Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-02
EERROEIAN.

KERROEIAN.
Among the many descriptions Of men
who 60 to make up the kaleidoscope Of
humanity, the irrepressible is the hard
D. est to deal with. Full Of theories, va
carries, and ever bent upon experiment,
he does not wait to be of with one idea
ere he begins TO promulge another. You
cannot detain him long enough to assist
in the construction Of his airy fabrics; il
is enough that his brilliant capacity for
conception gives birth to the idea. The
throes and agonies Of parturition are
enough for him. BE brings forth his
mouse, and leaves to others the task of
nursing it. Failing in this, as he gen
orally does, the thing dies. But happy
r in the possession Of a ~fecundity equal to
any emergency, he does not care. He
contents himself that there are more
where that came from, and goes on his
way heedIessiy reckless in the midst of
a p~rodigality of ideas enough to swamp
the world. One Of these gentry, a
good fellow withal, and one fOl whom
the editors Of the APPEAL entertain the
best Of feeling, has, falling Of an
audience in Memphis, been telling
the people Of Nashville through the
| columns of the Banner, what he knows
about Andy Johnson's prospects in Ten
nessee. It would be too much to ask a
| people who so recently were compelled
| TO listen to Colonel John s. Kerr 10
read this letter. Having heard him pa
tiently as in his fervid and forid style
he appealed 70 them to support his pre-
t~ensionsfor the State Senate they would
not care to read what he has to say in
support of the ~arch-bOlteT who has
gathered about him all the disappointed
ofice-seekers of the State, the men who, !
like him, having failed before cOnveu-
tons and at primary elections, are now
painting them as Dead Sea fruit turned
to ashes on theirIips. Colonel Kerr is one
Of them. 1t is sour grapes with him.
He turns away from the convention
system which refused TO entertain the
exalted ideas he has of himself and of
his fitness for Office, and writes To the
Banner that "the Cheatham Grafton
alone was worth TO johnson thousands Of
votes Of the ''O5d bitter haters and the
few hundred Of their echoes" all oil,
which we think nuts for his old com
rades in arms to crack But read this
Kerr-onian paragraph and if you have
breath a~fterward, tell Us what you think
about it:
You are aware that Mr.. Johnsonls
election to Congress completely upsets
not a few gentemen's Well-laid plans
hereabOut, as well as in your division Of
the State, for being Governor, United
states Senator, etc. This made the
game desperate with that class, hence
the e~xpedients Of desperation resorteG
70, Of br0w-beating, abuse, bUllying
and every lea Of intimidation short
Of actual violence, so as to break the
force Of eX-President JOhnsOn's grand
effort and sublime bearing here, and
deep, all-peTvadiDg hold he has upon
the popular heart everywhere.
One can fancy without as much
stretch Of Imagination as produced that
paragraph that he can hear the genial
and youthful Cicero, with clenched fist,
repeating his compounds and his adjec-
dves with an emphasis Ci-Kerr-oIian
truly. But we leave this paragraph for
another, wherein be deals in sober
figures, wherein he marshals ciphers as
if in a school-room and before a black
board bent upon teaching the young
idea their value in connection with
Arabic numerals. Here It is:
have taken pains to inform myself :
Of the present condition and evident !
tendency Of parties and Of popular cur !
rents in West Tennessee, and I have no !
hesitancy in expressing the opinion that !
to-day Johnson would beat Cheatham :
ten thousand votes west Of the Tennessee 4
In November his majority will I
far exceed that. In fact, by that time, :
the fierce Titanic combat now and I
meanwhile 20 rage between the giants, z
Johnson and Maynard, viii engnOss all !
thought and hearts, leaving Cheatham I
70 be lost sight Of and forgotten 9
Is a candidate st al. Il
The ten thousand majority is very +
aughable Is the grossest Of all the fab Z
les Of this airy builder, and lily con- c
-rasts with what we publish Of views :
rom the ablest leaders Of the people, !
md the most intelligent journalists Of 4
be district, here mapped out. 1t is wen 4
Known that, with three or four excep- Q
ions, al the Demecratic and Liberal !,
Of West Tennessee are not only a
Importing Cheatham, but are san Il
Of his success, and that the Z
Dwest figures at which they put the :
Of the Democratic standard n
carer is fifteen thousand. In no part OF il
be State are the masses Of the people, 81
and black, g nearly a unit in
leir opposition TO johnson, whom they !
-ould lay forever on the shelf did they d
ave the power. Memphis and Shelby e.
1unty are to-day equal 10 two thousand a
for Cheatham, and be gains =
it'll each successive day. But We 6
ave already given too much space Z
, this letter, and must close with this ;,
Zee Of richness the italicised portions n
which win especially attract atten- q
Oh as Kerronian TO a degree surprising p
Others. Who that knows him has y
ot met the great political philosopher a
one of bis confidential and button Of
bling humOrs, when big with the inn q
Of an occasion undreamed Of, =
We by himself he poured into imPa- n
emit Z a tale quite as fat, as stale pI
I'd Improbable as this. He says to a
e Banner man, whose receptive faculty =
7 confidence is bully; ou
Some other @iBgs I would talk pri- ez
itely with you about but must deferit. n,
Do you remember my short speech in &c
.e convention ia opposition to filling fe,
D the electoral ticket NTH Democrats 81
BIO would, perhaps, be called upon to OF
Jte for a Liberal Republican for Presi- Ii
mt and Vice-President2 No10, 1 know lie
was right, and getting UiQhteT every IS
~. Very truly, etc, ff
JOHN S. kerr a.
Thank Cod we are at the end. The Of
st is for the private ear Of the Banner, il
hich, by the 'Eay, must be a long ear u,
take e sl 10 81 once. But we cannot -
ut with our Kern0nian subject without no,
him ia his modest reminder Of VI
ihoTt speecA," "h opposition" "t0ih elt
e~D1Ocrats," anoD,n Fighter" He is II
writer, but as peculiar in that asin the ID.
'eeches be made some weeks ago, in fee
hich he mfAga2 20 defeat himself at dll
e primElsn oaiss an But saegakever
.ua ~ no sides ofera3t -l~rF4fF 49,. ~
y, D5zc. Bacon nrmi shouL IiS Is