Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-09
oOLYAR NO LONGER WAVES.

We have already announced that A
S. COlyar has retired from the busy
haunts ofthe political independent bust
ness. The testsmentary thunderbol
which he hurled at the heads of an IN.
grateful and unappreciative people
shows that his patriotic heart was brim-
full Of agony, hornets and bumblebees.
Whether he has retired to the sylvan
shades of some bucolc region to find
Books In running brooks, sermons
In st0nes, ans good IN everything
or wendell his way to the seashore,
where his troubled "buzzim" can be
soothed by the music Of the Triton:
wreathed horn we are unable to say.
But Colyar is so full Of Joke.
he could not plunge into the wilderness
Of impenetrable obscurity, without pok-
ing his fun at the public. A celebrated
French wag, during the nineteenth CEN
fury, never permitted any occasion to
pass without playing a trick upon his
friends. On a dying bed, his
friends tainted him with his inability to
play off his usual jokes. Death finally
came, and while he was bidding his
friends adieu, a sweet smile Of satisfsc-
ton was seen on his face as he handed
them four large candles which he desired
to be burned at his funeral; but
the candles had not been burn
ing only fifteen minutes, when
they went of as fireworks. Colyar is a
wag of the same sort, for while breath
ing out his political life, gush aftergush,
he jokes as follows:
The assaults now being made on men
who remained firm to the Union cause
during the war, by the extreme seces-
sion element Of the Democratic party,
and the renewal of the question Of Sc
cessiOn, is a crime.
This falsehOOd is published in the
Knoxville Press and Herald, whose
editor is a Union man, voted for by Sc
cessionists IN the State Convention for
Elect0r for the State at Large, and, not
withstanding his treachery, viii vote
for him at the approaching Pres
identiaI election. He who asserts
that rebels are making war upon
Union men simply because they have
been Union, utters a lie. The rebels are
supporting Horace Greeley and Graft
Brown, voting for Fleming and Fowler,
everywhere supporting the nominees
without knowingo or caring whether they
We're Union men, secessionists or rebels.
They voted to a man for Leftwich and
Vaughan, Union men, for Congress.
They havestOOd by such Federal soldiers
a. Halsey and Townsend. Sinceth ter
minatiOn Of the wal nearlyal the offices
in this county have been filed by Union
men who received the support Of the
rebels. Yet because the rebels refuse to
support johnson, on account Of the
insult he offers by charging them with
being TRAITORS" their dead comrades
with filling "ignominious graves" and
demanding an Endorsement Of his career
as Military Governor Of Tennessee,
Colyar says the rebels are making wa
on Union men. The State-Rights men
OF Tennessee have enough manhood
left to decline licking the hand
that smites them, to vote for any man
for Office, whether he be rebel, Union
man, Liberal, Democrat or Secession
lists, who brands them as traitors, guilty
Of treason, and who stigmatizes General
Cheatham a. a traitor, an outlaw, who
has the impudence TO dare oppose An
drew johnson for Congress, after at
tempting to destroy the government.