Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-09
THE CAN
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The Nashville papers which came to
us yesterday were, as might be ex-
pected, full of the speeches of Senter
and Stokes, and their comments there
on. The Union and American says:
"The key-notes of the canvass have
been sounded. We trust they win
grow louder and deeper as it progress
es, and while we may thank Gen.
STOKES for what degree of iberality
he may have expressed, we trust that
his competitor, who seemed to tower
above him in reaching the magnitude
of the situation, will be strengthened
in his positions, and that good and
liberal men, white and black, will APP
| plaud to the echo sentiments that do
such honor to their author and prom
Use such good to our noble old Com
monwealth."
1t also contains an editorial entitled
"The Issue Made" and after stating
the positions taken by each candidate,
says: Both ayoYed their purpose
to continue the race till the election
in August. We give the fact to the
public with sincere pleasure. 1t shows
that there is a residuum of patriotism,
an active sense of justice, and an adj
herenee to the true principles of re-
publican liberty, that may yet save
the State from utter ruin"
The Banner in an able and lengthy
editorial entitled "The Choice Pre-
sented," sets the two men squarely
before the people. STOKES entire
speech, it declares to have been made
toand for the colored people present
and not for them, either, since his po-
sition wa such as to array them in
antagonism to their disfranchised fell
low-citizens in his own behalf-nOt
theirs. That of SENTER, while
quite as earnestly alive to the rights
of the colored people, tookthe broader
view of the situation, and he planted
himself bravely upon the platform of
equal rights to all men. He seemed
to speak not so much for himself as
the representative of a national re-
publicanism, as if filled with its in
spiration. The proper time had come
for speaking the right words and he
was the proper man to say them. He
spoke them like a man, fearlessly,
unequivocally, feeling ther truth.
1t declares SENTER's speech TO
mean peace, hope, prosperity and
progress, expressing the almost uni
versaI sentiment, not ouly sfkTennes-
see, but of the Nation, which, if he
uttered no other, from now till Au-
gust would, elect him overwhelm-
ingly over any other candidate whose
avowed principles fell short Of it by a
hairs breadth.
The Press and Times, a STOKES or
gan, has not come to hand for two
days past, so we have no means of
knowing, what it haSE said on the
subject. 1t will, however, be very
bitter on the subject.
a gentleman of this city, who ar
rived from Nashville yesterday, tells
us that on Sunday he called on Gov.
SENTER, and in conversation with
him, he reiterated distinctly and en-
phatically all that he had said in his
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speech on the subject of universal suf-
frage. He declared that it would fill
the full measure of his ambition TO be
elected Governor of the State on
the broad and liberal principles
now advocated by the liberal
of the national republican
party and by nearly every reputable
throughout the land, in the
full belief that on the cOnsummatiOn
of that policy depended the future
prosperity, tranquility and happiness
of the entire people of Tennessee.
The Governor declared that he
thought himself peculiarly fortunate
in having this golden opportunity to
their rights and privileges to
the thousands of tax-paying citizens,
so long deprived of them by unjust,
and narrow-minded iegis-