Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-21

and oppose his claims to beatifcation,
and from this Office he Is named the
I" Devils Advocate Now, that the
Southern people are gathering up
their jewels, and ~canonizlng the
noble men whose devotion to a hal
lowed cause gives spIendor to defeat
and c~onsecrates the names of those
who persisted In the struggle OF live
to mourn over their fallen comrades,
we find the DEVILS Advocates
snringing from their internal dens
and seeking to. blot and blur
the names of those who have
given historic renown and fadeless
grandeur to the noblest cause
that ever swelled the bosom of heroes,
patriots and martyrs. Tennessee is
not without her nDevil's A vocates.R
These little asps are working in her
bosom like tape-worms in a lean
mans stomach. Recently an I'M
principled whipper- snapper, who has
crawled upon the editorial tripod as
slowly as snaiIs make their way to the
top of an obelisk or as mysteriously as
toads imbed themselves in rocks,
seizes his pen and bespatters the name
of William L. Yancey with all :.the
damaging venom of a poodle shaking
the name of a dead lion.a Poor
Yanceyi When his name was blazing
athwart the sky like a dazzling me-
teor this little editor that now defames
his memory, lifted his eyes in wild,
enthusiastic admiration, and wor-
SHIPPED the bright genius with all the
idolatrous devotion which the Egyp-
tians lavished upon the sacred bull.
But Yancey is dead, his cause failed,
and the aspen leaves, the contempti-
bic t~ime-servers and sycophants of the
South are initiating the example of
the celebrated editor of Paris who
lavished upon Napoleon sickening
praise when his star eliminated in
the ascendant, but who besmeared
him with SANDER and abuse when
he was fretting and chatting in his
cage at st. Helena. Emmett, in CIV
ing up his great life for the same
principles that inspired the rebellion,
asked that other times and other men
write his epitaph. Were William
l.. Yancey unfortunately a dwell
Ter of the earth at present,
the ingratitude of the apostates
would tell him how corrupt and
treacherous is the age in which he
lived, and he, too, would ask the
"charity ofsilence, !" and that other and
juster men write his epitaph-when
the dawning of a ripper age comes to
vindicate the fervent words, the great
truths with which he stirred the blood
and swayed the judgment of the
South. Yancey! here is-a tear to your
memory-a flower for your grave.
We extolled you while the whole
South was at your back, and we do
not intend to deile your tomb.
These "Devirs Advocates" are, as
a matter of course, opposing
the claims of Jefferson Davis
to Qualification. And prominent
among these demons is that prince of
ruffians and brutes, Edward A. Pol
lard. The people were a little curious
to see who would volunteer as the
"DeviFs Advocate" against Jefferson
Davis, and who was base enough to
attempt to dethrone him from the
high place he holds in the hearts of
the Southern people. Pollard, whose
name is a stencil in the public nostrils,
and who is the natural enemy of all
that is pure and good, comes forward
and assails Jefferson Davis with all
the venom with which his prototype,
Tom Paine, traduced sthe fame of
George Washington. a few days
since, while on his way to Europe
after his family, Mr.. Davis made a
few remarks to his friends in Virginia,
who had complimented him with a
serenade. These remarks provoked
the ire of the infamous Pollard, and
he vomits upon our distinguished fell
low-citizen the stale diatribe which he
has used to exhaustion. The eagles
soaring in the clouds cannot be
reached by the pebbles hurled at them
by children upon the sea shore, and
the brightness of Jefferson Davis
fame cannot be dimmed by Pollard's
filth. A people who can turn their
backs upon their leaders deserve to be
forgotten by their God. Defeat
and adversely may cause Pollard,
and villains of the same despic-
able type, to spit upon the grave
of Yancey, and to malign such men
as Davis and Harris; but song and
story will tell the same old tale-that,
the block has soaked the gore
and scafiolds echoed the words of the
great and good, of whom the world
was not worthy, triumphal process
have welcomed The advance, and
and corOnets encircled the
brOws of corsaIrs and assassins.
Washington was called a coward by
his countrymen, and the command
TO be wrested from his mighty
hand during the dark days of the rev.
when disaster seemed track
-ng his bleeding footsteps to the
grave of the Republic; and had his
rebellion failed, there would have
been POllards in those days willing
insult and degrade him, and
seek refuge from treachery in
the leaders of a righteous
)ut unsuccessful cause. The justice,
and common decency of the
south repudiates the assaults upon
hose who rode and directed the
torn of rebellion, which, harmless to
hem, only shows our ingrafitude and
,hame. Those who imperiled their
III for the South should not now be
truck down In the house of their
But, thanks to the justice
md fidelity Of the South, the empty
which but syllables their CEN
iure, will be dissipated. The great
Of the people, in whose hearts
hey are %enthroned, will turn their
,ars, deifer than the dead adders, to
he ebulitions of spite and spleen.
until justice has fed and men
nave lost their reason, will the South
all to honor and appreciate the men