Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-25
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General Cheatham' s friends would have
him become a candidate for Congress to
represent the whole State. He and
Andrew Johnson-the latter declared
candidate-are wholly unlike one an
other in every habit Of their lives, in
modes of thinking, attainments, tastes
and pursuits. If one should go to Con-
gress the other should not. No man
who would vote for the one could by
any possibility, unless mad, vote for the
other. Then Mr. Foote, the irrepressi-
bic, imterninable Foote, pronOunces
himself candidate to represent the
Estate at large" 1t is great calamity
that FoOte ever ran at large at any time
in the worlds history; but that he
SHOULD declare his purpose, as he did by
telegraph last night, to continue
" running at large" may well
be deemed a grievOus public evil.
Our agricultural correspondents must
keepquiet. The fence law must not be
repealed, FOote is running at large. y
In his card announcing his candidature
Mr.. FOste says: 4" Having been mag
unanimously relieved from civic disabili-
ties about three days since by a wise and
and paternal government, and feelingde-
sirous Of making proper display Of graf
itude, therefore / announce myself a
candidate for a seat in the House Of
Representatives of the United States for
the State at large; not desiring to
submit my claims as q candidate to the
caucus of any political party. /
shall support Greeley and Brown, and 1
stand firmly and inflexibly by the prin-
ciples embodied in the Cincinnati plat 4
form, and on Gpeeley's noble letter of
acceptance" We must confess that /
this is the heaviest blow yet leveled
at Greeley, and it must have been in an
ticipation of its coming that VOORHEES,
stood from under. Paternal Govern
ernment" [see Foote's letter above,l is
good, very good, and like all of Mr..
Foote'S sayings, wholly novel and orig
inal. From the number Of Dents
around loose everywhere we had
imagined that ours was rather
maternal sort of government. But
FoOte always emasculates parties and
creeds, and it is not strange that, IN the
very maturity Of his powers, he should
take a whack at Grants empire. The
announcement of Foote's candidature
will be received with mixed feelings of
delight and sadness over the whole
country. Nashville will be especially
well pleased, and the whole population {
of that city will vote for the versatile,
loquaciOus Mr.. FOOte. There is reason
for it. He has. never been silent mo-
ment since the adjournment of the j
Cincinnati Convention, and never !
ceased to make people understand I
how wise he was in preferring Adams :
to Greeley. When there was no one |
else TO listen, Mr.. FOote would howl and
roar and talk at Colyer, and Colyer
would talk back at Foote, till the for
mer was black in the face. The atmos-
phere along the street frequented by /
these two dummies" has been kept {
in such fearful state of vibration that I
people have found it difficult to catch {
breath. The terrible process has been 4
until along the walls of b
buildings on a level with Foote'S Z
head, the constantly convulsed at =
like the NIississippi's waves \
n caving bank, has worn
ieep crevices, and the stability Of Y
ofty edifices is endangered. People n
lbout the capital would send Mr.. Foote !, !,
o Congress-anywhere that they may [
De relieved for a season of the everlast- V
ng clatter Of his rattling tongue. Long 7
lgo violent atmospheric undulatiOns, !
by ceaseless colloquial explo- Il
ions, have worn. bare the well-filled 7
1ate of the vivacious Mr.. FOOte, and we l.
nay measure accurately the breathless- i
less of Nashville's delight by the .
of Mr.. Foote, who, though b
he may not be immortal, it is appre-
lended will never die. n