Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-24

&c AAAAN FNAA A8AAi ~ NOL AU NhIU. anu
that the glery Of your country, for which
you battled in wal and labored in peses.
shallnot be furnished by an insidious foe.
We may safely leave to History the
task OF making up The final verdict as to
the merits OF the Lost Cause; and the
opinion Of General SHERMAN will have
little influence in determining what
that verdict shall be. W. neither envy
or admire that obtuseness which cannot
understand how a Southern gentleman
can think Of the cause for which he
fought and his children died, without
shame. We should have supposed that a
brave soldier and generous gentleman
would have Jet, by the sympathy that
knits brave men and generous gentlemen
together, that a whole people, yeOmen,
gentlemen and women could not have
engaged " with all their heart, and all
their soul, snd all their might, and all
their strength in a~desperate struggled to
maintain q cause, Of which il wa posi-
BILE for them afterwards to become
ashamed. General SHERMAN ought
himself TO be ashamed of the unjust and
uiberal Judgment which he has passed
upon them. lie has undoubtedly seen,
since the war ended, a thousand South
ern gentlemen, soldiers who fought
against his flag, who have met him as
equals, feeling and knowing that there
had been nothing in their course Of which
to be ashamed and if he has not felt it
also, and met them as men who had no
reason to shrink from the sight Of men
throagh shame, and on whom and their
cause there was no stain Of dishonOur,
he is only unfortunate and Of none too
noble a mind.
The passage Of his speech which We
have italicised, is the one single blot
upon it, OF which he ought to feel
ashamed. 1t neither harms or Rnnoys
any Southern gentleman, that he rudely
applies the term infamy' TO the cause
consecrated by so much blood and 80
many tears. The use of such epithets
rather betrays a consciousness that the
"hAAu - AtA al 1n uD6 Et1G anu mat
there are gentlemen Of other lands who
do not deem it any dishonOur to have
been a Confederate officer. Does he in
deed imagine that Englishmen OF
Frenchmen think that the cause for
which LEE and JACKSON and JOHNSTON
fought was infamous, and that these
great soldiers, every way his peers, and
in some things perhaps his s~uperiOrs,
ought TO be ashamed o fit?
A word to our neighbOr the AUa-
1dHche as to the expression of our Opin-
ion that General SHERMAN is the most
available candidate whom the Demo-
cratic party OF the North can select for
the Presidency. That is our decided
opinion and if it should select him, and
we had any right to approve or disap-
prove, we should approve it, because the
salvation Of the South in its imminent
peril can only come through the
success Of that party in the next cleo
nominate candidates or even to say who
they ought to be; because we can do
nothing towards electing them. The
Of the North have to fight
the good fight alone, and if they are
Of the conservatism of
SHERMAN, and that his nomina-
ton will most tend to secure
their success, We ought not to object to
t. one great element of his strength
Conservative Republicans, l1UhoSs
,otss must be had to ensure the defeat of
2sdicalisml will be, in addition to his
military services, that he has expressed
he very opinion as to the injustice of
he Lost Cause, to which our neighbour
iced not suppose that it any more
trOngly objects than we do. And we
hall not fall into any error if we say
hat even among the liberal Democrats
I the North that opinion is almost uni
entertained. Few Of them pre-
end to justify US, however willing they 81,
re to forgive. After all, if we demand
hat they shall do US the justice to be-
eve that we thought our cause a Just
ne, and that we are not ever now
shamed Of it. may they not claim the
.ght, in turn, 70 believe and say that it !
ras not just, and therefore we ought to
e ashamed Of it2 How else can they :
themselves > II our cause was C
The war against us was unjust, and 4
even not unjustly be termed infa- :
lous. We must not expect to have the :
stice Of our cause recognized by them. b
is enough that we feel sure it will be u
held hereafter by more impartial \
dyes. :
If it we're for rs to select a candidate a
T the Presidency, uncontrolled by any h
her considerations than his personal T
erits and public services, We should b
rtainly not choose General SHERMAN. e
e would not even be u second or Il
IT tenth choice, nor would his speech, 7
that respect, in the least influence US. :
he were acceptable to us, he wsuld ST
less so to the people Of the North, for 81
e very reasons that would commend .
N 70 US. we are opposed to e~levating n
snerals to the Presidency, and if we Il
uld choose, should not select the one c
DO burned Columbia and exiled the .
omen and children Of Atlanta, and a.
vaged Georgia and South Carolina. X
Ut he did make that Convention with W
,HNsTON, which, if it had been con- "a
med by ANDREW JOHNSON, would =
restored the Union and given peace n
the country and a chance for renewed Il
Osperity to the South, and have saved "
from the bitter curse Of negro suf- =
age and for that we may forgive him II
UGH that he ought not to have done. "
all events, If GRANT is the Radical Il
ndidate, SHERMAN alone, We believe, \
q defeat him. D