Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-18

RI. \: ksaIIss News, City. Commercial
! fGFEE, and River Editors
WEDNESDAY MORNING. : MAY 10. 1870
AN editor who fearlessly discharges
his duty as a faithful sentinel upon
the watch-tower, is often brought in
collision with valued friends. But if
he be true 10 himself, his party and
the public good, he must not, he will
net, permit personal considerations to
bias his judgment, to seal his lips, or
to guide his pen. On the present Oc-
casion we are called upon to perform
a duty, or to yield to the wOOing of
friendship. We prefer the former.
Treadwel S. Ayres has announced
himself as a candidate for the First
Chancery Court ~Judgeship. Nc n
questions his competency for the posi-
ton to which he aspires. He is an old
citizen, esteemed for his high social
qualities, and his character is above
reprOach. ButnOW that he has turned
his back upon his old friends, and
struck hands with Hudson and his own
cOnfederates in apOstacy, he must ex-
pect to be treated as a traitor to his
party. We understand that MI.
Ayres relies upon the foreign vote
to elect him After reading the
exposure we are about to make,
the foreigners of Memphis will
turn up their proud lips in seorn
at the insult which the charge
of supporting such a man naturally
inspires. The people of Memphis, re-
member, with sad and vivid distinct
ness, the riots of 1866. They Origina-
ted in Irishmen being shot down like
dogs, while at their post, in the faith
full discharge of their duty. A parti-
san committee was sent from Wash
ington for the purpose of ~investiga-
ting these riots. Hudson and Lewis,
and the whole gang of Radicals, took
sides with the guilty negroes, and
AdBOlCA " NaoN hC bAdAAC oBOh AZ I
provoked foreigners. Rev. Tade
Shaw, Rebecca Ann Bloom, Lucy
Ann Tibbs, Barbour Lewis, Frances
Thompson, and many Others Of the
same sort, appeared before the hives
tigating Committee, and while they
were rivaling each other as to who
could compress the greater amount of
falsehOod in the smallest space, T. S.
Ayres rushed upon the stand, which
was reeking with perjury, and swOre
as follows:
$40 Did You see the crowds passing through
the streets? Occasionally, as they would
move up town, ! saw the character Of the
excited; ] did not know them personally, I
do not think 1 saw a single man knew;
they were mostly Irishmen.
Ell. OF what nationality are the police
mem U-NFoRTUNATELN FOR Us, GENTLEMEN, /
VIZ ARE UNDER A SORT OF IRISH RULE; / BIZ
LIEvE THEY ARE IRIsHNEN, AND NOT VERY
REPUTABLE.
EI2 Twill ask you whether. under the OPP
Grafton OF the franchise law Of the State OF
Tennessee, the election, and the control Of
the election, Of city Officers has net been
taken almost entirely out Of the hands OF the
better class OF society and placed in the
hands Of the lower orders? THAT Is TRUE;
THERE Il No DOUBT ABOUT THAT. Or THOSE
y hp hANE AEhN AALANH ~ AAhE NJ hE~ .
QCIkkD OATH, AND CONFORM TO Thk Law IN
THAT RESPECT. NINE OFT OF TIN ARE or THAT
Low CLAss-MosTLf GEkMAN AND IRISH
there are bat very lew OF the old citizens OF
Memphis who are qualified voters under the
franchise law.
AIS. What proportion Of the citizens Of
Memphis over twenty-One years OF age do
you think had the right under that law 70
vote in your last election OF city officers 1
do not remember distinctly the number Of
votes pOlled, but 1 think I would not be mis-
taken IN saying that not more than one out
Of three OF four had the right to vote under
that law. The registry shows, lbelieYe. some
900 20 300 voters altogether, but, according 10
our present population, we would be entitled
70 some IUO or 500 Noiers-perhaps more; II
is said we have a population Of 60,OO0
EA- Are you a qualified voter under the
franchise law2 ] got a certificate, but did not
vote. ,
876. That class which is excluded from the !
right OF suffrage under the franchise law EN- 5
braces within IL q large portion OF the more :
peaceable and orderly portion Of the citi-
zens OF Memphisg I am satisfied il embrace
much the larger portion OF the persons who {
represent the property and who feel an in !
terest in the welfare Of the city the prOmi- q
nent business men Of the town. s
Irishmen! Germansl Italians! do 5
you hear that? A viler Islander, a @
more atrOciOus calumny was never 1
uttered against your nationalities.
Nh. Ayres tells the world that there 1
were twenty-five hundred or three (
thousand voters in Memphis, and
that "these are Of that low class, =
mostly German and Irish" With a i
heaving sigh, and in lugubrious t
tones, he says: Unfortunately for I
Us, gentlemen, we are under a sort Of
Irish rule;" our policemen fare t
Irishmen, and net very respectable [
at that" Did he allude to poor L
Stephens, who was fOully butchered ?
in the discharge Of his duty? Was Z
the murdered Dunn a Glow Irish :
man" because he was an honest L
fireman? We design publishing a L
list OF the police force of 1866,
and shall request Mr.. Ayres to
points out the individuals that he ;,
dubs slow Irishmen." 1t is not true, :
as Mr.. Ayres said in his strange testi- =
nOny b ere the Investigating Com =
mittee sent here to sustain the negro =
and to degrade the Irish that the ballot :
box was mostly in the hands Of low :,
foreigners. Many Of our most respect n
able citizens were then e~nfranchised,
and they voted with Ayres' slow ~
and Irish, against the Rad -
lcals and for the reimbursement of an
rich, ~aristocratic property-holder, a
excluded from the right Of suffrage" sc
Three thousand voters in Memphis.
most Of them slow Germans and
lrish"l We shall leave TO the for }"
elgners the task of rebuking this in
'ult. Mr.. Ayres considers it "unfortu- g
nate" that Memphis should be under cil
= Irish rule;" and the Irish will con- III
sider it equally as ''~unfortunateU ~
ior themselves and the COM Vi
.unity for Treadwell s. Ayres TO be n
elected as Judge Of the First Chapcerv
Court; and they win march up to the n,
polls and cast their votes for r. j \,
who joins all true men in 10
that there had been tbou- ~
Iands Of other foreigners here to vote 90
With their eonntrymen in crushing r.
'ut Radicalism and in giving to dis, In.