Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-28
COLYAR PAINTED.
Interesting Letter fr8In Nashville De-
failing Matters oTInterest-The
GubernatOriaI Canvass.
krate<naI Gathering Of the Old Soldiers
Of Areher's Brigade at Lebanon.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, September q, Is72.-
Many things have occurred in middle Tennes-
see recently, that are fraught with more than
a passing interest. Most curious among the
pecultartties that marked the conduct Of Nash
vllles brave little men-as your facetious cor
respondent termed em-yga the hearty sup
port given to the ColOred State Fair, which
was held in the northern part of the city near
Buena Vista Spring.. The fair developed many
traits of colOred ingenuity, and shows many
instances of industry and talent on the part Of
the eolored people. In every way it was very
ereditaDle TO them.
1t was an oversight in your correspondent
when speaking OF Nashvtlle's enterprise, not
TO have mentioned the superior energy of
Nashville disillers. The cotton mill and the
penitentiary are both good things, and
deserved a few comments; but why
not expatiate on our LIQUOR. We are
superceding 1Old Robertson > in the whisFr-
making line very fast. As an evidence Of his
l may mention the fact that one house
(Messrs. DOugheny & Burnsl shipped five hun
dred barrels of liquor last week, and viii send
of as many more this week. Much of IL goes
to Memphis-ali of this liquor goes South.
L attended the opening Of the Gubernatorfal
canvass at Lebanon, some time since. There
were three candidates present: Brown. the
nOminee Of the Democratic Convention. free
man, nomineeo Of the Radical Convention, and
COlyar, the nominee OF himself. Governor
Brown spoke first, and sustained his Old repu-
tation as a great stump orator. His speech
was principally devoted TO the financial policy
of the state under the Democracy and under
the Radical systems, very much to the dis
arrangement OF the latter. The speech
was a mastery effort, and convincing
as mastery. Freeman, the Radical. fol-
owed He said nothing new, and what
he did say was not put forth to the best advan-
tage. II Ii were not for the sake of form, or for
the purpose OF making 10 apparent that he was
a prominent member OF the Grant host. In
would be as good for him to stop at home.
Colyar, the self-seleeted champion of his
own political fancies, spoke finally and last.
He is the queerest man in the state, politically
considered, and, next to Andrew johnson and
FoOte, thinks more of himself than auy man l
know. He has a sardonic, cynical, dfsbeliey-
fnu unuaarnnen lint no il the Trueacf haTFav-,- !
in COlyar, nevertheless. He swears "by Col
var He eats COlyar cOrn-dodger, wears Col
var collars, mops his brow with a Colyar ban
danna, and drinks Colyar whisky. His
egotism is 30 great that he is accused OF sub
stttuting the Lords-Prayer for a COlyar oriSon
which he utterS deYoutly to himself (nOt to
God morning, noon and night. He is no icon
OclaSt, for he wOrShipS himself feryenGly. 4
During his hedge-schoOl days his aesthetic
studies were studies of the inner feelings and
consciousness of COlyar. His model of manly
beauty was not the superb creations of Greek
art, but COlyaT. He held and nereely con-
tended that the Colyar prOboscis was a model
of nasal elegance, and that the Colyar tone of
voice was more bewitehing than ApOllo'sIute,
but with all these egOtistic pretensiOns and be-
iiefs on the part OF COlyar, he is a very ordinary
man. His decided feature undoubtedly is his
his low, narrow forehead. These,
with a dark, thin, small, meager face, and a
high pair of shoulders, n sqUeaky voice and a
fearful gesticulation, make up the external
characteristics of long Colyar. A mar of dis
contents and dlstastes, unsoclGl- querrilOus,
peevish, a disbelieVer in the honesty OF others,
of chemically "blue' vision, he firmly feels
that the state viii go to ruin If he [
is not made Governor. The sDaec6
OF such a person had a very dampening effect
on his audIence-On that part of it heroic
the people left the place to seek relief in ger
erOus draughts of new whisky at the neigh
boring. Srog shops. Those that remained were
In doubt whether they should commit suicide
or get drunk, long after Colyar had finished
his blue, misty harrangue. He cuts a curious :
figure in this canvass. He is a sort of unearth- Z
iV nrOfpSr auQingf the hanpiuass and gppfanr ! {
Of man. He reminds one of that singular !
person named by an Irish barrister who man !
cork screws by eating t~en-penny /
nails. The interal economy of Colyar must I
be a system OF carding machines and old :
fashioned haakles. Sc much ~wincing, grim !
nac1ng and cOntOrtioning; such Squeaking, ;
wheeling and raSping as mark the OratOrical
of COlyar cannot be accounted for
IN any other hypothesis. The people of Mem
DhiS had better not see Colyar. a weeks blood 9
would inevitably follow his appearance in /
our city.
The soldiers Of Archer's brigade had a re-
lnion at Lebanon, shortly after the disastrous
OF ColyaT. The First and Four -
zenith Regiments were invited guests of the =
About two hundred of the old
seventh were present, and of the Fourteenth. 7.
June himble, Company \; James f. -
Pete johnson, Company H; V. W. Ballen- i
inc, Company II; ]. ]. Tilley, Jas. KrOtzer, 4
}. @. Henry. and J. J. Jenkins, Company r,
nd J. W. Adams, Company ID. None of the .,
Inst were present.; We had hoped TO see at D
east fifty Of the Fourteenth there; but il is
reditable to the Old soldiers that they are busy
With repairing their ruined fortunes, taking
Of families, building up waste places and 81
multiplying and repleniShing the earth. They L
re practicing that same heruism-at work re. 81
uilding the broken fabric of society and re-
airing the breaches made by
lade them tnvincible on the bloody fields OF
Georgia and Virginia.
One of the speakers on the occasion gave N,
to the sentiments that actuated -
he men in thus gathering together once more u
] fratsrnal Fsunion. He said. at is hitting
nat the living from the field of battle gather
lgether, perpetuating from time TO time the
eeds of their army, preserving from con- Z
,mptuous scorn the honor OF the " Lost n
ause,n and paying n tribute of worth to
he gallant dead, whose memory shall not
e defamed-no, not even by the 81
nee which is fOrgetfulness itself. Had
@ trlumphed the pen Of the historian &c
Ould have eagerly recorded each deed Of f.
light, the muse sang in lyric verse the pean
victOrs, and lofty senttneled to
ming ages the grandeur, the prOwess of our
ms. But no victory has been ours, and the
'ayes of our heroic dead are the monuments
Id the living are the inscriptions. Let the
lie be sacred and the other be beautiful and
When the war ended, it left Us only st
II broad forests, rolling fields, beautiful "
reamS, and deSolated homes, heavens bright Al
nshine, the VAIN, true hearts of its people tr
Id the graves Of its martyred children" w