Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-05
ATKINS AND TRAVIS.
The Canvass in the Seventh District
The People Opposed to Inde-
- pendents.
Cheatham and Atkins Will Certainly Get
FOur.nfths Of the Votes.


from an OCCASIONAL l0TftefOhQeuA
PURDY, TENN., October I've, in
common with this unhappy country.
look to the coming elections with great
anxiety, as depends, to a great extent,
our future peace and prosperity. Our
candidates for Congress for this district,
| General Atkins, the nominee, and Col
onel Travis, the Independent, or more
truly the disorganizer spoke here on
the twenty-seventh ultimo. Both are
men Of no common ability, and General
Atkins, as you know, has few equals as
an orator, . statesman and agenleman
But, with sorrow ] write, the time OF
both is spent IN discussing questions that
are deadi dead! Colonel Travis takes
the position that the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth amendments to the COnstitu-
ton of the United States are unconsu-
tutional and void; that the Democratic
party was sold at Baltimore by the con-
%vention of fools and traitors who assem-
bled on the ninth Of July 70 nominate a
President and Nice-President; that con-
yentiOns IRE bad things (h they
interfere in any way with his chances
for Congress-; that one act OF Grant,
l have forgotten what that noble act
was), was worth more to the South
than all Greeley ever did or said since
the war. The important questions OF
the tariff the enormous expenditures OF
the government, the wretched abuses
in the civil service, our rapid tendency
TO Capitalization, and other questions
that should demand the nations atten-
ton these d-isorganizers shun. They
are afraid to stake their election on the
live issues Of the day, but must pamper
Al, -.,VTa ~, oil IfnHa If nvaiuhfGaG
Let us anaiyze the speech Of Travis, the
disOrganizer, and the analysis will APP
ply to them all. His position On the
amendments, to get the votes Of those
few who would still keep alive questions
long since settled by the war; his posi-
ton on rings and conventions to get the
support of ~soreheads, disappointed Of
ice-hunters, political dead-beats and
DISCREPANCIES; his sweetness on Grant to
catch Radical votes. But with all his
nets, he will not catch half enough votes
TO get to Congress. Atkins is a brave,
generous, liberal, live, moving man,
who adapts himself to the ISSUES
Of the day and the wants Of the
people. These are the kind of men
This cursed and afflicted country deeds, |
and the kind four-fifths of the Demo
Gratis Of this district intend to send to |
Congress. We are delighted with the
blows you are pouring IN that old liy-
ing mass OF all that is corrupt, Andrew
Johnson. We are sick 'nigh unto |
death" Of his canting Tiny policy my
dear people, and what - have done
for YOU" and Of his ~numberless virtues, /
which shall live until the angel shall
proclaim, "Time was, time is, but time
Shall be no more.n What is his policy?
What right has be to say my people,?
What has he done for US? What are
his many virtues? For answers to all
this, besure TO read the APPEAL of the
thirtieth. Let him hide himself among
his classic hills Of G~reeneville, and ask
with 'faith that knows no denial fer
the Lord to forgive him of his many
sins. The people are willing to throw
the mantle Of charity over him if he
will but "rest in peace" This is not
his day. The country needs pacifiers,
not agitatOrs. 1t is true that the reason
Of the people, and not their passions,
should be appealed to. The past must
be buried before our dear, unhappy
South can prosper. Its burial may call
tears Of sadness to the eyes of some;
oUt then, will il be an easier task to-
morrow? No. "DO-day is the accepted
time; harden not your hearts, When
learn and feel that we are Ameri-
ans, that our ancestors fought shelby
side for principles they held dear, that
staked our all upon a card which
ost, and when we are represented by
UGH men as L. c. Haynes, Frank
Jheatham, Alpheus Baker, L. @. c.
men Of nerve and brain; Isay
when we realize these, then viii dawn
happiness and prosperity. Then let
IS all work to bring about this state Of
Greeley and Brown will get
Iearly the entire Democratic vote in
county. (When l use the word
Democratic" I mean all who are not
3epublicans). Cheatham and Atkins
fil get ive-sixths Of the Democratic
-ote Of the county, and, / think, dis
rict. We look upon disorganizers as
be worst enemies the party can have,
which we will prove in November.