Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-15

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Seriously, johnson viii be voted for il
order that there may be no contest by
which the harmony and usefulness of thu
Legislature might be impaired. KY.
SECOND LETTER.
NASHVILLE, Wednesday night.-RaiR
cold, mud, Etheridge, johnson and the
/ Constitutional Amendment are themes OF
4 discussion this dreary evening. The Ban
ner, which, erstwhile, loved and admired
Johnson, is filed with exeerations, and
Johnson-so vilifed that I, who never
voted for him, am constrained to say that
Sumner, Wilson, Phillips and Greeley
never knew how to abuse Andrew john
son. The task was achieved with infinite
skill by Gov. Foote, in the Banner. The
classical taste with which denuneiation is
robed in verbiage which Addison and
Sterne might have envied, save that
they excelled in simplicity as Mr..
FOOte does in Johnsonian pomp-
Gus verbosity, indicated at once,
the author of the Banners effusion. The
quotation from Juvenal, which serves as
a text for the discourse, is reproduced by
Byron in the first stanZa of his English
Bards and Scottish Reviewers. Byron
gives no credit to the Roman poet, and
vet the difference between the verse OF
the British Lord, and of the ancient
satirist, is simply that which separates
the English from the Roman tongue.
The curious in such matters are referred
to Juyensl, and to any edition of Byron's
works, that this parallelism of ancient
and modern thought may be illustrated,
and to the published history of
Mra. Surrstt's trial for refuta-
ton of the grayest charge preferred
against Mr.. johnson. The application for
Mrs. Surratt's pardon, signed by members
of the Military Commission, was quietly
slowed away in pigeon-hole by Stanton,
and the President never saw or heard of
it till after the execution. Radicalism
found nothing to condemn till the Presi-
dent denounced its destructive public pol
icy. 1t is also a national fact in this dis
cussion that the majority of the Military
Commission, which signed this petition
for executive clemency, only asked that
Mrs. surratt's sentence should be COM
muted from the death penalty to impris-
onment for life, If you viii read the lit
tie book published by Joe Holt at the
time, containing the history Of the trial,
you viii find in its pages no reference ia
the proper place, to this application for
Andrew JohnsOn's Intervention in behalf
Of the murdered woman. In truth, Holt
and Stanton did not intend that the Pres
dent should pardon Mrs. Surratt. 1t
might be added, just here, that Johnson |
held his place at that time by a most |
uncertain tenure. He was charged with |
to Mr.. Lllcoln's sssassins.
he dared not, If he had deemed IL Eisest, |
10 assent 70 Sherman's plans of recon |
'tructiou, II he had pot been Suddenly |
and unexpectedly inaugqrated. Grant
would have been declared dictator. John /
son was forced to move the helm with the 1
5oftest touch, aud very slowly and skill |
he at last turn the bow towards |
hat haven of freedom and repose IN which |
he ship of State will yet be securely an
'hored. Men who inveigh so bitterly |
against Johnson's acts forget the circum-
stances that enyironed him. The North |
Eas smbittered against the sO-called slave
and that all might be par
ioned and the North at the sans time i
,ppeased, the $4,000 clause was il
erted in the amnesty proclamation.
Johnson did the utmost possible good for
he South, and if he had attempted more
'Ould have effected nothing.
Etheridge, as telegraphed you yester-
lay, is soFelg injured, perhaps 10y his own
present violent hostility to Johnson, per-
laps more by the violence OF solOe OF MS
,ver-zealous friends, and even more by
hose who only hate johnson more than
hey contemn Etheridge. Etheridge will
De sacrificed the very moment il is deemed
,ossibls TO elect any man whose political
history is wholly different from his own,
md it is often said among 5ohaspn's OPP
,OneRts that the man who viii be Senator
las not yet been named in connection
With the place. am of the opinion that
Johnson will be elected on the frst oF
econd ballot. Most members OF the two |
Houses object seriously TO any contest,
they want peace, quiet and devotion TO
lard work, and whenever they are satis-
led, a. they must be, that Johnson is
much stronger than any present candi-
late, they wiA coRcentrate Egon him.
Let me suggest another matter. There
viii be & thorough reformation
f courts in Memphis, aGd 2 mighty,
weeping reduction OF salaries. Three
itate officers in Memphis-simple clerks
bsorb annually not less than $751; Of
hs peoples money. The Sheriff'sincome
) enormous. Wlen tips Legislature adj
ourns there will be no officer in 4eERes-
ee receiving a larger stipend than Goy.
Ienter Mark the prediction. Office
lolders. already alarmed, are engaged In
over the eXtravagant acts,
melted by partisan fqyoritism, which en-
iched Barbour Lewis ana az army Of !
,laeemen. 1t is estimated that the state
yili ssys GeEt year in official salaries alone,
hree hupdred thOusand dollars. To this
your Senator Ar, Cuhbins,
Iirects earnest attention. no personal
can divert him from his chosen
inc of conduct. He has borne insufiera-
,is taxation long enough, and never be-
ieged that Fpblic Offices were created as
hospitals for sick party demagogues and
morally diseased leaders in yrstched ward
meetings. There viii soon be wailinRs
md gnashings of teeth wheu the little
ings gather to consider the distribution
the spoils about Memphis Pity them!
h, pity theml Their days Of splendor
nd glory are nc mOre.
The best thing, after that above
onsidered, which will probably be
Oae by the Legislature, is the
unqualified repeal Of ala usury laws
'Wenty MILLIONS Of money win thus De
,rought into Tennessee or evoked from
Is hiding places. Two millions Of money
belonging to Tennesseesns is now loaned
n other States. This will be brought
lome, Then, If Pendletons.triumph in
,hio and johnson in Tennessee, capital
sts will convert bonds into railway
tocks, and every great SoBthern road
sill be speedily built. The Southern Pa
i1c will draw to it half the idle wealth
f bulls and bears in Wall street, and not
My our State, but the whole country,
VII at once enter upon q new and grand
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