Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-01
GOOD AS HIS HORD.

Col. GRIsHEM, editor of the STOKES
organ at Nashville, as good as his
promise, is publishing some terrible
exposures of the cOrruptiOns Of the
Radical party. OF course they cOmetG
us as part of what we may look for
| as a consequence of the present diyis-
ion of that party; but, nevertheless,
viii serve a good purpOse-just as
much so as if rendered from the purest
and most patriotic motives. As indi-
eating a direction in which some Of
our immense State debt has been
squandered, Col. GRIsHEM says, in a
| recent article, that The State of Ten
- nessee loaned the Knoxville and
L" Kentucky Railroad Company bonds
"to the amount of 7tcO liUiOis, Tire
" Hundred and T3ceny Thousand Dol
- 6drS." = = < "There was an amend
"ment tackled on to a bill during the
{" last session of the Legislature, in
i" the Senate, authorizing the issuance
of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
of Company Bonds to be sold in the
market, and these bonds were to
constitute a first mortgage or lien
upon the road. The amendment
|" had no relation TO the bill on which
sit was sought to be tackled, and on
"this account came very nigh being
/" passed. If it had become a law, all
"that Gen. MABRY and his friends
@ needed to have done was to buy the
" bonds, enforce the lien, and defeat
the debt Of the State amounting to
$4,000 and own the railroadr'
In another article he charges upon
Gov. SENTER I" that he took the mon
"ey that belonged to the School Fund,
" or what was left of it, and paid the
/" militia with it. Thus showing that
IA poor mans child should not be ed
"ucated i'm Tennessee, and that the
"peOple had to submit to the tyranny
and corruption of those in power at
" the point of the bayonet. While
the State was bankrupt, he was
"quartering troops on the people;
" while the schOOlhOuse was closed The
{" camp was open; while the law re-
"quired the fund to be suspended for
the education of the children of the
I" State. it was used to maintain ause-
E" less sOldiery called into existence for
I" electioneering purposes"
We hope that Col. GRESHAM will
continue his exposures, they will serve
a good purpose in the future. They
will guide Grand Juries and Investi-
eating Committees of the Legislature
in the work of ~unearthing the rogues
as we'll as their roguery. He must be
particular, however, to confne him
self to what he can prove in case he
should be summoned in Court or be-
fore the next Legislature, to
which body the people look
with a great degree of conf
dence that it will afford all the relief
possible, recover their money or
bonds, and punish to the last extrem-
ity of the law the men who have vio-
lated the trust and confidence reposed
in them by a too-confiding c0nstitu-
eney. We look to Col. GRESHAM TO
continue until he has laid bare every
secret OF his party and proved to the
satisfaction of the people of Tennes-
see the character and extent of the
villainies perpetrated upon them by
their former or present servants. We
want the whole story of Radical mis-
rule since January, 1866, and the clearer
the better. We believe that Col.
GRESHAM, Notwithstanding his sup
port of STOKES, is honestan d straight
forward enough to give it.