Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-12
THE INNOCENT
Old Man from Ohio who was SO Inso
Iently Mistreated by the Red
Headed RevelatOr, not Rev.
OlutOr, from louisiana

Washington Post. There is one man in
| the United States senate who knows nothing
of what is going on. He doesn't read; he
hears nothing; he sees nothing. He is her
| metically sealed statesman-is this peculiar
| senator. There are torty-four millions of
people in the United States, and of these
| there Is but one solitary individual who does
| not know that there was fraud in Louisiana
during the electoral count of 1876, and that
one is senator of the United States. His
| name is Mathews. A few days ago this fear
fully and wonderfully ignorant person named
Mathews was discovered to have IN his house
| document in which it was recited, over the
signatures OF two responsible persons, wit
messed by other persons and attested by a
notary, that frauds had been committed in
Louisiana that they had agreed to suppress.
Letters were also published over the sig
nature of this marvelously and miracu-
lousy Ignorant person called Mathews,
which left no doubt upon the minds of those
who read them that the writer of them
was aware of the contents of this docu-
ment. And now this amazingly and as
toundlngly Ignorant person called Mathews,
rises as senator to avow his readiness to
state upon his oath and honor that he does
not know that any frauds were ever commit
ted In louisiana! And, upon the heels of
this petrifylng declaration, this phenomenal
ly and preternaturally ignorant person. called
Mathews, asks the senate to investigate, for
the purpose of finding out whether there was
ever any fraud in Louisiana! Under the Cir
cumstances, we think it would have been
germane to the question if some senator had
moved to amend the resolution so as to make
1t make 1t call for commission de tulaticO
inquire,,d0 upon Mr.. Mathews. Anderson's
testimony, together with Mathews own let
ters, stripped the latter of whatever reputa-
ton he may have had for political integrity,
N.,tl ANk AL
strength and more than ordinary shrewdness;
and he has stripped himself of even
that repute by his own words in the senate!
Can it be possible that Mr.. Mathews actually
expects anybody above the age of seven or
under the age of one hundred years
to believe what he said In the
Conclusion admissible ' is that ns his 0r res
cent misfortunes have destroyed his reason.
Words would be wasted IN comment upon
the utterances of poor Mr.. Mathews In
the senate. They carry their own COM
ment. A more dreadful indictment than
they convey could not be framed. Couched
as denial, his words form, in fact. confess
sion. Intended to exculpate, their effect is
to condemn, beyond the hope of reprieve or
pardon, him who uttered them; for by them
Mr. Mathews insults the public sense and
puts an affront upon the popular intelligence.
More could not easily be said. We have
often heard OF man digging his own grave,
but this is the first instance that ever came
under our notice of man screwing down his
own cofin-ld, shoveling the earth in on top
of himself, planting his own tombstone and
then tracing his own epitaph upon its cold
surface. Why, then, should he ask US to
drag his frailhes from their dread abode2
New Orleans Picayune, 9TH: "The can
didates for the Office of encouragement in
Tennessee mean business. One candidate
promises, if elected, to give one-fourth of his
official income to the public and private
schools; another pledges himself to give the
entire proceeds to an orphan asylum" Our
neighbor is in error. The promises were
made over the attorney generalship of the
criminal court of Memphis, not that of the
State; but the promises should be considered
in Pickwickian sense only.
Nashville American, 9Th: THE Mem
phis hight artillery has challenged the Burns