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The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Bermuda. (search)
Andy Johnson and the Eagle Orator of Tennessee. The following capital hit, out from the "Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Magazine for 1856, is too good not to be re-produced, now that the very name of "Andy" stinks in the nostril of every tree Southerner, so naturally suggesting the ides of "carrion:" A Memphis correspondent gives the following passage in a debate between Andy Johnson, a candidate for gubernatorial honors, and Gustavus Henry, generally known as Gus, the Eagle Orator. The debate was severe, and excited much interest, Andy closed his speech with this annihilating declamation: "We met this eagle. and I can say, with an honest heart, that he has one of my flesh on his talomanone of my blood on his beak." This was good, and would here been stumps, but the undismayed Gus immediately rose to his feet and replied: "The true the honorable gentlemen has met the engine, and bears no traces of having left flesh on his talons or blood upon his beak. And t