Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-29
APPEAL
FKIDAY MORNING, IAN. %, lssa
a TEST OF OUK ENDURANCE.

The Radical, who, by the right Of
might and the usurpations Of a partisan
Congress, governs the people OF Arksn-
sas, anc Is known by the fitting 1ttle OF
Border-rufian CLAYTON, has come and
gone, hss wandered about our streets in
u~nrestrsined freedom, visited the New
Memphis, fszstsd his sensuou eyes st
the Gaieties and Varieties, perhaps ex-
plored the subterrsnean mysteries OF
the numerous concert saloons with
which our city now sbounds, and passed.
through all unscathed. With unblush-
ing front he hiss brsved the popular oPin-
ion Of 8 city whose inhabitants are allied
with his victims by ties Of heart, OF soul,
Of blood, and social and political faith.
He ate and drank Of the bast, slept In
ps ace and security st one of our prinei-
pal hotels, and enjoyed the social
visits Of some whose designs or po-
Hticai sympathy prompted them,
snd by others whose great wrongs
compelled their presentation Of Pc
titiops for 8 cIemeney he hiss not in
all bis bloody career given evidence Of
possessing. Herslded by q vile and ye-
nal sheet, published in impudent defiance
OF 3 patient snd tolerant public sus-
tanned in bis msrcile5s villsinies and
held up IS y paragon Of all the virtues
by the same press, be held court and re-
ceived, and was Toasted by the leading
Radicals, while poor WAFFoRD was be-
ing dispatched by the red-handed nes
groes of his militia. After two days Of
enjoyment, such as our beautiful and at
trsctive city offers TO all her visitors,
passing in the streets and meeting at cur
resorts the men and ONE who are ex-
Eles from their homes by reason Of his
infamous, i~ndeiensibIe and bloody policy,
this v~iolator o. the peace and dignity Of
Arkansas, responsible befJre GOD and
the world for the rRpes and wrongs, the
murders and robbePies with which u
columns have been burdened for
weeks, entered and departed from
Memphis uninjured, unhurt; not in
anywiss assailed by any Of the
hundred persons who are in mourning
for their friends he procured to be killed;
or by the friends Of the women whose
dsarer than life was smOthered in the
brutal embrace Of his negro soldiers.
Surely this must pass to our credit IS 8
test Of patient endurance. That this
rufian of rufians has sojourned in pesce
and enjoyed the social eOurtesies Of as
snmed refined circles, been Toasted and
toasted, smiled on by women whose
known virtues and good qualities would
have prevented his approach Of them, is
surely to be set down TO our endurance
and patience under wrong, and our toll
erstion Of class Of men who could out
rage the general sentiment and lend
their countenslce to one so gross in
every Wickedness.
The card OF Sheriff CURRY is more
than answered by such smiability as we
have thus exhibited. 1t disproves ali as
sertiOns OF the presence Of the Ku-Klux
Khan ia Memphis. It settles forever the
question Of our status as a lsw-sbiding
people, and must satisfy, even the
-incredulous Legislature and Governor Of
Tennessee, that Memphis is no place for
the militia, but a very I" loyal, " q q truly
loyal precinct" So general a display Of
indifference to the presence Of the "Ar-
kansas butcher" must achieve all that
our correspondents can desire to scc0m-
piish through the proposed peace meet
ing, and win for Us the enviable distinc-
ton that such liberation and endurance
deserve. The Austrian buteher"-
HAYNAU-wRs driven from London by
the workmen at PERKINS brewery the
I" Arksnsas butcher " came to, ~sojourned
in, and passed out Of Memphis, without
20 much as q frown. Are We not quiet,
and peaeesble, and law-Rbiding?