Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-09
A PORTRAIT.
Ex-Governor James L. Orr, as He Appears
to Ons who KaoWs Hin Well.

BAFEsvILBF, MISS, September G, 1870.
Editors AppedI-A casual number of
your Weekly issue happening TO fall into
my hands some days since, / was much
pleased TO see and read your criticisms on
the letter and course of ex- Governor Jas.
L. Orr, of South Carolina, who has gone
Over-horse, foot and dragoon-to the ex-
treme Radical party of the State and of
the United States. This is nothing new
in the history of this political mounte-
bank and charlatan, or TO those of us who
know him. To you gentlemen who live
at sgrsst distance, and who are not IA
miliar with his past tergiversations, cor
rupt and tOrtuous policies and windings
snd' gerrymandering to always turn up
with The strong side, it may reasonably
be q u of surprise to know him guilty
OF uniting himself with the base men
and corrupt party who are now victim
timizing that poor old State and her peo-
pie. II is gratifying, however, TO see that
YOU have a somewhat correct idea of the
status OF this INSCRIPTIONS political rene
gsde. 1t is s settled axiom in law that
an accessory before the fact is always as
criminal, if not more 50, especially Il he
be 8 man of superior mind and intellect,
as the principal who commits the muir
der, robbery, or other crime. for which
they are both arraigned. This being the
case with Orr, who is man Of no mean
parts, as we all know he is to-day more
criminal than the villsinous caTpet-bag
rogues who are now misgoverning and
robbing the poor, down-trodden people
of his State. But the SCOTS and White
mores have a majority OF. 2 1000 or 10000
negro votes in the State to sustain them
in their course of systematic yillainy and
robbery. and there Is vacant seat in the
United States Senate looming up in the
distance before Orr's eyes, and this is
enough for himl Why gentlemen, az
you justly observe, be would not only
sell out, sell himself and state, hut he
would rake up the bones of his own
father, tear open the coffin, drag them
out break them with hammers, if the
cavity which once contained their mar
row now had anything in them which
would sell for a consideration to enable
self aggranoisemanti A wiley and un-
scrupulous, as well as able manager, he
is a dangerous man indeed, as well as g
most criminal M The only matter Of
surprise is, that the people of South Caro-
Lima, even the negro voters, knowing him
as well as they do, should be csjoied, de-
ceiTed and made partieeps eriminis With
him any longer. 1t is 70 be hoped, how
ever, that he has at last got to the end of
his rope, and that halter like, before he
nnwfnds himself this time, that be will
be hung until be Is politically lat 1east)
dsad-dead-dead forever and ever This
man-this ex-M. O., e~x-rpsaker Of
the House Of Representative, ex-lssder
of snndry Conventions-secession and re-
construction, etc, e1 Governor, etc, ETC.,
has been any and everything that the hui
mar mind can conceive OF, in the shape
Of politics. Chamelionlike he has
changed his color just as often As the
izsrd whom he % much resembles
changes, when resting on the many Of.
terent colored objects supplied it by na-
ture, but unlike this little reptile in one
respect, be fails TO keep drg, and leaves a
trail OF slime and ftlh in his track. that
both 20 touch and smell contaminates all
with which il comes in contact. Whv-
sins, N 1916 he entered the South Caro-
lima Legislature at b head of his DELE
CATION, an ardent Democrat In l84s
Gust two years. be beat ex-Goyarnor
Perry for Congress as q Taylor Democrat
(WhigJ In 1850 he became an sxtrema
secessiOnist. In 1851 he r~epudisted se-
eession and united himself With the
oo-operatienists. Ia 1882, he went baek
20 his first love and announced himself q
National Democrat. From that period
commenced his tortnops,r serpentltke I
wlnolngN, twisting, crawling, creepin9andl
awning an and out of Congress. for the
Speakershipa By the virtne and patriot
ism Of hfs o1oH colleagues. he was defeated
for this at b opening OF the session Ia
Dec9mber, 1855, but Wasshu0wd and sharp
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