Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-12

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pathies of Tennesseeans everywhere
in the South. Whenever fame
tWined laurels about the brow Of
the gallant Colonel, who led a
little band of brave followers, and
whenever Lee asserted his unsur-
passed valor and worth, Tennesseeans
recognized Turney's triumphs as their
own. Often has the State pride Of his
people been electrified by Turney's
brilliant achievements, and often
did his gallant deeds shed luster
upon the fame of Southern soldiers.
BY these incidents in his history-by
his youthful water, his unquestioned
military skill, by his recognized abil-
ity at the bar, and by hereditary
fame, Colonel Turney became as thor
oughly well known in the Army of
Tennessee as his face and form were
familiar on every tented field of Vir-
ginia. His fitness for the position to
which he now aspires is not to be
measured by his military skill. He
became a lawyer.in 1913. His father,
the late United States Senator Hop
kins L. Turney, had given him a
thofough professional and literary
training. He went to the bar at
which Nathan Green, Judge Isaacs,
Colonel Taul had won distinction, and
at once achieved wonderful success.
His clear, logical intellect and extraor-
binary powers as an advocate soon
gave him the highest professional rep
utation. He was only thirty-three
years of age when the war began, and
already his name was well known
throughout the State as that of n of
the ablest lawyers and most eloquent
barristers of Tennessee. he has
practiced his profession, since the
war, with untiring assiduity, but be-
cause of a wound which affects his ar
ticulation of words, he is no longer
the delicious speaker that he a
He is not the less a jurist and thinker,
and none the less fitted for a place
upon the bench. Having never held
a civil office, he is not within the pro-
visions of the Fourteenth Amend
ment, which, if a living spirit, would
weep that so faultless a gentleman
will be chosen to expound the laws
and define the rights of Tennesseeans.
WI announced yesterday that Capt.
Ed. A. Cole and NJ. d.. Stewart had
been appointed Clerks and Masters of
the First and Second Chancery Courts;
the former by Chancellor Morgan and
the latter by Chancellor E. M. Yerger.
We congratulated then as we do now,
the Democracy of Shelby county on
these two appointments. Both are
true working, dray-hOrss Democrats,
amply qualified, and perhaps have as
many friends as any two men in
Shelby county. Some disappoint-
ment and dissatisfaction has been ex-
pressed at the selection. But we con-
iyEe our friends to submit to the re-
suit as true Democrats who are work
ing for principles instead of men.
We publish below a very magnani-
nous card from that ~high-hearted
Democrat, Colonel James Coleman.
1t breathes the right spirit. His
friends pressed his claims for Clerk
and Master. He lost the position,
but he won the honors, for his petition
was signed by four thousand of the
best citizens of Memphis-citizens
welded to him on account of his de
votion to party, his kindness of heart,
and his unsullied social attractiveness.
We know of no man in Memphis more
beloved and popular than Col. James
Coleman. He is one Ofnature's noble
men-honest, faithful and fearless.
We have never known a more thor
ough model, a more perfect ideal Of a
gentleman, than he. He is genial,
gentle and kind in his disposition,
open-handed in his charities, and as
pure-hearted and large-hearted a man
as God ever gives to earth. There
is not a bad quality that he possesses,
not a good one he lacks. He is re-
garded by all as the soul Of truth and
honor and fidelity and b%enevolence.
He never failed to serve a friend, and
he never deserved an enemy to hate.
We never heard a harsh word spoken
by him or of him. 1t is ma
tural that the friends of such
a man should deeply deplore that he
did not receive the position for which
he was recommended by four thou
sand of his neighbors and friends.
No man regrets this more than Chan
cellor Yerger, who, a few moments
before he made the appointment, with
deep emotion told us that he had
rather resign his position than select
between friends he loved and esteemed
so highly, but that there were
peculiar circumstances which actu-
ated him, and which told him
that he could not do otherwise than
appoint his old friend M. d. L. Stew
art. All could not be appointed. If
we could not get our favorites, let us
remember that a good and efficient
man, one who has largely shared the
confidence of the people of Shelby
county, has been appointed. Below,
we publish the card of Colonel Cole
man, which gushes with the gratitude
of a big heart that knows not how to
the friendship of the four thou
sand friends that urged his appoint
ment:
the Editors of the Appeal:
For the distinguished honor and most
fatter1ng manner in which my name was
presented by my friends through q nu-
merously signed recommendation for the
Office of Clerk and Master of the Second
Chaucery Court, l cannot withhold the
feelings Of an over-grateful heart, and
feel it my duty, as well as a pleasure, to
make this acknowledgment as a debt of
gratitude due to them; and feel sensibly
that it was no idle compliment bestowed
me, but a deep and abiding interest
in my welfare. JAS. COLEMAN.
IT is sadly feared that Alex.
Stephens protracted ill health has
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