Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-29

petuation of slavery. The general evident
~ believes himself grown - old there Is
no living man to dispute his stories.
The Hon. David p. Holloway, OF Wash
ington, cannot live many days longer. He
represented the Burnt" district of In
diana for one term, and was appointed
Commissioner Of Patents by President Lin
coin. He has been a prominent character
in Washington since the war. He is sev-
enty-five years old.
THE Independent Republicans" who
act as a tail to the Butler kite, held a con-
ference in Boston last Thursday and made
speeches 10 n another. 1t is probable
that they will put Gen. Butler in nominal
ton Immediately after the Republican
State Convention, leaving the Democrats
to ratify the nomination a week later.
TIE colored men want one of their race
appointed TO the ChaFlestown Mass
judgeship, and one of their best informed
citizens says that II. q. Walker should be
the man. His father was the author Of the
once famous Walkers appeal, a noteworthy
contribution to abolition literature, and
the first book against slavery ever written
by 4 colored man.
TIE Boston Post says: "Of course the
Republicans Will have Col. Robert Inger-
soil Bob on the stump for them. He
showed so much ability and was SO sue
cessful in obtaining the acquittal OF the
Star-route thieves that they hope he may
be able to obtain their party an acquittal
of the charges against it. What they want
is good criminal lawyers"
THE Hon. Edward Pierrepont, of New
York, who has spent some time in Salt
Lake City, is reported as saying that he
believes h constitutional amendment
against Mormonism will only be successful
when the measure shall have been enforced
that Mormonism shall be blotted out. 1t
is also reported that President Arthur is
convinced that the country is on the eve
Of a final struggle with Mormonism.
THE New York Herald says that Senator
Ben Harrison, Of Indiana, loves the Amer
lean flag, whose stripes are the Wristbands
Of liberty and whose stars are g%um-drops
Of Our beloved skies. He wraps it about
him as a toga, he sleeps in it as a soothing
nightgown, he would be buried in it as a
patriots shroud. Senator Harrison is the
John Hill of Indiana, only John Hill beats
hin. nj fl,a hagu lrtp, -, fn,+ hnot5 thn
drum itself.
POLITICAL virtue has not wholly fed
from this unhappy country. Postmaster
General Gresham has served notice on
Postoffice Inspector Giddings, of Virginia.
that he will not be allowed to go around
the State making campaign speeches. 1t
happens that Mr.. Giddings is a Readjuster
and had been selected by the Readjusters
to awaken the echoes of the State i'll oppo-
sition to the Republicans, "of which," as
the late A. Ward would say, Gresham is
whom"
NEXT years campaign, says the Boston
Herald, will be an intensely personal and
a1blNd OliCs ~ lSth dNdLlN iSS VIII ally
prospect of success the Republican party
will need for its candidate a man who is
positively strong, alike in his ability, thar
acter and record. To nominate President
Arthur because he is a good fellow" and
has lone better than was expected of him,
would be To abandon the fighting chances
for success-which is all the party has from
the present outlook.
IT has been said of the late Judge Jere
Black that he belonged to a now nearly ex
tinct race of politicians. "He never dick
cred with the primaries, never stiled :
convention, never bought a nomination
He never put up the money of millionaire.
against ward bummers, never made q for
tune out of a legislative position, nevel
sold himself to a corporation, never allieG
himself with the forces of monopoly
bribery, plutarchy, of blind pools anC
deals and trades of all the r~ottenness o
politics"
WHILE Judge Black was a reporter o
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania h,
wa asked one day by the Governor how
he managed in reporting arguments il
cases when he himself was employed as
counsel, as he often was, it being the duty
Of the reporter to give an abstract of the
argument of the counsel. 81 am like DIR
Johnson, as he said of himself when h,
reported the debates of the British Parlia
ment," answered the Judge. 81 Away.
manage to make the r~ascally Wings get
little the worst of it."
ANECDOTES of the late Jeremiah Blacl
multiply rapidly. Gov. Porter, of Indiana
tells of Judge Blacks experience in tn,
war. Wandering within the Confederate
lines, the judge was taken prisoner
"What is this war about?" he asked of
private. 'They tell me-" the soldier re
piled, ''that we have some rights We
haven't got, and if we haven't got them We
want them" This specimen of Confed
reasoning gratified the keen lawyer i'm
mensely, for it travestied the argument,
which he had combated.
blhSShS. SliESIER Il ARTHUR anu Slldrlti
Foster, who are occasionally mentioned n
good probabilities for the Republican
Presidential and Vice-Presidential nomina
tons next year, may as well disencumbel
their minds of such dreams as, says the
Washington Gazette, there is a gentle
man named Dorsey who is calmly waitin:
for the proper time to arrive when he pur
poses the political death of both these per
sons. He possesses the means for thei
political killing and nothing will proven
him from so using the means.
THE Little Rock Democrat favors a new
constitution for Arkansas and says: "Ev
cry interest of the present demands it
Every hope of the future calls for it. W,
cannot depend on the hope Of amending it
since all our past efforts in that direction
have been futile. The very men VIII,
agree that the constitution needs amend
ing will vote against he proposition be
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