Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-24
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST a. 1870

To satisfy our esteemed cotemporarie:
Of the APPEAL that we want peace, we
propose that we sgree, nor, 20 lcck arms
and shields and stand upon the platform
of Principles and take the name that
NAV be adopted at Nashville BY the State
Convention on the 18Th Of september,
VIII you sgree 70 this prOpositlonf An
swer Immediately orsOoner."- Wing and
Tribune.
OUR cotempOrary at Jackson has
read the APPEAL to little purpose, OF
he would not make a proposition
which implies doubt as to the course we
intend to pursue. For three months the
APPEAL has urged the holding of a
state Convention, and invoked har-
mOny. We have defended Brown
and QuarIes when unjustly assaulted.
We have vindicated Governor Harris
from the aspersions of the Wing ard
friJune's c~oadjutsrs. We have ex-
pressed the disgust and loathing which
the people feel toward the contempti-
bic time-servers who would write
"unelean" on the backs of Yaneey
and JEFF. Davis for the great crime oi
being original s-eeessionists." We
have deserted no principle of the Dem
Ocratie creed, interpolAted no new one,
and have attacked no one except an
editor of the Wing and Tribune when
he was whisking about the District
like a fiery comet, sowing the seeds
which have ripened into a rich har-
vest Of strife and discord. The Wing
and Tribune says 'Het US have peace"
with all the mock gravity and hypOc-
risy with which Grant made the same
invocati0n-dnd then asks us to lock
arms ami shields with It in support of
platforms and names. We don't care
a pepper corn about names, but we
are one of those old fogies who had
rather be defeated on principles than
triumph by accepting a situation,
accomplished facts. and a violation of
the Constitution, which is nothing
more nor less than sugar-coating and
swallowing Radicalism. There viii
JIG AFE1LC aLu a hAAAAlgAAAyuc IOthLIA
ofarms and shields when the WhigGnd
Tribune ceases its sneers and misrep-
reservations Of prominent Democrats.
Ia the very paper which the above
extract appears, W. T. Avery, r.. +.
L0Oney, a. H.. Douglas, R.. d. Baugh
are called "a notable squad Of po-
hdcaI dead Is beats,p NJ. ID. l..
Stewart s-accused Of liking
Up q nice little game" and men who
haveexteHed the Old Wing party are
called "hyenas" and "asses," who
turn their heels upon it and 60 to
kickingit. onlya few days since, the
Wig and Tribune called the party
dray horses Of Memphis party
hscks.' Its course is iactiOus and in
sailing, ana while such offensive
words as "hyenas," asses" ''dead
beats and party hacks" are bub-
bling from its lips, it talks about
''peace," and docking arms and
shields" flames, have you sanded
the sugar2'' 'rYes, pa" Shave YOU
wetted the t0bacco?7 ssYes, father. .
'Have you Watered the rum?"
Certainly" "Then come into pray
ere" This is the political religion Of
the saint at Jackson. He has thrown
the sand of diseord into the Demo-
cratic sugar; he has mixed powder
and NORWOOD with the tobacco
which Conservatives should smoke;
he has poured water into the strong
rum Of principles; and now he
doubles up on his marrow-bones
Ike a jaek-knife, gets on his
knees, lifts his white hands on an
angle with his proboscis and ears,
raises his lustrous eyes with all the
rolling phrenzy Of a beef at the
slaughter pen, and prayeth thusly:
90, thou spirits OF Jackson, Grundy,
Polk and Jones, hover around and
about US, and give Us peace; and
thou, o Memphis APPEAL, fly from
SOdom; rush to our outstretched
arms; bring along with you your
'hyenas, your asses your dead
beats, your party hacks and lock
arms and shields with your conIite
and sanctimonious brother"
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