Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-21
COLYAR STILL WAVE

every night, and the confsgratiOn Of
his eloquence has set the denizens OF
Nashville to wringing their hands
and crying aloud. We sympsthize
with them in their great sorrow.
Magnanimity, in the hour Of victory,
is a noble trait of character, and If, by
his redundant blather, Colysr has
vanQuished a foeman worthy of his
steel, and won for himself the name
Of the Tennessee Blstherskite, he
should show the sublime virtues OF a
chivalrous .eOnquerOr and spare a de-
-fenseless and innocent people the
agony and distress which follows in
the wake OF his CAB just as naturally
as razed houses and PROSTATE trees in
dicate the track Of the whirIwind.
But Colyar does. not seem to be the
proprietor Of the first bowel Of COM
passion. He is intoxicated with tri-
umph, and, as the.young cock crows
with more Iusty fervor after the old
one has succUmbed, Colyar has turned
his tongue loose, and il is as voIuble
as that Of q queen Of Bilingsgate re-
stored to her congenisI precincts after
a long Punishment to Van Dieman's
Land. There is q legend Of a ship
which wentLOn a'cruise in the Arctic
regions, and reached q point Of intense
cold, where the words Of her officers
and crew5became frozen and inaudible
as they fell fromlthe lips; but as soon
as the vessel, reached a latitude Of
tlaw, OnsherE return, she became a
little Babel with the din and clamor |
Of the melting words. While CoIyar
had a rival he husbanded his wordy |
resources, and to prevent an explosion
he hoped himself in patent cotton
ties; but now that he is master Of the
situation, the pent-up verbosity which
struggled for ~utterance so long have
been turned loose, and the Babel of
the frozen words melting in the
Arctic region was an o~ld-fashioned
quaker-silence In comparison to the
hUbbub and racket with which Colyar
is splitting the ears Of the public with
his little words, and still more diminu-
tive ideas. The gsrrulity Of able men
can be excused in an admiration for
their talent. Yancey could invest
every subject with a loveliness il
never possessed; illuminate the dark ]
and rejuvenate the faded flower. The {
strange snd enviable genius Of Prem {
tlss could transform the common ]
worm into the glow-worm; the COM ;
mon cloud into a cloud Of fire and gIo- /
y. Haskell, In the glow of his rich t
ancy and exuberaDt language, could 7
make every arch s rainbow, the b
sparks so many shooting stars, and q
every star a SUI But Colysr Grams
INTO his subjects nothing but virgin t
InalIoyed lead. His head is as de- {,
void Of brains as an old shoe, and his p
riendship is the upss tree to wither Il
Iverything that clusters under its d
,Ighting shade. il
When we last heard from CoIyar on o.
night he was mesmerisiug a
title squad by abusing the Rewspa- L
in general, and the Memphis
APPEAL in particular, and converting =.
is lungs into a huge bellows for ~
be purpose Of blowing life /"
lto bis new party movement. In a
Their words, he would blow awhile ca
nd then undertake to 70
Wash his hands, with invisible soan Sd
In mpercsptibls water" CO
From all accounts Colyar is not -;
much Roadway In his labors.
/ his effort to build up a new party N,
/, reminds US Of the sailors short -,
anket, from which ne said be had -
t several pieces of tie top and tied 2,
to the bottom and still the a.,
anket was too short. And Colyar os
u find in the end that lie is too on
ort in the poop TO exterminate the fro
wspapers at which he dashes with In
the impetuosity Of q sea gull at a a.
hthOuse. No child is grateful for nh.
its face washed, and nearly 81 n,
US shows its innate depravity by the
KING the Sims Of the nurse per loc
ming the wholesome job; and it is da,
: surprising that Colysr should ron
K while we are endeavoring to sas
him in the Democratic harness. ar
will find in the end that II his dro
lgue is run by a forty mule power No,
It the APPEAL has as many toes "a NIL
nilipede and each one kicking St
steam power. He yin ind too that ha,
press nee powerful than the adj
eVsA when occupied by elo- phi
and talent instead ofa gss-bag. Lo,
nav be a difficult task, but we ex- ern
to Colysr slowly struggling Me
K in the ways 10 which we would thi
o him. The newspapers that he MOI
Ises are better made than he can raj
Ike them, and We hope T~ennessee's boz
.gnifeent tslking-man VIII soon be dee
nd coming, angrily and reluctantly for
nay be,toa knowledge ofhis true re- duo
iOnto the universe. Colysr's nozzle Gre
st be weary in spirting such a con- of
1ous w~sterspout. The people are TIL,
ary Of the cascade Of words. They ern
re some idea why the earth is rent cost
| cOnvulsed, and Yomits fre-have OH
med something about the track of
rms, the secret of the planetary II
tenn, and the shiftings Of the iso- I
rmal lines; but the fixed laws the
govern COlyar's cataract of Am
Ids, his earthquake eloquence and seer
crater in eruption battle the curl the
y Of maktnd. Inspired by the beel
Of Christopher Columbus, we ed +
] enter upon a voyage Of dis colo
cry. leo I