Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-28
OUR TRIUMPH CERTAIN.


When we see a handsome young fellow
kissing remarkably pretty girl, and
both inquisitely, thrillingly happy, we
would not interrupt them for the world.
We have even declined to brush a mos
quito from the nose of sleeping friend,
so greatly averse are we to interfering
with happiness. We have invariably
rendered ourself miserable that the hap
piness of others might thereby be secured
II is, therefore, with the utmost pain that
we proceed to dissolve pleasant dream
TO dissipate a sweet but baseless hope,
and to send hovoc and dismay to take
their places. Our colored Radicals have
been instructed to believe, and do be
lieye, that no earthly power can prevent
the triumph of BrowHlow. They are in
structed to believe, and do believe, that
the voting at the polls in August will be
merely going through form, for the
reason that, though Etheridge should
obtain the greater number of votes,
Brownlow will still be Governor. They
believe that Etheridge cannot, under any
circumstances, be inaugurated Governor
of Tennessee. They know that Brown
low laughs at the struggles of the Con-
servatives to regain their liberty.
Fortified with such convictions, and
dazzled with promises of the good time
whose -millennial star they perceive
breaking through the dark night of long
inferiority, these people discard the cold
utterances of common sense and aban-
don themselves TO the contemplation OF
visions the most beautiful 1t is work
ofseeming cruelty to ring down acurtain
on such scenery and such happiness, and
turn Off the gas on the Radical perform
ance. 1t is a work that must be done,
and the earlier the better for the dupes
who are played upon by demagegues as
the strings Of an instrument are played
upon by musicians. What we have to
say is very simple and very plain. The
recent revolution in public sentiment in
East and Middle Tennessee, brought
about in part by the outrages perpetrated
by the Brownlow party, renders the cleo
ton of Etheridge a matter as certain as
any future event Brownlow will be
defeated by thousands, we believe by tens
of thousands. White and black in these
divisions of the State are uniting on our
candidate and working tremendously
together. In our own section, the tide
is going in the same direction That
we shall carry West Tennessee,
we have every evidence for behev-
ing. We shall elect Leftwich to
Congress and a full delegation 10 the
Legislature. We state with confidence
from all the lights before us, that we
shall triumph everywhere, and that after
the August election there viii be no
Radical party in Tennessee. There will
remain nothing of il but few fragments,
such as old coats and hats, old boots,
brogans and socks. and gangs Of fooled,
cheated, bewildered colored people who
followed the Radical party to ruin.
Where will the black Brownlowites
20 then2 They warred upon their old
friends and protectors, forsook them
in the day Of their SORROW, went of to
strangers, and marched headlOng to the
devil Let them think Of these thingsin
time. EiheFidge viii not only be elected
he viii be inaugurated. That Is Ger
fain. There is no power that possesses
the viii 70 drive him from the Office TO
which the people shall elect him. The
Federal troops, If necessary, VIII pro
fect him, and horl back eli Who shall A.
tempt 70 defeat BE insuguraiioH. LET
the ooIored people abandon tie sinking
shin Of Brornios a. once II they do /
not fbey will have No party ard lev /
friends aher The August eieeton. ]