Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1875 — Brief Sketch of the Life of Andrew Johnson. [ARTICLE]

Brief Sketch of the Life of Andrew Johnson.

AndrdW Johnson was born in North Carolina in 1808, and if he had lived until December next would have been sixtyseven years old. His father was a porter and the city sexton of Raleigh. At ten years of age young Johnson began active life as an apprentice to a tailor, and at eighteen removed with his widowed mother to Greenville, Tenn., where he worked at his trade.** He never ceased to be proud of bis gradual but sure ascent to political prominence, and never tired of referring to his sendee as “Alderman and Mayor ot his native village,” as he called Greenville, or of his subsequent election to nearly all the public positions in the gift of his constituents. There seems to have been no back-set to his ascent, and his tireless nature kept him in public lifeeven to the day of his death. He was elected an Alderman at twenty, and Mayor at twenty-three. He was a member of the Legislature at twenty-seven, and a presidential elector at thirty-two. When thir-ty-two he was elected to Congress, and served for ten years. Then he became Governor of Tennessee, and after a fourdears’ term was elected to the United btates Senate. From that time his life be<“*HJie_£amiliar to the whole country. In 1864 Mr. Johnson was elected Vice-Presi-dent, and on the - death of Mr. Lincoln, became President. Last year he was elected to the 1 nited States Senate by the I ennessee Legislature after a heated canvass. expositor, in setting up a sciendelivered by Prof. Smith, of Philadelphia, came across & sentence which he put in type thus: “Flirtation *^,“ el T e 8 &rr f ted b ? the use of aidermen. Judge of th* surprise depicted on me countenance of ths professor on readPropC The sentence should have been: “ Filtration is sometimes assisted by £ lhe use of albumen.”