Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-08-12
f M PHI T S.
wEDEEs01Y xoEsIse. AUaUsTl2, 1857.



The recent elections in Virginia, Kentucky
and Tennessee have had Tie effect Of al las
convincing the menters of the AmeHean OF
KnOw-No HI 2 party, that it is, as party, de-
funet. They viii hardly ever hazard another
contest % on the sane principles We felt
from he beginning that tAe organizaiioa ear
RED With it The eisaeais Of is des,rue
tion-.aas it lacked The rsFy principle Ct vita
ity, without which % parry can ever i've or
flourish. It was al organization based, ro.
upon priaciple, but upon preildice-pl9alice
against foreigners, PrsjEdire sgainsi Cathoifcs,
and p~rejadice against the democratic party.
1t depended entirely for success, not upon en-
tightening the minds, lbsraIizIhg The views
expanding and warming tAe hesrts Of the pso-
pie, but Upon sroasias me p~rsiueiess and an.
tipzthiss which ws have epumerstsd. sSaceess
onder such circumstahees ooaid but be sPhsn-
erzl Tee organization was wholly destitute
Of every living, VITAL priaeiple. rs whole
tendency was 20 retrcg 3 datFou,to carry Us back
to past ages when men were Psrsecatsd for
Their religions opinions, and when each nation
regarded the people Of al other eo1ntries as
outside baFbsrisHs.
But the patty, or the order, having run i
career, the question now arises, what courss
viii is members paEsas2 We can hardly sup
pose that in the South hey viii co-oPe7ste o.
act with the Black Republicans, for Ibis wouls
be suicidal, to say nothing Of its pa,rtotfm.
We o5servs that a writer in the Eagle a-s
Eaeairlr suggests a ooaii lsn with wat b.
calls the Calhoun States Rights party Of e.,
Sogth. As for ourselves, se know no distuc.
tion between The Cdltoua Slates-Righ,s parry
and The Dzm0rrate Sistes-Rights party in a.,
South. According to cur yieE, they are o..
AID the same, and form a portion Of The PRES
ent National Democratic party. New V,
coald have 10 possible objection 20 ever
American il tbe Sau,h joiniag this party. ".
conceive it 20 be his duty as patriot AID love
Of his couutrg and TIE Union -, % and
this IS what the wTiteT in the Eos Scans, W
shall extend to him he TighAb< Of Fellow
ship.
But we are inclined to suspect that this
nos bic meaning. We think We can read in hi
suggestion a purI oss or a wish to ssgregate
fraction from he southern wing Of the Demo
cratic party, By preaching up extreme Sop,h
ern rights doctrine, and Afterwards effect
union be wesn this fracti7n and he Irsssu
discounted Americans. The leopard csiuc
change his spots, nor be Ethiopian bis skin
neither can a Know-Nothing divest himself c
his hate and his prsildiees- Why would Tai
writer in the Eagle join his parry to the ca
houn States Rights psrty2 Would be DO SO "a
the purpose Of Strengthening he bonds Of h
Id n? Surely not, fOr such a eouIse .woul
81 o &c plunge him into the gulf Of ssctioHa.
sn No, his whole and sole purpose is to di
co4ft the present national Democratic part
to embarrass the present Administration;
other words, to crafty his hostility to, an
avenge himself upon The Democracy.
We aPprehend that the great majority Of b
party viii pay no heed to bis suggestion, D,
will rather come to the aid and assistance 4
the present Democratic psrty and he Admin
isTstion Of Mr.. BUoHASAx, Al least until Ii
dark clouds OF Black RePubfcanism shall has
been disPslled. II this way they can do thru
selves and their country a considerable ssrrie
IN the other, they can, at BEST only crafty tie
hate, at The expense probably OF both their on
interests and those Of their country. We al
zeal TO the uoTs Moderate Of our America
friends to think Of these things until the coutei
Of 1860 comes or, and we have faith thai ths
VIII then join The National Democracy 50.
common war against the Black RspabIieaI
and Aboliti0uists OF the North.