the fifiy-otie votes for Johnson included the Etheridge or ultraDemocratle vote, and all the preaistent opponents of Grant’s administration, while, the fifty-five votes cast for Cooper repre-j sent the administration strength in th#' Legislature. There have been ingenious: theories that Andrew Johnson is not a hu- 1 man and limited,quaatim which dui< be disposed of by thfo drdnAiy pfebMSM for putting the bodies and souls of men out of the way, but that he is an- indestructible essence, like musk, that will continue, without apparent waste on its own part, to diffuse its odor for centuries, through illimitable space. Many will continue to entertain the fear, therefore, that Andrew Johnson will again turn up as a candidate for office, and still again, as tar ahead in the dint I 'j>eteptefi»e* <f4lia as the imagination oka road; that the will retrograde from President down to Aiderman, and again ascend from Aiderman to the Presidency, and still keep swinging around the circle and down the middle and up again for countless ages to come. This unpleasant apprehension is strengthened from the well known fate of the Wandering J who has been .prowling around-proutischoiljf betfi’CUnJptagonia and Siberia for fhd ptfst I,WO*NWrs, enjoying as complete a monoply of the inability to die as those whom the angles love arc said to possess in the privilege of dying yuiffik. While we would not rashly predict that Andy will ever die or stop running for office, yet the believer will find ground for encouragement and hope in thtuvety fidnertd and comprehensive promise th> dit is appointed to all men once to die. and after death the judgment. —CWicqpo Tribune.