Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-13

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s]tlutioa and Hs lals. IN restoring @ thefH ne
gioriatts Hqg fthe Union, trc rCiH assure them that
Mag shall enjoy under as y0tds ne same protection
Orlfs and property as az former days.
The above is the language of Gen.
GRAST on taking command in West
Tennessee in 1862. The war closed;
and relying upon this and many SINH
lar assurances, including the resOlu-
ton Of Congress which declared that,
so soon rs the not to be discovered
Union of the States was secured by
the national arms, the war would be
a crime and ought to cease, a no in
considerable portion of the Southern
people welcomed the surrender, and
our troops laid down their arms in
full confidence that faith would be
kept with the Southern section Of the
Union, and that peace, in fact, as well
as in name, would result. But not
withstanding these assurances, and
the undOubted right Of the South
ern people at once TO enter on
the enjoyment Of their original
rights under the Constitution, so
soon as the war ended, on the sole
and well observed condition of Obedi-
encc to the laws, peace in reality did
not ensue, and %strites, annoyance, OPP
preston by carpet-baggers and gov
eminent by negro voters, legislators,
constitution makers and officials, and
plumber by all, was our fate, which
the northern people had forbidden, in
consent to which they would not have
made war, and in fair warning and
view ofwhich the South, even in its
direst extremity, would not have sur
rendered! The peace war went on,
with a fury, cOnstancy and violence,
even more distressing 70 hundreds Of
thousands than the war itself. And
when, 20 year ago, the body Of the
North was more than satisfied, and
all but the malignants and spOilsmen
ashamed and Disguised with the pun
ishment inflicted on asubjugated peO-
pie, and the whole land cried out for
peace, Gen. GRANT becamea candidate
for President, and was elected on his
hypOcritical exclamation, 'Iet us have
peace!'' Now, surely, said the North,
and many OF the South, if GRANT is
elected the country will have
"peace." No obstacle would re-
main, if, in good faith, he should carry
out the main pillar of his own cleo
pioneering strength and protested pol
icy. But that is precisely what he
did not do. He might have stood
then As the peoples idol, against the
Congress, and have done what JOHN
% was unable to do, with none to
gainsay or oppose him. But he has
done nothing Of the sort. On the
contrary, he has turned his face to the
malignant and JOHNSON haters.
and continued their oppressive policy
OF governing the great, intelligent and
world renowned SOuthrons by mill
tary force, Freedmen's Bureaus and
negro voters and rulers-his own in
struments, parasites, p~lunderers and
serfs! He has not lifted a finger
to give that peace to the eoun-
try which his predecessor
sought, and which the enemies
Of Mr.. JOHNSON had so long and so
perniciOusly antagonised. The policy
Of JOHNSON would have promptly
put down this state Of things. But
peace and an end of them would be
the death of the Radical party. AS
in Tennessee there is no longer any
Radical organization sufficient to lift
its head and be seen, so, in the whole
country, the vitality of that party
would have become extinct. But this
condition of dissatisfaction, growing
out of a sense of wrong, and the abu-
ses necessary IS the life-blOod of the
Radical spOilsmen, it wa important,
for that reason, to continue. And
GRANT has surrendered himself to
these real enemies Of the whole
try, and forfeited the pledge implied
In his exclamation for peace as DELHI
erately as in the case Of veracity be-
tween him and JOHNSON he forfeited
the confidence and pledged word
of a p~rofessedly true mani With
him nov we contrast JOHNSON the
antagonist worthy Of note, instead of
ETHERIDGE, whose candidacy only
warrants the mention Of him in this
connection as a cipher. Upon the