Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-31

gross. AS we have said before, We nave
no objection to that gentleman, except
that be can take the oath. In that oo'
lection, we rather think, more Conserva-
lives concur with US than the Avalanche /
inagines; and a good many think that
il we cannot send to Congress one who ,
will be really our representative, 1t is
matter of little moment whether we
send any at all. If Avery should be
run, and can, by means Of the Courts |
compel the counting of the votes cast
for him, he will obtain his seat, If the |
pext Congress is Democratic and If it |
continues Radical, it will be of as little
value to US to be represented, as it has
been heretofore.
For sometime, the AuoLGnche has been /
repudiating the counsels Of prudence as /
the promptings Of timidity. 1t is Roa0
afraid that We shall, Z" 10 propitiste cur
egotism,n by some rash act /" jsopardize |
the noble efforts " of the Northern De-
mocracy. It was not afraid of doing that
by sending Gen. Forrest to New York,
when we, perhaps enormously, thought |
it uuwise. How can the efforts of the
Northern Democracy be jeopdrdised by |
runnir and electing Avery? And why |
should our neighbor so palpably display
his anger at the proposition that to be |
able to take the oath is no recommends
ton Of candidate to at least one Con-
sentative ?
But the Avalanche charges that We !
cannot even let the negro be persuaded |
for his own good to stand by his true !
friends, but must repeatedly arouse his |
alarm by asserting that whenever the
Government is again in the hands Of the
white man, he win be disfrsnchised,
stripped Of his suffrage, be no longer en-
titled to testify, and aOta0ith standing all
the efforts he may make for his ooon Gd-
UdnceBlent in k71oaO1ecige, and the mode !
Of governing hin1se!f, NE OiU be returned to
5drbariSn1. The AU0idHche viii, We hope, |
be pleased to point Us TO the article in
which we have said that the negro |
would be deprived of the right to testify; |
and the Conservatives who support that
journal will be glad to have it categori-
cally answer the question Are you in
favor of promising the negroes, IN good
faith, that the right Of suffrage shall be per-
manently vested in them after thu Dsmo-
cratic party succeeds; or are you il IA
vor of promising it in bad faith, and
breaking the promise? Il is natural
that the Avalanche should be reluctant
to tell the negroes that it proposes to
take from them q right which it last
year promised to them. We gave no
such guarantee. We proposed to guar
antee them all civil rights, and declared
ourselves utterly opposed to giving them
the right to vote. Consistency does not
reqsire as to continue to guarantee them
that right.
If the AValanehe has, as 1t seems to
claim, the exclusive right to speak OF the
party and If others "a Obtrude their indi-
vldual opinions when they do not fol-
low its dietation, it must be now under
stood to declare that 1.-THE party" does
not mean to take from negroes the right
Of suffrage. Do the Conservatives of
Tennessee consent TO that2 We cannot
see what particular necessity there was
for abiding to the matter at all, in an
article on the subject Of candidates
for Congress, and cur views on
that subject; except that it afforded
an opportunity for fling at the Editor
Of the APPEAL; whose views as to negro
suffrage have been openly expressed for
q year, and adopted, as lie supposed, by
the whole Conservative party.
It is not always indispensable, we
should think, to insult one to whose
opinions it is deemed proper to reply. |
If the AUoluacae knew the meaning Of
the word Sybarite,' its application of it
to the Editor Of the APPEAL passes far |
beyond the bounds Of courtesy between |
friends. We do not fear, but we do not
wish the kind of controversy with TIE /
1Uutuache, to which such phrases and !
the other sEeers contained N its splen-
etc ana ul-Jempered article are calcu-
Ae%s-I ~ AEGNs-s ~ NANAA ttaO Nk'AA-cLo Va
the AUaloache with respect, and its
Eiitor With courtesy and it will gain
little by depar Ting from that course with
respect TO Us.
OF one thing it may be sure that
whatever cur opinions are, they will be
none the less frankly expressed, because
We do not know in advance whether
they suit Journal, for whose right to
dictate to US we know no reason, either
on the score of superior wisdom, or better
Judgment, or greater prudence, or
larger patriotism, or more faithful SER
vice. We express cur opinions frankly
and plainly, but, we hope, not arro-
gantly, insolenly or extensively. In
doubleday we often err; and when We
do, we can bear to be told of it but we
should prefer to be leeiured in rather
different style than that assumed by the |
44UaEanche, and with not quite such an
assumption OF superiority.