Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-20
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gentlemen, prominent, some Of them, In
the political, others in the military an
nails of our section, and some IN both.
The Radicals have circulsted these by
the hundred thousand, and in onse-
quenee, it is ssid, have intimidsted the
weak and carried dismay to the least
hopeful. Now If this be SO, and any APP
preclable per cent. OF the Northern pub
lie can be induced to change their
votes by such speeches and 81
pressious, ss those reported, then
the Intelligence and manhood of
the North must be put at a very low
standard, indeed SO low, SIS to leave moth
ing 20 be proud of in Americas citizen
4hip. To believe that the Northern vo-
ter could, 70 any extent, be diverted
from casting ouch 3 suffrage, rs the best
interest Of the country required, aeoor-
ding to his previous convictions, by rea-
son OF anything which has as yet fallen
from any ore in the South during this
canvass, is to admit the existence
OF great ignorance and still great
ar turbulence in the Northern
constituency. Not \ sentence or syl-
able has fallen from the lips Of any man
in the South, during the present Son
test, which impea0hes TO the slightest
extent the good faith Of the Southern
people, as to their obligations assumed
under the terms OF surrender. In no
way do any of these expressions indi-
cate any unfriendliness TO the Union or
to the Federal Government, or any hos.
.ility to Federal authority. We chal-
lenge The production Of any such senti-
ment or expression. The utmost that
can be manufactured out of these
speeches and conversations, is . bitter
hostility to Republican or Radical policy
since the war. Can any reasonable or
Just man ia the North deny that the peo-
pie Of the South ought TO be hostile TO
such policies, as nave bean adopted to-
ward them at the instance Of the R2di-
cal party since the war? Can any hon
est man North fail to admit, that these
1 policies have been harsh and insulting
10 them, tyrannical and destructive of
heir material interests? More than
this, the most incorporate language at
/ tributed to the Z" SJuthsrn chiefs, (" has
related to the local developments OF
Radicaiism Ia the variousS Southern States
such, for instance, as the miserable des-
potism OF Tennessee. Now we happen
to know that a large section of the Re-
publican party North, utterly condemns
the brutal, ignorant and corrupt tyranny
which exists ia Tennessee, and which
with the most exact propriety, consider
ing both the inismy of the system and
the ~scoundreiism Of lis author, may be
termed GrOWnt0Ulsm just as assassina-
ton to supply subjects for dissection, was
called " burkiRg,n from the name of the
first villain who practiced the crime.
Is it possible that the manhood Of
the Northern people is so reduced by
their fears, or so perverted by their pre-
JUDGES, that their approximations Of re-
6eili0n can be aroused by the indignant
and even menaeing protests of the vic
TINS of this OdiOus oppression Can it
De, that they will even find matter for
Gensura in the most violent denuncia-
lions Of Radicalism, by those who have
forever three years borne its coarse cru
city? As well might the manipulation
Of The rack ind in each groan Of the lac
Grated victim prOyOcation for continuing
the torture. Shame on it, il Radical
d-emagoguism can induce the frsemen OF
The North TO hesitate one momeLt, in
oyerthyowing the most ignoble despot-
ism that ever cursed any time or ocun-
Try, by hurting il their faces the pas.
sioGate determinations of Southern men,
against the very tyranny which has ex
cited their own seorB.
Again, we would inform the North,
that the masses OF the Southern whites
are EOt under the control Of leaders.
They are not like dumb cattle
driven" by 4" chieftains." This has
been a misconception of the South
ern people long prevalent at
tbs North, which it would be well to
correct. No peOp,e we're ever so marked
by individuality as the Southern whites.
No population were ever 90 little moved
in their determinations of political CUES
tons by that magnetism which produces :
the blind following Of a mob. There is
no man, who ever held any considerable ,
portion Of the Southern people, bound TO l
his mere personal fortunes, or individual {
opinions. In this particular, they have
differed widely from the people of the !
North. Therefore there is no one man, !
nor even any twelve men, who Z
can assume TO represent the sen !
timent and feeling Of the South ;
ern people. They respect talent, {
distinguished service in the field o. Sem
ate, and accord Legitimate Influence to 5
them, cut they are far, very far from be- :
ing the slaves OF mere personal distiac-
ton. They recognize quite a differences
in the offices OF capacity. They may re-
gard one 80 highly gifted for the cccupa-
ton ana work OF q soldier, and at the q
anne time held him poorly qualified for !
the delicate and complex duties OF states :
manship-and quite an inapt ad- s
wiser On political questions. For d
instance, 40 Southern man or Z
woman thinks the less Of Gen. LONG =
STREET, as q soldier, because be gave 4
them signally bad counsel ia politics
which they very properly rejected. n
There is but one man in the south. who !
approximates that position of supreme :
influence over the Southern mind. Il
which would at all endow with renre-
sentative authority what be might utter. l
That is ROBERT E. LEE. This "a.
suits, not from his mere soldjerlv f
achievements, but he has ever evineed a
that cool, calm equipOiss Of character
and mind, 10hich f1s its pos8essor for The
Grdlous work Of ship IN e,1er-
gencies. "Afens eqauS in orduis y express J
his high and varied capacities. Moreover. n
is fairly the exponent of that delibe- p
intelligence, which ought 30 gnide n
people struggling amid adversely, and G
oppressed By misfortune. Yet even he. 2
II he chose TO exchange his prudent for @