Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-31
TIlE REAL -PTRP0sE.

From the National Intellgeucerl
Our statement OF the issues last made
by the radical party, aud upon which
their rump congress proposes to annoy
the public nostriis and health in this hot
July weather, seems to trouble very seri-
ously the partisans Of tie revolutionary
faction. They shrink from the plain
statement of what they want to do.
The Tribune denies that they are
playing a game Of bluffaud intimidation
No! They have threatened nothing;
poor, injured, suffering saints. Their call
OF congress means nothing at all-nO
harm to the president-no hurt to the
constitution. Roar they ever SO loudly,
it is only bottom. They have not
sought to invade the constitutional
duties Of the president as commander
in-Chief Of the army. All they contend
is that some five or six military COM
manders in the south shall be practically
supreme bound by no law, no cOnsti-
tuition, responsible 10 no superior, not
even to Gen. Grant or the president, but
owing, some sort OF secret allegiance to
the cabal which governed the caucus
that managed the rump-Of a congress
The Tribune declares that this is a
game in which the people hold the
winning cards. What people, pray?
Not the northern people, for they have
shown by every election held this spring
and summer that they are sick and
nauseated with the mingled perfidy,
hypocrisy, and unscrupulousnes Of
these leaders. It is not the north
ern people, therefore, that sympa-
thize with the game of these great
leaders-great, not in talent, but
audacity. If their hold on the north
were mistaken, there would be no occa-
sion TO perpetuate the great fraud by
which they are now planning to con-
vert the south into POcket-borough
for radicalism. And how? Simply
by excluding the whites from the
registration lists In such numbers
that, though in all the states but one
they outnumber the blacks, still in
all there will be n large preponderanee Of
black votes. These are the " winning
cardsU by which the game is to be played,
and the white population of the north, as
well as the south, cheated out of the elec-
ton Of a president. This is thefraud nOw
going on so quietly and pleasantly
that the benefieiaries think it pity
We should dstrust them. But we
shall not mind their outcries.
We intend that the people Of the north
shall not be cheated by packed registra
tion lists without a warning Of the fraud;
that the senate Of the United States shall
not be stocked for years to come by these
conspirators, by driving the white
population from the polls and put
ting the people under negro gov
ernunent. This is the object of
the game we are exposing. 1t is for this
end We are to have a July session of
congress for this the president is to be
shorn of his constitutional power as
eommander-in-chief Of the armies, and
subordinated to general this and general
that, and theselast to be made i'supreme."
This is the issue for the people Of the
land. We are quite ready for it,
and if g the people y engaged in the fraud
think they can make up BY bluff and in
what they lack in numbers,
truth aud character, all we have TO say
is. they take no account OF the hand !
writing on the wall. We repeat to these |
that we do not fear their
meeting here in July. Let them come
by sll means. They do but hurry to their
doom.