Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-17

FOR WHAT DID TIE NORTH FIGHT;
This is q question which the people o
Ohio have lately asked themselves, and
which they have emphatically answered
The New York Herald says:
We did not fight 70 prove that the
negro should govern the South tothe eX'
cIusiOn OF the white man, or hat the
white should he debased by the elevation
Of the negro TO q false superiority. Mex
TO the safety Of the Union, we desired
that every man, black or white, should
have equal chances to rise in he's scale OF
civilization, in proportion to his " IN
tTiusiC ability. We had little disposition &c
, retrsce u march, and saddling ourselves
Bo-kg gg%uceutrated Ignorance OF three
sIp a.TegTUr-, to with
go blood, reduced intelligence and
'less braiu-p0wer, the t0ilsOme advance
Of mauy centuries, in order 20 reach the
p0iat We now occupy. lt was not in the
A-ugio-Saxou blood 10 do this, and our
rulers have sadly mistaken the political
problem in f8istiug this UPON the cOun-
try g. the great issue before which every
thing must kneel. This issue Is the only
one which, carried 10 success, will be the
salvation Of the Radicals. The question
now is. aye the people willing TO accept
this as the future guiding star Of the
Republic j. cannot be for, accepting
il, we prove thEt We have lost u senses.
For what, Union men Of Tennessee,
JrEifc men once proud Of your race and
blood and who remember what your
fathers were, and what the race TO which
You belong has achieved in the world
for what did g0u fight? Did you fight
that eternal hatreds should survive the
war Of ideas? Did you fight 10 prove
yourselves too iguOble and ~ungeneTous to
clasp hands with heroic and defeated
antagonists over the honoured graves OF
the dead who fell on fields Of glory for
their faith and d~evotedness to that cause
which they believed Just? Did you fight
ia order TO descend 10 the level Of the
negro and So make him your political
equal? Did you fight in order to invest
him with the power OF o~ut-voting you
and making laws 10 govern you Did
you fight 70 secure q representation in
Congress elected by negroes? Did you
fight 10 invest BROwNLOw with The
power, in spite Of your Constitution, Of
appointing the Judges when it is
your right TO elect? Did you fight
TO support, pamper and enrich 3
handful Of COndOtueri, adventures, who
live on the state, the vermin Of the body
polIuc2 Did you fight for eternal dis
cords, quarrels, hstreds and vendettas,-
OF for peace, harmony aud good neigh
borhoOd? How does IL profit you TO dis
franchise your ueighbors and accept the
stupid, Ulastly aud licentious African
as your political peer, that he
soon demand social equality? Viii
these be truer friends to you than those
who fought you fairly, submitted in good
when conquered, and would like
you better than ever, because they fought
you, if you would let them do it, You
have preferred revenge TO reconciliation
and lie who does hat always sells his
soul to the devil and Furnishes himself
Forgiveness is better than revenge. Il
is better TO love than 10 hate. Your late
enemies do not want 70 rule you or to
you. They want to bury the past
they only ask to be enfranchised. They
Dnly wish 10 join you, heart and
hand, in laboring for the well-being
Df Tennessee. And you refuse this,
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he adventures and canaille who ex-
Dloiter you for private profit, hat there
,hould be peace. In what respect are
your interests and ours G~ntagonistic ? !
Whatsoever benefits u will benefit Won
Are not you and those against whom YOU
ought, the children Of the same State.
md all identified with its fortunes > Is
can it be 10 your benefit, that the
Southern States, with which Ten
j. connected by 50 many ties,
bouId beimp0verishe and des0lated and
ecome uegro-republics? Why should
on help Northern Radicalism to achieve
Is Infamous purpose Of running our
.outh VIII not its ruin be your ruin
lsoo Do you see with co~mplaceney the
len Of your own a and blood domi-
eered over and dishonouTed By q des-
OF subjugated by a negro-msjor-
y? Are you sane, or have passion and
ie arts aud frauds Of those who are en-
ching themselves at the expense Of the
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