Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-18
a FearraI AssauItb pom the sela-h Grew

- A11ASNNN~
EDITORS APPEAL-As aforeigner and
taxpayer, ] am forced 10 reply TO an ar
ticle appearing in your paper this morn
ing, but which, had it been read by you,
I am satisfied would not have been pub
Iished.
"Tax-PayerU says he attended a re-
form meeting yesterday at the Green
law Opera House, and c0nfesses he was
disappointed in it. l acknowledge he
was, as wanting opposition TO the reso-
buttons offered. He says: 'FWe could
not provoke opposition That is true;
he could not, but if he pretends that he
did not want it, let me say, as Horace
Greeley said He lies, the rascal, he
lies!" As forming n of the meeting
yesterday, permit me to imagine the
character of the man who signs himself
a "Tax-Payer.'' Either he is one of
those holding Office at the present time,
or he expects to hold it at the coming
election. / wonder his use of the words
politician and "~dead-beatu did not
choke him, for in both cases the cap
fits, or else l am no judge of human ma
ture. He tries to array the native
against the foreigner! 1t would be fiat
terry to call the man who strives to ac-
complish this fell work a knave; he
is far worse, and one squeeze of his
heart would yield so much blackness
that Bachelors hair-dye would be at a
discount, and all the gray hairs Of the
world crowd to be sprinkled and " be
happy" Hinson, the child-whipper, is
a saint to him. He speaks of the Irish,
Dutch, and foreigners, as voting down.
the merchants and men Of wealth. Let
me, a a foreigner, observe that we are
here IS Americans, and are as ready to
resist wrong and injustice as the native.
In my opinion taxpayer is neither
a merchant nor a man of wealth-he is
a blOOdsucker; One of those who have
lived by drawing on the vitals of Shelby
county, and Memphis in particular, for
years past. If mistaken, L will make
the dmende honorable. He also allUdes
to the drayman and hackdriver, but
there are mel engaged in both of these
occupations who, compared with him,
are wonders for honesty. | would not
be surprised if he would make an excel
lent scalper. | know too, that the "BOy
from Pinch will be heard from no
more, for he and " taxpayer" are in
the same bOat-bOth 0ffice-hOlders, and
unmeriting the respect of men who wish
for reform and honesty. What car
the people of Memphis think of a.
man who appeals to merchants and
bankers to unite in crushing the foreign
er when tUo-thirdS of tie business men
are foreigners. Undoubtedly. it is natu-
raj for him to hate the foreigner, for
there is danger of his being displaced by
them. Thank heaven, the days of
are past, and the
foreigner has such a f0othOld on this
continent that he can laugh to scorn all
efforts to disfranchise them. Who is
the great reform leader of the day? Carl
SchuTz, a Dutchman. But all this is a
tub thrown to the political whale. The
is to excite the animOsity of the
foreigner and native, and thus break
down the power of the reform party in
Memphis, so by that means our tax
payer can still hold on to the soft seat,
Or, perhaps, arrive at one whichh he holds
contemplation. VIII the Reform
party of Memphis permit this? II
assert, no! They viii not have a
Kilkenny cat-fight, in which the native
and foreigners are to be used up, even
10 the tails, to serve the designs of
lhe ofice-seeker. No, fellow-citizens,
The drayman, the ~hackdriver and saloon
Of the present day viii, 1 hope, /
be Taxpayers and good citizens five, ten,
lr fifteen years from now, when this
taxpayers fame and name are I'M
He is one of a race fast disap-
bearing from the land-the P~uritans.
He tells us he expects to go to Nash
vile. OF this l have no doubt, and /
Know, too, that his travelling costume
viii be new and cOnspicuOusly striped,
md that the period of his sojourn there
viii have to be determined by a jury Of
tDeIUe. I would give ten dollars to know
lis name, and am in favor of ten thou
and foreigners waiting on your office
md demanding it. The foreign element
f Memphis has too much power to sub
nit to any such outrage. We are with
he native-born heart and soul in reform,
nd viii prove it at the polls.
N FRESHMAN, A TAXPAYER, AND A