Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-01
ESTABLISHED 1910.

ESTABLlSHE
COLONEL A. J. EELLAR's ADDRESS.
Colonel A. J. Kellar must be accepted
asa pbenomenOn; he cannot be compre-
hended or explained. He is a political
Proteus, a Sphinx, the type Of versatil-
ity and mystery Of all that is left to the
world Of the orscular and uncertain in
politics and statesmanship. In his re-
cent address, as candidate for Con-
pres. the chameleon has out done him
self in mystihcation. We have careful
Iy read the document and have no hesi-
fancy In pronouneing it a success, a |
sOckdolager ss q conundrum. 1t puts
us in mind Of the peculiar style Of
rhetoric employed by physician on the
Virginia side Of the Potomac, In reply
20 8 query IS to how his father was who
resided on the Maryland shore, whom
the doctor had recently visited. The
answer Of the physician was in the fol-
lowing clear and well understood man
ner: The intense frigidity OF the cir
cumambient atmosphere had so con-
gealed the aqueous pellucid fluid Of the
enormous river Potomac that, with the
utmost reluctance, was constrained to
procrastinate my long premeditated
egress into the Palentine province of
Maryland, for the chemical, colonial Co
operation and cO-agitatiOn OF distin-
guished son Of Eseulapius, until the pi-
quaint and deleteriOus matter Of the
athrites had assembled the Uranium and
penetrated into the inferior digits Of thy !
parental relatives cOnsanguinity,w where /
BY the morbOsity was magnifed 10 |
such Sn 90 extent as absolutely |
70 extinguish vivihcation.D It'll
took all this hyperbole to tell |
the anxious son that the old man was
dead and it seems TO Us that Colonel /
Kellsr could chronicle his own death in |
shorter space than he has Occupid.
Seriously, we cannot understand Colo
mel Kellsr as q politician. He seems to /
be kind Of political guerilla, fighting on
his own hook, and setting up his indi-
vidual judgment against the combined |
wisdom Of men as honest and patriotic /
as himself Colonel Kellar was a dele
gate to the Democratic State Conven-
ton in 1870. His name appears in the
State Convention held in May last.
which. nominated Governor Brown for
reelection, electors for the State and /
delegates to the Baltimore Convention. |
He supports Greeley and Brown, the
nominees Of two conventions; approves
Of the platform adopted by the Cinein-
matt and Baltimore Conventions, and
yet he is warring upon conventions.
When it suits his purposes he partici-
pates in conventions, and supports the
nominees; but when his aims are
hWsrted, he becomes a tail to the kite
Of Andrew johnson and denounces con-
ventions. We see from Colonel Kellar's
address that he is anxious to get up a
controversy with Colonel Haynes, the
Greeley nominee for Congress in this
district. A careless and athletic hus-
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ne permitted his puny wife to beat him,
made the brutal answer: at amuses
her, and doesn't hurt me-" We trust
Colonel Haynes will treat the assaults
Of all who pretend to be the supporters
OF Greeley with the same indifference.
He is engaged in a contest with the Rad
ical Grant candidate for Congress in this
district, and while facing the guns Of
the open enemy in front, he
should give no attention to
the popguns fred in his rear
by the stragglers and camp-foIlowers
in the Greeley army. Barbour Lewis
is the candidate of the Radi-
Gals for Congress in this district. Colo
mel LandOn c. Haynes has been nomi-
mated by the friends Of Horace Greeley
as their candidate. His private and
political record is above reproaeh. The
that nominated him showed
its ability in an exigency involving the
highest interests Of all, to put away the
dead past, with its prejudices and ami
and to take up thework needful
for the present and future, By adopting
the Cincinnati and Baltimore platform.
The nomination Of Colonel Haynes and
the platform upon which he was placed
have satisfied everybody except Colonel
kellar, who presents himself as q candi-
date by scolding everything and every )
body but himself The lsmented David I
NJ. Currin ran as an independent
candidate for Congress in this district, 7
In 1853, and with all his talent, honesty
and popularity he commanded only two 3
lr three hundred votes. In this district. I
It has been the invariable custom, when :
sn Rspirsnt for Office exfoliates from his !
party, and sets up his trashy and con- I
oeited opinions against the action Of his ]
party, to treat him as an enemy in the g
garrison. We have too much respect :
for Colonel Kellar's intelligence to sup l
pose for a moment that be indulges the {
least hope Of an election, and We can, c
come TO no other conclusion
han that his present object and purpose !
Is 10 secure the election OF Barbour {
Lewis. We can conceive Of no more
selfish and unworthy ambition. If
his be true he has forfeited {
NJ claim TO the confidence Of the party 6
hat supports Greeley, and should be re- I
yarded only as an ally Of the enemy.
In the present contest for Congress the T
battle is between Barbour Lewis and
Lzndon c. Haynes. Like all go-be- 9
7Feens, Colonel Kellar viii be lost sight /
b. He may possibly, on the day Of the :
election, receive onshundred Conserva-
i've votes, and perhaps another hundred i
TOtes will be given by such men as DR.. E
Beecher and Ed. Shaw, who cannot be
induced 10 vote for Lewis. In a contest i
down between Haynes and
Lewis the friends Of Horace Greeley e
.hOuld unite In the spirit Of noble I
and rally 70 the support Of +
lsndOn c. Haynes. The contest is a
'ttal to the peace and prosperity Of the
country. II Is a contest between
be friends OF the Constitution, free 3
and the open enemies Of n
law and liberty 1t is a 3
contest in which patriots Of all sections =
lnd all parties have forgotten the bitter il
memories Of the past and have COM o
lined for the purpose Of freeing the y
Of corruption and despot- 4
sm. We can only perform our duty in 4.
his contest by supporting Landon c. p
Haynes, statesman devoted TO Gree II
ey, thoroughly imbued with the patri- !,
tic spirit that made him a candidate, o
md whose character as a citizen is Z
Fithout spot or blemish. o
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JOHNsON's RECORD. o
When Andrew johnson was fImbling O
nd blundering over "my policy" the =
PEAL, a. did the whole South, en- >
Favored to sustain him in a useless con-
est, by which the Radical party had its ii
irth. When it was supposed 1t WIS II
Ohnson's intention, as he alledged, to +
etire TO that dignified privacy so be-