Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-21


battles DER again" then he proposes
to serve ANDREW JOHNSON rather
than the country, and we have no use
for him. The fact that his friends
have dwelt on his efficiency in this d.
rection is a weighty argument against
him-to those who would have an end
of strife, and to those who do not see
how ANYTHING is to be made by send
ing a champion into the ring who IS
NOT more able TO fight the battles
against the enemies of the State than
some Others in our midst, and
who it is feared has already an
nounceG the programme OF lighting
the battles of JOHNSON rather
than of ignoring them, when it
is for the we'll being of the State
they should be ignored. In this
view of the matter we should
prefer a man who has no personal
quarrel of his own to adjust. Let Mr..
JOHNSON vindicate himself as fully
as he desires to do before the country.
We will publish his vindication, and
do him all Justice. But it is unnec-
essary that he should go into the ma
tional forum for that purpose. That
such is his purpose we are at present
uncertain. But we think that the
country has a right to be certain, and
that he should make answer to the IN
terrogatOry, before he is elected.
Then, being fully advised, we shall be
satisfied with the selection, as the
Legislature shall choose to make it.
That Mr.. JOHNSON would serve the
country well in the main, we do not
doubt. But we want, also, to know
another thing-tO-wit: whether he IA
vors negro suffrage, as to the country
and the State. Influence in this di-
rection, one way or the other, we re-
gard as of the last importance. And
in making a choice, we desire
full information as TO what our
Senator proposes. The disabilities
of every citizen of Tennessee,
competent for this Office, ought
to have been removed long since, and
may be 50 before a Senator will take
his seat. We have, and havenO bus
mess with, any personal preiudi-
ces in this matter, and we de,
sire TO see them kept out of the
issue. We believe that the selection
of either JOHNSON or ETHERIDGE
NAV create dissatisfaction among theiI
respective friends. We want the man
who will have the leastOf such diff
Guilty to encounter-the man, at all
events, who will be acceptable to the
largest number, and be% qualified Ia
serve Us. And such a man is EWING
or NEIL Brown. Whether JOHNSON
is such a man depends on his answer
to the questions we have suggested.
Mr.. EFHERIDGE is not our choice, be-
cause. in our view, he lacks the pecu-
liar qualifications for the Senate.
DAvY CROCKETT himself, though a
man of greater Intellectual vigor than
ETHERIDGE, we should not select for
the Senate. We should put ETHER
mGE with him in the House, where
much cleverness, with a little amuse-
ment, would less man the effect of the
deliberations. We all like him, for
the fun of the thing, just as we do our
banjo player. But we should as soon
put one as the other into the Senate
of the United States, if the selection
was in our powers We want a man
of more experience, more dignity
and more power. We want a racine
Railroad from the central rity oil the
valley, Improvement our rlVer a
igation, reclamation Of Il boundles,
waste of fertile lands, reduction of al
public burdens which are unequally
and locally oppressive, business,
enterprise and ~pacifcation, more
than we want 10 triumph in a
gladiatOrial combat over SUMNER OF
BUTLER, which will do Us no good.
and leave us poorer than ever. We
want the waters of Lethe, that STRIFE
shall be buried forever. And We
will add, that in this we think
we speak the public sentiment
of our section more faithfully than
we could do by the advocacy o
any particular and personal fancy OF
preference for any man. We want in
the Senate any digniied and able man
we haye, who will ignore the past
and, on the high principles Ofthe Con-
stitution, lend all his energies to re-
habilitate and renew the vigor Of the
State, and we want no one else.