Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-19
MONsrEUR roNsoN CONE AGnK.


Poor, unfortunate Tennessee was
scourged last year with the smallpox,
epizootic, the ice gorge, the cholera and
the yellow-fever; but it seems the doom.
ed State is to be visiteEthis year with a
plague worse than all these combined.
1t comes this time in the shape Of that
losthsome epidemic called Henry s.
FOote. AS this chronic spout
er had not been heard from
for several months, the world
was happy in the belief that he had
been carefully soldered up in a double
iron sarcophagus, and was buried deep
down in the bowels Of the friendly earth.
But it seems this pestering blatherskite
has a grudge against the people of Ten
nessee, and is determined TO live for no
other purpose than to enjoy the torture
which his presence inficts upon them.
Foote'S temperance in Tennessee re-
minds US of the old. woman in the an
cient song:
Victuals and drink were the chief Of her Diet
Yet this old woman could never keep quiet.
He ecepdypublished book in which
he showed the instincts of the hyena,
by burrowing in graveyards, dragging
the heshless bonesyo Of the dead from their
long repose, and covering them with
the slime Of his filthy slander. Having
traduced the dead, ,lhe now comes for
ward to calumniate the living. He made
his appearance at Elizabethtown, Ten
nessee, on Monday last, and after being
introduced by the Radical congressman,
Roderic Random Butler, he opened the
orifice in his head and poured out as
much SCOT on Andrew johnson as is
found in a rusty stOve-pipe rudely smit-
ten. Judging from a report of this
speech, it was indeed wrathful and fero-
cious; but the old rattlesnake has out
lived bis teeth, and can do nothing but
rattle with his tail. In delivering his
speech, Foote forgot.his phthisic and his
and jumped up and down
like a supple-jack, or a little dog in
high oats. The esuperannuated old man,
in his childish imbecility, declared,
'pon his honor, that he wasn't a
candidate for United States sena-
tor, nor the advocate of the claims
of anyone. Next he commenced abus-
ing and Safeguarding Andrew John
son. In this he exhausted the vOcabu-
larry Of the fish-market. Had Rip Van
Wrinkle, after his somewhat protracted
nap, been requested to address his fel-
he would have spoken as
did this pestiferous cd man. Andrew
Johnson has no doubt been many times
wrong, as we have told him he was.
We are not writing now to champion
any aspirations he may cherish, but we
do say Henry S. Foote, with his tooth
less gums, can no more destroy his indi- !
structble greatness and imperishable |
-enown, than the disgruntled viper can |
iamsge the rat-tail file upon which it |
ynaws. Foote'S assault upon Andrew /
Johnson, made at the instance Of Grant |
md his administration, reminds US of |
hose ragged and marauding Arabs who 4
lave been pillsging the pyramids for
hundreds Of years without the slightest |
Ietriment to those vast prehistoric piles.
Vow that johnson is not cursed with the
dium Of Foote'S good will, is favored
With that high eulogy which consists in
'oote's traduction and vilifcatiOn, he
7ill receive the friendship of many old
nemies, for the name Of Henry S.
'oote is synonomons with infamy. He
constitutionally a scold and a traitor.
lie was born to be false, and If for moth
lg else, he deserves praise for the fdeI-
y with which he is discharging his
lission. Foote'S appearance in politics
ldicstes to honest men their duty. He
as essential to good men as lifeboat
, safe navigation, or a scarecrow to a
-uitful field Of corn. II honest men
7ould know what is not right, let them
tudy this naturally depraved man.
ind out his sentiments and interpret
be right, as a great nationality inter-
ret their dTeams-by cOntraTies.