Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09

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sPooN, Business Manager. None Others
should be recognized.
THE GAINESVILLE Chronicle Of the
30th ult. has an able and powerful
article on the next Gubernatorial can
vass. The Chronicle deprecates the
discussion about old Whiggery and
old Democracy; but we fear the tone
of its article will add fuel to the fire it
would extinguish. The nomination
of either General Quarels or General
Brown, will be satisfactory to the
people, who are looking TO n Of
these favorite sons of Tennessee as
their next Governor, and we trust
that the party will not be forced to
take up a new man on account of the
feud which the friends of the aspirants
are fast engendering.
Weread with pleasure and profound
satisfaction the Chronicles able de-
tense Of Governor l. G. Harris. From
some cause unknown to the world,
the hawk and buzzard the political
Pans OF Tennessee have permitted no
occasion to pass without assailing
Governor Harris. One of the INDIE
pendent organs recently said we
want no mOreO of the Buchanan Brock
inridge-Harris Democracy" The
name of James Buchanan Will live in
the hearts of the people heso faithfully
served, and whose Constitution he
struggled to preserve, live in sOpg
and story, live in history, live in the
public records, live in his public servi-
ceS, liveupOn canvass in marbleand
bronze, long after his little Tennessee
maligner has been in pity forgot.
John c. Breckenridge! His handsome
lip Will curl with disdain as he reads
the sneers of Tennessee's ingrates.
Although a beneicent Creator has
vOuChsafed great intellectual endOw-
ments to but comparatively few Of
His creatures, yet He has constituted
every man of common sense with
power to be just and true; and these
sneers at John c. Breckenridge can
only be the emotions of hearts lost TO
every %ennObling principle, stepped in
malignity and the cengenial home for
that moanest Of all grOveling traits,
ingratitude. The GAINESVILLE OroR-
icle, edited by an Old-line Wing, ably
and elQquently defends Governor Har-
ris. 1t says:
Would TO God, VIC had more OF Isham
G. Harris and his democracy. 1t is the
want Of such men in the public councils
OF the nation that has brought us TO the
verge of ruin; and such men and the very
democracy Won so persistently revile, can
alone bring the old ship of State back to
her constitutional mOOrings. I. G.. Har-
us 70 be snsered al by Tennessesnsi Have
you forgotten how loudly you spplauded
him when he unfurled III banner of the
South? Have you forgotten the proud
emotions Of your hearts when your Rebel
Governor, himself an exile, returned 10 !
the children Of his native Tennessee, the
school fund he had guarded so sleepless-
ly2 And is there a heart that does not
follow him with pride, admiration and
sympathy as he tolls with proud crest
and unbroken spirit to build up his shat
tered fortunes.
Truthful words handsOmelyspoken.
Governor Harris has added many
flowers TO the chaplet Of Tennessee.
As Governor, he was a sentinel to her
honor, and guarded the glOrie5 with
which her great men had graced hert
brow. While Governor Harris was
Chief Executive of the State, carrying
out the behests of the people, and the
clamOrs Of the towards who nov
assault him, he was the most popular
Of all the great men that had ever
lived in our State. But with the del
feat Of our cause, the base deserters of
principles and the unholy coalitionists
with the hereditary enemies of De
mOcracy, commenced traducing his
character and charging him with all
GU woes. There is nothing 80 revolt
ing to true and just men as to see a
good mar stabbed in the house Of his
friends by the hands Of treachery.
These u~nprincipled ingrates, apes
tates and cowardly assassins cannot
damage the name and fame Of Coy
ernOr Harris; for it is in the safe keep
ing Of the honest masses and the
steadfast Democracy Of Tennessee.
High honors still await him,
and in after years, when the names of
his present sianderers, who were his
fawning toadies when he had office to
give, shall be forgotten, or only re-
membered TO be execrated. the name
Of Governor Harris will be honored,
loved and respected. The base trait
Ors who are bounding at the heels Of
the original secessionists, can no more
damage the reputation Of Governor
Harris than the ragged and wander
ing Arabs a damage the pyramids
which they have been piIlsging for
hundreds Of years, without the slight
est detriment TO those prehistoric
piles. The fame Of Governor Harris,
his fidelity to the cause which is now
sneered at by sunshine friends and
traitors in adversely, place him
like some lofty soaring eagle high
above the pellets of mud hurled bv
pigmy assailants. No dishonor stains
Governor Harris hands. No man
can point to a single instance where
he has wavered. He is backed by that
~never4ailing source OF strength, a
consciousness of rectitude and honest
purpose, and thereisa jast people be-
hind his back, andhe can tell his assaiI-
ants to do their wOrstand bid defiance
TO them and their columnies.