Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-09
HIRE PHOTOGRAPHS.
Frank Cheatham, Brigadier-Genera An,
drew johnson and Horace Maynard.
The Ingenious Man, the DemagOguei
and the Casuist and Hair-Splitter..

The correspondent Of the New York
Herald, writing from MorFistOwn on the
twenty-seventh Of September, gives the
result Of interviews with Cheatham,
Maynard and johnson, the gist Of which
has already appeared in the APPEAL in
reports of the speeches Of the gentle
men. We make room for his photo
graphs Of the triumvirate, from which
it will be seen that he sketches Cheat
ham as the man, johnson as the
d~emagogue he is, and Maynard as a
crafty, hair-splitting, tricky Radical:
CHEATHANI.
Old Cheatham fought in the Mexican
war with that galaxy Of splendid soldiers
that eliminated ID Robert +. Lee. He
was all through the late war, distin-
gushing himself particularly at Chicka-
manga, and if you can call 10 mind the
most genial, supplemented, honest
looking, kindly-tempered officer that
ever held command in Army Of the
Potomac, you are not far from having
his rebel counterpart in Frank Cheat
ham,. The very reverse Of the soldier in
all but his face and mustache, as innO-
cent as a child about the devious ways
and double-dealing lodges of the world,
spending one-half his life in the army,
and the other on a farm. Frank Cheat
ham is an anOmoly to me as an aspirant
for political hOnOrs. l can fancy him
thrown into the vortex Of New York
politics. and running against two such
merciless antagonists as Cox and Ire
main. can fancy him perched on the
stage of Tammany Hall, with profane
roughs Of Tweed's district waiting for his
speech. And yet an idea strikes me
that the overlooking humanity Of his
bluff, handsome, military face would
win him a hearing, and a three times
three even, from the blackguards Of the
Sixth ward.
MAYNARD AND THE NEGRO.
Horace Maynard is a very different
man from Andrew JOhnsOn-as differ
ent, in cOmmOn parlance, as chaff is
from cheese. Physically, morally and
mentally they differ. The one Is tall,
1.-the and sinewy as a poplar; the other
ample, robust and fa.--prOpOrtiOned as a
chestnut tree. The former is a casuist, a
hair-splitter, a man of tricks and de-
vices; the latter a broad, unconscious
demagOgue, hitting right and left with
a sledge-hammer, and infiicting more
damage sometimes on himself and his
friends than he does upon his enemies.
u see, according to johnson, that
you were opposed g negro suffrage in
lS64?1
"Yes, / thought it was premature"
"Iou delivered a speech after that,
dubbed 'Euthanasia.' What was the
Of it?n
"Weu, / believed the negroes would
gradually d~isappear-die Out-On this
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the word expresses il, ian easy death
prediction was that the lapse of
time would see them vanish from the
South by extinction. I was opposed to
violence being used, and / begged TOR
them this easy death Of gradual de-
cay"
"WeH, don't you think, now, Mr..
Maynard, they are a pretty lively race?
Around here they seem to be as thick as
bees, and don't trouble themselves much
about your 'Euthanasia.' >"
at is true there is no apparent void in
their ranks, but a young man like you
may live to see their present number
greatly diminished. Ii is inevitable. /
The white and negro races cannot live
in contact in a state of freedom and high
civilization without the inferior race be-
ultimately crowded out Of existence.
IN a state Of slavery it was possible for
the negroes 10 thrive and multiply.
THE CORRRODING INFLUENCES OF
WHITE CIVILIZATION
did not operate on them. Now that they
free personally and politically they
are at liberty 10 indulge in all the vices
IF white civilization and give scope to
heir natural passions. All history IA
VOFs the view 1 take, and time alone
will verify its truth. As it is 1 can see
cOlOred people growing less numer-
lus around here. They are moving
away, many going north to a climate
hat is fatal to them. Freedom and
civilization must finally determine the
)rOblem."
"Now, Mr.. Maynard, if the negro is
bout to die Off like this, and that the
neyits8ility Of his dying off is conclu-
i've evidence of his inferiOrity, why
Ioes your Radical party hand over the
State of South Carolina to be governed
v him?"
ave cannot help that. He is in the
majority and his natural allies are the
republicans. He votes the Republican
because the Republican party
mancipated him. You would do the
anne. The negro is not ungrateful. He
.n0ws his friends and he sticks TO