Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-07

EDITORS LEDGER: The gubernatorial
contest between the representatives of the
two wings of the Radical party is grow
ing interesting and attractive. 1t is
marked by feature not heretofore known
since the Radicals came into power. The
white men are once more aroused, and
are beginning to feel that there is yet
hope for their freedom and disenthrall-
ment from the negro-equality schemes
that have so long been forced upon them.
Loyalty here, as in other portions of the
State, has been divided, and now the two
wings are fighting each other with all the
venom that they displayed two years ago
against the rebels, and each is now strain
ing every effort to prove the other rebel.
Senter and Stokes, the two great cham
pions, are still on the war-path, and the
onslaught made by each is terrific to a
disinterested rebel who stands as spec
tator and watches the seething brands of
red.hot birthstone and lava poured in
such streams on the devoted head of the
bald Eagle of the Mountains"
and then, in turn, witnesses the Kissing,
poisonous venom of the serpenteyed
Stokes, issuing forth in strains that would
cause pandemonium to blush. Senter is
now lashing the apostate rebel, Stokes,
from one end of the State to the other,
and before the campaign closes there will
not be enough of him remaining to make
even mean representative of negro
legislature. A few days since Senter
proved, in speech made at Morristown,
that Stokes was rebel deserter, and that
he sold the last slave ever bought in
Tennessee, and had the negro present,
who appeared before the large audience
and verified the statements of the Gov
ernor. Senter has also proven so many
other disgraceful things on his would-be
competitor that it is actually sickening
to mention them in detail.
The issues of the canvass have been
fairly presented. The Senter party are
in favor of returning to a form of govern
ment which shall recognize the white man
as the ruling power in the State. The
Stokes party, on the other hand, are
bound up, body and soul, to the negro
supremacy pelicy which disfranchises the
white men who pay all the taxes, State
and federal. Even Brownlow would
blush to adopt the latter, and is openly
in favor of the other. The Stokesites
now denounce their former para
goa of pure, unadulterated loyalty
as q rebel and traitor of the
deepest dye. He has been guilty of
the damning crime of joining himself to
the white mans party, and for this he has
been excommunicated, and that forever.
"Old Proc" grown disloyall Spirit of
old Thad., and his colored cohorts, defend
and guard the deserted ranks of the
"trooly loil." Their hsrps are now hung
on the willows, and mourn because of
their head center and bell-wether who is
not. and refuse to be comforted. How
are the mighty fallen" The Brownlow
dynasty, accompanied by Senter and
hosts Of others whose names we're wont
to shine with refulgent luster in loyalty's
ranks, and serve as bescon-lights to
guide wandering rebels home, gone over,
body and soul, to the enemy Mis-
fortunes come not singly, but in bat
talions." The late decision of the Su-
preme Court, which admits to the ballot
twenty thousand rebsls-i0hits ones, at
that-has fallen like tbunder-stroke on
the wo-begone negro-equality shriekers of
America 8 medern Switzerland; and then
the fact that Senter has appointed sew
eral honest men as Registrars, is another
blow that is beginning to assume pom
derous proportions, and the day that tries
men souls is again darkening the visions
of the faithful, and their light may 60 out
forever in the pending crisis.
Every day brings to light the fact that
we OF East Tennessee are soon to have
the conflicting elements merged into two
parties; the white man representing the
one and the negro the other, and the lat
ter will be so small as to melt into inslg-
nificance and will sink to the depth
from whence it sprung. The work in
East Tennessee is slow but sure, and the
day Of redemption is not far distant
Mob law was superseded BY moderation,
and now Acknowledgement, the great pill
lar of Radicslism, is being swept away,
and In its stead will be planted justice
and equality, and then Radicalism is
dead forever.
/ now hear the names of many good
men being spoken Of as our next repre-
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