Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-13
ARKANSAS AND TENNESSEE.
what Moore. of Tennessee,
Thinks He Knows of the
sOuIhern Situation.
Gath in the Cincinnati Enauirer.l

Gath in the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
Mr.. VIM. r. Moore, the Republican
member Of Congress from Memphis,
Tenn, a man of careful appearance
and good address, remarked yesterday
that Tennessee afforded the best OPP
portunity in the South for the Repub-
licans to obtain it. In the carpetbag
era men came forward as Republican
leaders who did not have the dignity
to win the old Wing vote, which was
always the majority in Tennessee, and
which John Bell, by his weakness,
betrayed to secession afterit had given
a powerful majority for the Union.
We have a Republican Governor"
he said, "and a sensible man. We
have three members in Congress. The
State credit Democrats. as opposed to
tire low tax or repudiating wing, look
favorably on the present management
of the Republican party. They will
ultimately join us. The present Con-
gress has given, perhaps, the best office
for patronage to an East Tennessee
Republican, the nephew of Parson
BrownlOw. There is an element in
our State, the old Bourbons, which is
wholly governed by the resentments of
the shareholders. They exist chiefly in
Middle and West Tennessee.
Nashville is the most promising
city in the South, with apopulation Of
fifty thousand, with excellent instltu.
tions, leading Atlanta or any other
place in the South in substantially,
confidence and increase. Memphis
now has many miles Of sewerage, and,
we hope, is on the upward course
again. So you see that Tennessee is
going to be a great country, with its
minerals, grain, mountains, dairy
streams, railroads and energetic, patri-
otto people, Ex-Governor Brown, of
Tennessee, could have been almost
anything if he had been less facile and
plastic. His nature is patriotic. Every
body likes him. The reputation Of
Parson Brownlow is based ON his re-
mental courage and perse-
verence for the Union, though he was
not a prudent man in action, always
very radical"
In another conversation | held with
a gentleman from the Northwest, he
said that the Southern States were in
a very wavering political condition,
that in Arkansaw the Republicans
probably concede the present
seat to Senator Garland, to be return
ed to the Senate. Respecting his
integrity on the question OF the public
debt and on federation, he said
that the better advisers among them
we're opposed to raising a State ticket
next time, and wanted to support the
debt paying element of the Democ-
racy which comprise from one-third
10 two-6fths Of the Democratic voters.
Phese~ with the Republican party
could carry the State, and it would
probably be in the Republican line
for the next Presidential election.
MIR. Morphy, a Confederate soldier,
now United States Marshal in Missis-
was quoted as saying that the
last census showed a large Republi
can majority in Mississippi, which
presently will determine that the
State is against the Bourbons In
short, according to this person, the
having relapsed from a Repub-
lean oar~petbagism, was now about
white leadership to take a vol
form of Republicanism. This
person remarked that there was no
courage in the present Congress; that
he accident which elevated General
had d%emocratized the courage
If Congress, rendering them, to a GER
,ain extent, fatalists, and supposing
hat the present machine would pass
away by death or victory.