Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-25
gress from the State at large, and has

gress from the State at large, and has
placed upon her banner the name Of
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CHEATHAM.
This popular favorite is the descendant
of a long line of heroes, whose robust
virtues, whose dauntless courage, and
whose wisdom in council assisted in lay
ing the foundationso of this mighty State.
Utterly unconscious of his own worth,
General Cheatham is modest in his pre-
tensions, simple in his manners, plain
in his dress, and wholly disinterested in
all his public service. He lays no claim
to oratOry. He has no trick of speech.
He uses none of the arts or the deceits
of the demagogue. He carries no forked
tongue. His yea is yea, and his nay is
nay. He is more a mar Of action than
Of words. He has a clear head, and re-
markable administrative capacity. His
knowledge of manis intuitive; his judg-
ment is unerring. His fidelity to all
trusts is spOtless. His love of his native
Tennessee is unbounded. The humblest
soldier in bis ranks knew that in
him he had a friend and protector, and
the highest chieftain in the army felt
doubly assured, when, in the council of
war, his opinion had the support Of
Cheatham. A hundred battle-fields at
test his intrepidity, and ten thousand
acts Of kindness to his soldiers prove the
g~entleness of his nature. Never did so
rough a soldier carry within his strong
ribbed breast, so tender a heart. Many
thousand ardent friends have waited
patiently and long for his day to come.
They knew that Tennessee would some
day call him to the front. It was fitting,
that when his name was at last written
upon her banner, it should be not for a
district, but for the whole State. When
he led his brave soldiers in Mexico, he
fought not for a section, but for the ma
ton. When he toiled and suffered and
bled in the four years civil war;, it was
for all Of Tennessee, and not for a part
only. With the truly brave, all animos-
ity ends when the war is over; and thus
1t was that in his speech accepting
the nomination, this, heroie soldier truly
said: " I am for peace, peace, peace
Under this heayen-inspired watch
word, with his name upon our banner,
We will keep step with the mighty host
who in all the land have determined
that the wal between the sections shall
end, 10Y and forever.
For the first time within twelve years
the people of Tennessee have had a fair
showing at the hallot-box in a Presiden-
tial election. They are ~contending now
for the very existence Of a representa-
tive government, for the principles of
CbdrtG and for the writ of
corpus. It is the old contest of
he people against their oppressors; of
he taxpayers against the tax-eonsum-
Of civil law against the bayonet. a
great company is with US. In that null
itudinous North which has so long COM
)ined against US the voice of many :
rlends is heard to plead Jul cause. A ,
Drave-hearted leader for whom popular !
lamOr has no fears, a merciful man !
Who sought to stay oppression the mo- =
nent the var ended, a sagaeious states
nan who knows that a free govern ,
nent cannot be sustained by :
he bastile and the sword, an >
onest man who believes the peoples !
money ought not to be squandered on y
liscreants and parasites, a l~ong-headed, =
strong-headed, a pure-hearted man, b
hose name, throughout the land, is the q
ynOnym of truth. That man, with his =
influence, his powerful pen, his =
auntless moral courage, and, withaI, b
le magnetic influence of his intense !
AZURE, stands forth now as the =
hampton Of amnesty, of ~pacifcation n
Id Of equal rights. =
Backed by the great leader of the !,
-issouri Republicans, for the second
ace on the ticket, and sustained by the
lief part Of the brains, the intelligence
nd the humanity of that party in the
ltire North, he has determined to re- II
EN- the government from misrule, and
bridge over the gulf which bad men,
r hellish purposes, would widen and
epen, between the two sections of the
untry. With our united assistance. tt
viii succeed; without it, they fail.
be Southern man who holds back now,
rough indifference, is no friend of his
ople; the man who, for selfish ambi-
IN or any other cause, seeks to divide
4, is u worst enemy. Ia