Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-11

selection is good one. Mr.. McGaughey
is gentleman of solid requirements,
and possesses that frmness and judg-
ment which are so essential in a presid-
| Ing officer. He has experience, also,
having been a memitr of the House
since 1853. He v.s IN ardent supporter
of Mr.. johnson in the late canvass
KnOTUlle Press and Herald.
THE PUBLIC DEBT AND THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.
Why cannot the bondholders wait for
their money until the State Is able to
pay? Admitting all that is claimed by
these gentlemen on the score of our
present Indebtedness to be true, we ask
them in all candor are they willing TO
pay, at an early day, the bondholder
and force ignorance on another genera
ton of Tennesseans? They must do
this If they fail at once TO act in this i'm
pOrtant matter. We take the position
that ii is right to take our own time in
paying the public debt now in existence
say in thirty or forty years, if need be.
Let the Infamous thing be funded and
make provision for its future settlement.
But The ignorant children of the State
cannot walt thirty or forty years for
education. There is no need of bur
densome taxation on this plan. We
have as much sympathy with the tax
payers as any man, and would not have
them Overburdened. The burden of all
the State and Federal governments
should not be permitted TO crush the
present generation, just TO leave the
next one with enormous revenues, as a
source of corruption and fraud. With
proper management, the debt of Ten
nessee can he paid and the taxpayers
not oppressed, and at the same time
the children of the State may receive
the rudiments of good education.-
PIris hateUigeHcer.
PRIVATE CAUCUsES.
Yesterday and the day before rumors
were rife about the hotels and Capitol
that arrangements" had been made
which would make certain the election
of Speakers and also of State officers. |
These rumors went so far in some in |
stances as to indicate the formation of
some of the important committees. |
Private caucuses, under lock and kew, |
were spoken of, in which prominent |
members of all three parties took part. |
But more of this anOn-when future de- |
velopments throw further light upon the |
subject--NGshriAe onion and Ameri- |
can.
POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE Or
GANIZATION.
The national spirit which predomi- |
mates in Tennessee is typified in the per-
son OF the presiding officers of the pres.
ent General Assembly of the State, as
we'll as in the political sentiment of /
majority Of the two houses, attested by !
the result OF the elections. And, just as |
q majority of the peoples representa-
uyes IN the General Assembly are avow-
ed adherents to the Union, the constf-
tuition and the laws, 80 is a majority of |
the people of the State imbued with the I
same conservative spirit. HencefOrth |
let Tennessee standsforth pre-eminent
among the States of the late South as
the abode of political freedom and of na-
tional ideas, of faith in the American
Union, and reverence for its flag, and
respect for the law and the constitution.
The cultivation of this spirit has more
10 DO with the commercial grandeur and
political power of Tennessee in the Unit
sd States, of which Tennessee is an in
egral part, than any other thing. Sig
liiicant of considerable step forward
II this direction, may be regarded the
Of the new General Assem-
)ly; and as such, We hail It as an aus
'iclous omen for the future, "with mall
ce toward none and charity for all."
%, LET us have peace. ."-NdshriUe
Banner.
CONVINCED AGAINST IT'S WILL.
The Union and american persists in
our articles upon the sit
atiOn in this State, and attributing to Il,
S motives 80 foreign to our utterances
$ 70 arouse. suspicious of its own fair
ealing. In saying that we seem TO de-
ire coalition between the Johnsonites :
nj the Radicals, and publishing an iso- !,
lted paragraph of our article in support .
I its assertion, it places us In false Do
ltiOn and itself in ludicrous one. For
proceeds 10 answer what is not said !
lther directly or by implication. Now !
re can say to the Union and american ]
bat We desire nothing more nor less
han hearty acceptance of the Union
nj the Constitution, and the repudia-
on OF all dogmas and doctrines opposed
hereto. We desire that men of what
yer party bias, who thus believe in ,
le necessity for their perpetrs-
on, shall work together for that .
nj. We desire to hear no more of Gem /.
ral SO-and-sO or his war record In con. =
ectiOn with qualifications for office, or !
learn that "none but rebels" shall .
old position in Tennessee. The.Union !,
the Union still, and we are bound to :
e as loyal to it as we were in the days /;
"auld lang syne." The stars and \
ripes are ours as well as the Northern .
IS. Then what sense can there be in !,
continued refusal TO accept the situa-
on? What is there IN "the principles, =
ractices and policy of the Grant admin
tration," from which the Union and =
H1ericda seems to suffer such horrors, :, =
make secession correct or treason to I
le Government respectable? Nothing? :
hen let us come to the point at once, =
I'd understand each other. II the !
heathamites will lay down their cardi- E,
q ideas of prescription, Ostracism and -
lli1cation of johnson or Union men, =
ere viii be no cause of difference be- o
7een them. Both can act in parallel =
le5 upon all questions Of State policy. ;,
ne johnson men will be glad TO CO. :
'erate upon such basis. But il they =,
{ to be made servants of, or tools in ~
e hands of the Bourbons, then will -
ey combine with that element which -
IS alike with them a regard for the -
MON and the constitution, and a COM =, =
On cause Of opposition TO such spirit "
anarchy, as secession and its dogmas "
rry in their trains. Such, briefly, is =.
e true position of the johnson men. ~ ~
-eeRUitte Sentinel and Reporter. =,