Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-19
POLITICS.
The philosophie Horace quaffs
From Chappaqua's cold stream,
And at Ulysses softly laughs
Who Stacks his thirst with steam.
Though Greeley drinks his water cold,
(And in no measure scant,)
No shrewd observer need be told,
He'll make 10 hot for Grant"
Colonel Outfits Eminent Fitness for n
Seat i'm Congress.

sem III COn&LNHSs
EDITORS APPEAL-To n with no
personal interest in the next Congress
man, the following reasons given by the
friends of Colonel Duff in support OF his
claims, seem to warrant the people in
voting for him in the primary election:
He has a firstrate record in Mississippi,
where he was raised, by birth of poor
but honorable parentage. be, by his
own labor, accumulated means sufficient
to take a regular collegiate graduation;
and by experience in legislation he eer-
tainly is competent. That he has merit
and talent, and that, too, appreciated
where he was best known, see what he
has received from his people-hrst, in
the Constitutional Convention Of Missis-
sippi, then in the Legislature, and after
ward General of the State militia. Since
he has been a citizen here his numerous
acquaintance a attest his merit as a
man of veracity and probity of charac-
ter. He is just such a man as can
do the people good nOaC. They do
not need a man in Congress 10 make
upon Benjamin F. Butler or some
political question settled years ago.
They do not need a man who goes there
with some pet scheme to put through,
when probably he will be the only n
pecuniarially improved. They do not
need a man to be sent to Congress as a
reward for long service in his party, and
with the single qualification Of a mod
esty developed to such an extent that
he has never asked for an office before,
and, therefore, entitled to this. The
people have no pets to reward. Legisla-
ton will either do them good or harm,
individually and collectively. The last
sort has been the kind for several years,
and for the reasOn that we have not had
a lire man to represent us. We want a
man prompted by a legitimate ambi-
ton: That to serVe the people he repre-
sents. Colonel Duff is that man, and
will more faithfully and successfully do
this than any one else. He does not,
upon every occasion, revert to the fact
that our friends fill honorable
soldiers's graves; that he remem-
berS whom your sOns and husbands
fell bravely fighting for the cause which
went down under superior forces. These
are simply facts, and let the historian
who writes up the past spend his time
upon a theme which does not help the
young men Of Memphis, and the mer-
chants of Memphis, who have fortunes
to retrlve and families to support. Col
onel Duff stands in the present and
looks to the future; he lets the past, with
all its sacred ties, mantle itself in the
dark habiliments of f~orgetfulness, and
and labors for the present genera
ton, and the future welfare Of his peO-
pie. He is practical. When we elect a
man, we are, as it were, hiring a SER
want, and what do we ask? Is he eff
Client? Is he honest? Is he a worker?
Without disparagement to any gentle
men, we k1O5g Colonel Duff has all the
prerequisites in a degree not inferior to
any one He proposes to so harness
himself with Mr.. Greeley's administra-
ton and the members Of Congress that
he will not ask in vain for favors due his
constituency. Let every Ire man vote
for Duff Saturday. TRUTH.