Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-11
THE CANDIDATES OF THE DE-
MOCRACY.
The Great Demonstration.

HoRATIo SEYMOUR and FRANK P.
BLAIR These are great names. We
accept them heartily, as the Captains
the great Army Of the Constitution.
SEYMOUR is q Statesman, worthy to
sit in the place OF Webster, Clay or Cal
houn q man Of broad and comprehen-
give views; thoroughly educated, as
well by experience as reading 8 frank,
manly, noble gentleman, who has
passed through the fiery furnace of New
York politics without q stain of dis
honor on his name; a man who
earnestly and in the utmost good faith
endeaTered to escape the nomination,
and who viii honor the Office OF Presi-
dent far more than the office will honour
him.
FRANK P. BLAIR has become a famil-
isr name to the people Of the South,
whose bloody and brutal tyrsnts he has
denounced since the day when our
Southern armies surrendered and the
shame and ignominy Of cur VictOrs be-
gan. Before the war, he was a Republic
can, bus one SO genial and generous IS 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
isIstion Of Congress is unconstitutional
and nullity; and that the mission and
duty OF the Democratic party is to effsce
it, with all its consequences, that
no trace or vestige Of it or them may
remain TO curse and dishonor the eoun-
try.
We are not much. given to exeggera-
ting that which gives us hope. We know
that to exult beyond measure In the an
ticipstion Of success, is to make certain
an unmsnly depression and discourage
ment in case Of defeat. 1t is said, and
perhaps justly, that we are too much in
clined to look upon the dalk side Of the
picture and that the sad and gloomy
pOrtrAitures that we have sometimes
drawn Of the actual present and threat
esed future, have been calculated TO dis
courage and dishearten, to chill the hope
fitness OF friends and paralyze their en-
ergies and zeal, snd equSlly to eneour-
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" sitter 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 II
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 10 be deluded by false hopes, or mis-
led by momentary enthusiasm. We
should not pretend TO be confident Of 4
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 1
it always bears evil fruit for the future.
Our dawn Of hope Is no delusive CLEAN. (
that gives false promise Of the rising Of
q sun that may not rise at all. We be- 1
neve that the candidates OF Democratic I
Conservatism will be triumphantly I
elected. We believe that the eyes of
the people Of the Northern States are at
last unsealed, and that they at last know /
Radicslism by its Rccursed fruits IN 1
South Carolina and Louisiana, by its I
corruptions and wssbsfal expenditure Of
the moneys wrung from the people by
unconstitutional and exorbitent taxa
ti0n, which the rich can avoid by in
vesting their fortunes in bonds Of the |
Government that arc not taxable; but |
the poor must pay although 1t takes the 4
bread from the mouths Of their chill
dren.
We congratulate the Conservative /
white men Of the city OF Memphis. 4
whether DISTINGUISHED, or allowed the 4
poor privilege Of equality with the /
negro, on the magnificent demon.
stratiOn OF Thunday night; on /
the zeal, enthusiasm and confidence
that lit up the faces and inspired with /
hope and energy the souis of the assem- /
bIed thousands, who, throngiag to-
gether as in huge amphitheRtre, aud
acknowledging the magical influence Of I
the fair faces that looked down upon
them radiant with sympathy, heard, In |
the words Of those who briefly addressed 1
them, the utteranee Of their own
thoughts and their own high hopes and
generous resolutions.
We congratulate them on the perfect
unison and harmony, MOI hereafter to 1
be interrupted, that have succeeded q
temporary Misunderstanding. Ne ons