Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-03
HUNTING rOR rHEPOUxDo FFrEsH.

From private sources, every way
reliable, we understand that tbs
boudhoIders have their hired emisa
ries at Nashville twaddling about
"phghted faith" Honesty" "sacred
obligations" and all the amt phrase:
which they understand about As vel
as the parrot swinging upon its perch
understands it iabber. The honest
taxpayers of Tennessee do not pre-
pose to receive lectures on morality
by the hired pimps Of bOnd-holders,
They know what their duty Is, the
obligations that bind them, and it is
an insult TO their intelligence and
honesty for these contemplate tools
60 talk to them about that faith and
honor which they have learned to
their SORROW have been too often
plghted for the benefit Of plunderers.
The question is not One Of repudis-
ton. Nothing but ruinous taxation,
q demand for the last pound Of
flesh, viii drive the people to con-
template such q fearful alternative.
The people Of Tennessee intend TO
pay their Indebtedness to the last
farthing; but, like every other State
bsukrupted by thieves, they ask for
reasonable and decent time, just
such time as a prudent creditor
would give an unfortunate debtor.
We trust the members Of the legis'a-
ture win spUrn from their presence
the creatures who live by picking up
the crumbs that fall from the rich
bond-hOlders table. Nearly every
mar in the legislature was elected on
the platform Of economy, retrench-
ment and a reduction of the onerous
taxes which the Radicals had piled
upon the people. Above all other CUES
tons in the last campaign was that Of
a reduction Of taxes. That was the
standard that msrshsled the way. /
That was the Shibboleth-that was
they war-cry-from Carter to Shelby
from Lawrence to Wilson-in every
village and town in the State-every-
where that q pen could be induced to
write, or q tongue to speak, that was
the theme upon which those pens
wrote and those tongues spoke. The
Democracy o. the Tennessee legisla-
ture cannot 60 back on their pledges
to the people, or the promises they
have both spoken and written to thou
sands of men. II they should do so,
there would be no element lacking to
the unredeemed infamy-
not one-and the betrayers Of the
sitting a they do in cushioned
hairs and between marble walls, /
could not close their ears to the thun-
storm. A reduction Of taxes
5 demanded by every consideration
Il Justice and interest to the taxpayer
md the creditors OF the State. It
viii not do to bring upon the people
enewed d~istresses by selling their 8
ands to pay taxes. Give them time c
0 Tecuperste, TO recover something G
iut Of what they have lost for ave q
on account of the disorganized {
ystem Of labor. Do this and they C
vil commence anew the effort to {
Of the State debt. They will d
weat and toll without murmur. \
{ the present Legislature Of Tennes- '
walks resolutely in the path Of a
uty-a path nlumined by their e
pledges-they will make for v
lemselves an envisble future, and Q
home with the acclamatiOns Of Il
Re people. But If, after a full recol- D
etion Of these pledges and a knowl- ii
ige Of the misfOrtunes OF their con- Of
itue1ts they should fail to give that n
lief which the ~distresses Of the peo- in
Ie require, there would be no Gcd M
heaven, il the ballot-box did not oil
all future time damn such faith th
ssness. ~