Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-05-31
TnR APPEAL AND IT'S EDITOR.


cuss matters that pertain alone to the
business of newspapers. But being
forced to consider the value of the Ap'
peal by its own publication comparing
the LEDGER with it, we do so to defend
our own interest, and nothing more
The question came mp, having been
brought forward by our contemporary,
who thought, perhaps, to crush the rising
hopes of an Empire, by stating that his
newspaper had sold for three thousand
dollars more than the LEDGER during
the last quarter. This our contemporary
thought a strong argument why
he Empire should not be established.
BIT be assured, sir, this great and good
government we propose to discuss will
not require the assistance Of the Appeal
to lift its head above the dark political
waves of the present hour. 1t will be
founded, If at all, upon the interest and
affection of men who fear not to follow
;ts fortunes, should it require her
vo,aries to march over the appeal to
victory and peace.
This old sheet should remember that
the empire has friend in the LEDGER,
and when ii makes such publications as
appesred in its columns on last Friday,
charging us with being Radicals, then be
II assured with certainty it will be in
velved in q DISCUSSION which seems now
go terrible q nightmare that haunts Its
peaceful dreams.
That the public may have correct
idea as to how this discussion was
brought about, we give the language OF
the Appeal of the 18th instant, in an
article headed "All Radical Dodge,
which says:
We have always held that the i'm.
perialist movement was only Radical
dodge, trap for the nnpdTy.
Now, it is indeed strange that the
editor of this sheet did not know we were
an imperialist, and that our name had
been published throughout the country as
such. And wss be not also aware that we
did not belong to the Radical party; and
if so, why charge US with til We can
only conjecture, if such is the fact, that
he intended to class US among the nnWary
and duped into the advocacy of this new
doctrine. Bat we Rre very much OF the
opinion that unless come old reliable
female is set to watch this editor that he
will be caught in trap set for the I'M
wary, which looks now as il he had fallen
in already. He says his readers will
bear him out that he has not provoked a
discussion upon the Empire, or anything
else. with the LEDGER. Poor, innocent in
diyidual, that should have been entrapped
into saying such a thing Certainly his
memory is very short, or bis mind has
become unsettled by the LEDGER attacks,
both Of which ia probable Cannot this
old woman Of .he Appeal remember that,
a short time since, when our friend and
chum Of the Avalanche and We we're dis
cussing the Empire, how she ran up in
the thickest Of the fight and struck us ] u
the back? Yes, wrote long editorial
against the Empire, which, we must say,
was as wsak as thin Cruel, and fell as fat
as water thrown on the ground.
Let US examine iurther what this very
forgetiul editor says. he states that the
business public will bear him out when
he says that he has st no time yentured
to obtrude his business affairs upon
them" Well. surely our contemporary
must regard the public as very stupid
and unobserving, that he would write
and publish such a remark. What says
last Saturdays issue Of that paper-"that
the appeal had baen sold and bought Of
its proprietors to the extent Of three
thousand dollars-more than quite dou
BILE the DEMONSTRATING the quarter
just ended" Then a statement from the
Assessors books is given in to-1sy's
paper, showing how the Appeal has been
sold in comparison to the LEDGER. We
call our contemporary to the record, and
ask him to view himself in the same
light that be lie now being looked at by the
public.
As to the inuendo affecting the circu-
lation Of the Appeal, in our Saturdays
issue, we must characterizs it as the
most siupendOus folly that was ever
hatehed in diseased mind. When we
say that the Appeal is sold and bought
as a relic of the buried past, we are
charged with abiding to the profits Of
that paper, when, in fact, we spoke of its
old Democratic principles.
II some one would administer dose Of
common sense to this editorit would NEE.
with the pIaudits Of the Memphis public
without doubt Then, as TO the difference
in the sale Of the LEDGER and appeal,