Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-08
WASHINGTON, August 8, 1882.

Hon. s. S. Garrett, Chairman, etc.:
Mr. DEAR SIR have the honor 10 ac-
knowledge the receipt of your esteemed
favor OF the 9th ultimo, asking if it be nv
intention to stand for denomination, etc. /,
will be remembered that at the last conyen-
ton IN our district, L was nominated without
my knowledge or consent, and only consented
after mature and serious deliberation to
make the race, because at that timeit seemed
almost certain that the election of a single
Republican would decide the political COM
pleIion of the Forty-seventh Congress.
The more l reflected the more / was i'm
pressed with the profound Importance to all
material interests of the country of the de-
feat Of the Bourbon bulldozing and tissue
ballot Democracy, and so feeling, entered
upon the fight, with what vigor and what re-
suit the country is already familiar. 1 do
not believe, in view of the growing spirit of
progress, that the next Congress is likely 10
be controlled by SO slender a Republican
majority, and l I'M firmly persuaded that
our own district for many reasons will send
my successor to Washington with a Republi-
can majority much larger than that which
sent myself. Believing this, and having no
political ambition to crafty, L have deter
mined that under no circumstances will l be
a candidate for reelection.
As TO any desire for a vindication Of my
official conduct during the present term by a
second Endorsement at the polls, / can truly
say hat having at all times lone what.
seemed 10 me for the best interests of the
country, / am quite conten. that those who
have already so highly honored me may in
the quiet years hat are TO come impartially
make up and render their verdict, never N.Y.
self forgetting meanwhile the deep sense of
my own fallibility. Ii anything could in
duce me TO GEEK a second term it would be
the very many gratifying expressions of
confidence which pour in upon me not only
from our W district, but from all parts of
and the country. But desiring no
official honors, and knowing that we have
ADLER and better men whose tastes in
cline them 10 public p~referment, /
shall gladly retire. / am not so blinded
by the Establishments OF brief au-
thority as TO imagine that my course has |
pleased everybody. Indeed, 1 have not found
ii possible to please even myself. L am proud, !
however, that my habit has been to make
war on policies, not upon individuals; to
fight in an open field, not from behind
masked batteries, and that no man, whether /
political friend or foe, has ever for a moment :.
difficulty in exactly locating me. |
Therefore, if 1 have been a relentless and |
.nyielding foe 10 Bourbon Democracy, it is
because of its constant, violent and vindic-
i've opposition to every form of national
material development and human progress.
If l have made continuous and vigorous
on its narrow and exclusive policy,
hose who know me best will not charge that
t has been done for personal profit. II l
lave fought the p~roscriptiye methods of any
newspaper that has thought proper
o advocate, by name, the expulsion of re-
pectable ~citizsns from my own city and
district, solely because they were Republi-
ans, 1 have done SO at great personal cost,
nd only because my ingrained love of JUS
ice and fair play to all classes OF my fellow
itizens would not suffer me to remain silent.
( / have hated with a perfect hatred the
avage temper that has animated that
onscienceless party, it is because it
as encouraged and tacitly, If not
peuly, Endorsed all over the beautiful
that diabolical spirit which in
pred the Kuklux Khan, that stuffed ballot
oxes with fraudulent tissue ballots; that
Jared and drove out honest voters from the
oils and burned the schoolhouses of poor,
colored people who were inno-
entity seeking, in a laudable and lawful way,
build up and elevate their lowly condi-
on. III / have striven with what feeble
oility / could command 10 defeat their at
mpts to degrade the honor and credit of
y State, and to disintegrate, belittle and
ing into disrepute the great, free nation of
hich 1 am proud TO be an humble citizen,
is because next to the God of heaven /
orship it as the god ofmy idolatry. Finally,
y dear sir, with a grateful appreciation of
e unsought honor bestowed on me by the
,od people of the Tenth congressional dis
let and the sincere hope that a wiser and
tier successor may occupy in my stead a
epublican seat in the Forty-eighth Con-
ess, l beg to subscribe myself, very respect {
lily, your obedient servant.
WILLIAM r MOORE