Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-07
" Whom Rogues Fall Out" etc.
From the Nashville Banner.

II
In the disgraceful and infamous scram-
Bile for "spoils" among Radical aspirants
for Congressional distinction, in various
districisin the State, these worthless have
liberallysbespattered each other to their
complete satisfaction and to the infinite
disgust of all decent people. Bot after
they have exhausted the vernacular of the
Billingsgate fshwomen, and the chaste
calendar of Newgate, their lord and mas-
ter, the Governor (so-called) of the State,
and the Grand Sachem of the unhappy
wigwam, appears indignant upon the
scene, like John Brougham's Powhattan
among the dusky Tuscarorss, and pales
their Intellectual blackguardism before q
little of his own characteristic coarseness
Of expression in the following "sisncer"
in the Knoxville Wing of the I'd:
In some sections of the State, where
there are scrambles for office, there are
persons of the Republican party de-
nouncing and Safeguarding each other
at more furious and bitter rate than
they have ever been abused by the rebels.
If the parties we refer to would content
themselves by establishing that each
other are personally corrupt, and have
been guilty of crimes which would con-
sign them to hell or the penitentiary, it
would make no difference. 10 fact, it
would be a good thing, for it proves
nothing against the principles of any
party to show that there are certain bad
men in it. All parties contain some bad
men who identify themselves with them
from bad motives. In his Knoxville
speech, last summer, Etheridge said
every time he had been a candidate for
Office, "some men have voted for me
who ought to have been in the peniten.
tiary when they cast their ballot"
The parties we refer to-these ulcers
on the body politc-are not satisfied
with showing, or attempting to show, the
vileness of the enemies natures. They
go further. They tell base lies, affecting
every Republican in the State. They
make statements basely slsnderous of
the principles and policy of the party
they profess to support. Ia the blind
ness Of their rage at disappointed hopes,
they do this to bring to their support the
rebel party, and for the sake of crafty
ing personal spite they furnish the
enemy with clubs, made out of monstrous
lies, to strike the great cause represented |
by Grant and Colfax. Loyal men
should look out for such black sheep
with-a white covering, and when they |
detect them, kick them from the fold as
unceremoniously as a gentleman would
kick NANCY dog from his parlor.
These " biackguards above alluded
to, who have been guilty of crimes
that should consign them to hell or the
these "ulcers on the body
poitic," these "base liars" and utterers
of " statements basely slanderous," these
black sheep with white covering" who
are to be "kicked from the fold uncere-
moniously like so many "mangy dogs"
are no less distinguished members of the
and scallawag party than Mer-
GER of the one part and Prosser of the
other; Arnell and Buck; Houck and 10.
Cooper, et id omne genus. These re-
'ractory spoilsmen refuse 10 answer the
bit of their gubernatorial master, and
ire not disposed to be content with the
ew crumbs that may fall from his table.
This makes the Governor very angry
very indignant, and, as is usual under
uch circumstances, very indecent