Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-24

my Tune, money anu ihhuouOo w "
Radical organization, TO the deiriment
. personal interest, but, ms ] hope, TO d
benefit Of my country. On these grounds
beg to presume to offer my views on n
! nomination at Municipal Court room
Memphis through Conservativejou
, 10 my fellow business men in the Rad
cal party. The elements and principle
exist, but where is the partyf Fo
some years an organization has bee
growing up within the Radical part
which, supporting specific Radica
measures, is yet utterly foreign in prir
ciple and character, and imbued wit
the most fanatical Democratism in a
respects. After struggle for years
this faction has now reached the suprem
control of the Radical party, by the re
suits of the great campaign and the fiv
days battle We have just passed through
II confess ! never expected this
never expected to see the party TO
whom / have labored with Ed. Shaw
Ham Carter, VIM. Kennedy, ETC., con
l trolled by Barbour Lewis, VIM. Hunter
II. L. Hudson, and the Syracuse ant
Christiana rioters-the men of abolition
anti-rent, and all manner OF isms-
but so it is. 1t is in vain to point
practical men to the noble platform
of principles, forced upon our new mas
tiers by that very remnant of Republicans
who have since been put down in the final
contest. We know the men, and they are
not the men we can trust to sustain these
principles. They stopped to COM
quer, and their object = treachery
as to principles-does not challenge our
increased confidence. The oligarcby
which now controls the Radical party, is
identified from first to last with nought
but the bitterest opposition to every dis
tinctively Republican and national prin-
ciple.
Where am | to goT Y have no
longer party to which l can claim
affinity. My party is revolutionized;
it has "new lords and new laws"
such as / will cut off my hand sooner
than sustain. Democrat Radicals
generally, and in the Southern States
universally, it appears to me, must con-
slider the party as in effect broken up.
Southern men at least, although de-
feated, cannot surrender to the treacher-
GUS foe whose knife has so long sought
their throats., 1t follows, and the cleo
ton will show it, that the party will no
longer have show of national existence.
Messrs. Editors, into causes of this state
of things it is bootless now to enter
The depths of infamy which certain
Southern Radicals have scooped ort for
themselves 1 do not mean to explore. Let
others hold up to imperishable contempt,
the names of the Northern traitors who
have slain the Radical party and dis
honorsd its noblest leaders. Sufficient
for me, that as Democrat Radical |
am absolved from political services and
levy during existence of the incoming
Conservative dynasty, and until sound
principles and sound leaders shall once
more claim my support.
A MEMPHIS RADICAL.
The above communication comes from
one who dares to be independent and hon.
est, and will not bend the knee
to the behests of any party lead
ers, when his own convictions of
duty to his country are in the way
There is limit which every freeman and
patriot will prescribe to himself in his
association with party, and the public
good will stand in his esteem above parti.
Fan success. We pity man who is shall
low enough to regardpertinacious consist
ency, in adhering to an organization with
which he has been connected, as matter
of SO great importance that he will shut his
eyes to. consequences, and go with his
party, right or wrong, even when it is on
the way to the devil. Wise men change,
fools never. There is but one thing in
which man should remain immutable,
aud that is in his determination to do
what he believes right, though it should
involve thousand changes day. Per-
sistence without reason only indicates
the obdurate and obstinate fool While
changes with sufficient reasons indicate
intelligence, manliness and patriotism.
We are pleased to find there are some
such men in the ranks of the Radical
party.
The preseut Crisis.