Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-25
Political PROsPECTS.

POLITICAL PROSPECTS.
The prospects for the SUCCESS Of the
Democratic psrty Of Tsnnessee were
never so fattering as al this moment.
The Radicals are divided and at enmity,
their rank and file sre demorslized, they
are without compass, ruddor or pilot. An
organization originally intended, and so
fsr conducted in the interest and for the
benefit Of a few sdventurers having no
real identity OF interest with the people
Of the State, the Radical party is in a fair
way to fall to pieces from the internal
diseords eDgendered by so suicidal a poll
cy. Divided against itself it cannot
stand. Corruption, dissensiOn and dis
cord are accomplishing for the decency,
the responsibility snd the intelligence Of
the State what the Radicals designed
to prevent by the passage Of repressive,
summary and Odious laws, the force Of
which the Democracy have found it inn
possible to break. Weak, and incapable
Of united effort, they are making
for the Democratic party an oppOrtu-
nifty for victory such 90 has not presented
in eight years. The csrpet-bsggers, de-
termined upon the possession Of all the
Offices Of the State, who feel Is HUNTER
expressed himself, that the State is
worth nothing to them unless they can
mske and administer its laws, regarding
them in their way, have initiated a war
upon the Tennessee Radicals and have
determined they shall, il they remain
with them, ito SO only upon such terms
as they may dictate. Whist in he'll do
We care for the State if we can't stay
here and control it," says the virtuOus
and pure Judge of the Criminal Coart Of
Memphis. A. leader among the carpet
baggers, he but speaks their sentiments
when thus he vulgarly phrases his de-
termination to rule or emigrateE Under
these circumstances we cannot see how
such men as Judge SMITH, Of the Chan
Gerry Court, and others we could mention,
who have a stake and an interest in this
community and in the State, who are
allied by blood, by social ties and family
connections with ths old residents and
natives Of the State, can longer permit
their names 10 be used as II indeed they
were the slaves Of the ~disgrsce'ul, disrepu-
table and ru6ianly crew vino boast their
determination TO rule as masters or leave
Waen they can no longer plunder.
Unless these Tennesseesns are de-
sIrous Of being held responsible in
all time to come for the Infamous legis-
lstion which taxes without representa-
ton, they will repudiste the car
~pet-baggers and leave them in their
iBf8ny, TO Wriggle ia it fOF so
short a time ss it will take the
Conservatives to defeat them and eom-
pei the other slternative-their absence
from the State they have robbed, plum
dered and well nigh ruined. The gross
vi~llainies Of these cs~rpet-baggers are too
patent to permit of their any longer be-
ing tolerated by such Tennesseeans as
have heretofore given their sdhe-
sion TO the Republican party from
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have wasted the revenues which
they have unnecessarily increased,
have reduced the value Of the property
OF the people aud so made their taxes
more onercus and they have srrsyed
against them the intelligence, the labor
and the property Of the State. -Four
veal Of such misrule are st last begin
ming to produce their legitimate effects.
The Tennessee Republicans, tired Of the
domination Of such creatures, sre seek
ing to court what they have heretofore
deTided, aud are making overtures to the
people over whom they have permitted
the carpet-baggers to lord it. Our time
is close at hand. Harmony and un-
selfness among the Democracy will hast
en- it. We must one and all regard
Office and the emolunents OF Office as
but neal to the great end the enfrsn-
chissmant of the white people of the
State. Before this all things else pale.
The ChaneellOrships, Judgeshipe, the
G~0vernOrship s3d Legislative offices are
nothing 70 US if they cannot be made to
conduee to a result hat is the desire, the
wish, and the hope Of q majority Of
the people Of Tennessee. We must be
e~nfrsnchised. Whatever and whoever
will help to secure US the voting power
that belongs to as is that for which we
should Struggle, and the mai in
whom our tf Jrts should center. We
must BE- patient, united, ~vigilant, and
we must determine fer success. M
man, we care not who be may be,
should be permitted to thrust himself
forward SO an element of discord, and no
individual claims should be considered
that Do not tally with the claims Of the
white people TO be enfrsnchised and
made free. Enfrsnchisement is what
We want and are lsboring for.