Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-14
MEMPHIS APPEAL
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1857
.rx.yoR JACKSON AsALBADER

SrSATOR JACKSON As A LEADER.
The Hon. Howell E. Jackson was never
intended for leader in any cause. lie Is
not of that material out of which men are
made who stir the world. He is not OF that
class who make themselves the leaders OF
men. and who like the locomotive e1erts
inst az much power when reversed ana WORK
mo backyard az when following their own
headlights. In war he is an amateur soldler'
and in neace an am ateUr politician. In
1870 he was blatant secesslonlst, VINO hao
TO be held BY the coat-tail 10 prevent ms IN
vadipe the North on his own hook, ana II
was natural to suppose that al tue Close oi
the war Yankee scsIps would be hanging
M in his wigwam like 30 many red-pePper
pods dangling from the same string. In Vlgor'
health and statue, Jackson would have
made a model soldier. But the camp fires,
the march. the battle had no charms Tor
him, and he endured not the pinch oil nun
ger. the want of clothing, the perifs Of the
OUTPOST. the tortures Of the surgeons knle,
the corrodiug cares OF the prisoner OF war,
or the slow agony of disease, for he occupied
a position of luxurious ease during the en-
fire war. Since the close of the war he has
done much for himself, but nothing for the
neople. He was not heard from during
The era of reconstruction or in the discus-
sions of all the important issues that have
so;tated the people of Tennessee since their
acknowledgment. The statesmanship OF
Howell E. Jackson has been in accord with
his fame as a warrior Through the instru-
mentality of Roderick Randum Butler, the
Republican leader of East Tennessee, he
was elected to the Senate of the United
States. Inflated at his good luck, he
has arrayed himself against those who
have fought the battles of the people in war
and in peace. But he has again shown his
utter want of capacity as leader. Two
years ago Senator Harris refused TO engage
in Joint discussion on the State-debt qaes-
ton with Democrats, because such dis-
cussion would make permanent breach IN
the Democratic party. In this canvass
Senator Harris took the same position. A
candidate before the next Legislature for re.
election as United States Senate, he felt that
it was his right and duty to adj
dress the people of Tennessee and
10 make known his views on State
and National questions. He published a
list of appointments, and did not propose a
Joint discussion with any Democrat for the
same reasons which influenced him
two years ago. But as soon as Jack
son saw Senator Harris's list of ap-
pointments, the telegraph wires creaked
with applications from Senator Jackson FOR
a division of time. The division was
granted. In a few days Jackson was SO
punished that he threw up the sponge and
the joint discussion discontinued, be.
cause it "tends 10 so embitter the issue as 10
make it difficult, if not impossible, to unite
the party hereafter"-the very same reasons
which Senator Harris entertained and
expressed two years ago and in the present
canvass. General Bate refuses to engage III
a Joint discussion with RUSSELL for the same
reasons. Yet this refusal is attributed to
the fear of meeting his boiling competitor
So long as he thought he could gain an ad
vantage Jackson was eager to attack
Harris. After a weeks experiment
the joint discussion was mutually
discontinued on account of its injurious
effect upon the future harmony of the
Democratic party. Yet the boilers in
sist on a joint discussion between Bate and
Russell, and attribute Bates refusal TO a
fear of meeting RUSSELL. The contest in
this State is between Hawkins and Bate
The Democrats and the Republicans. Then
let Democrats cease their chickering's and
unite upon Bate, the regular nominee of the
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