Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-10
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DIXON, Ill, August 81, 1867.

DIXON, ILL, August 81, 1901.
Editor Memphis Appeal:
Surrounded as one is in this country
with radical journals, edited by the
crazed disciples of the Wade. Sumner
school Of politics, it is a great relief to
obtain a copy of your sterling paper,
which, like Caius Marius, sitting amid
the ruins of a once prosperous people,
has the sense and the nerve to speak
words of truth and sOberness,n and
utter voices of warning TO the insolent
rulers of this unhappy, and, 1 fear,
doomed republic. Your leader of the
18th inst, on Race and BlOod,u can
not fail to commend itself TO every re-
iecting American.
The sentiments embodied therein filled
my AnglO-SaxOn heart with mingled
feelings Of pride and gratitude; with
pride, in that / saw there depicted the
historic grandeur of our race; with graf
itude, in that one Of my countrymen
dares t. vindicste the superiority Of our
blood, and 30 hold up to the seorn Of an
outraged people the efforts of certain
meU of our day to destroy the prestige of
the AuglO-SsxOn name.
The fact is our generation will have to
grapple with this greet question Of equal
in and the more / see of this people the
more am convinced that il does not
admit Of a peaceable solution. The
worst elements of modern society are
being arrayed against the time honored
distinctions Of the past in the efforts now
being made TO destroy the social system.
The Dolitical charlatans Of the hour hope
10 accomplish this through the agency of
our late civil war. They must by this
time realize that that war was barren in
its results. No union was restored, no
constitution vindicated but the breach
was rather widened, and the cardinal
tenets Of the government trodden under
foot. Hence to maintaiR themselves
thew resort TO a new element Of political
power. Their first effort is 10 throw the
odium of the war upon the south, then
get the masses to accept the equality of
races, and finally persuade the lower
orders of society that they are the peers
Of men of capital, refinement and intel
ligence. -.
How they are to accomplish these re-
suits we learn from their papers and
speakers. The first and second parts OF
this political sale have already been ac-
cOmplished. The masses are fearfully
imposed upon, and are fatally in the
hands aUd power of these political
knaves, as the faithful OF a former age
were in those of the Infamous and mys-
terious inquisitiOn. In fact, q grand
anto-de-fe Of prominent rebels would be
welcomed as the dawn OF better day,
and fill with delight the hearts Of the
" thoroughly loyal" They would hail
such an event with as much enthusiasm
IS the old Spaniards did their bull fights
and the savage Indians their war dances.
The above opinion might extort a
smile Of incredulity from many an hon.
est believer in rsdicalisn, and peradveu.
tnre furnish the editor OF the Evening
Post another text, wherewith to preach
the "lOwer civilization of the south.
and the merciful spirit Of the "loyaII
north.
But the above opinion is correct, and
for its verificatiOu, you have but to read
most Of the papers north and south, that
sustain the radical programme, and 3D.
vocate modern equality. For instance
we read in an eastern paper that PTesi-
dent Davis was hOOted and Teviled by a
Vermont mob, and among other things
the throwing of rocks at him by a L1d,j
was highly commended 1t seems that
Mr. Davis starved one of her relatives at
AndersOnville, q place that Gen. Grant
thought the best one for him at that
time, as we learn from his published
official opinion
In q sheet published in this city we
learn that union men are every day muir
dered in cold blood in Texas, even while
on their knees begging for mercy; and