Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-04

| re1QeQ Labtc OF Us ma gOoQ-Qu'
INQUIRED and always agreeable neighbour
the Avalanche. We might, perhaps
find something to critieizs in the lite.
rary productions Ct our neighbour, es.
pecialIy when 1t takes q dive into an
tiquIty and gets bewiidered among the
Classics but It writes, We suppose, L
suit its readers, and If they are grati6ed
we are not impertinent enough to inter
fere. It must forgive US for following 8
line OF our own, especially as 1t has
itself rather forced US into that by being
itself peerless and unapproachabIe in
its own peculiar line, especially as t.
" the vital living issues Of the present
generation"
We decline furnishing essays on HAN
and the brooches that adonred ths
daughters Of Pharaoh. In all that
concerns Africa and Ethiopia we leave
the monopoly of discussion to our neigh.
bOur.
It happens TO be our opinion that tbs
old issues are not all dead, and that it Il
of some interest and use to trace In the
not very remote past of q score of years
before the war, or even Of the first days
OF the Republic, the causes Of our pres.
ent calamities. History and experience
are not yet entirely worthless; and the
secret of the spleen of the Avalanche,
manifest through its heavy attempts at
wit is perhaps not so much that we Inn
peach the wisdom, in many respects, OF
the past action of the party to which ii
belonged, as that we venture, with great
Difference, to disagree with it as TO some
of the "vital, living issues and espe-
cially that of political association with
the Sons of Ham.
The gushing effusion Of the avalanche
on the subject of acknowledgment, and
It's sdulstion of foreigners, we hope may
prove politically and otherwise profit
able to it, The intelligent nstuTalized
toreigners among US know as well as we
do that - immense foreign population
of the Northern cities and the North
West consists in great measure Of those
TO whom they would themselves be un-
willing to entrust the destinies Of the
country. $50 far" the AUdlanche says,
+" as our observation goes, the foreigner
has heretofore cast intelligent votes, and
we are willing to trust them still" The
Avalanche well knows that the "inteIli-
gent votes Of the Germans and Nor
wegisns of the North and North West
are all cast on the side of Rsdicalism,
and that it is they who maintain the
Radical party in power; as it was their
zeal against the South which carried
whole corps of them into the Federal
armies, and we thought, had rather
sickened the South of the indiscriminate
naturalization Of foreigners. CARL
SCHURz, the bitterest of Radicals, we re-
collect, was S zealously democratic
stump orator four years before LINCOLN
vas elected. II an almost unanimous
vote for every measure proposed by
Triad. STEVENS is an " intelligent vote "
which gives Us reason to be willing to
trust them still" then the foreign eIe-
ment in the North ought to be highly
valued by the AUdLdHche. Some of our
people, we think, during the war, saw a
Je10 German Doors, under German Gen.
erals, and experienced their tender mer-
eies. Every Italian gentleman, we
suppose, knows that there are
lazzaroni in Naples, and plenty OF
themS in our Northern cities, neither
worse nor better than our American Iaz-
zaroni and there were brigades of the
loves GLASS Of Irish in the federal service,
and such men as MEAGHER and SAVAGE
holding commissions. II there had not
been, the Southern people would have
sympathized more with the Fenians in
the North, in their late attempts to win
for Ireland that independence which
they had helped prevent the South's
achieving for itself. We haze fer friends
among the foreign population of the
Northern States. And while we respect
and like, as much as the AUdlGnche does,
those Of foreign birth who live among
us in the South and who are of
as, and for as; while we caD appreciate
an Irish gentleman, a worthy and edu-
Gated German, and a patriotic and lib
eral Italian when we meet him, quite
as thoroughly and cordially as u neigh
bour can, We shall not undertake to
make the APPEAL acceptable to them
by protesting to believe that the mass
of foreigners in the Northern States or
in their own countries are q desirable
acquisition to a Republic. And we re-
peat that the universal suffrage which
puts the country in the power of an in
discriminate multitude of foreigners, Of
every class and quality, without regard
to intelligence, education, habits or
principles, is sure to prove its ruin, and
is one of the chief causes of the ava
lanehe of curses and calamities that hiss
overwhelmed the South.
We are at least no demsgogue. II we
were in the least ill-natured, we should
suggest to the AraJaRche that one who
ardently loves and sdmires ali foreigners
indiscriminately, eomplimentlng the
gentleman by putting the lowest of his
on the same level with himself, agd
who IS endeavoring to outbid Rsdicalism
for the negro vote, might possibly see
something that resembles a demagOQne.
if he would but look into the nearest
We must ask one question. What are
the present politics of the Audlaachs,
and what the 4" vital, living issues OF the
present generation? II the Araldache
can let BEAUMONT and BARBOUR LEWIS
alone long enough, we should like to be
enlightened. If all the old issues are
among the cataeombs and musty obe-
lisks, and all parties agree to negro suf-