Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-25
No More Altoona Conven,ions.

The New York Herald suggests that all the
members elect of the Congress that will assem-
bic in December, 1868, hold an Internal meet
ing inNew York or Washington, ct an early day,
and make known their opinions upon national
matters, that a check may be put upon the Jaeo-
bins at this approaching session Of Congress.
1t suggests that they may deliberate upon pub
lie matters, and express themselves in an u
dress TO the people, whereby the Union senti-
ment Of the South may be revived, the present
Congress warned, and the people called on to
hope well for the future.
To this suggestion we say no. We have had
meetings of loyal governors in Providence
at college commandments, and at Altoona, and
we have failed to discover any COED that has
emanated from them. We have had national
safety committees, and war committees, and
they have attempted to organize separate com
msuds for fsvorite generals who have proved
themselves incompetent for the responsibilities
Of command. We want no more independent
organizations. This is the way that Danton,
Msrat and Robespieue commenced their career
ia Paris. They had no confidence in the gov
eminent, so organized their Jscobin club which
soon sent the nation into anarchy and ruin.
We believe that the radicals will feel the re-
Duke of the elections, and strive 10 meet the
popular sentiment. They can not be so fool
hardy as 70 60 straight forward, and demand of
the President that he will adopt their extreme
measures without regard to the plain-spoken
sentiment Of the North. They already see their
errors and must be willing, for the sake Of the
retention of Federal power, if for no other rea-
son, to cencede something to the demand of the
loyal and conservative North They see that
they are in the minority. They have reason
enough left to seek to conoiliate where they
Know they can not conquer, and they will at
tempt 8 little Cancellation OF the conservative
sentiment that has just pronounced against
them.
Notwithstanding this, we believe in law and
in the adequacy Of our institutions to meet any
emergency that may arise. Let the people ex-
press their viii at the bsllot-box, and then let
their representatives carry out that viii in the
hsll of legislation. We must not drsgoon, CO.
cree, intimidate or bride those who are our own
representatives IF We do this, we exercise the
tyranny of q mob, and this is ruin. We see yet
no reason for putting our institutions behind our
backs, or trampling them under our feet. We
fight to maintain law therefore we advocate
letting all things take their natural courses for
the solution of the great question before us.
Again, our enemies, the radicals, would use
such a meeting a. an evidence that we designed
a asurpation, and they would be skillful enough
to make thousands believe it. They would tell
US that we had organised a wheel within a
wheel, a government within q government
that we had set up another legislature in sntsg-
onism with the legislative power at Washing
ton; would tell the country taat we were falling
into the same errors for which vpe had condemned
them. We must not fall into their errors. The
North has spoken, and the days Of the radical
power are numbered they cannot destroy US
now if they will.-BOsioa Posi-