Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-22
EMPHTS APPEAL


knew CITY OF naAuitA ia hnAcn tlii
Smiths hsd not honest, GOd-feslins
representatives. An older family thar
the Hapsburgs, q broad brotherhood ths
smiles kindly on tie vain attempts O
the Joneses and Browns to wrest the
numerical scepter, the Smiths are the
sristOcra6c democracy Of the world,
When Adam delved and Eve spun, there
were Smiths on the rolls Of Paradise
voters. When Gabriel and his celestial
ab0e-plsyers summon the just and ne
unjust to range in final Judgment the
Euyriads Of Smiths viii be first anu nm
blest to respond. And it is precious few
of them that will be hustled over among
the disreputable gosts. For the Smiths,
in sll ages and lands. have averaged
a pleasant. conscientious race, who
have loved the Lord, observed his
commandments, paid their newspa-
DER bills, and kept out OF eOun-
" commissioner boards Great
IS is the name OF Smith, it mas recently
received additional lustre. Smith,
Volney V. Smith, has bulged up from
The rich soil Of Arkansas as suddenly as
The crop Of armed men from the dragons
teeth sOwed by Cadmus. The V. ".
smith, OF Arkansas, makes his appear
ance claiming to be governor Of the
State. Fearing the bellicose DISPOSE
ton Of the people he proposes to plum
der. smith. Y. Y. Smith, harnesses up
the unhappy lightning TO swift fyine
c0nuudrums, asking the President y
ne would aid him 10 suppress insured
ton and sustain him in his usur-
nations. When Smiths proclsma-
ton was issued ordering the recent
~ elected officials Of Arkansas 10 dis
psrse. Governor Garland commenced
asking who in the deuce and Tom
Walker is Y. Y. Smith? Anxious t.
capture the impudent stranger, Gov
ernor Garland offered a reward OF tive
hundred dollars, all that the law allowed
for the arrest Of the fugitive from JUS
lice. This small sum failed to fetch the
mysterious Smith, and the Legislature
Of Arkansas increased the reward to one
thousand dullsrs; but the obfuscated
smith is still q myth. The people Of
Arkansas care nothing about the north
pole: they have ceased to puzzle their
brsins as to the naughty individual who
propelled the brickbat against the unof
Tending pate Of the unfortunate Billy
Patterson, but they are intensely eXer-
cised about Y. Y. Smith. The voices Of
the Little Rock maidens, as they float
through the halls merry as the warb-
Engs Of forest groves, are heard in dulcet
strains inquiring for Smith. The cham
ber-maids, as they sweep, SIS they walk,
as they rub at the wssh-tub, are heard
calling for Voiney. Old men forget
their phthysic and rheumatism in their
anxiety to learn the whereabouts Of
Smith GrsudmOUhers with crimped
caps demurely kniting.in the chimney
corner, raise their venerable spectacles |
and weep over the absence Of the 'lOst
bsoeof the woods" The topper, mixing
his grog, hesrs in the bray Of the distant I
donkey, the blare Of Smiths war /
trumpet Y. Y. Smith must be found I
He Is somewhere crouched in the
swamps and jungIes Of Arkansas. This /
does not comPort with the dignity Of the /
governor Of a sovereign State Of the
Union. If the timerous and dastardly /
smith hiss the first bowel Of compass
sion, he will boldly emerge like
a hungry lion from his lair.
Governor Garland has important busi-
Eess with the runaway miscreant, and
sight Of him would afford JOY equal to
mat Of Christopher Columbus when his
longing eyes first discovered the land for
which his weary heart was yearning
Money having fsiled 70 secure the dis
covery Of the lost pleiad, if Governor
Garland viii announce his determine
ton to continue carpetbsggers in Office,
me absent, ineXplicable and mystical
smith viii emerge from his hidden cav
ern or den with the rspidity Of bats and
owls rushing from their nests at the
evening twilight The people Of Arkan-
sas seem 70 hate omith-N. Y. smith
with an intensity almost diabOlical il
its nature, but in Smiths absence and
silence we behold q man who loves his
enemies, and who, when he is revled,
reviled not again. He mas made his
name obnoxious, but he stays not
among his constituents, the people who
elected him TO the position usurped by
Garland, 10 defend mis- reputa-
ton. Smith even says he don't
want any blood spilled to place
MIN in the gubeFnatOrial chair.
Only out Of christian courage
does such long-suffering and heroism
erect itself What an unjust world iz
this-Garlsnd is cOmplscently filling
the Office 70 which the repining Smith
is entitled. But this subject deserves 3
more serious discussion. The tenacity
with which this scoundrel Smith holds
ca 70 Office Is snother illustration Of the
caIpetbsgger's love for place and plum
der. Smith has no more right to the Of
fee Of governor Of Arkansas than he has
b be the chief executive Of Tennessee,
yet be makes q reckless fight for the s
position. The country stands amazed
- bis 0bstinacy and effr0ntery-tbe {
shameless persistency with which ne
clutches for the emoluments he has so
long enjoyed by plundering the peo-
pie, The desperate attempt Of this silly
knsve, v. V. Smith, 10 hold on to the Z
government Of Arkansas under de-
funct constitution is the expiring efforts :
o. the worst Of evils, and We all await I
the hour when it shall be announced a
that the end has been reached and it. {
despicable carcass has been buried out Of 8
our sight The time has come to give il
the coup dc grace, and let US leave the
work Of dealing it the finishing /
stroke 70 the people Of those eommu- e
mites. The United States gov e
eminent has now nothing more to do
with the matter. The people Of these !
sovereign States have resumed their !
sovereignty, and they must not be mo-
Tested in the exercise Of their right to
fashion and establish their local gov
enmeDts after their own hearts and
IN accordance with the expressed wishes
OF their people, while conforming in ali ,
essential things to the great principles
OF republican government which under
lie the American constitution.
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