Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-26
From the Memphis Appeal.

From the Memphis Appeal.
| New YORK, July II, 1S70-Possibly
some of Judge Barbour Lewis friends at
Memphis would like to hear from him.
As he has just arrived in the city from the
National Capital, he may not have had
| opportunity to write.
| Being quite unwell myself for some
| days, had occasion to call upon drug
| gist for prescription, and upon returning
to my quarters at IL p. NJ, ''who should
l see but Lewis" sauntering down Broad
way, near Blocker street, putting and
blowing from the effects of the heat (the
thermometer standing at 1907, hat In
hand, closely invested by two ''wayward
sisters" l hailed the Judge, gave him
some wholesome advice regarding New
York 'panel thieves" and we walked on
to the Metropolitan Hotel, where he was
stopping, when the following conversation
ensued, as near as can remember:
Rutter, your friends hardly know what
to think of you. We are inclined to the
belief that you are honest, as well as a
kind hearted, well disposed man, if you
were let alone, and not influenced by those
Tennessee Rebels, who wish, through
you, to ruin and break down our party.
You have already struck US some terrible
blows, and we shall come to the conclu-
sion soon that you have purposed to try
and demolish every Radical you can. If
you could do yourself any good at this,
there would be some show of good sense
in it. But then you must know that these
Rebels only seek to use you. have re-
organized the party in Tennessee, and
hope to recover that which has been lost
by the disastrous conduct of Gen. Stok es
and Gov. Senter, whose action materially
aided to swamp our party. In fact, had
it not been for them, and your unwise ex-
position, we could have kept the reins for
twenty years longer.
Well, Judge, the truth is, your party
became so corrupt and thieving, 50 gen
eral, that, like the carcass of dead buzz
zard, it could not be touched by an honest
man, without bringing disgrace upon him,
and in my opinion, no decent man should
remain identified with so filthy and cor
rupt a set of 'sky-scraping, graceless
scamps and pusillanimous knaves.
Rutter, to hear you talk one would
never have believed you ever Radical.
Have the Legislature done squeezing You
for dispositions, or are you to go before
them again. If so, do not expose the
party any further, in consideration of its
former kindness to you, and its purposes
to aid you in the future.
Mr.. Lewis, l hope to be delivered from
the aid of such men. They never had
my substantial interests in view, but only
used me to serve them, and with the sole
purpose of robbing me personally, as
well as the people of Tennessee. And it
is my purpose to turn their fostering car
cases up to the gaze of all honest men,
as duty owe to the citizens of Ten
nessee.
Rutter, am informed you are writing
a book on Tennessee affairs.
l have issued the first number of this
paper, copy of which you can obtain at
the American News Company, Nassau
street, this city. Who are you going to
run for Congress in your district2
Gen. w J Smith, sir, and we will elect
him. The Democracy will run their man,
and those who do not wish to act with
the Democracy will bring out an ''inde-
pendent" candidate. We shall thus elect
our man with perfect ease.
Have you seen Brownlow lately? l
have been with him much of late. He has
gone to Tennessee. He very much re-
grets that you have gone back on your
friends. What are you doing to make a
living here In New York;
l find it very difficult to accomplish |
much since my decentralization from my
late Radical associations. The people |
here are not sufficiently acquainted with
the facts and circumstances to make that
Just allowance for me that the people in
Tennessee / think feel disposed to do,
and am going to return to Memphis as
soon as can arrange to do so.