Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-10

ces, Radical judges appointed, no Char
lenges permitted, and all done posi-
Die for the satrap ANIEs to do, to force
an unfair election. Tens of thousands
of Mississippians were disguised with
the selection Of candidates and the
adoption Of a platform of false prinei-
pies which, with the candidates, they
despised. Indifference with some,
apathy in others, and irresolute and
inharmonious action with a large pOr-
ton Of the citizens, followed as a mat
ter Of course. The State was lost the
moment the platform was put forth
and DENT selected without permission
of Gen. GRANT and his lieutenant
ANIEs. If the case had been different,
and GRANT had willed it otherwise,
Tennessee, with its anti-negro suffrage
notions, might have lain harmlessly
by the side Of Mississippi, and the
APPEALmight have thundered against
negro suffrage in vain, so far as Missis-
sippi was concerned. The cause Of
DENTS defeat was not that; but be-
cause negro suffrage is forced there,
and because the people of Mississippi
were Indifferent as between q scalawag
and a carpetbagger, and were really
not a free people, able to hold a fair
election. All this was too apparent
early in the canvass to leave a posi-
bility that any conductor Of a public
Journal possessed of ordinary sagacity
should fail to see it as we did when
we went for DENT only to be in decent
company, and without another plausi-
bic reason to assign for it. We only
make further mention of this matter
in answer to a somewhat persistent
attempt which is being made to injure
our circulation in Mississippi by the
use of if. We stand to our principles,
and we will not depart from them to
please anybody, or to secure a parti-
san success either in the interest Of
Tennessee or Mississippi. And we
expect to retain our rapidly increas-
ing circulation in spite of efforts to
pull it down, made by journals which
depend more on that kind of strategy
than on their own merits for success.
We do not find that our list of sub
scribers is falling off in Mississippi,
whose inhabitants respect candor and
independence in journalism. 1t is
easy to some to bow down to the will
of a people and consent to be gagged.
But Mississippians prefer that an ed
itor should speak his mind when he
has any respectable reasons to give
for it. They see now that we were
right in the positions e%ditOrially taken
during the canvass, and they hate the
name of DENT and spit upon the
shameful platform upon which he
kneeled to GRANT in the name OF the
white population of Mississippi, which
heretofore has ever stood erect. When
the people have forgiven themselves
for their own great political blunder
in selecting DENT, they may condemn
the APPEAL for its unwilling assent
not before. And if our Jefferson
street neighbor expects to build itself
up by pulling the APPEAL down in
that fashion, it will find Mississippi
ans a very impracticable people for
such a purpose.
The Natchez Democrat of the 4th
inst, speaks of the result in Missis-
sippi as follows:
"The indications are that the apa-
thy Of the white people Of Mississippi,
and the fraud and intimidation perpe-
trated by a large number of Ames'
election managers, have succeeded in
electing the Acorn ticket by a very
large majority. The news so far re-
ceived Is of an unofficial character,
but may, we think, be relied upon as
nearly correct. The latest news re-
ceived up TO a late hour of the day
yesterday, included the returns from
thirty-siX counties, and those gave
AlcOrn a majority of over thirty thou
sand. An estimate, based upon these
returns, for the counties vet to be
heard from, would probably increase
the majority to fOrty-fve thousand.
Gen. Ames' threat that hewould carry
the election if he had to march his
bayonets from precinct to precinct,
has been executed, and the result is
an election carried at the point of the
bayOnet, with all the adjuncts of stuff
ing ballot-boXes, and every other spe-
cies Of fraud that human ingenuity
could invent and unlimited power
execute"