Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-24

present your claims on or before that time
or you will be barred" Now, which is the
best pladorm-that which proposes to the
creditors to pay the whole OF the State debt
proper, and tenders a settlement Of the rest
at fifty -and-three, or that which repudiates
forty cents on the dollar Of the whole debt.
sggregatipg in amount 100000 or
poses 10 pay. That which PAYS the
"poor blind girl OF Lawrence" who, it is
understood, holds s capitol bond, dollar for
dollar, or that which robs her OF four-tenths
OF ii, and tells her that unless, blind as she IT,
she hurries up 10 the Funding Board and takes
a receipt" for her bond she will be left out
in the cold. (Alas! Miss Busby, what a car
nival OF humbuggery that little bond of
yours has afforded the demagogues of Ten
nessee these twenty years. We advise you
to say 10 Buffers board, "Get behind me.
Satan" and wait for Bates board, who will
pay you dollar for dollar.) Bot does not
this platform of the Goth of June do pre-
clsely what Mr.. Jackson appIauded Mr..
Marks for seeking to do? Does it not dis
criminate between what is regarded ajust
and raid" and whof is regarded as "tsnjtla,
roid or UOida6Let
Now, tbis whole crusade of Mr.. jackson
against the unity Of the Democratic party,
against the reelection OF his distinguished
proachable Bate, against the best interests Of
the people OF Tennessee, and against his own
record, is illogical, disingeuuous, and, 10 put
II mildly, ungenerous in the extreme. Who
ought 10 know better thsn he that
THE ONE HUNDRED AND THREE AND THE
sIXTY-AND SIX
were advocated, if they were not conceived
by the worst enemies of Democracy, not with
any honest purpose to settle the debt but 10
unsettle and disorgauize the Democracy of
Tennessee? Who knows better than he that
a settlement at sixty-snd-sx forced down
the threats OF the people and the bondholders
under such shiny clFcu instances ID not worth
the paper it is written on? Who ought to
know better than he that the plaudits with
which he is being hattered TO his destruction
come from the belly of Trojan horse, and
that his hatterers themselve1 while thew
profit by his mutiny, in their secret souls
despise the mutineer? Ii there be one man
in the State of Tennessee whose single arm
is unconquerable in a conflict before the
people, that man is Isham G. Harris If
there be another who is mighty in their
afitctlon, because of his pure and honorable
life, his talents, his gallantry, his unrewarded
public service, that man is William b Bate.
Mr.. Harris will be returned to the Senate. Mr..
Bate will be elected governor by a trium
plant majority, and then, Mr.. Jackson, you,
ana Inc ike OF you, Will feel the retrlbutlve
prickings OF a conscience that makes cow
ards of us all" and that ought to have
plucktd the beard in advance, The temerity,
that inspired you to begin this fratricidal
and unnatural war. If you succeed in
blighting the good name OF your people by
your Endorsement of the Republican SANDER
OF reputation, IN what is the party-State
or nstional-profited by your triumph? II
you drive the party to the wall in Tennessee,
while it may well writhe under double
pang, like the "struck eagle that viewed his
own feather in the dart"-yet the shaft that
"quivers in its heart" will strike yon down
as we'll. Julius Cesar, sleeping on the banks
OF the Rubicon, dreamed that he had viola
ted his own mother. But when, at the base
of Pompey's statue, be saw Brutus's dagger
CLEAN among the rest, he could bat draw
the drspery Of his mantle over his brow and
surrender TO his faIe-for Brutus was his
trusted counselor, his confident, his friend.
\ STATE CREDIT DEMOCRAT.