Memphis Daily Appeal

The following, more forcibly than any thing we ever saw or heard, reminds us of the course of some of the prominent tories of the Revolution of 1776. The treacherous, cowardly scoundrels of those days, when Great Britain had overrun the country, thought they had secured a good thing for themselves in the future when they tried to convince the people that the English government would certainly be re-established. The blasting of Campbell's hopes will be equal to theirs. We would advise him to keep out of the way when our boys get about : EX-GOVERNOR CAMPBELL, OF TENNESSEE.-A Nashville correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, says this noble patriot addressed some words of admonition to his Lebanon neighbors, which were in excellent taste and quite seasonable. Gathering as many of them as possible around him, without making public advertisement, he is said to have addressed them much after this fashion: Neighbors, very many of you were my friends in youth. Some of you were my playmates in childhood. Till this foolish rebellion commenced, we lived in peace and good will, and I had not only your respect as a neighbor, but your confidence in positions of trust and responsibility. Nor have you ever complained that I failed to fill the measure of your confidence. When you chose to be the dupes of wicked men, and to rebel against the government which has ever protected all of us, some of us from the days of childhood till our heads are being frosted with the evidences of age, I would not rebel with you, but remained quiet, when I saw that remonstrance was vain Your folly had its day of fitful triumph. Now the soldiers of the nation have driven away the army mustered by conspirators, and I have the pleasure of living under the government to which I early swore unalterable allegiance, and the pride of seeing the national flag wave over the capital of the State. I enjoy the pleasure without tantalizing you or reminding you needlessly of your past folly. I wish to live with you, my neighbors, on terms of peace, and leave you to your own reflections for the seeds of repentance. But let me warn you candidly that I will not longer live with you on terms of friendship if you continue to act in league with the enemies of the government, and to invite murderous bands into our peaceful villages. Whenever I desire to do so, I can get the aid of two or three thousand able-bodied Tennesseans, who know my voice and will follow me; and I can get excellent guns, with good bayonets to put into their hands. If you will not live in peace with me you shall have war. I intend, in concert with my loyal neighbors, to have quiet under the government of our fathers. If you will let us have it peaceably, we shall be glad of it. If not, we shall seek it at the point of the bayonet.