Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-25
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Tennessee Democracy, AAdfAlike Rachel,
refuses to be csmforted.n With ostentatious
importance he pronounces against the party.
He has not the modesty of Achilles, who
only retired to his tent when a majority in
the Grecian council decided against his
views. The disapproval of this eminent
statesman, though doubtless. receiving all
proper confederation, has not dismayed the
veterans of many victories and of some de-
| feats His has not been the bolt of Jupiter
| Tonans, darkening the heavens and alright
| ing gods and men. The Democracy in its
| official roster has been unfortunately too
much like certain mother before marriage,
| the victim of several accidents. Among these
| there has been no more conspicuous accident
than the present recalcitrant senator from
tennessee. His sudden and, by the public,
unexpected elevation from obscurity to the
United States Senate was cotemporaneous
with the passage of that obnoxious measure,
the one-hundred- and-three bill. Indeed, his
senatorship seemed to be rider to that bill.
So odious in treason to the people was that
settlement that none are now found bold
enough to defend it. One whose political |
elevation was so closely and intimately con- |
nected with SO detestable sfneasure ought to |
have been wary in awakening popular atten- |
ton to the circumstances accompanying his |
elevation to place. Common prudence should |
have taught him the policy of at least out
wardly identifying himself in this instance |
with the people, although he may really /
have no sympathy with the masses, as many |,
IL " IL al. - al ~ l
"yirtue,n prudence. he had an uncommon
share. The general impression is that this is
altogether the "ten talents" on which he has
during life operated. We have heard very
amusing account of Senator Jackson's
connection with the salient passages in
public affairs occurring during his life.
In 1881 no more jealous agita tor of war
for our rights in the Territories could be
found than Senator Jackson, then in the
glorious prime of lusty young manhood. The
visions of garments rolled in blood" seemed
to have no terrors for him. As soon as hos
tilities commenced he Immediately took an
active part, becoming receiver for the Con-
federate States government to con6scate the
enemy's property in the district of West Ten
nessee. Vigilantly and actively he struck
the hated Yankee on this line When Fed
eral armies occupied the district he was nee
essarily compelled to retire before the victo-
rious foe, and, consequently. he was forced
to the hard necessity of suspended receiv.
ership during the balance of the "cruel war;
He, however, calamity held himself in read |
mess at all times to assume his functions, |
awaiting, in a lovely village in the interior,
Ihe time when the Confederate banner would
aoat in victory over the receivers district I
aud the same should once more be occupied
BY the ragged braves in soiled and tattered !,
gray. This suspicious day, like the political
and national restoration of Israel, never
iawned. The period of this official
Exile we have no reason TO suppose
vas left unimproved. Amid the gorgeous Z
bloom, soft odors and gentle shade of the 9
'ccacia and magnolia in Alabama's sweetest :
'illage-fsr away from the crude alarums"
# war, undisturbed by the anxieties that
lustered where cannon hurled the "haIl" OF !
leath, and eruptive flames of battle marked t
he last agonizing grapple of hostile columns, o
e studied profound lessons of statesman
hip, on which his fellow-citizens might draw =,
t will. Lycurgus underwent the dangers of
rduous travel into hostile and foreign lands a
} formulate the political foundation of !
parta. Our senator was not disturbed in 4
is studies by any such dangers or fatigue; ii
ence the superiority of our senator. Not sat- c
fed with the studies of almost conventional Il
clusion, he has held his conclusions in :.
ate craft in allegiance until the present hour. | y
0uotiess oeterIniueu sive,. ~ -
he world no faint of imperfection IL
lould MARI their fair proportions. Through
lie tremendous struggle made by Tennessee
as to regain their liberties and franchises, p
is tripod had no voice and his oracle was il
lmb. This OF course resulted from the -
.cessity of maturing his system of states De
anship. It was not to be hazarded in the th
,reen wood" on the troubled current of that be
ne. The people of Tennessee have been eS
mpelled to wait until this moment for the "a
Dad maturity of the senator's de effeir,s ru
Tor the instruction of his fellow Ies
izens. This seems TO have eliminated in e;
lnding solitary among his colleagues in OPP fu
sition to the nominee of the Democracy.
9 are sorely grieved over this impotent
'ult, because we fear that the senator will He
denied in public affairs the hour of his i i.9e
Idies in his privacy during the civil war, les
refused the credit that is due him for chr
giving TO his countrymen, in their many s a5a
e contingencies, the counsel that might to {
We influenced and saved. to,
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