Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-03-24

tude. This present attempted dcspotisEr seeks
TO establishitself by lsvo1ilism towards the few,
and they OF a barbsTous. uncivilized raee--ns,
groes; but by herTibla cruelty towards the
''mnltituds," the s'eonstituted community" the
people oil The Slates, lktelY uniled No pFophst
is neeced, only q man of moderate political
yyisdoTa, to know that this kind Of despotism ID
doomed to speedy fall.
Oar permanent Danger ls from the nominal
Tesction. MonkeyE-the tribes Of the balloons
and Apes, ere the present deSpots sent BY God
TO be the humiliation cf cur proud peoples Of
States. We fear them not With their teeth
ard their elaWs this animal grovelling Taes have
killed many of us, may kill come more. Bat
we fear ths men who may SupeTsede them. We
say II 10 msn Of thought, cur danger s not from
the bEaEgayt stag, cuf danger is from the man
who viii make the bargain with the horse by
mounting him, to expsl the sag.
In The words Of the immortal Jefferson, in
those kentucky resolutions which srs tbs main
foundations of the democratic party: "a ques,
tions oi power, LET no more be heard Of confidence
in MAD, but bind BIN down from mischief by
the chains OF the Constitution" Confdsnce
Is, svsTywhsFe, the psreut Of dsspoiism.''
The confidence thst the men place ia "WaI
Democrats," as a means Of our permanent re-
coveTy OF free government, is ilasoTy. When,
ever, did power conferred, Voluntarily Tenouuce
its ITeiogaiiyes T" CoBfdsnes is, EesTEloheTe
the ptreSt Of despofism ~
We do NOS believe thg. whole generation
educatla IN tho traditions ard continents Of
/ free eoYernmsnt ean have 50 utterly sbdicated
Ihsir own ideas. We look on this harTible, bFu-
tish zischievous, 4pish administration, as =
bitter medicinal providence, sent 70 seourge US
all for our seemly national vanity. It has push
| ed the mouth Of every decent American deep in
to dirt YsuntiDg and boaStiBg is abolished
amODg us foTeveT-exeept by fools worthy of
ears aid bells-oT, still worse, by thie7ing Puri-
/ tan Yankees, who, like their prototype Bzrnun,
glory ia telling what e1oerAb,y dirty seoundrels
they are.
But, looking at the whole history OF the woTld,
! we ssy yet, 10 true men, coursge! Il Is not BY
such means as the present puritan regime and
ltkeir Illinois ape" that despoiism is, or csn
be, established. We have sharp, aye, terrible,
encounters yet to go through. But, courage
Look at wasted Virginia, and Missouri, and
Tennessee They will yet be glorious S.ates.
! Let US assert equally OuF msnhOOd!
Our grsudfatheTs fought E0giznd to assert
The right of local self government. LSt Us not
be SO c3wardly as not to maintain, against ths
shallow schCol-bOoks, and the shallow school
masters, and pTekekeFs, and teachers, and lee
turers OF New England, those glorious traditions
OF religions, civil. family AID individual liber
Lies, of which New E0giGnd, from her -pesiile-
-
ersscuio--eveTyThefe
Oh fof one man, with the personal power,
and ths pH5lie position and prestige that Jsffsr.
son had in 1898, when the Federal Union was
at the point Of death while yet in is baby
clothes! Oh for even moderate number OF
stern ard hardy freemen, such as then blessed
these now distracted and disunlled States, &c
give to JefTerBonian ideas, body and political
practical force.
Rather, we cry, rouse up friends You, read
ers of onr journal, are already more thar
enough Do, every man Of yOu,. ail that he
can Gain every other man you can Tbs
principles of simple, integral, JeffsTgonisn De
moclaey sTo 100 pain to need more thsu polit
csl hofI-book We need only msnliness and
coursge-ihose of us thEt think RIight, to csrFy
our point. Yes, we need one thirg more. YOs
can do it-eAeh ono in his town and in BIZ
county! We nssi organisation That is 81
We want
And then TO say distinctly chat only those
: who keep step 70 the music of the pTiucipiss'Oi
local selfgcFsrnment, and Of Slate indepsnd
ence, Rs accepted by the people Of these Slstei
in tho year 1900. at ths mouth Of Thomas JET
tferson, Of Virginia, thereby saving the tier
raw and eallow Uuion from the disruption tha
John Adams and New England had brought !
to the brink of-that only such arc to bo Teeog
: niSsd al Democrats and that no man, wh
does not "reveri to FIRST principles" and pledg
himself to maintain that main foundation Q
tho Democratic p1Ity"-.hs Kentucky resoiu
tons of Jeffsrsou-eEn Tecsive, IN these tr0u
bied times, the support of any true and homes
Democrat Do this, oh, iTue and earnest Dem
oerauc friends, and Sll these shutting, truck
ing, bohbling, "Dsmocrsts" and "WaT Demo
crats''--if they tail TO sell themselves for green
5Ecks-'Hill fall in Aye They viii belloV
SO loud, On your side that foals Will tank then
"lekdels"
Bat cur cause will be gained Courage
then, dare dare all