Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-12


A. So @; P p -gSIIgGgEolsoN, ) Middle Division.
THOMAS y .SEt5 :. FREEMAN western Division.
We unfurl this morning, the ticket
nominated yesterday as the candi.
dates of the. Democracy for Supreme
Court Judges. The Convention was
presided over by Gen. VIM. c. Whit
thorne. an old reliable Democrat, and
one of the most popular men in the
State. He was Speaker of the Senate
in 1859; occupied conspicuous place
in the affections of the people of
Tennessee, and we are gratified to see
him giving the weight of his name
and influence to the Convention. 1t
viii be seen from our dispatches in
another column that the proceedings
were characterized by the most per-
feet and complete harmony through
out, and the unanimity with which
the nominations were indorsed de
monstrate that our friends are in
earnest, and have commenced the
canvass with determination to
achieve triumph. We know that
the defeated aspirsnts and their
friends win vindicate their Democracy
by the high-toned and gentlemanly
manner in which they will suecumb
TO their disappointment IS and
the honest zeal with which
they will work for the cleo
ton of the nominees. The
ticket is such as to COM
mand the respect and enthusiastic
support of all the voters of Tennessee.
It will be found that the gentlemen
composing it, if elected, as they
most assuredly VIII be, are all pre-
eminently fitted for the places to
which they have been nominated. 1t
is useless for US to tell the people of
Tennessee anything about Hon. A. O.
p. Nicholson. He was born upon our
soil, and has ever been true to the
land of his birth. For forty years the
name Of Judge Nicholson has been
familiar as a household word. He has
filed nearly every Office within the
gift OF the people. At an early age
he was elected to the Legislature
and was soon afterward placed
upon the Bench, which he
adorned with that genius which
has glowed with so much splendOr in
every position in which he has been
placed, and. which is to again adorn
the Bench. Judge Nicholson's ability
as writer while editor of the Nash
vile Union, for a short period, at
tracted the attention of the National
Democracy, and soon after Mr.. Pierce
ascended to the Presidency, he was
called upon to take charge of the edi-
tOrial department of the Washington
Union. During the Administration
of James Buchanan, Judge Nicholson
was elected United States Senator for
six years, and the debates in Congress
show that he occupied a high posi-
tion in the Senate. Who shall deny
that Hon. A. o. P. Nicholson is
one of the great men of Tennessee?
Like the prophet by the river of old,
he stands between two ages-the
champion and the representa-
tive man of the one-the seer
and interpreter of the other.
Pete Turney, the other nominee for
the Middle Division Of the State, is
pre-emiDently qualified for the posi-
tiOn of Supreme Court Judge. lie
was born in Franklin county, Ten
nessee, and is q son of the Hon. Hop
kins L. Turney, who represented our
State with distinguished ability for
six years in the United States Senate,
commencing in March, 1916. Pete
Turney is large in person, and is
eqully as capacious in heart and in
tellect. He was the first to volunteer
in the late rebellion, and his
indistinct articulation attest his
gaIlantry. He is a lawyer, en-
ioying a large practice, and as
citizen he is the very soul of honor,
truth and purity. He is the idol Of
his friends and neighbors, who honor
and esteem him. Easy Of approach,
afiable and genial in his manners,
kind in his disposition, fixed IN his
friendships and his principles, decided
in his opinions, and so constituted
that when a truth or a measure once
receives the full appreciation Of his
judgment no personal danger, no
popular clsmor, no considerations of
mere policy, can cause him to
waver. No. fears can bend him;
no personal ambition can tempt
him; no question of expediency
can turn him aside. Self and selfish
aims he discards. He is welded to
the South, and when he puts on the
harness Of any cause, he puts it on for
life, for death, and for immortality.
Such a man, so firm and true, with
every qualification, viii adorn the Su-
preme Court Bench.
Colonel Thomas J. Freeman, of
Brownsville, and General John L. T.
Sneed, Of Somerville, are the caRdi-
dates from West Tennessee. The first |
named is a gentleman well known to
our people, not more as a lawyer OF
high repute than gallant soldier,
whose services were freely given in
behalf OF his country until by wounds
he was incapacitated and could no
longer take the field. Hewa5 born in !
Maury county, whence has come many /
Of the leading men OF the State, |
and is now in his fOrty-eighth |
year. Early in life he emigrated to |
the west and has here grown up with |
a community that can scarcely date |
further back than one generation. |
always a participant and |
sharer in the political campaigns Of
the State on the Democratic side he |
has never held Office, although twice |
a candidate-once for the Chancellor
ship of his District and once for Con-
gress, when he was opposed and de-
feated by Mr.. Etheridge. AT the
call Of Governor Harris he
raised a regiment of infantry |
in 1861, and with it entered the SER
vice of Tennessee and the Confederate |
States. He was on duty through all
the arduous preliminaries Of the first
year Of the war, and was severely
and dsn0erousIy wounded at Shiloh, /