Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-12
VIM. r. Moore and the situation.

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VIM. r. Moore and the situation.
Mr.. EDITOR: 1t is said that circum-
stances alter cases." and it is great
philosophical truth. If my OK cores your
bull it is all right; but it is quite another
matter for your OK to gore my bull.
1t is really refreshing, sir, to contem'
plate the meek, Christian, and generous
utterances contained in Mr.. VIM. X.
Moore's card, published in the Ara-
lanche of the 10th Instant; and when we
contrast the gentleman's history for the
past few years, during the period OF the
war, and his history since, with the sub
lime wisdom and charity that inspire him
now to cover, as with mantle, all the
sins and past offenses of the people, we
are positively struck with wonder, admi-
ration and delight, that one avowedly so
disinterested and generous should be
such political acrobat. Meme, meme,
tekel upharsin is written upon the wall,
and Mr.. Moore must have seen it. de
may have felt the force of the words be-
fore, but just at this propitious moment
when an office is to be sought, and public
smoluments enjoyed, it is emblazoned be-
fore him. When the letters and degrade
ton of people which his party and him.
self conceived, inaugurated, and would
make perpetual, are being broken and
dissipated, and after ten years nigh OF
strife and turmoil" Mr.. Moore has Just
at this moment-four years after the war
was declared to be ended and peace to
exist all over the land-learned the fact,
| and appreciates the value of rest and
sweet repose." He says " the discordant
elements should now be speedily har-
monized." Tell us, Mr.. Moore, whose
countenance and support has contributed
more to confound the order of things
and produce universal discord and con-
fusion throughout the State, than your
own, and who would now be for riv-
citing more securely the disestablish'
ment Of our rights and liberties, but that
the thunders of one or two Supreme
Court decisions, and the will of an op-
pressed and outraged people, al! over
this State snd the Union, begins to
"affright the souls of fearful adversa-
ries ?" Can it be possible that ens Who
seems, from his card, to be endowed
with all wisdom, and whose soul yearns
| for the oppressed and DISTINGUISHED OF his
State, should only at this lsts day have
discovered the suggestions and princi-
Piles of the wise craftsmanship and
humane philosophy snpnciated in the
Apalanche of the 10th instY Exactly,
Mr.. Moore, the OK Is now goring the
Radical bull. The great charter of our
liberties is about to be enforced, and the
money. changers who have been defil-
| ing the temple" are sso4t TO be driven
out Right and justice, so long obsolete
| under Radical rule, are beginning to
dawn upon the land, and Mr.. Moore
wants loung;ug plaee-some place tor
"rest and sweet repose," where he can,
| in the evening of his days, repent at
leisure of bis mistaken policy"
But Mr.. Moore, awakened to due
sense of justice and regard for his race
by the thunders of popular indignation,
and desiring the support of the dear
people," says land we trust with pro-
phetic certainty that taxation and
| representation" must 20 "hand in hand"
and INDUCES the very kind and souside-
rate hope flor him) that the coveted
boon" (the enfranchisement Of the white
race) sis within the reach of our almost
| immediate grasp" Such an announce
ment from one OF acknowledged ability
and influence in the Radical y vig,wam,"
makes our hearts leap with conscious
Joy. Immediate grasp ITS q
contamination devoutly to be wished"
But, sir, who more than this gentle
man, now desiring to be made
the peoples servant, as an instru-
ment of wise legislation %. has been
since the termination Of the war, during
three long years of slavery and degrade
ton for the white people of Tennessee, a
more uniform, persistent and willing sup
porter of that proscriptive party which
has flched from the people their chartered
rights and privileges. That coveted
boom" of which Mr.. Moore writes so
sweetly and with snch gentle kindness,
might long ere this have been not only
"withiu the reach Of our immediate
grasp" but absolutely ours in possession
and enjoyment, but for the base proscrip-
tive principles he supported and main
tanned. Who, since the close Of the war,
when the Confederate soldiers returned
to their desolated homes and families, TO
be heuceforward true and loyal subjects
of this magnanimous ~ Government,
more than Mr.. William r. Moore, aided
and asetted his piebald party to make
them slaves of corrupt faction, with no
voice to declare their rulers, or vote "a
tax the property they owned-to make
the negro The State, armed with the
power Of purse and s~ord2 And now,
Mr.. Editor, after an opportunity had
been offered him to assist with the power
of bis great name in the overthrow OF the
odious franchise laws, which be failed t.
accept, he has the most gracious con
descension to declare that I" our gres
State, rich in her natural resources, II
depressed and almost bankrupt BY the in
triguing mauiuulatious of weak snC