Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-04

/ bv the acts or influence Of the President,
&" restoration and union are bGfied," or
that - order is destroyed and peace dis
turbed " by mskeshifts and su~bterfuges ?
What unlawful sud dangerous powers"
Is the Executive grasp clutcbing2 Or
what " u~surpation " has he besn guilty ?
What " forbidden prerogatiyes has be
assumed? The ~impudence Of this rig
msrole becomes sctusliy sublime, when
We reflect how naked the President has
been stripped Of all power and PreFoga-
tive. until no q does him honour, and
low-bred officials insult him with impu-
nifty.
The Herald says:
Mr. Roscoe Conkliug holds up re-
treachment and reform " as q OF the
legends OF the republican bsnner. CALI
colt, who il 3 very good specimen repu5-
lican, Is also in favor of r~etrenchmeut
and reform, and "sOme financial msu-
s~gement." Not less than a hundred re-
publican revenue officers have stolen
millions Of the government money 70 the
same tune. Even ThurlOw Weed was
BIN ANE ANEkAA.AAL aA 49, ~ r.
ment and reform. The national banks
are republican institutions that also be
lievs in retrenchmenJ and reform, snd
they lend the government money At
three hundred u fifty per cent IN
teTest,
Senator C~ONKLING, however, had not
the audacity Of the Convention itself
In comparison with that body, FERDI-
NAND MENDEz PINTO ard the Baron
MUNCHAUsEN shrink and dTindle and
"pale thelr Intellectual fires" to become
luminsries Of lying Of hardly the tenth
magnitude.
The Convention resolved that the Re-
publican party had fearlessly searched
out, grappled with snd exposed the cor
rup,ion and misgovernment that it in
sugurated the work OF reform. Every
one who beard this resolution read knew
that it was an arrsnt and shameless false
hood in every line and letter; that there
had never been one tenth the amount Of
corruption in the administration Of
nstionsl affairs, before the year 1851,
with which every department Of II has
reeked and sweated ever since. The
Republican party hiss retained al the
old corrupt rascally practices, and in
vented ten thousand new ones. Never
has any people been so p.ucked, plum
dered and parted in the world, as those
OF the United States have been during
the last war.
And yet the Republican party pretends
that it will wage war against corruption.
hit did, il would not live a day. It
would by the first blow struck against
r~ascality, commit Jelo dc Sc. It preteuds
that il means to commit the interests OF
the State 10 servants Of integrity, will it
select those who managed the cotton
business OF the Government during the
war; Il reaches that its efforts shall be
directed to promote thorough economy
and fairness and equity in bearing
public burdens: and it ~squsnders money
like 8 debsuched and drunken spend
thrift, and Cypress e. the South with q
~scOundrelly cOtton-tax, by which it IN
constitutionslly robs the white mar aud
alike; wkile it plumbers and pill
the Northwest Tor the benefit Of
manufacturers OF New England;
and Congress forbids the President to
thieves and brigsnds from Office
without the consent Of the Senate.
Bold as the platform Is in these mat
tiers Of Justification, it is very far from
being so when it comes to deal with the
vital issues Of this Supreme hour Of the
Nations life. Then it sneaks and wrig-
giles round p%erilous questions and the
Herald truly says Of its p%oltrOOnery
The platform Of the republicans, as
enuncisted 81 Syracuse, Is a very diluted,
cowardly, fraudulent affair. 1t Is as
wishywasby and worthless As the trashy
speech delivered by Master Roscoe Conk-
ling at the opening Of the exercises. II
touches every issue in q gingerly, timid
manner. II is gingerly on negro s0f-
gingerly on impeachment gin
on Sunday laws and prohibition.
Master Conkling should have been
sOundly whipped, stood IN the corner
with r FOOLS can upon bis bead and sent
j
very early 10 bed without any supper,
'or making such q silly address. The
platform should have been indignantly
and kicked cut OF the convention
oy every radical delegate who possesses
, spark Of holiness and manhood.
And OF It's Conduct Of public affairs,
he same journal says
Before q party deserves lasting con-
il must do more than triumphin
lections. Il must manifest genius for
administration and capacity FOR govern
ueDt equal TO the occasion il accepts
These words are in The speech delivered
" Mr.. Coukling, United States senator,
I the Syracuse conventiOn-the only
ensibIe words in Il. Suppose We try the
-epUblicsn party by this standard. It's
.ap8eity for government Is to be seen ia
he terrible failure Of its reconstruction
that has kept the country in dis
for the two years since the end OF
be war; its capacity for administration
3 TO he seen In the fact that there Is not
single department that Is not full Of
'allicotts. I
OF the s~elf-lGudstion Of itself by the F,
republican party, for It's conduct and
Management Of the war, the Heraldpun-
emily says.
In 1851 there was hardly a show Of
opposition In the north to Mr.. {
incoln's administration the rank and ?
le Of the democratic party, with the ro- b
ublicans, were merged into the great '
MON war party. Our leading union Z
e~nerals, regulars and volunteers, were e
from the old democratic party o
Iammany Hall was as active as any il
league club in mastering Tegi- r
tents OF volunteers for the war. From
terrible disasters Of the union armies
lo0zi the democratic party in New York
example, took bold ground for "a .
lore vigorous prosecution Of the war" q
I'D ther result was the election OF Hora- G
o Seymour as governor by ten thousand 7,
Pennsylvania also turned b
ght about face, and had the d~emocracv "
Id fast 70 that war platform they would &c
have been charged With the o.
tiles Of carrying throHgh the war aud Il