Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-11
AN IMpERrINENr INTRUDER.

AN IN 06R.
We take this Aippant paragraph from
a late date of the Louisville Courier
Journal:
In answer to a question put by the
Memphis Avalanche, whether it con-
siders an open aud endless war against
the Fifteenth Amendment the test OF
Democracy, the Memphis Appeal says
fatty Eyes" Thus, by one word and
without the help of dictionary or spell
ing-book, the Appeal writes itself out of
ali National Democratic fellowship. The
Bourbons hereabouts claim that they do
not seek to organize "a White Mans
party" The Appeal claims that it does
We submit that, if they mean to get up
party, they ought to harmonize.
Lest our venerable contemporary, the
Appeal, may have mislaid its glasses, and
did not discover this very minute, mos
quito-like thrust from the great Louis
vile monopoly of all the political wis
dom of Kentucky commercial metrop-
oils, we advert to it, and trust We shall
not be deemed presumptuous or obtru-
sive, or in the slightest putting in our
CAB" We have not watched this con-
troversy like one engaged in it, but have
seen enough to convince us that the Ava
lanche is exceedingly anxious to get the
Appeal in some defenseless position
through inadvertence, carelessness, or
the recklessness of ill-humor. The
Avalanche has perceived that there is
not unity in the minds that control the
destinies of the Appeal, whatever the
intention may be, and upon this dispar
iiy, inequalitysor what you may call it,
it predeates the hope Of making mani
fest the cOntrarieties that from time to
time occur, which is no difficult matter
where there are several writers who only |
read their own articles, or whose thoughts |
are not always congenial, although in
tended to be ventilated through the same
medium. We do not say that this is the
case with the Appeal, but that the Ava
lanche, if not already finding it so, hopes
vet TO make these differences more dis
tinct than they have yet appeared to the
casual reader. The Avalanche hates any
thing Democratic, although its editor-in-
chief claimed to be Democrat until he
became conspirator" with the Banner,
the Wing and one or two lesser lights to
work the ruin Of the Democracy though
il should reinstate and rehabilitate Rad
icalism, which would be unquestionably
the case If disintegration through their
detection or through defeat should
ever be accomplished. The Appeal
claims to be Democratic land is some
times very and therefore the Avalanche
has no favorable opinion Of the Appeal.
Perhaps there may not be much love lost
between them, but that is no business of
ours so long as there is no open rupture,
which the staid and digni6ed Appeal
seems determined shall not begin through
any exhibition Of temper on its part
We just thought, though, il would be
somewhat mified, if not offended, at
a third party poking its snout
in this little home affair-and that third
party the great Courier-Journal, or, as
the Louisville Sun calls it, the Curl"
which has been more than once suspect |
ed Of leaving the house Of friends TO follow
after strange predictions, but the pros
pect being nninviting, returned as boldly |
as though it had not on occasions slipped |
its harness. 1t rushes now TO the rescue
Of the Avalanche, OF rather with aid and i
comfort TO that paper, because many
imagined it was no great while ago az
fiicted with the same sort Of disease that |
has affected the virility Of the Avalanche
and Banner, and caused them to for
swear party in favor of that myth "in-
dependent journalism" We would sug-
gest to the Appeal, if not deemed imper- /
tinent, to say to the Courier-Journal that /
it might do well to mind its own business
and to attend to its ASSISTANTS at home
whom it affects to contemn. Say, too,
that you admit the so-called amend
ments to have been forced upon an un-
willing people, and made to appear in
their fundamental, organic rule, by STRAIT
egy, by force Of arms, aud by the direst
villsiny that ever threw shackles on
free people-that you admit it is made
binding by power, and can be enforced
by the law-defying, unprineipled Radi-
Gals, so long as they have the Govern
ment in possession but if ever the day
shorld come, and come it viii, that the
giant Of free America shall throw of his
chains. this and every other stain on the
country's escuicheon shall be speedily
and effectually ersdicaied-
Thus much had we written when we