Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-03

- counties of West Tennessee, a portion
J. of Alabama and Mississippi, and 8
/" number of counties OF Kentucky. Hon.
d Milton Brown, who has been but little
: heard of in political circles since his
bold and fOrcible appeals in behalf of
D the secession of the State from the
re Union, appears TO be a prominent leader.
" Ihere seems TO be feeling among some
. Of our people that there is a disposition
upon the part Of Middle and East Ten
J. nessee to impose upon our western por-
ir ton of the State. or course there is
e nothing substantial in the position. or
Z the whole matter we will have more to
say in the future. There is a portion of
; our population of such an unhappy dis
= position that We scarcely know how to
: take them.
4 From the Dyersbug Progress
The new State convention convened.
or was 10 have convened, at jackson on
: the twenty-ninth, for the PURPOSE of dis
e cussing the feasibility of making a new
State out Of fractions of Tennessee. Mis-
sissippi and Kentucky. There was prob-
! ably such convention at Jackson on
Tuesday, for one was called to meet
there, and several counties appointed
delegates to 60 there. This new State
r movement is something to be smilinglv
encouraged by the office-seeker and tuft-
hunter, and by all persons whose CON
sciences will permit them to fiIch at the
public crib. Several papers in the sec |
tons mentioned as likely to coalesce I'M |
der one state government, papers that |
have pretended to mold public opinion. |
smile at the new movement in q 1
way that IS "childlike and bland. y
and urge as their reassn for not
coming out boldly in favor of the
movement, that fine constitutional
/ points are involved, and the whole thing
Is such delicate affair that they can't
! touch 1t until they know more about it.
/ Some OF them have doubtless found ont
by this time. They have been waiting
TO ind out whether the people think :
We'll OF the movement or not. If the :
convention at jackson on Tuesday
proved the new State movement a non
ular one, these hesitating journals viii
soon know all about the constitutional {
points involved. They are waiting 10 I
be sanctioned rather than ANYTHING /
else. They want to know what the con-
venuon has done before they touch the c
unciean thing. The only possible arpu- L
ment that can be used in favor of the f
new State Is, there viii be more State O
officials living off the people, there will f
be government buildings to pay for. and V
additional taxes to come out of tba L
pockets OF an already tax burdened peo-
pie. All these empty-handed politi- ~
clans viii be employed at the expense of y
the people, and none Of the debts al n
ready hanging over our shoulders can =
he gotten rid OF. We would simply be a
reohng our Indebtedness. This may -
look inviting to the office-seeker, but ~
the toIllng masses will scarcely lend 80
help ing hand to the consummation of u
such an undisguised outrage. When "a
people are groaning beneath the weight -
Of an oppressive taxation, it ill-becomes -
the most ravenOus of tuft-hunters to at :,
tempt upon them such glaring imposi- ~
lon as this. What good will it doo -
True, the people, Gin cOngeniality and e.,
social beaTingn may be {" the same - II
but according to all the laws of nature -
mat we ever studied, only negative and -
positive clements will work well to- &c
yether. There is never a harmony pro- in
iuced 10y contact of positive with posi- N,
I'VE or negative with negative This is ",
ne source of the law of repulsion, to Iaii
which we call the studious attention of 80
lur contemporary of the Humboldt ~
Journal. Between positive and negative p
here Is an attraction, and thus the only a.
argument attempted by our contempo- ~
aTy Is turned against him. We think 81
l madness and folly for a newspaper to ~,
attempt the earnest advocacy Of apy =,
u1lect which offers no argument to sus- -"
am IL as IN the instance of this new
State movement The convention met.
II was to have met, on Tuesday, and
We shall see what We shall see.
rom the Memphis Register.I
With the movement for a new State As
lst made at Jackson, Tennessee. it is
lso proposed to partition Louisiana be-
Ween Mississippi and Texas, giving
lhat of Louisiana lies on this side of the
iyer to Mississippi, and that on the
ther 10 Texas. Such schemes are nm S
But there is no possible thC
nange OF State lines, nor form of gov del
nor despotism hitherto known sec
Whlch Loulslanians would not now for
lady subject themselves to escape tiol
and the fate OF Hayti sol
al Jamaica. They are willing to con- its
'ildate, abolish State lines, proclaim the OF
nplre, or anything else, rather than re- o Fl
am victims and prey as they are. lea
D move to Hayti, South Carolina or Sey
is now getting to be much rec,
e same-a proposition to bring a shud- girl
r. In fact, the more complete and A"
.rfect has become the carpetbag Radi- wis
j rule the more are the whites dis an
essed and enslaved IN all quarters All
ley have no liberty left but that which the
rants give, Of departing from their we
er-beloved land. ned
ON the Trenton TENN NewsI lead
The Memphis APPEAL, in a some autl
hat lengthy article, labors hard to saw vict
mething TO sustain the feasibility of life
2 new State movement, but can't do II
We confess 10 be in the same pre- day
and like the APPEAL, do not fled
i disposed to say anything that might was
pear discouraging. in the article re- mis-
Ted 10, there are several weighty rea- by /
u.s. not why the new movement can't lat
,ceed, but, why il win NOT at tbis Yee
le. The hotpolitical strife that wonId mus
engeDdered Is one reason; the inn the
snse cost is another and the agricul- thre
al and commercial bearings of the OF u
lntry; the cold love" for names. Vat
lndaries, etc, all go to prove that q stree
1Vement like this will take time, en- LleI
~ and vast expenditures of money 10 ehar
accomplished. We hope those who Vat
impressed with the feasibility and DI
V2htages of the movement will sneak moth
with facts. - da1.a
IN the Chicago Tribunel som,
The new State, which It is proposed IN Now
Ike out OF certain counties ir Ken Hon
Ky, tennessee and Mississippi. will ing s
brace an area OF from 25,OO0 To "a oo0 is NJ
lare miles. 1t viii take seven conn will
J from Kentucky, having a popuIa- for z
D of 1914; nineteen counties from Wha
lnessee, with population of 359. .39q. know
/ eighteen counties from Mississippi time
h a population of 2S1 ,7S5; in an Yee-
.y-fOur counties, with a total popula- are a
D, according TO the census of 1870, of Why
,925, which, with the increase since HON
{ time, it is estimated, will amount VIII
'ound numbers to SO0,0 900. The prin- Com
Al towns which Kentucky will lose settle
his event are Blandville Paducah, IN ~ I'M
lton, Moscow, Mayfield, Murray and IN
kman. Tennessee viii lose Memphis. the
tonville, Union City, Dyersburg, amor
ley, Humboldt, Jackson, Lexington. Dy IN
wnsville, Somerville, Bolivar, Pur- slmii
and Others. Mississippi will lose be m
1y places which are now of historical
rest, growing out of their being the AZ
les of stirring events during the war: SerUe
lng them, fernando, Holly Springs. day-s
inth, Iuka, Brownsville, Batesville, "Tres
ton, Aberdeen, Oxford, Coffeeville, Jessu
nada, Charleston and Pontot0c. The the y
re new State indeed was the theater the o
many of the most important battles white
he war of the rebellion. This divi- of tb,
OF counties viii take from Kentucky witne
nat area included between the Ten bath.
zee and Mississippi rivers, the area in ars, C