Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-10

WE nave recently TAKEN OCcdSlOu 10
condemn the meeting held in Nash
VILE to take into consideration the
disorders in Rutherford county, not
because we were wanting in all proper
respect for the respectable gentlemen
who were concerned in it, but because
we deplOred the very fact of the I'M
due influence given to that matter by
the importance which their grave de
alterations gave TO it. The express
sion of correct views, like the speak
ing Of truth, is always proper enough
when called for, and when anything
atalI should be said. But great meet
ings at the capital, conducted by men
of State regulations, and heralded by
an influential press as the salvation of
the State, and the proof of loyalty
which needs no proving, must always
be mischievous on occasions less than
extraordinary. No other inference
can be drawn abroad from such a pro-
cednre, than that of undue timidityo or
that's IN urgent call existed for it. And
hence our Nashville cousins should
not forget that they r great men,
living in a great capital, and likely to
be accredited .as the representa-
tives of a great State. The eff
feet Of their speeches and resO-
lutions (good enough in themselves
has been to produce the impression
abroad very much as We had appre-
hended, that ~lawlessness was general
or likely to become so throughout the
State, that their expression Of opinion
was tacitly conceded by them to be
necessary to prevent such a state of
things, and that the Radical charge of
a disposition to lawlessness on the
part Of the late "rebels" was we'll
founded. Such are the differences
drawn by the Northern Radical press,
not so much from facts which
they know, as from the par
ticular fact of the existence and OBJ
jects of such a meeting. They
infer CONTRARY to the fact and
to the intentions Of those engaged in
that meeting, that rebel lawlessness
has all along been particularly ready
to crop out, that il has taken fresh
license from the result of the August
election, that it needed to be repressed
by Radical measures, and that it was
always stronger in the late Confede-
rates than any where else-a slumber-
ing power and danger ready to burst
forth, like volcanic fires, whenever
the restraining hand was removed
from them. These gentlemen neither
made In terms, nor intended the adj
mission, that these irregularities were
chargeable on the late Confederates,
we know full well. They will prop
Perly and truthfully deny both such
an intention and such a belief. But
the effect of their action is what we
deal with, and their upright intentions
and elevated characters only highten
that effect, and render it more
perniciOus. 1t has now gone
out, authoritatively enough for all
Radical purposes in the North, that |
the Conservatives, Democrats, ex-
rebels, are, TO a large extent, disposed
TO break the law in the oppression of
Union men, black and white, and
that the gray-headed, the wise, the
timid and the good, twho comprise a
part OF the Tennessee people, are
against suchoutlawry.
This is not the condition of things
here, and it ought not to be made so
to appear. There is no need of public
meetings, calling on the Governor to-
enforce the laws, and promising him
the ample support of the people. He
knows that already, and all the Ten
nessee world knows it, and all the
world outside should know il as well.
An equanyIaw abiding people cannot
be found in the Northern States, 50
far as the whole body Of old
citizens and ex-COnfederates is
concerned. But we have dis
orders Notwithstanding in
excess Of some of the homes of the
non-emigrating class of young old la
dies in New England. This is due TO
two principal causes, which, taken
away, would leave US, as a peaceful
paople, without a rival. The first is
the natural consequence Of war upon
all populations, and the demoraliza-
ton, especially to the young, which
springs from the license Of the camp.
This would be equally truce Of any 9TH
or people in the same circumstances,
and especially Of and conquered peo-
pie. Il has nothing to do with any
sectional feeling. Only those who