I bet you can't tell the difference.
Posted on 04/16/2005 5:06:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Renovation of former President Andrew Johnson's home has exposed graffiti that Civil War soldiers wrote or scratched into the walls, including someone suggesting that "Andy you'd best skedaddle."
Johnson was admired by Union supporters, but detested by many Confederates, and both sides used his home as a headquarters during the Civil War, according to the National Park Service, which acquired the two-story brick home in 1942.
Graffiti quotes written or scratched into the plaster walls include: "Shame on you Andy," "Andrew Johnson Traitor of the South," and "Guilty of Treeson." There also are poems, and dedications to "My darling sister," and "For My Home in Kentucky."
Johnson was the military governor of Tennessee during the Civil War and then served as vice president under Abraham Lincoln before becoming the 17th president.
His daughter hid the graffiti under wallpaper in 1869 to prepare the home for his return.
The park service knew there was graffiti somewhere beneath the wallpaper — but not where. During a restoration in 1956, the walls were photographed and notes about the graffiti were taken.
The home is being re-covered with wallpaper as part of the current renovation. The graffiti will be preserved, but will remain hidden.
Andrew Jackson or Andrew Johnson?
Andrew Johnson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj17.html
Civil war era taglines.
"Andy you'd best skedaddle."
Bill Clinton is in good company with Andy Johnson.
Both deserved impeachment and then some.
Dixie ping?
"Guilty of Treeson."
is another good one.
ping
Clinton was impeached for lying under oath, and Johnson was impeached for firing a member of his own cabinet. To me there is no comparison.
Andrew Johnson was a man of principle, and he held to them with mule-headed stubborness. Those principles, including a curious combination of both white supremacy and an equally strong hatred of the planter class, do not stand the test of time, but he never backed down from contemporary criticism and probably didn't give a hoot for what posterity might think. As far as I can tell, Bill Clinton has no principles and is obscessed with both contemporary and historical views of him.
I bet you can't tell the difference.
LOL! Now that's funny.
Dixie Ping
"Andy you'd best skedaddle" translated in 2005: Git on with yo bad self, Andy!
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Good Luck with that one CD.
Andy Johnson warts aplenty almost singlehandedly kept the radicals from purging my homeland when they were at their most vindicative. Granted (pun intended) the radicals did prevail later but by then their momentum was on the wane.
I for one am grateful more or less.
I was just in a contrarian mood, wardaddy.
Pray explain why you think Andrew Johnson deserved impeachment.....
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