Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-13

breathe life into the dry bones which lie
bleaching in our sad valley which sepa-
rates the old from the new Republic.
One single fact is stsrtling-it is repre-
sentative Of every other great fact,
connected with the backward
and downward movement of the
country. Read II, Rsdical apos-
tate from the religion of your fathers
Read it Jacobin Optimist, who promises
to every beggar and to every vagabond
q Heaven under your new Dlspensation
Read 1t AgrsriRn, who would turn the
Government, over which a WASHINGTON
first presided, into a negro Despotismi
IN which the only equality to be obtained
is a glorious equslity ei public and pri
vste ~debt-public and private degrsds'
~tion-public and private corruption
putllo and private plunder-public and
private decentralization Here Is the gi-
gsntic and monstrous fact to haunt your
broken and expiring faction TO its bloody
and dishOnOred grave, and to insure to
il, with s thousand other stigmas, the
e~xecratiOn of all the generations to come.
unless your vandalism shall be permitted
TO destroy the records OF history
The United States Government under
a Democratic administration for four
years ending 1851, east 1912 755,026. For
three years from 1851 10 1854, the cost Of
Government under an anti Democratic
administration, were 81, 7S4 Sf6l e54 FOR
seventy-twO years previous TO Iooi1 me
expenses amounted 10 q totaI OF slL5ot'-
100 7S9. Expense Of three years OF Radl-
cal rule over that OF al the years Of every
sort OF rule previous, 81 .35S l5S,6OS!
You can never account for this vast
debt upon any other theory than your
responsibility for its amount. Sopbistry,
evasion or assertion can never exonerate
yeu from the outlines Of which it is the
evidence,
Nor does the faction which has madly
and guilty rushed a once free people
INTO such 8 sea Of debt undertake to
relieve or lessen the burden under which
all interests are groaning. They expend
hundreds Of millions annually upon q
worthless and mischievous Bureau,
which We undertake TO declare is used
solely TO SOW malignant and deviiish
teachings among their black and unlet-
tered proteges, whom they would
raise to be the rulers Of the country and
to maintain a standing army, for the
of overawing the white pOpula-
ton Of the country.
Upon such facts as these the States OF
the North are beginning to speak their
minds. II the billions of Indebtedness
which these Agrarisns have fixed upon
the country had beeen used to restore a
real Union and q genuine peace, the
Northern masses would have
uttered the thunder tones which have
recently r~everberated from Maine to
California. 1t has now become patent
that these wasted treasures have not
been so used, but that debt is to be ae-
cumulated and increased with the pur-
pose to fix the Radical party and its black
aIlies-as q ruling pOwer-upon an
unwilling people for all time to come.
the people Of the North, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, including the
.hree States which always bear the sway
IF empire-have spoken in language, the
rue Interpretation Of which is an adj
noniti0n to the a~pathetio, the despsiring
and the timid, which may be most f0rci-
ply expressed in the noble words handed
Town to US through the Saxon tORgue,
& Never despair Of the Republic" Let
Is raise our thanks to Heaven that we
IRE given well grounded hope to feel its
Inspiration and to repeat It's hope-bear-
ng Injunction. Let US feel Inundated
hat we too have ever given way to de-
pair, as long as virtue, honor, patriotism
r a comprehensive self interest, guided
intelligence, remained in the hearts
4 men. and let Us grid our loins TO
axe u humble part in the great COM
ng conflict which is TO decide our des-
and those our OF childrens, for all
generations.