Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-23
SMASHED!
EX-President johnson and his Enemies
The Avalanche and Banner--A
SOekdOlager-Audi Alteram
Partem.

EDITORS APPEAL-In a recent issu
Of the AUdlHnche there appears a yer,
unjust assault upon the political cOurs
of eX-President Johnson. The article /
suitably adorned with black-cap head
ings, TO give it significance and attrac
attention. 1t is alleged, in its second
headline, that an irate Democrat call
eX-President Johnson a " traitor to tn,
party" and yet it requires only a mo
ment's consideration to reach the con
clusion that this is utterly unfounded
In the first place, the AU0IGRche is no
a Democratic paper, and has not beer
I for some time past, and the article does
not purpOrt to befrOm a Democrat at all
Nor is there anything in the condensed
malignity with which the article
abounds, which would not indicate thai
irate Republican, like Barbour Lewis
on which the AUGLdncbe has so frequent.
ly smiled benignantly, was not its real
author. That it was a Radical, and not
a Democrat" which furnished the
AUdiGnche this
SPECIMEN OF PARTY MANEvOLENCE,
is seen in the fact that the writer dis.
cOurages eX-President JOhnsOn's speak
ing in Memphis, and for the alleged rea-
son that 'the people all intend to vote
the Liberal ticket without his valuable
services" Now, il Is notorious that al
the people of Memphis are not going to
vote the Liberal ticket, or else the editor
Of the AUdldnche would not be a Glib
eralp candidate for Congress against
both Colonel Haynes, the regular DEM
OcTatic nominee, and Barbour Lewis.
the regular Grant nominee. If "all the
people" are for the Liberal ticket now.
then why does the editor of the AUd-
idRche become q candidate especially to
enlist sympathy and support for the
Liberal ticket. The thing is as absurd
as it is unfounded. GAN the peoplen do
not favor the Liberal ticket, and there
fore there is as much reason WHY ex-
President johnson should speak in its
behalf in Memphis as anywhere else in
the State.
The fact is, the AUalanche man is
dreadfully scared. His soul is already
alarmed at the bugles which herald the
approach of the great constitutional
Defender, and in impOtent trepidation
he would frighten "the peOple0 away
from giving his ~utterances fair and
dispassionate consideration. 70 this
he proceeds to put the
butt-end in foremost, by asking a series
Of questions which, in his weakness, he
imagines the ex-President will fear to
Whether the ex-President
shall deem this weak device worthy OF
notice when he shall get to Memphis,
remains to be seen. This malignant
;cribbler shall not escape, as he evident
" desires, without the kick he would
He demands TO be informed
why .ex-President johnson was ever a
Democrat, and his reasons for deserving
hat party in its hour of danger.u 1t
nay be reason enough for ex-President
IohnsOn's Democracy, that he honestly
believed that the principles of that
were better calculated to subserve
highest interests of a free people
nan any other, and that in victory and
iefeat, he always rallied under its ban
But by implication, this avalanche
writer charges that ex-President john
did desert the Democratic party in
IS hour of danger. This is as unjust as
t is unfounded.
WIEN DID HE "DEsERT', THAT PARTyq
Is it not rather true that the Demo-
ratio leaders deserted their principles
left the ex-President alone to fight
out in Congress? What are the facts?
he constitutional guarantees of the
outh were correctly apprehended by
eX-President in 1861, and with a Sen
te containing a Democratic majority Of
X, and a House Of Representatives
18th a majority of eleven, and with a
on the Supreme Court Bench,
evinced in the bred Scott decision,
? was wise enough to demand that the