Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-27
SAVAGE AND THE SUPREME
COFFEE

The following are the terms in which Saw
age, in his place In the senate OF the State,
denouuces the supreme court:
Talk about court to settle this matter Who's
" your judgeP Five little Tennessee judges to sit
&" upon the question Of the freedom or paSpetual
" slavery Of the people Of Tennessee. In the name
" OF God, show me the man with a human heart
" who propose such thing Five little Tennessee
" Idl1-yers; How would they settle it? Was there
" ever a precedent In their law books Tor it?
court is used to settle questions according to law
" 1t is too big question to be settled by any five
" little petty Tennessee lawyers. A man ought to
" be driven out of any community who would sug
" gest It, Why, good many politicians may get
4" on the bench YOUR SUPREME COURT IS THE
SAME SORT OF MATERIAL THAT LEGISLA-
TURES ARE COMPOSED OF. ONE OF THESE
LITTLE, PETT Y LAWYERS has MADE HIS
" FORTUNE OUT OF BIG CORPORATIONS AND
" RAILROADS. SUCH MEN CAN BE BOUGHT AS
.'READILY AS THE SENATOR YESTERDAY
SAID CONGRESSME COULD BE BOUGHT BY
" THE LOBBY SPIDERS. He wouldn't be one Of
" that little two-penny court for million, unless he
" wanted to make million out of the position by
" his decisions Those five little judges could get
million each from the bondhOlders, who would, In
" turn perhaps, make twenty million by the expend-
" iture of five million. When a Lord Bacon could
" be bought, and the court of classic Athens and
dental election, in the name of the Lord, who
would place the liberties Of the people in the
60 hands of a petty, corrupt, arbitrary court? He
would rather even trust the legislature than the
" court"
A greater outrage on the decencies of legis-
Iaton was never compressed in the same
space. It is a deliberate charge that the
supreme court IS purchaseable body. Saw
age should be compelled to make good this
charge, by proof, or apologize for his mis-
conduct. OF course, in view of the fact hat
the majority of the committee to investigate
the characters of the best citizens of the State,
dead and livingl State debt violated every
law human and divine, to accomplish their
real and not their ostensible purpose, ii is not
| to be wondered at that the chief of the repu-
diationists should wantonly assail the honor
and honesty of the highest court in the State.
Traduction and libel, misrepresentation and
| outrage, are the stock-ln- trade of the men
who began their work by asserting that every
bond issued by the State was issued in fraud
and was tainted with corruption, yet end by
| expressing a Willingness to pay one-third the
face value of all the boads. They care MOTH
ing about consistency. They are looking for
political preferment, and expect to set it
by corrupting and debauching the public
by the cry of Glow taxes" They know that
were they to put the question as it should be
put, they would be ANONYMOUSLY defeated
and driven back to the obscurity most of
them emerged from. They do not dare to
put these questions to. the people of Tennes-
see: ''Do you desire to be dishonored by re-
pudation? Are you willing to pay al you
can of what you honestly owe within a forty
cent tax?' They know that the answers to
these questions would be in the affirmative.
But they do not want the State debt settled.
They want it kept open that they may ride
into offices they have no capacity for, upon
the deceitful cry of Glow taxes" as if there
was sensible man in the State who wants
to pay a cent more than will meet the honor
able obligations and the expenses Of the
State. No, ne. This repudiating ring don't
want settlement of the State debt. Their
game is the traduotion of the public men who
made the State illustrious, and the creation
of an anti-debt or repudiating party through
which, and regardless of the disgrace of the
State, they can ride into office and dispense
DOVver