Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-17

when League comes dashing by SHAY
stretches himself out like q sandhin Gran
with the stomach. Gche, and pasting littl
League on tho back, sets all the dolores
people that Shaw manages in an almight,
roar. League used to preside in it'll
Democratic meetings about the time h
Wss managing the county court clerk
elections: but he has recovered from tina
temporary weakness, and now he Is tn
best in the deck. Shaw swesrs by him
Tom Hamilton is sweet on him, ant
League is the high priest of the Radics
church. Having thus two churches Il
back him, as he supposes, and the Emme
A voice-What sort OF 8 fellow Il
Losgue2
He is an o~ily-tongued little fellow. Il,
didn'tlick the blarney-stone. He SWALLOWED
1t. daughter There's none Of 1t lef
in the parts of Ireland he came from. /
was the weight of this stone that prevent
ed his growth. he is only four feet three
and q half inches high. he is 6 banker
He looks under the counter at his Gus
toners, q always takes underholt
When he came here, ten or eleven year
ago, he had q little shop on Besle street
There were all sorts OF little traps-olC
clothes and the hke-for sale in the from
room, and in the back parlor there was
sweet little iuicery where drinks wert
discounted at ten cents. The war came
Memphis fell, and League rose in The
world. He always was for the upper dos
in every fight. He shouted for the ole
flag as crazily as be had howled two
weeks before for JEFF Davis, He went fol
an office and got it. He was soon in
stalled, snd never went into any stall
where there wasn't fodder. He always
makes hay while the sur shinee.
u04no- What NJ n M Wau it,
Idon't remember. / think il was steam.
bost hull inspector. There was money in
it, in any event, and League h0urished.
A voics-Did he ever get into the city
treasury?
Mr.. S~tephenson-I am coming to that.
think it was In 1868 he got his first taste
of the peoples money. He and his pres
ent partner were both indicted into city
Offices by federal military authority. He
was
COLLECTOR ON PRIVILEGES.
1t was then that he had q little law en-
acted imposing a tax of three dollars on
dogs. He enforced the law most vigor-
ously, and while dogs persisted without
collars, League wore his and fsttened.
He was rapidly smsssing wealth. One
bright day General Forests cavalry csme
laundering into the city. League was
conscious Of his misdseds and had pro-
NluCO 6EdAusb ubAuk6uClG6 Go h6k6Q n
4 gentleman, known to most of you and
now q citizen here, whether he thought
his lLoague's) little CARCASS would be safe
in case the C~onfederstss re-occupied
Memphis. "No," was the answer; "they
will hang you as high as Hsman." "See
here" said Johnny, exhibiting a bank
book, 81 Lave ten thousand dollars in gold
to my credit in. Canada Beginning
with nothing-by honest, hard lehor-in
four years he had accumulated these little
golden eggs, and Memphis YVES the goose
that laid them. he continued to Equeezs
the goose, and while levying contribu-
tons upon the fowls even b dogs paid
him three dollars per head. For the poor
privileges" of keeping a dog, every
IrshmSn and every American paid trf.
butte to John League. But the rebels came
back at last ~disfranchised, and League
WAS soft. Crest pisces of blRrney stone
melted within his unctuous, oily lips. He
smiled lovingly and talked 20 sweetly
and softly and pityingly. He was already
rich, but not content.
Els NEXT LEAP
was into the till of the county treasury.
Barbour Lewis and Aminidab Sleek,
done up in yaller morocco, sometimes
called SHAW, " sat upon the bench, while
little League sat as humbly IS Uriah
Hep registering their DEGREES. He ives
cognizsnt, of course, Of every shameless
deed done by this shameless court of
plunderers. He was on the wrong side of
The all when that colossal structure was
absorbing the hsrd-esrued gains of q
socely-stricken and impoverished people.
DC has said he was only q ''clerical"
officer, and had nothing to do with the
wrongs perpetrsCed by the illustrious
commissioners court. The word clerical"
when used by League, has no reference to
his sanity piety. He meant to cay that
IL was only his business to record the
DEGREES OF Lewis and Shaw. 1t was not
his duty, when elected by the people, to
protect them. No MOI he was the
supple slave of the immortal o~ourt-neVer
once condemned or exposed its unpara-
lelled outrsges upon the poor. One morn
ing League awoke and found that fortune
had given her
WHEEL TWIST,
and Losgue tUmbled out of bed and out
of Office. The fall nearly killed League.
he was very morose for q time. Senter
had enfrsnehised the people, a nav State
constitution was adopted aud the bottom
fell out Of Leagues comfortable little
office which had been paying him from
twenty to thirty thousand dollars per an
mum. he went again TO the
BLARNBY-sToNR
and absolutely honsyfuggled a Democratic
convention and had This body to do his bid
ding. He then, as he proposes now to do,
put Ireland to bed with Africa, and con.
centrsted the voting force of both upon
his own appointed successor. Having
succeeded in this, and hsving gathered
from a helpless, plundered community 9
banking capital, he set up another shop,
very unlike that he had occupied not long
before on Beale street; He now weaves
his busy web in the neatest little psrlor in
which were ever whispered the enticing
words
SWIM you walk into my parlor?
Eaid the spider 10 the n.y.
On this basis of wealth, thus gathered
his bank is founded. 1t Is a noble instifu
ton, and he has given 1t q worthy name
Do you remember the name of
ROBERT EMMETT
Here the speaker stood still, and there
was profound silence,
At length, he said in measured, solemn
accents: II was Robert Emmet who said,
when he wa about to die for the freedom
of Ireland:
LET no msn write my epitaph; for,
as no man who knows my motives dare
nov vindicste them, let not prejudice or
ignorance asperse them. Let them and
me repose In obscurity and peace, and my
remain uninscnbed until other
n other men can do Justice to nv
character. When my country takes hsr
place among the nations OF the earth,
then, and not till then, let my epitAph be
written"
Are not those touchingly eloquent,
heartfelt words, uttered, when Emmett
was looking down into his own grave, and
Dy q who loved ireland as nc man ever
owed his country-are not these solemn
annoanaoEO1 In H. AAU-E - -
rue Fri SHIN an Andshall the name Of
Emmett be suffered to sane
ity tho walls of q Hhaving-shop, whose
sold wss gathered not from a free, but
rom an oppressed u plundered and dis.
ranchised people1 There Ia not a dollar
n Its vaults that was not wrenched from
and impoverished taxpayers-not
penny that wss not coined from tears
md begEary. What q foul shame and
INSULT to Ireland TO write above the door
vay of such a bank the hottest name in
on any page of any historyi No
me, however true to Irelsnd's fame, has
Jared even vet TO violate the dying In
Of Ireland's martyr to freedom.
3ut John League has built him a monu-
nent, and on its granite walls Is inscribed
he name Of Robert Emmett.
THERE WAS NO APPLAUSE.
The crowd was parslyzsd, shocked, am !
Esd, dumbiourderedi The picture drawn
naddened Its beholders. AT length some !
ne shouted, "Groans for Losguei" and
yhen the dismal sound died away, Mr., !
stephenson had disappeared.
!
Our reporter awoke. he lifted his weary
lreaming head from the table on which {
{ had rested. The vision of the crowd !
nd it's haranguing orator was dissipated, J
nd Pete Csnale stood by cracking the !
hells OF luscious oysters that begst the 5
nightmare. The echos Of Ste ]
'henson's eloquence had been borne :
way by the wind, and the mob which
Isd shouted 30 fearfuIly had vanished I
Ike the witches In Macbeth. 1t was an !
wful dream, ,
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