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door of the Treasury vault:" notorious as a Southern supporter
of the Squatter Sovereignty doctrine, with two votes on record
in favor of the Wilmot Proviso. He may be reckoned as _very_
"dangerous to the South:" last, but not least in this dread
array of "dangerous men," is

ANDREW JOHNSON,

the present Governor of Tennessee, and Cincinnati aspirant: he
voted _three_ times for the Wilmot Proviso, and so doubtful are
his doctrines on the slavery question, that many slaveholding
members of his own party regard him as _extremely_ "dangerous
to the South."

By the way, in 1842, this same _Gov. Johnson_ was a Senator in our State
Legislature, and introduced the following _Abolition_ resolutions,
commonly called his _White Basis System_:

"_Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee_,
That the basis to be observed in laying the State off into
Congressional districts shall be the voting population, WITHOUT
ANY REGARD TO THREE-FIFTHS OF THE NEGRO POPULATION.

"_Resolved_, That the 120,083 qualified voters shall be divided
by eleven, and that each eleventh of the 120,083 of qualified
voters shall be entitled to elect one member in the Congress of
the United States, or so near as may be practicable without a
division of counties."

The position of Gov. Johnson is this: he wishes the State entitled to
her slave representation _as a State_, but _in her own borders_ the
representative districts are to be made according to her white
population! In other words, he desires the State to retain her _ten_
Congressmen, representing both her white and slave population, but
wishes them appointed throughout the State without regard to the slave
population: so that the county containing ten thousand white
inhabitants, and double that number of slaves, should be entitled to no
more representation than the county containing _ten_ thousand white
inhabitants and no slaves!

We heard Johnson last summer, in his debate with Gentry, in Campbell
county, contend that the county of Campbell should have the same
representation in Congress as the county of Shelby, which he stated had
FIFTEEN THOUSAND NEGROES! He appealed to the prejudices and passions of
the poor--inquired of the hard working-men of that county how they liked
to see their wives and daughters _offset_, in enumerating the strength
of the county, by the "_greasy