Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-02

HE RADICALS are Sla00erlng Ouf
foreign-born citizens. They are
claiming an undivided colored vote,
and intimate by significant winks
and mods that q large number of
foreigners have struck hands with
the negro. All such in~sinuations are
vile calumnies upon the foreigner.
Almost every foreigner in IA midst,
fed from his native land on account of
persecution and despotism; that kind
of tyranny, oppression and cruel tor
ture which actuates the Radicals of
America, and itWould be wonderfully
strange and inconsistent for a
foreigner to espOuse in "the
land of the free, and the
home of the brave" the very princi-
pies which drove him to our shores, a
wandering refugee, a penniless exile.
Democracy, haS ever been the friend
ofthe foreigner. In the dark days of
bigOtry and intolerance, when the
foreigner could behold the red blood
and the CHASTITY corpses of his muir
dered cOuntrymen, by the light Of his
own burning dwelling, the Democrat
ic party presented itself as a bulWsrk
to stay the surging tide Of frenzy. II
still has a heart and win unbroken, and
sentinels posted upon every watch
tower, ready to sound the alarm at
every aggression upon religious
liberty and the rights of the
foreigner. If the loud professions Of
the foreigner for liberty and hate Of
despOtism, be nota sham and a cheat,
they will rally to the support Of their
ancient friends-the party that stood
by them in the dark night of storm
and tempest.
We understand that the Radicals
are ven relying upon a strong sup
port from the police force and the fire
departments? This reliance will prove
as disastrous as were the hopes Of
Irving's "yOung gentleman Of
good family and fortune and
great expectations" The fire.
men of this city are enthusiastic
in the support Of the Democratic tick
ct, and If the official duties Of the police
deprive them from taking an active
part in the election, we feel assured
they win, 70 a man, cast a vote for
the party whose triumph gave them
the positions they occupy. The fire.
man, who now votes for Radicals, is
against himself; for, IL the Rad
cal candidates triumph in the present
contest, they will triumph in the
next election for Mayor, and the
ire departments and the police
viii be made up of negroes and
carpet-baggers. In one of
he islands Of the Pacific custom
makes It the duty of the sons Of a
Yorn-out old chief TO bear him gently
the nearest cliff which overhangs
he ocean, and 20 cast him headIong
ntO the jaws Of a "standing COM
Of sharks, who are too hun
Try TO care particularly about the
JOugbness Of their dinners. On a GER
ain occasion, when the sons of a
old warrior were about TO
make him the victim Of this touching
of fliaI regard, the old
wept in the most heart
ending manner, and his sons, sur
,rised at this Unparalleled weakness,
the cause of his distress.
My dear boys" said the old canni-
81 do not weep at the thought of
he fatal precipice and greedy sharks,
Or the customs of my fathers must be
espected; but when / reflect what
ind children You have been, i weep I
t the thought that ere long you must
carried with equal affection to the
atal spOtto which you are taking me.p
7 Ray and Brown and Stephens are
efeated on Thursday on account Of (
he disafection of firemen and police {
zen, they viii weep over the result, J
OF merely because they are TO be J
urled down the fatal precipice into
be bosom Of the ocean and made food
II sharks, but because their friends
+ the fire department and the police
Jrce will soon be carried with equal !
Fiction TO the fatal spot, and made /.
,od for the yOraciOus Radical sharks
nat have so long gormandized on )
flee. :