Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1859-11-16

and wanting in dramatic skill. When THIS Is
said. all is said oguiasi it that can be said.
As a frs. work, It premises Tar better
thinEs in the future from The same pen.
The plot is very simple, and the scene is wholly
laid in southern city, supposed to be Mobile.
Notwithstanding the objections ] have men
toned. read it through almost at a single SIT
ting, and an not at all surprised at the attea-
ion whichsit has attracted, and the sensation
il has produced in literary circles both North
and south. It is a religious novel, and deals
largely with those awful problems Of human
Hfe-Bheuce? trhiihT9 therefore (which con
stantIy come home 70 every man and woman in
he world. The heroine, sBeulsh,H a most no
BE and rather too self-reliant woman, has an
exceeding hard road to travel over Alps on
Aims OF doubt, across glaciers Of skspticisn,
and down through dark valleys and shadows
Of unbelieE. Bat, finally, she comes out vieto-
rious Ger all the bese'ments Of infdelity, and
returns TO an mistaken faith in cur holy
rergion-ven the faith she had when a little
child. It is certainly one Of the most cheer
/ ing signs Of the times, that nearly all Of the
new novels which have lately made a noise in
The world, have been Of a religious cast.
| Happily, religious literature is at a premium.
Loag nav it be go 4" quoted.' "Beulah"
nav be obtained at Cleaves & Vaden's-
Ian glad to see that the result Of the cleo
tons IN New York is not SO bad as the first
dispatches would have had Us believe. The
Black-RepubIicsn majority has been much re-
sucel, If not utterly destroyed. In Massaehu-
setts, New Jersey and Wisconsin, however, the
Harper's Ferry outrage seems to have done
nothingtoward opening the eyes Of anti-slayey
men 20 the enormity Of their creed andthe m
imaginable riIlainies 70 which It leads- Let
ters from southern men, sojourning at the
North. give a gloomy account Of the fanati-
-ism which prevails almost everywhere, espe-
| esaHv 10 Philadelphia, New Terk, Boston and
throughout New England and Ohio. The Ga
buseher and horse-thieE Brown, who attempted
O srt FIRE TO the temple Of the Union, and who
sounded the tocsin for a revolution which, if
sueesssfuI, wonld have ended in the slaughter
n many thousand white people and The total
, uie-minafioa Of He black race, is everywhere
svmaalhizsd with and hsl5 up as a martyr in
2 holy cause. To these expressions Of SYM
patty, no dissent is made, no public meetings
are held 10 condemn the attempted infamy, no
| great and leading statesman speaks out in be-
half Of the Constitution and laws, or moves a
1 finger to stem the rushing tide which begins
| seriously 70 threaten the very citadel OF the
Uaion.
Inctice that my friend Galloway, Of the
.aialauehe, gets of nearly a column Of "gOOi
/ things" a ny expense, in his paper last Sat
urdsv. Tell him that / enjoyed them hugely,
| Notwithstanding / have 10 "foot the bill
But among bis good things there are some bad
ones that ought not 70 pass current. For in
| stance, the charge that I am d" a raw recruit
| drilling the veterans Inail to the counter.
[ claim only to be an ALLY Of the Democracy,
fighting with them, on my own /" hook," for
States rights and the psrPstuity Of the Union.
Believing that the Democratic party is the
oalT national one left in the country, and that
it ought to be sustained in this crisis, as the
last bulwark Of the Constitution and the
Union, l come forward not to 4" drill" but
merely to offer ny counsel to the veterans
Of the party for whatever it may be worth.
Even raw recruits I prssume, have a right
70 do this and now, having done this, and
nothing more, I resume my appropriate "back
seat to which be assigns ne, IN the council
chamber.
From nv back seat'' in the Democratic
ssuhsdrim, Ihave, for months past watched
he proceedings Of the " vsterans' with pecu-
liar interest Daring that time many speaker
have occupied the tribune, and given thel
views on the state Of the patty and th'
prospects ahead. Among these ny friend Gal
( lswsy has been the lo1iest, the most frequent
the most uncompromising ranter Of all. Ever
day be mounts the rostTum to rave sgains
g. me politicsl leader, OF bull bis thundsrs a
the banks. At first it was Etheridge upo'
whom he poured The vials Of bis wrath. L
this I went along with ana applauded him.
was glad to see him /" smash up7 Mr.. Bslfl
"right bower and Horace Greely's "southerl
pets That was before our State elections
Since then, a great Democratic leader hs.
been the chosen object Of his invectire, and
every morning, upon the assembling Of thl
sanhedrim, It is found that "Ganawsy OF
Douglas" is The special order Of the day. For
three months. the Democratic church has run.
with "the most thorough phiippies'' agains
the " Little Giant . from the valuable tongu.
Of the senior editor Of the .45alaHobs. He bal
exhausted all the powers Of argument, OF satin
and abuse, and still be continues to rave, an5
storm, and madden round the land at the pecu
liar object OF his hate. II Mr.. Douglas Ia.
not been made Of the sternest stuff, If be ha.
not been TIE greatest man in America, b
wouid LONG since have been destroyed By th
torrents Of inveetive, the avalanehes Of abuse
the tornadoes Of desperation, which this ''vet
: eran" Of extreme Southern Rights Demoeraet
, constantly hurls and heaps upon his devote.
head.
sitting quietly in my back seat, / hav
been ss'onisbed at the stormy ~harangues o
{ nv friend Galloway, from the Democratic tri
buae. Seeing bis party already inh harmonious
: he vet every day throws in hrsbrands to wide
2 De breach and blow up the organization. See
. irg that, unless his party is Tigidly held to
, re,hcr the Union is gone, he yet insists Of
renaing the Democracy with a new "test
and a nsw reading Of The old platforn-an
this, too, after a majority Of his fellow fvsts
: rams have declared against the policy. See
D ing. as plain as day, that we cannot suceee
: next gear, Cby zee / masn he party and il
E a aIies,'s) without the aid Of the northern d.
moersc7, Of whom Mr.. Douglas is th
Z chosen leader and exponent, he yet insists Q
driving Mr.. Douglas and bis friends out Of tn
: party BY erasing an old article Of our cree
7 and sub tituting in its plaee one which q
= must admit is impracticable, impossible, an
Z fruitful Of woes and dissensions innumeTabl'
What is It ny friend means? Is It d~isuhion
Has The champion Of The compromise Of 1855
the Ajax lebanon Of the Union Democracy q
: Mississippi in 1851, deserted bis ancient eoloFs
The editors Of the .FualGras, Messrs. Gal
! lavay and Campbell, may not be aware Of d
! fact, but it is generally eonesded-at least b
a majority Of the Dezoerats ot this region, an
, such q outsiders " as myseif-that their eOurs
in reference to Mr.. Douglas is fraught wit
, much danger 10 the Democratic Organization
No one objects 10 their having and exPressin
a preference for Whoever they may deem wor
thiestto bear our banner In the next contes
for the Presidency; but their uneonpronisin
? attitude toward a distinguished and infnentia
Democratic statesman, who has fought ID
] good hght and never dsviated from the fsii
, through a long and glorious career, seems &
an Of us to Be Inconsistent with justice an
@fair plav,r and directly At va with the pres
ent harmony and future success Of The party
We cannot afford to lose The aid and infuene
4 Nr. Douglas and he Northern Dsmoerae
/, in ne struggle of 1890; If we ALLEVIATE then
which is The direct tendency Of the teaching
b Of The .fralanehs, a Biack-RePublicsn will b
e elected President and the happening OF sue
!, an event a. that, in the present temper Of Ii