Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-28

WE are enabled to lay before our
readers this morning official returns
of the elections on Thursday last. We
congratulate the readers of the AP-
PEAL and the friends Of order, law
and good government everywhere on
the result. The whole Democratic
ticket is elected by nearly five hun
dred majority. While the election
was characterized by the most in
tense efforts on the part Of the
supporters of the respective candi-
dates, it yet presented a spectacle Of
which our Southern people have rea-
son to be prOud-s spectacle Of law,
order, good humOr, and a becoming
and cOnsiderate regard for each others
rights as voters, and a kindly feeling
for each other as sons and citizens Of
Tennessee. We visited all the voting
places at various times during the
day, and we saw no manifestations Of
asperity or rOwdyism. No indication
that there was any f~Orgetfulness OF
that courtesy which should eve
characterize party antagOnism.
We publish elsewhere the
returns as reported to Sheriff Wright,
from which it will be seen that
the Democrats have indeed achiev-
ed a splendid victory. The forces
Of the Radicals and the indie
pendents marched upon US under
the cover Of midnight and sought vic
tory by the wiles and ambushes of
political strategy. We knew not
their candidates until the morning Of
the election. But our masked and
secret enemies have been conquered.
This victory, so complete under all
the circumstances, c~onsOlidates the
Democratic party, makes it impreg-
nable and invincible. Past divisions
are now reconciled, and for the
future, at the sound of the bugle, the
Democratic legiOns will charge in
solid column. The grand old party is
as ancient as the Constitution, and it
must survive while the Republic shall
endure. Like the tabled giant Of old,
at the moment when its enemies, in
their fierce and persistent strug-
gle against it, vainly believed
they had brought it to the
ground, it has rebounded with
fresh vigor and power. Everywhere
North, South, East and West-the
old watchfres are being kindled upon
the hills. The traitors TO Democratic
principles are everywhere leaving It's
organization, and win soon be clear
over to the Radicals, leaving the
party purified; while the true men
are fast closing the ranks, and pre-
pairing for a stern and triumphant
conflict with the enemies Of the Con-
stitutiOn. During the present year
several other important elections will
be held-Supreme Court Judges are
to be elected in ~August-Governor,
member to Congress, State Senator
Anu members of the Legislature are to
De elected IN November. The same
reasons Whleh inspired our or
ganlZaton and Secured our vic
on Thursday, ,viu imnel
The Democracy to maiusain H.
lrganization-to remain in tot
But for the future there wilE he
0ut little opposition. The Persians 4
who brought their marble for tri-
lmphaI monuments to the field Of
Marathon, have justly been the object
If the historians ridicule. But for
he future the Democracy Of Shelby
county would be subjected to no dis
appointment if they prepared the Ova-
ion before fighting the battle. We
congratulate the public on the fact
hat the victory vas won with
.ut a single disturbance on the
art Of the whites. 1t was achieved
and honestly. No man, white
7 black, can say, t%ruthfully, that in
prevented the deposit of
lis ballot as his preference die
.ted. That great moral influences
we're brought to bear we do not deny;
'ut their exercise was perfectly le-
Ultimate, and such as no statute pro-
libits, OF code Of political ethics con-
Radicalism in Shelby county &,
5 now dead; the cOppers are on its
yes, and its corpse is ready for the
Undertaken. For some time il has re- {
embed the unquiet spectre which re-
used to rest in peace until it found /
be spot where it had left its bones. /
he death Of a party which has pro- {
uced so much strife and discOrd, so f,
descriptive and despOtic, is an Occa- :
ion too big for silent joy, and we are
ot surprised at the ecstatic jubi-
ee which surges up from the
Lad hearts Of a triumphant people.
we advise our friends 70 {
federation. Magnanimity is a noble !
RAFT Of character, and charity and for :
iveness is the highest Of Christian
irtues. {