Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-05
APPEAL, 70 TEE BUSINESS SENSE OF
TIE HOIfThE.

81 AN1 ~
THE ROETKH
We desire TO address ourselves to the
business Intelligence of the North-to
the class that earnestly wish to see the
prosperity Of the country restored. This
IS the portion of the Northern cOmmu-
mites, in whose hands sre the dsstiniss
Of the present hour and the future fate Of
the nation. I'll is not expected that either
official incumbents, who have personal
expectations to be realized in the success
of the Radical party, or those not now
in Office, whose individual enterprises
are connected with the success of that
organization, will, in this pending con-
test be Influenced by motives Of patriot
/ ism, or ut sIl controlled by considerations
embracing the general welfare of the
! Republic. All these we propose TO pass
by as Joined, like Ephraim of old, to
! their idols. But withths telling million,
and the intelligent and cultivated opera
tors In commerce and manufactures, we
plead in the words Of sobsrness and truth.
To such We urge a calm consideration OF
the situation, and such action as would
be instigated by the most ordinary pru-
denee in business affairs.
It viii be admitted as essential to the
prosperity Of the North, that Southern
industry and N be restored.
Such 8 contamination is scarcely less vi
tai to those living North than to those
living South of the Ohio and Susque-
hanna. 1t win likewise not be denied,
that this cannot be done unless the cor
dial goodwill of the Southern people be
acquired by the State and Federal au-
thority. In other words, they must be in
perfect harmony with the governments
placed over them. So long as they feel
that they belong to the oppressed class,
and that the political power exercised
over them is either a usurpstion or an
oppression, there must ever exist that
discomfort snd disorder utterly fatal to
all internal prosperity. All sensible men
must know that 1t is one thing to defeat
an effort for a separate nationality, and
quite another to reconcile the failing
party to that defeat, and induce them to
regard their disappointment in their as
pirations az not practically an frrepGrd-
bic misfortune. The truth of these propo-
sitions, we take for granted, will not be
disputed.
Then we proceed to the next step In a
business view of the matter. It cannot
be questioned that the sword cannot ac-
complish such psciicstion as this, which
at last is the only pacifeation worth q
grot. Witness Ireland. Nopeople we're
ever in the worlds history brought into
accord with the Government by force.
The Office Of the latter agency in public
affairs is exhausted the moment armed
resistance ceases. Reconciliation is only
effected by such administration and such
legislation as will not actually opprees or
ssl:ently offend the prejudices and tenn
per of the conquered. All wise conquer-
ors have recognized and acted on this
principle. This p~Ostulate will not GER
tsinly be rejected by the intelligence of
trade. 1t is, in fact, the philosophy of
the market place, the science on
change" and the politics of commerce.
Now, has this craftsmanship been
practiced towards the South since the
close of the war? At the surrender of
the Confederate armies, the people Of the
South agreed TO accept the Union on the
abolition Of slavery this condition en-
on them the entire destruction Of
their wealth, adding to the waste by war
the extinction of almost their only re-
sources for recuperation. This, st the
time, was regarded as the utmost for
the North fought. This concession
our people made with a determination {
the s~acrafice thus exacted from /
them, should not intervene between Z
hem and the Government, and
hat this, with all the wrongs and
'utrsges Of war, should pass, so far as
hey were concerned, into political OBJ 4
ivion. Was it reasonable or wise to
more? We spprehend that the I
,oOl headed voter, not in the service of I
! political ring, will at once answer in 4
he negative. But 1t is time that such a
OrbesriDg policy was not pursued to- b
the ~Confederates. On the con- |
measures were at once ~propounded
o them by the present Congress, repul- v
i've TO their pride-insulting and de- d
AT least, they so thought and d
D q business aspect Of the matter, this is n
be same thing. Not only these measures L
7ere rendered, but with the threat "
aat IL not accepted, worse would follow. !,
hey were rejected. Worse terms we're
imposed at the point Of the bayonet. el
Tut has reconciliation been the result ?
las the prosperity of the South been re- 2
Jored Has the North been benefited u
What is the result? The 81
outh, instead of being governed BY in &C
'lngence and virtue, is Row the prey OF =
lllainy and ignorance. The people are
.scontented. Conscious of unmerited
juries and insults inflicted, resent
tents are cherished, which under wiser
2litics would long since have disap- be
cared. This must, to any sane mind, fo
rove the folly Of the courses pursued to- No
a bhO Sou1As tFL
II this be so, then why will the BUSH qu
'ss man Of the North agree to retain 9y
power the Radical or Republican he
Irty? Itislmmaterisl whether 1t woaId th
I've been better or not for the people of ha
q South to have accorded with their "a
It is sufficient for the man of es,
to know that this party has roi
Of success in restoring peace and oe'
osperity TO the country. The causes of IN
9 failure it is unnecessary to inyesti- :
They ought to haze accomplished he
e result. They have, after four years Go
experiment, no satisfactory proceeds r.I
their policy to show. This should con- baa
mn them "On Change" at
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