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Evening Post, Issue 87, 20 May 1865, Page 3

Interesting to Tailors.— Governor .1 >lm. son, of Tennessee, who has just been elected Vice-President of the United btate«, was born a poor white in 11 slave state, and began life as a tailor. We find the following report of one of his latest speeches in a New Yoik paper : —"A flag raising at an army depot in Nashville, lust week, called out a large crowd who called upon Governor Johnson for a speech. After complimenting Colonel Crane, the host of the occasion, for the ability and efficiency with which his dtptrtment was administered, he spoke of the aristocracy of Nashville. Tney hud ever beeti, and were today, rebels at heart, and in deed also, when they dared do anything for the rebel cause. He knevr thereof, he affirmed. Tliey had misrepresented and vilified him bee-.tuse he had been true to the Union. Copperhead papers and speakers at the North had charged him with selfish motives in the course he had pursued. If losing all his negroes, if being robbed of 40,000 dols. in bonds, if sacrificing all that he had to sacrifice was selfishness, then he had been selfish. But the government had been sustained in ali its integrity, and he was more than recompensed. He had always been a democrat, but in the true sense. True democracy meant the elevation of the masses. He was a democrat, but at the same time an aristocrat ; but his aristocracy was the aristocracy of labour, the men whose brain*, and muscles had planned and wrought out those great achievements that had^miide'tiie labouring classes of America the chivalry r world. The men who ¦neerea at* 'greasy mechanics' and 'small\§f**M*rravHhi as the ' mudsills ' of society,' &4gltfh« <rery men who had not brains to OOltHtre or ability to execute a plan. Labour

was dhini y, dignity is niaihood, and manhood was aristocracy, Society was to-day in a cha<v ic state. The time had come to lay broitd and deep the foundation of the new aristocracy, nnd by the blcssinss of God and the will of the labouring men it was to be done As for emancipation, he could say he was for it. '1 he irstitution of slavery mu*t Ko down, like all o'her iniquities ; but he was not only for emancipating the black man, but for (MiiiincipHlintf and elevating the white men if t c country. 'I hf democrat y had praied of the ' Kail- spinier ' an>l thj ' Boorish Tailor.' He lad been a tailor, and was said to have been a good one ; he made close fits, did his work well, got it done according to promise, and had the best class of customers, The • Rriil-splitter ' ami the ' B >orish Tailor ' might some day have something to say about the aff.tirs ef the country. A correspondent signed " Barooma" writes to the Sydney Morning Herald as follows : — •• 1 beg to send you 17s. 6d., being a few small subscriptions, as per list, towards the testimonial to the servants on Peechelha station, for their praise worthy conduct on the occasion of the capture of Morgan. I have the more pleasure in doinu so that their comluct on that occasion contrasts so favourably with some of those in the district in which the ruffian committed bis most atr cious and aggravated crimes, and who really ought to know betier. I should be sorry to condemn this district, in which the murderer has • reigned supreme' for the last two years for the sake of the few (?) felon worshippers which it contains ; but I am obliged to confess (humiliating although it must appear) that much sympathy is felt by not a few in it at the fate of the murderer, and, as they are pleased to term it, • the most cowardly iianner in which tie met his death.' The two following will serve as examples of this degraded state of things :— ' A young man, son of a well-to do settler, has a portrait of the scoundrel, which he prises so highly that he will scarcely show it to anyone least it might be snatched from his bands. A young woman, wife of another admirer of this fiend in human form, was so overcome on hearing of hia death that she dropped down as if paralysed.' Your Sydney readers will scarcely believe that such v fearful state of mutters as this exists in the bush in thi.s advanced n«e ; but such, alas ! it* the case. I trust the citizens of Sydney will show to tluworM their tinhorn nee of this in«ane sympithy with crime, and mark their appreci a; ion ot' the conduct of those who terminated the oarei-r of this v Main by numerous (though .small) stinscriptioiis for thu übove ohject."