Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-31
TEE RhToRT CoURTEous.

THE R1TORT COURTEOUS.
We believe that we can appeal to al
our readers to sustain US when we say
that, during the year and half that we
hsve edited the APPEAL, we have studi-
ously endeavored to concilisue the wasp
ish and irritable Editor Of the AU0IGHche,
and that we have often foregone the OPP
portunity for a just revenge, not only
for ill-natured comments upon the length
and quality Of our Editorial Articles, but
for other assaults upon Us, apparently
intended to secure to Itself some small
benefit, st the expense of a journal, never
its rival and much less its enemy.
The Avalanche msy as well understand
st once, now sad for all the future, that
we have not refrsined from replying to
its attacks upon US, from time to time
renewed, because we have felt unequal
70 encounter it, but because We
knew the idiosyncrscies Of its Editor.
Many months ago, when the AUa-
laache knew that the APPEAL was strug-
Cling against all manner Of adverse cir
cumstsnces, and it happened to speak Of
"Germsn Doors and Italian lsZZSrOni,"
the Editor Of the Avalanche, to do the
APPEAL sn injury and win small ad-
vantage for itself, devoted column to
censure Of the APPEAL, and reminded
the foreign-born citizens Of Memphis
that its Editor had been a Know Moth
ing, by allusion at least, well under
stOed, if no more. That malicious arti-
Gle cost the APPEAL three hundred sub
scribers; but the AU1Idnche never knew
it; and after s time those who had left
US in 3 pet again became our subscribers,
and the APPEAL, never Boosting OF its
prosperity, took its place in the public IA
vor by the side of its more learned and
more talented and much more prudent
and indicious contemporary, the amiable
AuIEdnche.
When we proposed to the citizens Of
Memphis, something like year ago, to
organize themselves into q Civic Guard,
for their own protection and selt-defence,
and to prevsTt q riot on the day of cleo
ton between part Of our fellow-citizen ms
and the negroes, the 4Uolanche, to cur
surprise, protested against it as an
imprudent and rash proposition. 1t was
then exceedingly prudent and discreet.
A year ago it was ia favor Of negro
suffrage; and it aided to carry negro
dplauatns 70 fha Ty,,go-,.at;--. o.
ton at Nashville. There, it concurred
In formally pledging the Conservative
party OF Tennessee to give to all negroes
in the State, during all time, the right
70 vote, Of which the right 10 hold Office
is 3 coroIlsry. u Is not get released from
that pledge AND IT NEVER CAN BE
Aud now it censures US, because we re-
fused to accept that platform, and
adopted and stood by one o. our owp.
That matter, we thought, would be
the last TO which the AUllatehe would
refer.
We thought 1t proper, day or two
since, to express our individual opinion
In regard to the selection Of q can
didate for Congress in this Dis
trict. We are delegate to The
nominating Convention at Brownsville:
and It did not occur to US that it Was
necessary for Us first to 20 to the Ara
tGTsche and ascertain what would be
agreeable to it and those for whom IL
ls6ors. We supposed We mad a right n
express our Own private opinion, and did
not imagine that the Avalanche woDJd
regard 1t as 80 iBsoleut an assumDtion
that 1t would assume to chide a. and IN
vent It's Miniature upon US, a. if we bad
been guilty Of an invasion of its high
Prerogative to do the thinking for the
Conservatives Of Shelby county and
other regions Of the globe.
1t would have been easy for thu Ana
bd7'che to dissent from cur opinion. with
out running a muck sgainst us, and
using such phrases and epithets as men
DO lot generally use in speaking of their
Friends. 1t had been very esrpest in ito
advocacy Of the policy Of sending Gen
Forrest as a Delegate to the New York
convention, although be was an unDor-
doned " rebel" baseIy maligped ana
looked upon Is an inhunau aonstar h.,
the Radical masses Of the Northern
states We innocently thought that n
the reign of peace had come. and
IS the trumpet Of the Avalanche
blowing Its own praises and .contlnuauv
eou1selling holiness, had become mar
ticuIarly resonant, We should have its
countenAhee in proposing to run for
Congress a gallant Confederate and a
generous gentleman, who had served IN
Congress before the war, and who il as
nj 70 oe elected again to that station as
General Wade Hampton or General
Forrest to sit in the National Dsmoor.t,,
Convention.
We did not discuss the matter We
said that we had no objection 10 NJ,
Leftwich, except thSs be could t.Es tba
oath. Does the AVALANCHE preter 49,
men who can do that? W. do not. hn,
briefly enough, we should think s~
pressing our opinion, we left thu ma,te-
to the Convention TO decide.
The Avalanche chooses to consider tb,s
an act Of insubOrdination, and with a
singular forgetfulnesa Of propriety and
betrayal Of feeling Of ilI-wiD, INDUCES
in phrases and indecorous words like the
following;
a contemporary apparently engaged
IN tha same great causa To xzhicb 49,.
devoted. IIflictIon Of q mortal
stab under the guise Of friendship.
Wild theories and stubborn inconsisten-
Giles sdogmatism almost overpow.
ering playing Sir Oracle. Ego
tisn fslss aHd stupid tSAshings