Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-13
dEMPHES APPEAL.
THE CANDIDATES OF THE DE-
MOCRACY.
The Great Demonstration.

BLAIR These are great names. We
accept them heartily, IS the Captains o
the great Army Of the Constitution.
SEYMOUR is q Statesman, worthy to
sit in the place Of Webster, Clay or Cal
houn; man Of broad and eomprehen-
sive views; thoroughly educated, as
we'll by experience as reading frank,
manly, noble gentleman, who has
passed through the fiery furnace ofNeW
York politics without stain OF dis
honor on his name; msH who
earnestly and in the utmost good faith
endesvered to escape the nomination,
and who will honor the Office of Presi-
dent far more than the Office will honor
him.
FRANK P. BLAIR has become q fsmil-
isr name TO the people of the South,
whose bloody and brutal tyrants he has
denounced since the day when our
Southern armies surrendered and the
shame and ignominy Of our Victors be-
Fgsn. Before the war, he was Republi-
can, but one so genial and generous as to
be always welcomed and greatly loved
by the circle Of gentlemen Of very diff
/ ferent political faith, in which we had the
honor occasionally to meet him in
Washington. In selecting him TO be one
of its candidates, the Democratic Con-
ventiOn accepts and endorses his bold
declaration that the Reconstruction leg
. / fu1aAslr, Of a
and nullity; and that the mission and
duty OF the Democratic party is to effaee
it, with all its consequences, that
no trace or vestige of it or them may
remain to curse and dishonor the coun-
/ try.
We are not much given to exsggera.
ting that which gives us hope. We know
/ that TO exult beyond measure in the an
/ ticipatiOn Of success, is to make certain
an unmsnly depression and discourage
ment in case of defeat. It is said, and
perhaps justly, that we are too much in
clined to look upon the dark side Of the
picture and that the sad and gloomy
portraitures that we have sometimes
drawn of the actual present and threat
ened future, have been calculated to dis.
courage and dishesrten, to chill the hope
fulness Of friends and psralyze their en-
ergies and zeal, and equally to encour-
age those who are the birds Of prey, the
hawks and the vultures, and the moi
some vermin and poisonous reptiles, that
feed upon or sting the Commonwealth.
At last, thank God, "the golden rose
of Dawn" after the long, dark night
Of calamity and oppression, begins to
glow in the east, for the vexed and per-
secuted South. The long, dark night
for minutes of slavery are longer than
years of Liberty, and crawl with painful
retrogressiOn into the hateful Past
We are cold enough and calm enough,
and enough inclined to dependency,
not to be deluded by false hopes, or mis-
led by momentary enthusiasm. We
should not pretend to be confident OF
success, if we were not so. To delude a
people with false hopes is not profitable,
even in the day when it is done, and
it always bears evil fruit for the future.
Our dawn Of hope is no delusivs CLEAN,
that gives false promise Of the rising of
a sun that may not rise at all. We be-
lieve that the candidates Of Democratic
Conservatism will be triumphantly
elected. We believe that the eyes of
the people of the Northern States are st
last unsesled, and that they at last know
Radicalism by its accursed fruits in
South Carolina and Louisiana, by its
eorruptions and wasteful expenditure of
the moneys wrung from the people by
unconstitutional and exOrbiiant taxa
ton, which the rich can avoid by in-
vesting their fortunes in bonds Of the
Government that are not taxable; but
the poor must pay although it takes the
bread from the mouths Of their chill
dren.
We congratulate the Conservative
white men of the city Of Memphis,
whether disfranchised, or allowed the
poor privilege Of equality with the
negro, on the magnificent demon
stration of Thursday night; on
the zeal, enthusiasm and confidence
that lit up the faces and inspired with
hope and energy the souls of the assem-
bled thousands, Yho, throDgiBg to-
gether as in a huge smphitheetre, aud
acknowledging the magical influence of
the fair faces that looked down upon
them radiant with sympathy, heard, in
the words of those who briefly addressed
them, the uttersnce Of their own
thoughts and their own high hopes and
generous resolutions.
We congratulate them on the perfect
unison and harmony, not hereafter to
be interrupted, that have succeeded a
temporary misunderstanding. No one
saw the enthusiasm, the order, the de-
corum Of that great assemblage, without
feeling that as the men who stood there
have but single object and common
purpose, so they will hereafter have but
q single viii.
How, indeed, can dissensions spring
up? Who, of all the Conservatives Of
the city is SO unworthy as to plot aud
plan for himself or for a miserable Clique
or faction Who is there that did not
on that great evening feel lifted up
high above all such poor, pitt
ful, paltry considerations, and resolve to
devote himself solely to the service Of the
country and the enfranohisement OF the
people How can an Irishman, remem-
bering Grattan, and Curran, and Em-
NETT, and Wolfe Tone, and Fitzgerald,
and Shell, ally himself with that Des-
potism which scourges the Eouth with
whips Of scorpions, forces negroes upon
white men as their political equals,
ehespens the elective franchise thereby,
90 that q vote is worth less than dead
rat or 8 rotten egg, dictates constitutions
at the point Of the bayonet, annuls in
ten Irelands 81 the sacred guarantees of
Magma Charta and the constitutions of
the States, and maintains brutal des-
potism overeight millions of people sbso-
lutely without rights, until it can substi-
tute for this Government those Of pitiful
minorities of despIcable white men, and
uueiyifized hoFfee Of senai-baFharous ma