Blackstone McDaniel:
They put me up to do some introducin' here in Greeneville as some old friends that don't need no introducin'. Now most-a you younger folks didn't know this lady here when she was Miss McCardle a-passin' out books at the library.
[the crowd applaudes]
Blackstone McDaniel:
Qnd there's her daughter Martha. You remember her - many of you played in 5he streets with her. And now she's grown up too: married and has a little boy of her own.
[more applause]
Blackstone McDaniel:
And I almost forgot - there's a man here too. A man who got his start in politics when a bunch-a us made him run for sheriff. He said he wasn't fit enough! Well, he's been fit enough to be made sheriff, assemblyman, congressman, governor, and now he comes back to his home folks in his own town as senator of the United States. No, I ain't gonna introduce him, not in Greeneville.
[the crowd cheers as the band plays]
Andrew Johnson:
Guess Blackstone McDaniel's right; I don't need any introducin' to you, I patched the britches of a lot of ya,
[crowd laughs]
Andrew Johnson:
and your fathers' britches before ya!
Mrs. Maude Fisher:
I'm still wearin' that first new dress Andy made me!
Andrew Johnson:
Well it's mighty fine to be home again. My friends, I have been a Jacksonian Democrat all my political life. I hope we will lick the Republicans this Fall and send Abe Lincoln back to splitting rails and in Illinios!
[crowd cheers]
Andrew Johnson:
But people here in the south who have threatened to break up this chosen president forget that in our America the verdict of the majority must be accepted.
[crowd boos]
Andrew Johnson:
That is what I will say in the Senate in Washington even if Lincoln is chosen president.
[more boos]
Andrew Johnson:
[shaking his fist]
I repeat that is what I will say in the Senate whether you back me up here at home here in Tenessee or whether you don't!
[more boos and the scene fades out]
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