Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-10

railroad ana SIdRe euCOuul6Tsi III HDlCu
personal bitterness and the nGrtured hate
OF many years prevent even the ex-
change Of the formal courtesies of social
life Savage is from M'Minnville, in
mountainous region of Coffee county,
has served in congress, is true child OF
nature and freedom as understood in the
wilder parts Of Kentucky, Tennessee
and Arkansas, is all fire and fervOr, and
is not weighted in the race by any suspi-
cion OF dignity or polish. Johnson is mis-
Judged by those who forecast his possible
senatorial career at Washington upon
his canvass in the mountains OF TenneS.
see. Nobody admitted to his society at
home, or among his personal friends,
can deny to him rightfully the posse ssion
of native dignity that makes inter-
course with him agreeable, and wins for
him respect, and those who are in his
real confidence are not ignorant OF the
fact that he regards the public man who
has filed the exalted office OF President
of the United States as under oblga-
tions to bear himself as becomes man
who can never again get down nom the
high level of the Presidency to private
life.
"ANDYn AS THE INSTRUCTOR OF THE
MASSES.
But he knows what he must do t t
what he desires from the people OF Hu-
nessee, and is not going to deny hiEnsaIf
of any honor or Office that may be gained
by putting aside, for the time and the
place, the post nlOTtem dignity of an ex
President. he talks to the unlettered
sovoreigns of Tennessee in the A B G of
politics, and to win their ears and votes
displays the biggest and most highly
col0reSi illustrations Of the text. But
once in the senate, his friends have no
doubt his speech there will be as deco
rous as his State papers while President,
though in the Tennessee mountains he
will always be candy Johnson" the
friend Of the masses, and their patient
instructor in such rudiments of govern
ment as they can best understand and
best appreciate. Taxation, for instance,
is favorite topic with himself and bis
audiences; for the most thrifty farmers
in the State, though they manage to get
enough to eat and to wear, and a mod
crate renewal of farm stock and imple-
ments, are put to their wits ends for
money to pay the accommodations OF taxes.
Mr., johnson attributes his nnerous bur-
den of taxation to the growth Of extrav
agance and corruption in government
to place hunting and idleness on the
part of large proportion OF what ought
to be the industrious classes, to the eX-
cessive number of middlemen in the
marts of trade, and to the plunder of the
hardworking mass by the blOated bond
holding capitalists. How he proposes 10
change all this he is not able 10 say, Of
course, Just now; but his hearers listen
with attention to his simple but vivid
picturing of their wrongs, and measure
both the extent Ofhis energy and success
in redressing them by the energy and
success with which he sets them forth
THE THIRD AsPIRANT.
The third combatant, and probably
the real opponent Of johnson, in the
Tennessee triangular conflict, is the pres
ent governor, John G. Brown, of Giles.
This gentleman has come prominently
and favorably before the public lately by
his assertion of the right and power OF
the State to repress and punish crimes
committed against her peace and dignl-
ty, without the intervention of the all
grssping kuklux act of congress, which
attempts to oust the State Judiciary from
cognizance of what is really but COM
mon law Offense. and not essentially
political one. But it is doubtful if Gov
ernor Brown could do whss ne assured
the United States attOrney-general he
could do-that is, secure fair trial and
speedy punishment to the Gibson coun-
ty murderers. He-is in the hands OF
the faction to which his nominal rival,
but real ally, Colonel Savage, belongs
the party that in days before the war
neld all the real estate, lived off their
rents and mortgages and the sale OF the
| increase of their negro stock; fattened
in sort of drOpsical way, while
the State at large lay supine or slowly
decaying, and now lament, as real
| loss and ruin to society, the nominal
value of the negroes whom emancipa-
! ton has changed from chattels to men
without actually impairing their pro-
ductipg value cents worth. Governor
Brown, in his political character, is es-
teemed 8 weak man, but very cunning
and highly skilled in combination or
s1og-rolling.n This leads to his being
both feared and distrusted; but at this
time his chances are not considered good
outside of the statehouse Bourbon ring
and likely enough he, as well as the
noisy Savage, will be laid aside when
the legislature gets down to the real
work Of electing PaTson Brownlow's sue
cessor.
A POSSIBLE FOURTH CANDIDATE.
If one were compelled at this moment
to guess at the man on whom the DEM
ocratic- Conservative opposition to john
son will settle, il successful at the polls,
the guesser would, in nine cases out OF
ten, pitch upon Judge John NJ. Lea, OF
Nashville. Judge Lea is a wealthy man,
| highly descended and connected, Ten
nessean in speech and manner, but s
gentleman withal, and SO universally
esteemed for integrity and conscientious
ness in things both big and little as to
be almost a phenomenon for q man who
has been in public life and taken sides
in politics. He is an original Union
man, too, Of lS60-6l, was identified with
the Union party all through the war,
and neyer COMPROMISED himself in the
rebellion, except by = small contribution
70 the equipment Of military company
when Nashville had gone mad with the
secession fever. At that time Union
men of property, like Judge Lea,
trembling for the safety Of their
persons and possessions, were at
| the mercy of any staggering, blus-
tering, penniless adve turer who chose
to pin q Confederate badge to his coat
and dog the footsteps OF a Union man
with subscription lists to raise compa-
nies in defense OF southern rights. Ii
| Judge Lea, or any other acceptable man,
is put in nomination by the Conserva-
nves after their expected triumph at the
polls, Ex.President Johnson will have
to stay at Greeneville for at least two or
three years longer; but nothing but the
most unblushing and successful treach-
cry on the part of the legislature next
winter can defeat him by any represent
ative of the Bourbon element like Brown
or Savage He looks hale and hearty
enough to-day to wait till all his COM
petitors have died OF old age, and has
the spirit OF a race-horse and the courage
of lion within him, despite defeat, de-
lay, ridicule and abuse. At Greeneville,
his quiet home, he busies himself cheer
fully With the problems OF free govern
ment and sound finance, and, whenever
called to go to Washington, will be
found ready to enter upon what he re-
CARDS as just and wise legislation for al
mankind.
From Jhe Gold Coast
LONDON, November T.-Advices from
the gold coast state that q great gather
ing OF native chiefs was he'll at Caps
Castle on the twenty-eighth of Octobel
to express their views on slavery and
other questions. King Kaffee, of Asian
tee, unable to recover ascendancy owe
the neIghbOring tribes, has settled dowl
quietly and wishes trade relations re
sumed. The HOusas, stationed on thu
river Prahare, are pillaging traders.
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