Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-28
mcGHEE TEMpEsr

The following note gives curt expires.
sion to the feelings of q multitude Of peo-
pie. The idea suggested is by no means
novel, and. Just now, is utterly imprsc-
ticable. While Rsdicslism rsigns there
can be no Transformation of State bounds-
~ lines by which the number and potency
Of Democratic States would be augmented.
But the letter shows how unwisely Gov
ernor Brown has been induced to act be-
cause ofinfuences that operate in Nash
vile, and are felt not elsewhere in Ten
nessee:
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, October Is, 1871.
Editors APpeal-The foul wrong proposed to
be done the railways and people ofwest Zen.
nessese by McGhee's bill, forcing our roads to
pay debts due the State at a given day, makes
rs again recur TO the necessity for the organ
izstion OF "a homogeneous State. Nash
VILE now rules the roast" and we are
cooked 70 a crisp. Mc3hee has diddled the
State out of all he wanted, aud would now
prevent the concession OF the same bene-
factions 10 West Tennessee that were granted
70 this eastern district OF the state. Not long
sgo he was a bear" and, by fling q bill in
New York against the bank that was Brown
wv fiscal agent he prevented the
payment CT the States interest, and
thus put Town the value Of Tennessee bonds
that he and Wilson and their rings might |
buy bonds on their own terms. Now, when /
West Tennessee roads would pay their debt
to the state. Mc6hee becomes q bull and
would lift the price OF bonds in Wall strest,
and, therefore, proposes TO compel West
Tennessee roads to go into the market and
buy State bonds at once. McGheei ring ex-
lists in Nashville, in East Tennessee and IN
New York. It is a simple combination
against West Tennessee. We are again 70
be ~plundered that other districts msy be en-
Why not q a new State organizedP
God Almishty described its proper bounda-
ries. It should consist Of All the country
west OF the Tennessee river in this state ana
Kentucky, and embrace that part Of Missis.
sippi north Of the 1Rllahatchie. Let Us
nom under the dead weight OF all
This intolersble taxation and escape these
psrpetuAlly recurring wrongs We have
borne them long enough. J.R d..
Representatives Of Western Tennessee {
n the legislature should become an unit J .
action. All hat part Of East r.
zee penetrated by Nancy -0nnes-
must become part road, which
and Id parcel Of lines to
raj - Baltimore, and all the CEN
Iunties of Middle Tennessee affected
by the extension of the Memphis and
Charleston road through Sparta into Ken
tucky-tbe Representatives Of these wide
districts Of the State will surely stand
firm. They cannot be bought or driven
into McGhee's conspiracy against the
people. Columbia and Memphis viii soon
have identical interests, and there is little
danger that w. Tennessee viii again be
betrayed by the State Legislature. There
fore the necessity for the new State is not
a. patent as q few years sgo, when Nc
ring, through Brownlow, made
for Tennessee, 1t was then that Nc
Ghee gobbled State bonds, st his own
price, from every quarter; it was then
that McGhee, a bear, sought to lessen, in
Wall street, the value Of Tennessee
honda i.