Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-13

heart Of Tennessee, and stamps with It's
brutal hoofs upon the faces Of ten pros
trRte States ? Can he of whose race were
Wallenstein and Frederic and Luther,
Leibnitz, Goethe and Schiller, recognize
without impatience and disgust the ig-
norant African Is his political equal ?
VIII the italian consent to and tamely
accept that degradation, remembering
the great names Of the Medici, Dante,
Tasso, Alferi and Michael Angelo, OF
the Dorias and Colonnas and RienZi, the
Tribune Of the Roman people? Can he,
and the Spsniard who remembers the
old Gothic glories Of his native land and
the renoWn of the great Gonsslvo, 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 his property, and concerns
even his domestic relations?
Can the Frenchmsn to whom the
great n6nes of the Republic and the
Empire are as heir-Iooms, be the ally Of
that faction which has made jet black
negro ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS over those of
his own race, and President of the Senate,
and mulatto Speaker of the House
of Representatives Of Louisiana? A
Frenchnisn vote to continue over
Frenohmen as chivalrous and honorable
as himself, the rule and government of
ignorant and recently emancipated ne
groes! tits not possible.
The. cause OF one is the cause of all.
1t is not alone the men of American
birth who sre ruled by military despo-
tismin Mississippi, and over whom ne
groes are set as task-masters in South
Carolina and Louisiana. 1t is net they
alone who are disfranchised in Tenaes-
see. The men of the Latin and Celtic
and TeutOnie races are equally Op-
pressed, and the same persistent deter
mination is manifested to crush out their
pride and self-respect and humiliate and
degrade them in their own eyes. Not
the Christian only thus experiences the
bitter consequences OF subjugation,
but the men Of that people which
received its laws from Moses,
and defended the Holy City with
such constancy against the legions OF
Titus,-of that race which the Radical
candidate Tor the Presidency in
cluded in one broad and cOmpre-
hensive denunciation, and which was
oppressed and Prosecuted for centuries
enough to make its sons ready to sympa-
thize with any people in like manner
oppressed, humiliated and outraged.
We congratulate the Conservatives Of
Memphis that in this great cause of the
Constitution and 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 cur former political
controversies, how canseless were cur
former personal enmities, how unjust
and ungenerous 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 gilde3 fattery or gaudy
rhetoric. They will listen with most
attention and respect to the man who
speaks frankly and manfully to them
the words of truth and soberness. It
will be many years before the insineere
and shallow demsgogUe viii be accepts-
BILE again 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, uncon-
seiousiy reveals the fact that his own
selfish interest Is the motive for his &C.
ton. It shall not be any longer said of
Us, as it was said after Julius Cesar fell
at the foot OF the statue Of Pompey In
the capitol, that "0ctsyius had party.
and Antony had party; but Rome had
none."
The Conservative party is the party of
the Commonwealth, Of the Republic, of
the country. 1t is honor and glory
enough to serve in it in the ranks. Let
those who assume to lead in it see to it
that they be capable and ut and oompe-
tent, or they may come to shame.