Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-08

gss-the peace that cOnsults neither tn
wishes or opinions of the people, Nortl
or South. For it cannot be doubted
that GRANT stands committed to tn
perpetuation of those oppressive policies
known as the Reconstruction measures
That they are utterly odious and il
violent conflict with the wishes and feel
iugs Of the South, is admitted by all
That they really are not in accord will
Northern sentiment, is manifest from
the fact, that their projectors and sdvo
cstes are unwilling to go to trial OF
them before the people of the North
and industriously seek to evsde thi
issue, by turning the discussion and can
vass on other points. Such a peace j
more fatal to the Republic than intestint
war. Even from successive comma
lions, a free State may at last emerge
purged by blood-lettiDg from diseased
humors and with q reinvigorated health
Just as acute ailments sometimes leave
behind an improved constitution, while
paralysis always coDsigns to hopeless
doom. Such order in the State q that
poposed by GRANT and his supporters
is only the inseDsibility of the tabled
Lotus Eater. They propose to narcotist
the Republic, that she may in the mean
time be rsvished of her freedom.
Who wants such a peace as this? No
American whose soul y~etsWells with the
bounding impulses of a freeman, end i;
not content to be q slave-ne patriot,
who loves his country and does not spec
ulste on her misfortunes for his own
gain. Who invokes for American soci-
ETY. and American government the calm
Of q Dead Sea, that shall cover destroyed
cities, mark a barren land, and whose
fatal waters no breath of liberty shall
ever stir? America is not yet
ready for the stiffness Of Asiatic
Despotism. There can be for her
people no peace, except that i9hich is con-
sisteHt Nth civil freedom, self goUern-
ment, the constitutional rule Of the ma
jority and the legitimate a8cenddncy in
public affairs of virtue and intelligence.
Unfortunately for Grant and the Re-
publicans, but still more unfortunately
for the business prosperity and the hap
piness Of the country, this is just the sort
Of peace which they do not promise, but
on the contrary which they expressly
pledge themselves to withhold. Such
political auspices we believe not 10 be se-
ceptsble to the North, and we know
them to be odiOus to the people of the
South as q unit. However sensitive the
Northern mind may be to the dsrgsr Of
renewed rebellion in the South, as they
interpret the late civil war-however
easily infiamed against our people their
passions and pride may be by skillfuIly
piled appeals of Radical aemsgogues, We
do not believe that all the articles of Re-
publican tactics can hide out Of their sight
their Incorporate and passionate poll
cies, so fraught, as they are, with danger
to the liberties OF the whole country, and
SO obviously laden with sectional hatred,
discomfort, inevitable ultimate agi-
tatiOD, and consequent distrust in all en-
terprizss and industries or deceive them
into their support, They may sur
felt the public mind of the North with
fictitious or real meHscing excerpts from
the speeches of Southern men, they may
O~stentatiously parade in displayed head
lines these gusty and indignant utter
ances, yet sensible rejecting men North
sill, in all probability, find in them ad-
1itiOnal reasons for Withholding from
Grant and RadicsIism their support,
while heartily condemning the rashness.
which constantly precipitstes these
champions against the "red fiag,n de-
Haunted in their faces by their
'Oes. Certainly we can not think so
neanly Of the North, as to believe that q
majority Of her people will find In the
,rosns wrung from the South by the
pincers " OF Radical persecution, in the
iefant challenge occasionally forced
the victims of Radical oppression
y the most insulting and obtrusive ty-
amy, an additional reason for con.
inuing that oppression and aggravating
hat persecution. On the contrary 3
rise craftsmanship will regard these
manifestations as 8 pregnant evidence
gsinst the men now in power, and as
he most signal illustration of their in
Ompetency for the administration of AT.
st the present time. These "sigusn
ill be needed by the business IntelIi.
snee Of the North. It will, with the
stuteness peculiar to it, find in these in
ications more danger to the peace
nd prosperity Of the country by the con-
nusnce Of those war policies Of the
congressional Junts Ia time of peace.
the adoption of more conciliatory 4
towards the unhappy South.
be supposed harsh and hostile express
ons that reach the public North, from ]
.e South, through Radical channels. lin :
Inc csses out Of ten garbled and dis.
rted,) will be considered, as they ought {
be, the protests Of freemen, AID more
AN all, OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, against I;
rougs and usurpations Tuthlessly in
cted on them. However angry and
decorous they may be, or rather sp- :
to be, they will, as they ought, have {
full weight OF accusation against :
e party in power. Consideration would
It be denied similar protests from any :
Of the Northern popuistion, :
'wever heated they might be in {
ne and temper. Rome never prescgi- i
d for her citizens any subdusd fornu-
OF complaint. Why should our Re- s
bile be ceremonious and critical, 5
len the liberties Of the citizen hang Ii
the balance, and usurpation is the
pms? 9
There could be no more damning com. I
on the conduct of the men. @
rose nomination be was accepting. U
N the language used by Grant, which al
have quoted, It cOpfsssss that peace "a