Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-13
THE MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.
Opinions of the Press upon the Result.
The Appeal fully endorsed, its views sus-
tanned.

From the Holly Springs Reporter, 10th.
The lesson taught by the election is
this: To defeat and destroy Radical
ism we must reject its monstrous doc
trines, and organize a Conservative
party. We must defeat and destroy it,
but We-can never do it unless we hold
ourselves entirely alOof from every
doctrine of the unclean thing.
From the Grenada Sentinel, of the 18th.
There was no very vital difference
between the platforms of Dent and
AlcOrn, and we were not amazed
when very many excellent citizens
asserted that the late contest only de-
termined the popular estimate of the
relative personal worth of the two
candidates. Everywhere the press
complains of the Indifference mani
tested by the white people. This APP
athy resulted from facts we have re-
cited. In truth, it is now Con-
ceded that the whole contest was
unwisely planned and conducted.
From the Columbus Democrat.
Far be it from US to use the above
words in that haunting sense so often
resorted to by a heartless world. We
have no laugh of exultation for our
discounted Dent friends, nor viii we
resort to mere elimination while we
bear with them the evils OF defeat.
Too many honest men went into the
movement as the least of two evils,
while they felt the error and fatal mis-
take of the whole scheme-tOO many
of them reprOach themselves for a
tardy effort to see that their own views
We're expressed in a proper organized
manner in the late unfortunate cam
paign.
The Democratic party is stronger
to-day than before the Dent orgsni-
zation-the people are better satisfied
with the wisdom Of her policy and
the correctness of her principles.
The return to her ranks will be
universal, and the experience of fail
ures by other instrumentalities will
secure new devotion and accumulated
zeal.
The Democratic party is not dead
it is to this fact only we ask the privi-
lege of saying-we told you SO.
From the Columbus Index.
ave have given the negro a fair
trial. He has voted solidly against
US, and we hoist, from this day, rhe
WHITE MANS FLAG, and will never
take it down so long as we have a
voice in the government of the State.
mo more compromises; no more
.OvertureS of friendship from us. We
have extended him the olive branch
of peace, and he rejected it with scorn
and contempt. Upon his own infer
nal kinky head fall the responsible
ity.
White men, they mistrust, despise
and laugh at us. Our dignity and
s~elfrespect require that we should
accept the issue and prepare for the
consequences"
The following presents an argument
for the consideration of the advocates
of universal suffrage in Tennessee.
The argument is a fact-the folly of
depending on "the negro's sense of
and right" Experience has
not commended them highly to the
exercise of power and sovereignty:
Our people attributed the victory
that they gained over the negro in the
previous Constitutional election to the
business of their cause and the natural
kindliness of their colored brother.
This mistake led to the great error
committed in the canvass that has
just closed; that of appealing to the
negroes sense of justice and right.
When he occupied an inferior social
and and political position, he indeed
proved himself harmless, i~nOffensive
and highly useful; but when elevated
by adVentitiOUs circumstances far
above his moral or mental level, an
inward consciousness of his inferiOrity
and unfitneSs warmed the ambitiOn or
love for power that animates the
breast of all Gods intelligences, and
made it plot against and strive to cir
cumvent those who would dethrone it.
The white people of Mississippi now
stand justified before the world in pro-
ceeding in any manner consonant
with the great moral law in regaining
their lost supremacy. The power or
cOntOl of the State must return to the
repositories of its virtue and intelli-
gence. The white must, like the col
Ored man, listen to the preiudices of
race, and add to it the combinations
Of capital and proper direction of gu
periOr intelligence for the purpose of
depriving the negro communities of
the power to harm.
Again the Hader, with reference to
the situation of Mississippi, says:
Arguments, for the present, against
suffrage, are worse than idle,
they r mischievOus; against the
XVIII Amendment Improbable;
their holding Office, useless.
The instincts of every white man,
from this time on, will be an infallible
guide to the path of duty when the
proper time for movement arrives.
From the Columbus Sentinel.
"The dynasty of the carpetbagger
at an end, and would have ceased
before this election, had the people of
The State understood the temper ofthe
towards them. That a ticket of
5traight-out Mississippians could have
whipped the fight, out and out, none
who observed the temper of the ne
yro, during the canvas, are left in