[rustbucket]

Much more indicative of GOP sentiment toward the Tennesseee Democrat was Charles Sumner's take on Johnson replacing Lincoln: "By the murder of Lincoln the rebellion has vaulted into the presidential chair."

Some rebel. From the Memphis Avalanche as reported in the January 9, 1861, Jackson Mississippian:

Andy Johnson Burnt in Effigy in Nashville!

HUNG AT GRAND JUNCTION

The defunct body shipped North after being shot, drawn, and quartered -- "unwept, unhonored, and hung," and will be hung at Jackson to-morrow.

[Grand Old Partisan]

"Some rebel."

That article is from 1861. Sumner made his comment in 1865. Point is, once the war was over, Johnson, a Democrat, allied himself with the ex-Confwederate Democrats.