Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-25
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consistency involved in forcing at the
point of the bayonet, negro majorities
upon the white men of the South, and
afterwards deliberately excluding their
own blacks from the polls. But the
Heading and lifelong sgitators recognize
the utmost danger to their success in the
coming Presidential contest, by pursuing
such a course.
Herein lies the peril. The negroes
themselves, stupid, ignorant and eredu-
lous as are the masses Of them, will thus
be enabled to comprehend the immeas-
urable hypocrisy of the party which
DEGREES that they shall rule over
the white men Of the South,
while it denies them the empty
form of depositing their ballots in the
North. Thus the negroes themselves
may be taught too soon, for Radical su-
premacy, that they are being used as
mere cats paws to pull the chestnuts out
OF the fire, for their cunning and deceit
ful political masters. They may, per
chance, in their Indignation at the out
rage upon their much presched-of privi-
leges, break away from leaders so base,
so transpsrently hypOcritical, ard create
such adivision, even in the South, as to
defeat the Radical ticket under the
voting of the reconstruction bills. This
is peril No. l.
But there is a greater peril even than
this lying before them. The Radicals
who really believe that the negro is bet
ter than the white man-and there are
1 thousands of them-will learn from this
baseness, to despise their expediency
brethren, and will become so lukewarm
in the North as to part company with
them, and thus lose the vote of the
! Northern States, and insure certain de-
feat to their Presidential ticket next
year.
On the other hand, if they continue to
press negro suffrage in the Northern
States, and make that the main issue in
the Presidential contest, there are enough
Republicans who see its destructive in
fiuence upon Representative Govern
ment, to defeat the ticket in every
NortherA State.
This then is the dread dilemma IN
which the Jacobin faction is placed To
recede now from negro suffrage, would
lose them the support Of nearly all the
recognized leaders. To adhere to it, will
expel from their party all the moderate,
middle and expediency men who see in
it decentralization, destruction, disgrace
and defeat. There is a real snd palpable
split thorough and permanent division
which is unavoidable and irremediable.
The two wings are beginning to marshal
their forces, to array their hostile legions
and to fire cannon at long range. Even
the Cincinnati Gazette, whose editor was
beaten for Congress, at the late election,
begins to trim its sails and back down /
from the negro issue. The Springfield |
Republican declares that the Radicals |
have undertaken an impossibility bias
phemously attempting to " circumyent
God" The New York Times is full OF
lugubrious warnings. But WENDELL
PHILLIPS talks Of abandoning the Re-
publicans, unless they stand squarely
upon negro suffrage; while Mons, GREE
LEY ominously hints that if a man must
be elected President who is opposed to
negro suffrage, he shall not come from
the Republican ranks, but shall be a
Democrat. What does this mean?
It means simply that, if the candidates
Of the opposing parties are to stand upon
the same platform, he will cast bis influ-
ence for a consistent Democrator Conser- /
vative rather than hypoeritical Repub-
lican sneak. Here is what the New York
Tribune says on this point, and we ask if
its meaning is not as we construe it: "But
four millions Of loyal Americans cannot
be put under the feet OF those who fought
to divide the Unionin order to tighten the
shackles Of those four millions, unless by
that Democratic party which sympa-
thized throughout with the rebellionin its
essential ideas and impulses, though not
in the specific means whereby it sought
TO achieve them. II ever a Southern
State re-sppears in Congress with Con-
stitution which gives her whites supreme
power over her blacks, it will be Dem
ocratic majority which secures and votes
her such admission. And If our next
President shall favor such admission, be
will be chosen by the Democratic, not
the Republican party. His name, his
vocation, his past history $50 that it prove
him honest and patriotic, are immaterisl
or at best of secondary consequence /
but there will be no Republican chosen !
President who favOrs the sham Dem |
oeratlc doctrine that black men, because
they are black, shall, in the lately rebel
States, have such rights only as the
whites Of those States may see fit to |
accord them"
Now this last sentence is either q pre- |
diction, or it is a threat, thst the Tribune /
will oppose the election of any Republi-
can who shall not stand up squsrely to
negro suffrage, and will thus see to his
defeat, by srrsying to him the opposition
Of the wing to which it is attached. We |
take it to be no mere prediction, because
in the same article Mr.. GREELEY says:
E" So when both parties get substantially |
upon the same platform, we know that |
ours will go under, and 1Oe contemplate
that result Nth serene philosophy" This
is well said for philosopher. 1t proves
the existence Of such a split in the Radi-
cal party rs has moved the great mind Of
GREELEY TO accustom his followers to
think, write and talk about defeat in the
next Presidential contest, witha gIibness
and familiarity that we did not suppose
even philosopher could commsndat
this early day, and so soon after the mighty
boastings Of his party and the naughty
contempt with which they have been
accustomed to view its opponents. But
so it is all things sublunary must have
an end. And in due course Of events
our eyes have been permitted to behold
the day when even the irresistible and !.
boasting Radical party begins to show
evident signs Of decay and death.
SAYS that efficient and outspoken
journal, the Grenada Sentinel: There
is great change coming over
the people Of Mississippi. Many who
honestly went into the ranks Of the
Reconstruction party when they thought
that was the only means Of bringing the