Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-20
The Heritage of Tsnnessssans.

From the date of the battle of King
Mountain, Tennessee's heroes, statesmen
and jurists have proven their peerage, be.
side the best the nation claims and We'd
with the physical force, the Wit and wis
dom of the old world for the mastery.
Nor has she yet suffered disgrace by the
contest.
Her Robertsons, Sewers, Blounis and
Tiptons her Jacksons, CAROLS and
Coffees; her Haywoods, Greenes. Reeses
and Turkeys; her Folks, Whites, Grundys
and Browns, and hosts of others, form
galaxy of stars of the first magnitude,
whose light will safely guide the thought
full youth along the pathway of lite.
In this dark night OF the history of our
State, the present usurping party stole
away our liberties. They scof at and
condemn the traditions of our people;
feigning to be progressive, they regard
not the eloquence of the history of the
past that so CRATES upon their guilty
souls. Well may the spirits of the dead
haunt them. But there is a power in the
memory of the past, which terrifes the
guilty, and corrupt Radicals, like assas-
sins, can not sleep comfortably when re-
minded of the days of innocent child
hood.
Well may they ;remble and crouch, and
bark and yelp, and SANDER and vituper-
ate, and howl if single mailed war
rior clad In the habiliments Of the dead,
reminds them Of the ghosts of the de-
parted.
The spirits of the pioneers, who feared
not the hordes of painted warriors that
beset them in the painless wilderness,
still hover over the land they redeemed
from savage rule. The great captains
who successfully drew their swords to
avenge and save this people, though lost
to sight, are not forgotten. Their spirits
still live ia the heroic and patriotic i'm
pulses of the people they loved so well.
As an hideous nightmare, the jurspru-
dence CT Tennessee 80 solidly founded
BY Haywood, and honestly and equitably
perfected by his honored successors of
spotless integrity, haunts and disturbs
the slumbers of the pitiless, cowsrdly,
judicial monsters the late civil war gave
birth to, at whose assizes there have been
attempts to compete for infamy with
Jeffries, the English demon of injustice.
Truly the spirits Of the departed arc
not dead, nor do they sleep. Partisan
violence and militia bsyonet may prevent
free expression, honest men Of Tennessee
may be silenced, yet they cannot be in.
duced, Esau like, to sell their birthright
| for a miserable mess Of potage, and con-
sumo it in political miscegenation with
negroes and carpet-bag adventurerA
Nor does the scurrility Of accidental leg
islators applying such epithets, internal
scoundrels, to honored citizens, pro-
woke them to squander their heritage Of
honor and fame.
Distranchised as they now are, they
can, with profound contempt aud honest
scorn, regard those petty tyrsnts who
have essayed TO sell their glorious biIth-
right. There is hope in the indicated
promises Of the past, and upon them
Tennesseeans can rest an abiding faith
in the future growth, permanent pros
perity and peace Of their State. Those
Tennesseeans, who in moments of
temptation aud irritation, have wandered
from the faith Of cur fathers, we invite 10
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The strangers within our gates, who
come not 10 spy out the fatness Of the
land, that they may learn how and when
and what to plumber, we cordially invite
to sit down with Us under our vine snd
6g tree, and, as adopted brothers, share
with Us our rich inheritance. To ell
such we plight our faith TO respect and
honor them, il matters not what past diff
ferenees may have separated Us
But for more peniteut apostates from
the faith Of our fathers and for al inso
lent intruderF, who in the name Of free.
dom and Union cypress and insult ri
and propose 10 ebsconce themselves
behind = line Of dusky warriors Il
save their persons from harm vher
the conflict Of races comes, We frankly
say We have and share no love. Or
the contrary, as . means Of cultiTatinI
peace, good will among mea, and hon
orAble patriotism We promise 10 cultiyai'
feeling and losfhiDg for them and thei
acts. Thus, daily enhancing our hatre,
Tor the devil and bis works, We vii havl
experimental proof Of our growth il
, ChristiAn grses.-Nashvills Banner.