Colonel Forney writes to the Philadelphia Press:
The Mission of Andrew Johnson, who goes forward as the
Military Governor of the State of Tennessee, is at least one way of cutting the
Gordian knot of complications which have resulted from the conquest of the
rebels in that State, and will certainly follow their overthrow in other
quarters. It will prove to be most
effective. He will enter the State, of
which he is the proud and peerless Senator, not only as a Brigadier General at
the head of an overwhelming force, but as the deliverer of his own people, long
held in chains by their oppressors. His
first step will be to seize upon the machinery of the State Government, to carry
out the idea that no act of secession
can annihilate the State of this Union, and prepare the way for the election of
a Legislature, chosen by the loyal people of Tennessee, who will co-operate
with him in the great purpose of constitutional obligation and obedience to laws
passed in pursuance of the Constitution.
All this has been done by the Government, you will perceive, without the
aid of Congress, and it is a significant evidence of the justice and expediency
of this policy, that no portion of the Representatives and Senators in
Congress, are found to object to it.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 2
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