Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-11

ture in suggesting the names OF dis
tinguished gentlemen for Governol
sat some remote period next winter
close on to the birth of the year Of oul
Lord, eighteen hundred and seventy
one." Between now and the election
of a Governor under the new consti'
tuition, on the second Tuesday in No
vember next, we have the months
of July, August, September and
October intervening. How, then,
is it so remarkably premature
that we should begin to look about
among our distinguished men for q
name suitable to be presented fol
chief executive of the State? Is it Sc
great a crime in the estimation of our
neighbor that we should take time by
the forelock, that he is called on to
cast a stone at us; or does it interfere
with some plans c~oncocted at Nash
vile? We tell him that West Ten
nessee will have a voice in the cleo
ton, and will not be bound to work
in the Nashville harness, obey orders
issued from thence, and vote as here
tOfore especially for the monopoly OF
ofRce-holding by the Middle Division
Of the State. What we shall do in
this quarter is to move in line with
the great Democratic party of the
country, selecting for our standard
bearers the best men from that party,
which alone has abundance and the
most of them, against all Radi-
Gals, Independents, boilers, liber-
ais, wings, third party men
or other antagonists of the
only living party in this country
which combines the ability with the
will to save the Constitution from
total wreck, and liberty from its
grave. The victory over misrule and
corruption has only begun. 1t is not
yet accomplished. Our cotemporary
may 90 to the rear if he chooses. But
the APPEAL will push on to the front.
He may, as he declares, " be inno-
Gently unconscious of any proposition
to form a third party, Or to revive the
old Wing party" just now. But, if
that is so, then we can only say, it is
strange it should be so. Has the
Banner changed flags; or has it also
been slightly premature" or sun
conscious" in announcing its limo
cence of third party-ism? Records
are sometimes ugly things. sob!
that mine enemy would write a
Sometime in the distance of
the remote ages, and not a thousand
years from the month of August, in
the year of our Lord 1869, and the
eleventh day of the month, we think
we remember to have e a paper,
published at Nashville and called
The Republican Banner, which car
red in its forefront, in fam
AZ capitals the cabalistic words,
. A Liberal party, founded on liberal
principles; ;" and on the day then next
snsuing we found also the following
unable announcement Of the birth,
,arentage and christening of the bant-
ing, actually born some months be-
ore:
The article which we copy on another
age of this issue, from the Memphis ~
ldRche, upon the subject of the Liberal
of Virginia and Tennessee, embodies
ur own views entirely. We like the
anne, too, under which the needed re-
are proposed to be achieved, and
car Of progress to be drawn out from
be old ruts of the past. Indeed, if we
not, the name originated NTH our
siUeS, some months since, in referring to
be struggle in Virginia, and we may have
} contest the claim of our eotemporary to
credit OF having suggested It first.
Te claim 10 be Liberals, IN every sense of
le WOTd, and prefer to Work IN the interest
{ the Liberal party to that Of any other.
Do you hear that piece of prema-
which now our neighbor de-
ares he would receive with feel
lgs of inefable disgust, and should
gard with feelings of pitiable con-
We are pleased to find he 4
as changed his mind, for if he should
,ntinue to follow the AUaJGnche in
lese days of its decline, he would j
IT to the bottom of the hill sooner :
ian we could wish, as the fortune of
lie worthy and sensible young gen. :
eman who conducts the Repl6- |
Banner. 1t is the way that
ads to death. Let them listen {
the advice of the discreet a
I'd sober, old, reliable APPEAL, +
Id they will not go so far f
tray but they will find their way I
the highway of success and the v
ght. We tell the Banner that sup !
,rt of the great Democratic party of a
is country is the first duty of the $
-triot. There is no other power '
hich can wrest this land from the t
Without it liberty will not !,
snatched from its grave. We shall ID
We despotism and the higher y
v, as the gift of Radicalism, or We
all have freedom and the Constitu- P
n at the hands of the Democratic in
rty. When nothing remains but to te
;cuss party issues, as in the latter II
Us of the Republic, it may do to sg
k about relaxing our vigils, our ex- 81 y
ions, and we may, without crime, az
we will, lie down supinely, when
ternal vigilance" is no longer
eded to save the institutions of our
hers. Until then, we fear not that
: will begin too soon and work too
ly or too long to make even as in,
ance sure. =.