Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-24
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| The candidate said that IT was his hr5t poll
teal speech, and recognizing the response
| oility of his position he felt more excitec
| than when fscipg loaded muskets. H
poke of marching TO battle when beard
less boy upon the call of duty, and sheddin:
| blood in the cause of his country" We d.
,ot blame Mr.. RUSSELL for reminding hi
| audience of duties faithfully performed, with
the view OF exciting the sympathy OF ar
audience intensely Southern. But if it bs
light and marvelously proper for him to EN-
blazon his own war record, is it not righ
and proper TO comment on the record of the
ourly non-combatants who shirked their
duties during the W ar, and are now canvassing
he State, bounding at the heels of the gallan,
and battle SCARED Bzte2 The boilers have nc
-xpectation of electing RUSSELL, and they OPP
pose the introduction of war records, know.
Iug that such an issue would defeat 81 awkins.
The boilers are playing double game in
his contest. The people are to be told that
Russell marched to battle, when beardless
boy, upon the call of duty, and shed blood
10 the cause of his country" But when any
Democrat dares to allude 10 Hawkins's ma
lignant prosecutions of the ragged rebels, ne
is to be abused and slandered into silence,
knowing that the revival OF record 30
damnable will cause Democrats to desert
RUSSELL, and concentrate on Bate as the man
to defeat Hawkins RUSSELL has brought his
own war record into the canvass, and the
people of Tennessee intend TO keep promi-
nently in view the record of the man he ex-
poets to elect over the chivalrous Bate. In
contemplating the villsinous record OF Hawk
ins, his friends exclaim: "Out, damned spot,
outl" but it will not out. 1t cannot be washed
out by water, burnt out by fire, or efaced by
time. Since the death of William g. Brown
low Alvin Hawkins has been regarded az
the most extreme r adical in the State-the
embodiment of malice, intolerance and hate.
So soon a. the rebels returned home Hawk
ms, who was too cowardly to confront them
in battle-for he was a refugee during the
war-commenced his war by a system of per-
secutions as digraceful as they were cowardly
and malignant. He commenced arresting
and harrassing rebels with the view of ex-
torting money from them, as the following
facts will show:
The United States rs the Property and Estate of
Paca Wilson.
For satisfactory and suficient evidence appear
ing to me, hereby direct the abandonment OF a
seizure, made by Deputy United States Marshal
Mcintyre, In the above cause, on the 18th day of
sued by me on the I'D Of Jnne, 1855, and that all
the property of the said Paca Wilson, seized in
herein be suspended and said suit dis
missed, the costs having been agreed upon and
~ a 81 fs hs Tae3 states or tie De of
West Tennessee. August 81, 1865.
The United States Us. the Property and Estate oil
DR.. Psca Wilson.
Received of Or Paca Wilson $780, in full of the
costs as agreed upon in the a6oye cause 1v,,,,o
Attorney of the United States for the District of
West Tennessee. August a. 1866
asreed, in OF the United States against the
Estate and Properly of the said A. Taylor, COM
nenced by order of seiznre issued by me.
ALVIN HAWKINS,
United States District Attorney.
Dated June 30, 1866.
John B. Bond. Esq. Brownsville, Tenn:
DEAR sR-In answer to your inquiry, l would
ecords of the District Court either such case as
United States Us. the Property and ESTATE of Paca
wilson, or United States Us. E A Taylor,
: H E. ANDREWS
Clerk United States District Court Western District
MEMPHIS, September IA, 1880.
This was nothing but a system of black
n ailing adopted to rob and plumber the poor
Confederate soldiers. How was it that the
,osts in the cases Of the United States u.s.
}. P. Taliaferro, and the United States rs
.. c. Sturdivant, which were instituted by
HAWKING in the Federal Court at Memphis,
n 1866, and were dismissed by John L.
Williamson, as district attorney of the
,fice, only amounted, as the courts show, to
he sum of S42 so in each case, while the
osts paid by DR.. Paca Wilson, in the same
haracter of case while Judge Hawkins was
district attorney, as shown by his receipt,
which we publish above, amounted to $500,
Igainst DR.. E. A. Taylor amount to
800. Why this discrepancy? Let them
cad Hawkins's receipts, and explain
Ehy DIR. Taylor's costs amounted to 500
more than the case of DR.. Wilson. Let
hem explain, also, why these cases do not
ppear on the dockets of the court at all, as
hown in Andrews statement. They will
lease "rise and explain" what became of
be $500 received from these two men, as
'ell as the thousands of dollars received by
hawkins from the hundreds of other citi-
ems from this and adjoining counties. Al
in Hawkins sustained the constitutionality
( the infamous law which disfranchised
very man in Tennessee who sympathized |
nth the rebellion, and he voted for Bill
tskes in 1869 and in opposition to the enfran-
hisemsnt of 100000 of the best people of
he State. So bitter was his hatred of all who
ympathized with the Lost Cause, that
s judge of the Supreme Court, he prescribed
test oath intended to exclude rebel law
'ers and their clients from all participa-
ion in courts of justice. Influenced by
nalignity and mercenary motives, he per-
Iecuted our best citizens for treason and per-
ued the rebel soldiers with the vindictive-
less of the savage. In view of such record it
5 no wonder that the boilers and Republicans
vho are cooperating TO defeat Bate sneer
1t any allusion to war records. 1t is said |
hat Ben Butler has great aversion to any
eference To- his war record, and it is not |
hould express so much adherence to
eeord which, if not so stupendous and |
,udacious in its robbery, was still |
more yindictive in its prosecutions. |
And yet there are Democrats-Southern |
and Intentionally contribut- |
ng to the election OF such man as COVER |
Tor by voting for RUSSELL. But thanks TO
he patriotism of the people of Tennessee
his number is small and they are growing |
BEAUTIFULLY less every day. The handwriting
: on the wall. The position of Bate is in
with the people now as it was
Turing the war, and they intend to elect him |
governor over the man who has been their |
nveterate enemy in war and their malignant
prosecutor in peace.
D0n't Know She is Free.
In Lee county, Ga, lives a negro woman |
Who does not yet know that she is free, |
though zhe has been frequently told so. She |
s deaf, but can srticulate several words. |