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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], From General lee's army. (search)
Yankee Politics in Memphis.
--The bogus election in Memphis, held by order of Andy Johnson, engendered no small amount of bitter strife between the aspirants and their friends.
One party, calling themselves the "unconditional Union men," was understood to occupy the Johnson platform, and to be unconditional submissionists.
The call for the public meeting of this party, with the names appended, has appeared in our columns.
The opposition styled themselves "Union men," and organized as su o restore the State, and, as preliminary thereto, violently abolish slavery, heretofore specially exempt in Tennessee from the acts of Congress and proclamations of the President, but really to promote to office a faction at whose head marches Andy Johnson." They are styled a "factions, demagogically, and revengeful crew of old party hacks and political tricksters," and clearly given to understand that they are properly estimated.
We have no doubt but that similar remarks were indulged in by th