Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-11

feeling that as the men who stood there
have but single object and common
purpose, go they will hereafter have but
a single will.
How, indeed, can dissensions spring
up? Who, of all the Conservatives of
the city is 50 unworthy as to plot aud
plan for himself or for miserable clique
or faction? Who is there that did not
on that great evening feel lifted up
high above all such poor, pitt
full, paltry considerations, and resolve to
devote himself solely to the service Of the
country AID the acknowledgment of the
people ? How can an Irishman, remem-
boring Grattan, and Curran, and EN-
NETT, and Wolfe Tone, and Fitzgerald,
and She'll, ally himself with that Des-
potism which scouTges the South with
whips Of scorpions, forces negroes upon
white men as their political equals.
/ cheepens the elective franchise thereby,
so that vote is worth less than dead
rat or a rotten egg, dictates constitutions
at the point of the bsyonet annuls in
/ ten Irelands all the sacred guarantees OF
Magns Charta and the constitutions of
the States, and maintains brutal des-
potism overeig millions Of people abso-
/ lutely without rights, until it can substi-
tute for this Government those Of pitiful
minorities of despicsble white men, and
uncivilized hordes Of semi-bsrbarous ne
groes. The Irishman who can assist in
| this sssassin's work would be unfit to
cooperate in the task Of winning indie
pendence for his own native land. Can
the Teuton, OF that great race that 80
long defied the power of Rome and main
tanned free institutions in the Ger
manian forests, be the ally or in
strument of a sOrdid tyranny, like
that which squats, in all its
ugly deformity, upon the indignant
heart of Tennessee, and stamps with its
brutal hoofs upon the faces OF ten Pres
trate States? Can he OF whose race were
WaIlenstein and Frederic and Luther,
Leibnitz, Goethe and Schiller, recognize
without impotence and disgust the ig-
norant African as bis political equal
VIII the italian consent to and tsmely
accept that degradation, remembering
the great names Of the Medici, Dante,
Tssso, Alfsri and Michael Angelo, OF
the Dorias and Colonnas and Rienzi, the
Tribune of the Roman people? Can he,
and the SpRniard who remembers the
old Gothic glories of his native land and
the renown of the great G0nsalvo, and
the Scotsman whose ancestors fought
at FlOdden-field, and to whom the
names of the great men of his
race are as household words, con-
sent that the votes OF negroes shall
control the legislation that affects his
rights, taxes bis property, and concerns
even his domestic relations?
Can the Frenehmen to whom the
great names of the Republic and the
Empire are as heir-looms, be the ally of
that faction which hss made jet black
negro ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS over those of
his own race, and President of theS Senate,
and a mulattO Speaker OF the House
OF Representatives Of Louisiana? a
Frenchman vote to continue over
Frenchmen as chivalrous and honorable
as himself, the rule and government Of
ignorant and recently emsncipated ne
grOes! Its not possible.
The cause Of one is the cause Of all.
1t is not alone the men of American
birth who are ruled by military despo-
tism in Mississippi, and over whom ne
grOes are set as task-masters in South
Carolina and Louisiana. 1t is not they
alone who are DISTINGUISHED in Tennes-
see. The men Of the Latin and Celtic
and Teutonie races are equally op-
pressed, and the same persistent deter
miuation is manifested to crush out their
pride and selt-respect and humiliate and
degrade them in their own eyes. Not
the Christian only thus experiences the
bitter consequences Of subjugatiop,
bnt the men Of that people which
received its laws from Moses,
and defended the Holy City with
such constsncy against the legions of
Titus,-Of that race which the Radical
candidate for the Presidency in
cluded in one broad and cOmpre-
hensive denuncistion, and which was
oppressed and prosecuted for centuries
enough to make its sons ready to sympa.
thize with any people in ike manner
oppressed, Inundated and outraged.
We congratulate the Conservatives OF
Memphis that in this great cause OF the
Constitution aud the rights of man
against oppression and force and fraud
and the destruction Of all the old land
marks Of Constitutional Government,
they are united together as one man,
and that all former political differences
are forgotten.
We already feel the benefits and are
reaping the blessings Of our discipline OF
adversely. We see how unnecessary was
the bitterness of our former political
controversies, how eauseless were our
former personal enmities, how unjust
and ungener0us our opinions Of political |
adversaries, how dangerous to the coun-
try are such party strifes. Those who |
once had not one charitable feeling for |
each other are now sincere friends, and !
the children Of dead enemies clasp hands
across their fathers graves.
The people are wiser than they were,
and are coming to love the simple truth |
better than gilde1 fiattery or gaudy |
rhetoric. They win listen with most
attention and respect TO the man who
speaks frankly and manfully to them
the words Of truth and soberness. 1t
will be many years before the insincere
and shallow demsgogue will be accepta-
bic sgain to the Southern people.
There is no cause for dissedsion among
Conservatives. For the sake of the
country, let US have none. Let the peo-
pie at once quietly put aside every man
who, assuming to lead or instruct. uneon.
sciOusly reveals the fact that his own
selfish interest is the motive for his ae.
ton. 1t shall not be any longer said OF
Us, as it was said after Julius Caesar fell
at the foot OF the statue of Pompey in
the capitol, that "Octavius had party.
and Antony had party; but Rome had