The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-21

cohuoi ieslsauon by lobbying, by en-
| ploying lobbyists, or when il seeks TO
control an election by the use of money at
the polls and such action is not promptly
met with judicial reprimand that will be
a warning 10 others, a long step has been
taken on the road TO humiliation and deg
radiation.
Our greatest trouble comes from destroy
ing competition by Illegal combines and
unlawful consultations. For this there is
! a remedy.
James Russell Lowell, in speech in
| New York last week, raised the fearful
! question, whether the country MAS not
nov incapable OF producing ercut men.
Ii Is said great men come in shoals, and
| again il is said they come whom they are
needed. Cicero and Julius Caesar were
born in two years of the same time.
| Shakespeare and Bacon aud Ben johnson
walked the earth together.
Washington and Franklin and Hamilton
aud Jefferson and Madison and Adams
and Hancock all came at once.
! Then when great questions of govern.
ment had 10 be settled there came Mar
shall and Kent and Story and Clay and
Webster and jackson and Cochran and
| RcGton.
Great occasions will again produce great
men, but not ii We are degraded 10y cor
ruptiou and demagogues.
AIR. PICARD's SPEECH.
Heroes of the Pres was then drunk
by the banqueters, and Mr. Nathan
Picard, Of the Memphis Scisdtar, ro-
sponded as follows
Tennessee need moi 60 outside the bound
aries OF her own territory 10 find sbund-
ant illustration OF the heroism OF her sons,
and in the legion Of heroes she has given
60 the world there are none whose claim
to n crown of laurcls is greater than those
| who WELD the pen. which IL said TO he
mighiicr than the sword. Rich as the
record OF human achievement il with in.
stances OF the brave and gallant things
tina, men have done; teeining rs the pages
Uf history are with evidences Of human
courage, io;tiiude and daring; brilliant rs
may he the lusicr that illuniincs the Nom
DRY of mcu whose names will never do,
Tennessee eau safely enter the lists and in
the name oi her sons challenge them all,
and in the very front rank 0i her knight
lest men will bc found the heroes OF the
press.
In peace aud IN war, whether seeking
the bauble reputation at the cannon =
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routine of colorless career, they have
been equally true to her standard. and in
the darkest hour of the country's history
the press OF Tennessee MIS- The sheet.
anchor Of her salvation.
When the tOcsin OF war sounded the
bOyb OF the press threw their pens into the
waste basket and took up the sword, and
upon every battlefield where the fight was
thiCkost aud the contest hottest, there
were they laughing At danger and cheer
fully brpving death in their country's de.
iciisc, aud many Of them nov bear the
scIis Of honorable wounds, while not a
lrN left on the battle field the unmislak-
able proof of their yalUr. | rec some ol
them before me nOw-onc notably, whose
Identification With Memphis and her glory
shall not prevent mo from mentioning his
name. mean j. Harvey Mathes, lhc
prc,i lent ui this association. who loit a
leg upon the battle field Of ChiCkamauga,
and whose remaining leg carries the franc
work ui ~ white a spul ~ WIS ever eli
cascd in human body. lie edits paper
IN this city called tho Iub'r Loigfr. and ia
moments OF pleasantly ! sometimes rrirt
TO II - tie reptile contemporary but
wish Ia have II understood that | only do
80 Ia u Pickwickian sense, and that thC
friction ol rivalry cannot lessen my esteem
%. the editors personality.
Iiut tie achievements OF war are N.
nothing when measured with The achieve.
manis oi peace, and the hcrues 81 the
press Who laid down their arms at An,
pDuiuiioX and Bith heavy hearts went
bltk To their homes, resolved to build uu
a new south out oi the ruins OF the old,
wrrc knighlliur men than the crusaders uI
yprc, and will live in history when the
Knights OF lhc Round Table are a forgot
ten memory.
turn from the battle Geld Ia another
and greater test oi human endurance.
courage AMI ioniiude. la the conflict Of
war, stimulated and inspind 10y the sound
Oi shot and shell. aud urged to deeds al
daring 10y the very cOnlayinn ut example.
little rccks The soldier whether his lir
goes out to make NJ the sim oi human
galiantry, hu' when pcstilcncc stalks
abroad, striking m the dark without VAN,
ing az merry, swift, sudden aud terrible.
dtg.pinting homes AMI ipisidrs ard con,
yrring city into ono vast charnCl ho,t,r.
freezing tile stnam OF life Ia the
hearts of men anl causing mcn Ia
desert uIcir own flesh and blood,
then indeed comes the t'st ~ tru,
hcrOisin. What wa the record 81 tht
press in the glopmipsl hour NJ this city,
I history, when the siouty-t hearts qunilc'l
with apprehension aud the hraycsi soub
quaked with alarm Who were the hcro,p
then, when hcroism WIS ~ common tha
thc term ceased 10 be a marx Ui distinction
| When other men fed in the widest alarm
deserving friends, family kindrI, home
aud iic most sacred 0i all lies duty -
what newspaper man left his posi- No
, one, not one, the clit0r Ia the picssman
from tile composition 10 the printers devil
10 tie eternal glory aud honor oi tic Graf
| vi which avn proud b. h. nn humid,
mctnbcr, let Il be recorded 10 letters u
, gold, not one, not Onc. not one.
And they were tried rs men are rarely
tired. writing al the sick couch OF friend
. winding up a slccplcss night hy q Slccplc-.
. vigil ut the bedside Of some stricken com
, radc. writing words ~ cheer and comfort
! and hope, with breaking hearts and de-
, s,airing souls, whoney,fy letter via dotlc,
. with q tear. God, Hlmt sight u was
3. The gnius 81 Tcnnyrpn has iiumOrialinc,
4 tie men who went down at Balaklaya, bu
no poet that ever lived can do justice (,
: The men Who figured - heroes IN the day
\ ot -.
Many 81 them icll, and among then
, some whose memories will bo ior'Vorchcr
. shed by those who Nencmtc true hUrUlsm
/. Herbert landrum. Of the iI,tlaHrL,, WIS
shining example OF his clas., aud all tli,
= newspaper world henn testimony IA bis
merit lie sleeps ut ElmWoud, anl ~,
4 ] f4tfrnugn al an iunntiahntle tUuutorv gur