Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-19
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We have important and interesting iniorms
ton from Kentucky, received via Nashville. l
bears directly upon the crisis that now seems Sc
imminent in the affairs Of our sister State
Governor MAGoFFIE has resigned his position
and the telegraph adds that JOHN J. FISK
president of the State Senate and acting lieuten
ant-governor, has followed the sans course. W.
have no reason to question the truth of MAGoF-
RMS resignation, but that e man of FIsK's prin-
ciples and low ambition would renounce the op-
portunity of succeeding to the gubernatorisI
chair is highly improbable. There must be some
error, resulting from the confusion of names in
transmitting the dispatch, or else a srangerres-
olution has occurred in the fellow FISK than we
ever dreamed possible.
The resignation Of Governor MAGoFFN was
not altogether unexpected. The only mystery
has been Chat he 50 long allowed himself to Oe-
cupy a position fall of embarrassment Bereft
of all power and influence, Of everything in fact
save the empty name of governor, he was looked
upon with suspicion and treated with contempt
and insult by the Federslists. Unable, from the
jealousy with which he was w~atched-the severe
espionage placed over him, to be of service to
his real friends, for more than a year he has been
the occupant of place, but in no wise the wielder
Of power, for that which rightly attached to his
Office was ueutralized by the action Of the aboh-
ton legislature and military board.
We are glad that Governor MAGeFFN has
thus at last-although seemingly coerced into
the measure-had the good sense to resign. He
was serving neither himself nor his country,
but aiding, day by day, by his submission to
Yankee rule, to the odium which has, in many
parts Of the South, been hoaped upon his name.
Yet BERIAH MAGOFFTS is, as he has been all
along, a friend OF the South and a contemner of
the Washington tyranny, as true and loyal as
breathes. He has been sadly, egregiously mis-
taken in his policy, but the erOr was Of the
head and not of the heart, and when he found
himself envsloped in the IaitorOds folds of
Lincoln legislation, he should have resigned and
not wasted his efforts in vain protests. Untor-
~tunstely he lacked nerve and decision Of charac-
and thus narrowly missed being one of the
Of the revolution which now approaches
It's day-dawn. There may be time, however,
fox him to retrieve his past reputation, and we
hope be viii do so speedily for the sake Of his
yood, brave, generous Kentucky heart.
Should FISK have succeeded to the executive
,hsir-poor, miserable kentucky! Years ago
he contemplate scoundrel came to the State
nd practsed the profession Of a village Peda-
His villainous tastes were soon appa-
snt in his marriage with the daughter Of a
GLORIOUS burglar who met his fate by falling
trough the hatch Of a Pearl street store, in
l%incinnati, where he was committing his mid
light deprsdations. This woman he Afterwards
tempted to palm off in Kentucky upon respect
bic society, but she was arrested and tried for
he crime Of stealiag, in Msysvile, Mason
ounty. FISK is a whining, hypoeritical vii
in-smooth-tongued black-hearted, without
and utterly devoid Of deceney. He
as accidentally elected to the senate from the
.bolition district opposite Cincinnati, and is
ow accidentally made governor Of the glorious
,mmonwealth whose chair Of state has been
by such historic characters as ISAAC
HELBY, CHARLES SCOTT, JOHN ADAIR, JAMES
MoREHEAD and JOSEPH DEsHA. How
re the mighty fallen ~
But there is hope even in this depth Of degra-
to which the State-once synonym Of
livaly-has degonersted. There must be a
and when the rebound comes, Ken
cky viii fling off the scurvy politicians who
we 50 leng usurped the rights Of the people,
ID great as she is, leap forth in her pride of
one Of the strongest and surest champ
us of the Confederaey.