The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-06
GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE
PROPOSED FoP GOVERNOR OF MIS-
SISSIPPI.
An Eloquent Nomination--A Name That
Has Magic in It-What His Election
Would Mean.-His Glorious Record in
War and Peace.

To the Editor OF The Appeal;
Sir-Your paper is widely circulated in
Mississippi and ii is to your readcrsin tins
S'1tc address this letter. Mississippi is a
'p;r, blessed with all the varieties of
climate, forest and fields, springs
o. ng streams, which 20 to make the
physical advantages Of n great State. The
Father OF Waters pours its immense food
along our western border, the Bgby
streams along the eastern, while the white.
capped pillows Of the Gulf send their
brne-laden breezes up from the South,
and railroads mark our surface with lines
OF steel east and west, north and south.
Millions Of wealth dug from its soil or
hewn from its forest reward our toiling
harvest is but touched. Her white sons
and daughters are mainly educated, intel
ligcnt and industrious, and in all their
ayocations will compare iavorably with
ihoso OF any sister State; her colorcd peo-
pie are as peaceable and well behaved and
rs prosperous rs are those OF any section;
her colleges and schools as we'll manned
and as useful as any her priest and bar
The equals OF any; her doctors. ministers,
merchants and farmers, men TO be
proud Of What more does II take
10 make her a great Statc2 Nothing
bat well considered and adjusted laws,
= executed by clear hearted and pure
minded Governor, whose executive
ability is equal to the demand, and which
will be recognized 10y every one, both in
and out OF the State. A man who, at
jackson, would be regarded by every
sheriff and tax receiver and Supervisor in
avery county in the state ~ ever present
with them, overlooking and revising their
work; q man on whom the courts can
lean as sure support, and 10 whom the
plaincst citizen can look as his uniailing
friend, whose moral aud physical courage
will always be sufficient for their needs;
such o Governor Mississippi needs and
should select 10 lead her people into new
fields OF prosperity, 10 point 10 our inn
mense resources and tho way 10 their de-
yclopmeni; 20 hold in check the lawless
and vicious aud encourage the good, 40 M
20 help society up TO It's highest plane In
all its social relations. A man capable Of
forgetting himself and his political future,
II thereby the commonwealth may become
greater and its people more prosperous and
happy.
there may be hundreds Of such men In
our State; this writer knows but one, and
that one IL Stephen u. Lea man who
by his gradual rise from rcgimcnial adj.
Infancy 10 the high aud responsible posi-.
ton OF acknowledgement in the late war,
gave such proof OF his executive ability
under the most trying circumstances that
his comrades in arms never lost iaith IN
him or failed to trust In his skill or conr-
age; a man who, when the war cloud had
passed. could dor his sword and cpaulels
and quietly settle down Un a Mississippi
farm and lot years struggle with every OPP
pressing element for a living a man whose
private relations aud social character Is
aud has been above rcproach through al
the trying times We have passed. A Chris
tian gentleman, whose words, department
and influence through all these years has
been on the side OF virtue and trulh-io
religion and the uplifting OF his fellow
man in all his higher elements, himsel
the servant Of the living God and the will
ing instrument, by example, IN helping
othcrs 10 a like relation. The man VIII,
for eight trying years has stood at th'
head ol the Fnuners College, the tal
shaft Mt which every dart OF lis cnemic
las been hurled aud broken, the unosien
tatious but devoted friend Ct the neg
lcc,ed but struggling farmers Of his state
he has never yet iailcd 10 meet thoi
enemies on every field and been iorcmos
In the fray. For eight years lac Inns sioo'
at tho head OF that devoted institution
aud with kind worls aud telling facts pa
st. maligners and opposcs TO open shan
whenever they would crawl out Of thcl
shells and come within his reach. Nc
for Jay. no, not for pay. Tennessee mad
him n tempting ollcr- during one Of III
most trying hours OF his struggle
nearly IS per cent. increase Of his salar,
Georgia offered. not long ago, 10 ncafl
double his present pay, but no, his heat
aud mind and utmost soul WIS In the Mi
sifsppi Agricultural aud Mechanical Go
lege for Alissirsippl's farmer boys, an
money could not buy him away from !
Eight years ago he set out 10 raise up III
agriculture OF Mississippi through h,
boys, and right nobly has he slrIycn 10
H. lie saw into the future far enough
eco Il would take dme and no little clio
NJ 20 do this, and In the waiting men woul
" oppose, some openly and In q manly wa!
OILERS viciously. bu, y sense Of duty Gale
aud he did not hesitate. A farmer bin
cell, he saw what they needed most, an
h. obcycd tie call with the same patriot
resolve which prompted him In 1851 10 ID
and bare his breast 10 the missiles Of
enemies. Ills work ~ the friend OF q
sannon Of Mississippi IL open 10 all u
world. aud the 1890 boys who have fro
tiDc TO tine been under his carc are tod
scattered all over the State and aro cpistl
10 be known and read by all mon. Firm