Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-08
MEMPTIS APPEAL
WEDNESDAY MORNING, : NOV. 8. 1871.
Ta SEARCH OF OLIVER TWIST.

WEDNESDAY, hORklk6, : NON. 3, 1871.
a. SEARCH OF OLTVER TWIST.
When Fsgin, who was = sort of king
ofs ring ofrogues in London, showed great
anxiety to get the young Oliver Twist
into his gang, he explained that il was for
the boys honest face. Mr.. Fsgln had the
Artful Dodger, and several other promi
nsnt members of his party, at his call, but
he said: They're no use to me, my
dear; their looks convict them. With this
boy, properly managed, 1 could do what I
couldn't with twenty Of them" 1t is en-
this principle that the holders Of Tennes-
see bonds hsve boen ~endesyoring to csp-
ture sn Oliver Twist, to subserve their
despicsble purposes at Nashville. They
recognizes the necessity of putting forward
some msn of decent character. Indeed, the
b~ondholders are as anxious TO find an Oil
yer Twist as Jsphet was to ferret out his
fsthsr. They have their eyes upon seve-
rsl respectable, g~oodlOoking members OF
the legislature, either Of whom would
make an admirable Oliver Twist. In fact it
is said they have found him. But we do |
not believe there is q man in the Tennes' /
see legislature bold enough or base
enough to become the tool Of bondholders
instead OF The champion Of 8 tsx.ridden
people. A correspondent at Nashville is
particularly -pertinscioUs in the assertion
tast some Of the advocates Of low
taxes are unreliable, and that
several members, elected as low-tsx
msn, snd who two weeks ago we've
fsvoring the lowest possible tax, have
already agreed to plsy a traitorous part,
and to constitute themselves the bond
holders Oliver Twists. II such there be,
We tell them that they hsve sowed the
wind and will be appalled, at the fury of
the whirlwind they will be sum-
mOned to resp. But We be-
lieve all such EpeculstioGs are
false and unfounded. In the snv
which elected the present legislature, our
party never msrshslled TO the polls s no.
bier and a better band OF men. The
purest fires of patriotism burned within
their b0soms, and the most ardent desire
ID promote the welfare OF the State in
cited them on to their gsllsnt and happily
successful efforts. The plsudits Of the
good, true and patriotic men of the whole
country were showersd upon them for
their exertions, and the great heart Of the
State throbbed with gratitude for their
suspicious lRbors. What man is there,
or can there be, in all the confines OF Ten
nessee, who has been trusted by such 8
constituency, at such q period, with legis-
lstlve powers, that is 30 dead to al the
bsttsr feelings Of humanity, to al the OBJ
legations Of sacred pledges, to all the ties
OF party, 10 all the instincts ofjustice and
humsnity, to al sympathy with the
wishes and feelings OF the poor oppressed
masses, the interests of the State. and the
welfare Of women and children, as 10 con-
template for one moment the idea Of &C.
Cupying that eminsnce OF undying in :
fanny, and Of covering himself with the :
eternal stain of cishonor, which would in
evitsbIy sttsch to any man, who, after I
being elected IS the friend Of low taxes
n a people staggering under hesvy bur )
dens, would Join hands with the bond z
holders and give them the pound Of flesh
thsy demsDd2 We snnot conceive |
that the Democratic party Of the t
State nourishes such an unmitigatsd t
wretch in her bosom, and therefore regard "
the spsculstions we have alluded to as Z
infamous fslsehoods and Hbels upon the l
character of the Legislators of our State. '
What have the people of Tennessee gained Z
by wrestling power from Brownlow and :
and the rogues who stole the 1
the school fund, If taxes are to be piled a
hi .k--Hl--- m. / II
the old stated brood Of flies to the fresh, .
hungry swarm; and if the swarm Of Dem
ocrstic tsx-gstherers are to suck the life. &
blood Of the people in their weak and .
impoverished condition, it were far better
that the plethoric old brood had remained.
In the last canvass the people were told,
nom Carter % Shelby, from the noun =
tsins of East Tennessee to the Valley of
Mississippi, that 50 soon as the State
passed into the hands Of the Democrats
taxes would be reduced, thst labor was -
and unreliable, and that the %
legislature would never tax and sell IN d
productive lands which had been absn- q
Toned and made cheap on account of n
nigh taxes, poor and inconstsnt 81
sbor. The tax-ridden and oppressed Al
masses remember these pledges. We say =
hen upon the Democratic members of the ~
legislature a heavy responsibility de- al
'olves. Those who have clothed them pc
With power, and fought and bsttled for to
in a terrific cOnSsst-the faithful, no
uonesti true-hesrted masses, whose patri- hr
tic feelings rose superior to the perils 81
bat enTirOned them, and who so nobly NJ
ischarged their ~duty-now call upon WI
heir representatives to be faithful to the TO
Ugh trust coDfded to them. The people ~
Tennessee expect them to reducs th
'xes, the Issue to whose strength they pc
we their present position. There is some ios
ling too sacred in the obligation q repre- IL,
'ntative owes his constituents for any ga
onest man TO disregard. And VIC spurn VI
18th indignation the thought that among ~ ~
ie members Of the present legislature, al
DO were elected in such a contest as that to
last fall, and who were borne into COT
'wer by the fidelity Of such q noble band ss
faithful supporters as constituted the ".
smocrstic host Of 1870, there is to be dor
und a single Judas, ready, for his psltry AZ,
irty piece OF silver, 10 become theOuver cor
visit Of the bondholders, and to betrsy pre-
Q interest Of a constituency appealing coz
the promised relief. far