Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-22
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roll, at a time when the civil c0ufb
1 were open. And when the court had or.
dered that the prisoner be brought be-
T, fore It's bar, you disregarded the man.
date Of the highest authority known e
I civilization and ordered the trial, before
\ s military court, to proceed, and the
death penalty to be speedily executed.
That In some countries wOald be called
murder, We have no jurisdiction in
{ that case, that win be adiudicated in
eternity's light with the parties face %
face. You robbed the widow and the
orphan, by your own admission, Of the
property len them by their
FATHERS,
Not content to wait the constitutions,
question IN the premises, In une single
declaration yOo left them penniless and
over that csss we have no jurisdiction.
We can wipe the tear from the orphsR's 3
eyes, and speak words Of cheer 10 the
disconsolate widow, but % grant am
nesty is not usif province. We
refer you 10 that tribunal into
whose amnesty department we
dare not approach. Fer nanerous
of-enses against Hon-combatants. we
Z bold you accountable to an outraged
people. But, Mr.. Johnson, did You. in
the kindEess Of your heart. give out
your pardOns without conditi0n9 No
sir. You required the one whom Won
had adjudged guilty 30 approach on
bended knee, and, over his own sigma
tare, take an oath which, If false. made
hln pepnrer, and which, IL true. rem
oerea him infamous. And now [ will
| venture the assertion that there has not
been government on the face OF the
earth whether desPOtic or republican,
elylli1ee or savage since the day that
Adam len Eden, that ever made any
sncn requirements Of its subjects. Yet
ms tllls man Is a candidate in a canvass
fraught with such immense iss,ies in
volving, perhaps, the life on the nation
IL Is really amusing To see bv Whist Dro-
cess he became a candidate He Saws
that he was nominated by the peopie.
BY what people, Mr.. Johnson$ The
people OF Tennessee met in convention
IA the city OF Nashville, and I confess
never heard Of your nomination. But
you say that the people were not repre- /
;senIed IN that convention. Very well. /
Ihen why did not the people nominate
THE CONVENTION
was called. Why not out with the
truth M johnson, and saw, waited 10
see II they would be for me; If 50. il was
certainly the voice of the people. but If 1
not, then il was not the voice OF the 4
people. Just so. The same old HYDRA.
Ms Surrat was nothing when you ex-
pecued 70 step from her head to the
aIIectlons OF the Northern people The
CONSTITUTION was nothing when YOU
wanted TO win favor with the negroes Of
lhe oouth. The people are nothing
o., only as tney pander to your ambition.
Ihe friendship Of a generation are forgot
ten m an hour; your hangman ofto-dav
VIII De made the victim Of tomorrow.
II IN your judgment il is necessary to
Keep your star in the ascendant. The
story OF your being the peoples candi-
dale Is, IN your own OminOus words, atoo
thin" There is not an honest negro
living who does not see clear through il.
And yetthis is the man who asks me to
exercise my right Of suffrage in his hp-
naf- All! What sad memories that re-
quest brings up! But a few years have
gone since the franchise, with me at
east, was thing Of Che past. I was
looIleu 70 slt IN Silence and see the
7, 4 eailh ana intellect disfranchised, and
ne ignorant AID vicious enfranchised,
lnd not VOID Of complaint was uttered
ly
Mr.. JOHNSON.
de stood alOof and quietly gazed upon
ne Wreckers as they riOted in the little
nat was left by the storm, and not
word escaped his lips. Can it be that
ne was an idle spectator Of that wild
scene? No, sir. He was driving the
laroed steel through his mothers breast.
and mOcklng the gentle life-blOodls flow /
N ThaFn I
ZEE needed a friend, some hand. with
to set her o. her feet ana
nd her GOd-speed, it was then. Mir
Johnson was in the ascendant. He ]
leid position, and power, and place.
J1d he come 10 her relief2 Not a hit of
t. but land L am proud to record i'll =
ne dld come TO the rescue, and to that {
ne We owe a debt Of gratitude, which I
WiIl De Zoe pride and pleasure Of each
ueceed.ng generation Of Tennessee to
lay p long as her sons and her daugh-
ers hold succession. That one was 6
EX-GOVERNOR DEWITT c. sENTER.
We owe him an. We owe Mr.. johnson 1
iotnlng, and would not remember him
'ut for the seats be left behind him. If
II; Johnson had asked my suffrage
'iI1out c0nstraint, it would have been
III AAAAAEs 4DAA III MS NrAlAHIln
peech he distinctly gave out that in vo- I
ing for him l indorsed his views
regard to all who took an \
'ctlve part in the war, which was tanta- e
mount to my going deliberately forward b
nd voting that the little Of earth that :
loids my soldier boy is an infamous o
ne Of dlrt. This 1 am not willing to q
%, and suppose it is the first time in b
ae history Of the world that a man was c
sked to lender himself and his chill il
ren infamous by bis own testimony.
II johnson may declare them infa- S
ious If be sees proper, but to ask me "
ss notion and sustain that declaration cl
asking too much, and how the living b
mrade can vote the dead comrade in I
imous and remain clear himself, l can IL
ot understand. 1t may be that Ten k
essee will so declare, but 1 will not be- u
eve it until it shall be published to the d
7orid, and the shame Of her sons be- b
ome part Of her history. So decides
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