Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-16
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/ RADICAL PRESIDENTIAL CANDI-
DATES.
Many leading Republicans assert
! that Grants nomination is now Out
/ of the question, and that it is neces.
| sary TO begin 10 look about for a more
available candidate, 81 the party is
to be saved from defeat. They argue
that the entire body Of New England
/ Republicans will be hostile to him on
/ account of Summers removal, and
that it has alienated also all the
original auti-slavery men throughout
! the country. who have always formed
an active working element OF the Re
4 publican party. There is already
/ much canvassiug relative to the merits
and popularity Of many prominent
| public men, with a view to their pos
| sible candidacy for the Republican
nomination. Among Others the names
of Coliax, Blaine, Sumner, Logan,
! Scheuck and Cox are chiefly men
| toned.
SANlBO 10 THE REAR.
I From the Cincinnati Enquirer
I made note the other day Of the
/ fact that Of the five negroes who
/ spiced the House, all of them save
! one occupied prominent seats. Tney
| all did secure eligible seats in the
| draw, but ] observe that q new dis
| pens8tiOn has been made. They have
exchanged with leading white Re
publicans, and now they are all on
the outside row save Rainey, who
still sticks by his friend, Ben. Butler.
He has changed over, though, and
/ located on the side Of BeDjamin's
wonderful head which is hOnOred
with a good eye. The crOwding Of
these helpless colOred people to the
rear is said to be significant.
WITHERED BROWNLOW,
One Of the saddest spectacles pre-
sented in the Senate Chamber in these
days is the big cushioned chair which
/ holds the last Of the mortal remains
Of poor Pars0n BrOWnlOW, Of Tennes-
see. He sits Just to the left Of the
Presidents rOstrum, on the skirmi5h
line. There they bring every day the
wither0d remnant Of the Apostle Of
Hate, and over that chair there seems
TO hover, at all hours, the black Angel
of Death. SallOw and emaciated,
trembling with palsy i'm every limb,
he sits and watches the proceedings
around him with what seems a fearful
/ interest, and only the little light
which burns dimly in his once vicious
eye is left 10 tell you Of the fierce
spirit which, in times past, inhabited
that never very prepOssessing frame.
His right arm lays by bis side, and
the thumb OF it twitches and vibrates
with the regularity Of a heart beat.
| They set a glass of water upon his
desk, but he never mGistens his lips.
Papers lay before him, but
their neat order is never dis
tuTbed. There is no more eX-
preston upon his shadOWed, pinched
and leathery face than you would
expect to find upon the index Of the
mummy in the British Museum. One
can lock upon the still vigorous, vet
stricken, Morton, and feel that ne
hears the retribuiye imprint Of vice,
huf one cannot contemplate poor
BrOwnlOW without an expression OF
generous sympathy. He seems 10 be
waiting for his summons. There may
be much of the old vitality IN him
vet. and it may be many days before
they carry him into the chamber for
the last time. 1t seemed as though,
at times 10 day, his old viperOus ma
ture returned to him, and be yeamed
10 mingle in the heated debate. But
the present, with its turm0ils, and the
future, with its hopes, are but mists
10 him. He can only look back over
his pathway streWn with wrecks and
lined with the rank weeds Of bitter
hate and partisan selfishne5s. Let
us be charitable enough to hope that
he has the satisfaction which comes Of
a belief that his lie has not been with
out its fair proportion Of honesty and
sincerity.
SUMMERS REMOVAL.
An effort was made TO induce the
President TO yield his demand for
Summers displacement, but he was
incorrigible. The Massachusetts, del
egation in Congress deputed General
Butler 10 visit the President for that
purpose, and the result is thus told by
the Washington correspondent Of the