Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-23
SEMPHIS APPEAL
RADHOAIISu LIVES ny ISTELLI-
GENCE AND DIES IA THE AEMOS-
RHErfE az EGEnRAMCE.

RABaCAIISu E.TEFS ny ISrELLB-
GENCE AND DIES II THE AFmOs-
| FHEKE OF EGNOHAHCE
The New York Tribune is entitled TO
the credit Of uttering the broadest joke
or Interest sarcasm of the season. Think
only Of the utterance by a leading organ
Of party that has invested three or four
hundred Thousand ignorant aud semi
savage Africans with the right Of suf-
frage, and disfranchised two hundred
thousand intelligent white men, Of the
axioms that Republicanism lives by
Intelligence; it dies in the murky, sti-
flag atmosphere Of Ignorance" and
every voter who does not read is =
peril" After that, we need not be
amazed at anything. Lest our readers
shoald not believe in the possibility Of so
sublime a piece of impUdence, We ap-
pend the paragraph in which we find
these sayings:
II there were neither a newspaper nor
! common school in the country the
Democratic party would be far stronger
than it is. Neither elementary instruc-
| ton nor knowledge Of transpiring events
/ is needed to teach the essential articles
of the Democratic creed: Love rum
and hate nigeersH The lsss one learns
and knows, the more certain he is to
vote the regular ticket from A to IL
zard."
But Republicanism rests on q radically
different basis, and is sustained by wholly
diverse considerations. l. lives by intei-
Iligenee; (; it dies in the nIurky, sitting
atmosphere Of ignorance. Canvas al
most any township in the land, and dis
tingJlish those who take from those who
fail 10 take a newspaper, and you will
find that tWO-thirds Of those who take
vote Republican, while three-fOutrhs Of
those who read nothing but 8 chance
paper picked up for few moments in
0arrooln, vote the Democratic ticketYand
viii not be persuaded 70 touch any
other.
III every man in the country could
read. and did hRbitually read two good
Journals, one OF each party, we should
have no more doubt Of electing Repub-
lieau President next year than of the
rising Of the sun. But every voter who
does not read is a peril; and the multi
plieitv of such voters subjects the results
of our elections too much to the control
Of accident Fortune viii not always
favor Us as she did in 1854 and 1866. We
can be sure OF victories only by deserv- |
ing them. And the duty now impera-
lively pressing upon Us is to take care /
that eUeTV UOter JUhO can read. and JCifL
read Il, or tUbO has some one IN his fGH7- |
fl,J tcHO can and JCLk read tito him, is
ssdsona5ly supplied IDitb a good RepUb- |
Eica1l journal for the lChOie year 1868.
We are not going to succeed 50 easily I
as many have fOndiy calculated, and We
rejoice that we are not. If we let the /
contest 90 at hap-hSzard, and do not sea- |
sonably provide for and deserve success,
we may be beaten. But if we begin /
now, and, by concerted, systematic I
effort, put good Republican newspaper |
into the hands OF every voter who will |
read il, we cannot be beaten.
Flooding the country with printed |
matter on the eve Of an election is 3 des- I
perate resort-better than nothing, and I
that il all. No reliance can be placed on l
il: little good ordinarily comes Of it. /
But begin now, and Systematically Y insure |
that everS man thst has vote shall /
have 8 newspaper il he will take il, and .
all is safe. Republieans resolve to see |
TO it st once!
Bravo, HORACE! You have graduated 1
st last. You have shTeWd eye 70 busl-
ness, also. By all means let the Radicals
bleed for your benefit, and place 3 copy, I
daily, Of that "good Republican news
paper" the Tribune, in the hands Of
every one Of the three hundred thousand
negro voters OF the South. 1t will IN
doubtedly be profitable to the Tribune, if
not edifying and improving to the col
ored persons who are the objects Of this
tender seIeitude. By ali means have
the concerted, systematic effOrt.n
Pompey has quit work and taken 70
study. Furnish him with good, sound
reading, that he may not
stray from the Radical fold.
Seriously, can the impudenec Of men
dscity go further than in the passages
which we have quoted Has the Tribune
no shame, or are its editors lunsties?