Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-29

glance. we have no apology 10 oner
for those Democrats who have here
tofore been true, but who in the re-
cent election turned their backs upon
their former friends, for there is
much to palate their ~disafiection.
MANY Democrats were driven OFF to
the support of independent candi-
dates by q supposed disposition to.
force their votes. But for this we be-
Iieve the Democratic majority of five
hundred would have been swollen to.
fifteen hundred. The success o.
Democracy depends ON the argument,
reasons and truth which abound in
its favor. Let this and nothing else
be used in future contests. Let no
true Democrats be denounced for the
past, and all will return to the ranks
and give victories in future contests
that will prove the Democratic
power invincible and Ovcrwhelm-
inc. But with those exalted and
noble Democrats, who remained
true and steadfast to their principles,
and Joined hands in holding up the
ieweIed cross of Democracy amid the
storm of treachery even as Jehovah
strengthened the weak arms OF
Moses-we would meet as brothers.
All such have a mission ennobled by
its hanger, to redeem the Democratic
marty from the Judas kiss within, and
the clenched hand withOut-tO restore
If To the monumental truths of Jetfer-
son-to make it grand and stern, as
in the days when Jackson wOrshiped
it. and to exaIt it to its early faith, so
strong in goodness, honor, and
devotion to the Constitution and
the great interests of the country
that no base ambition dare TO
robe in its mantle. To ac-
complish this desirable object,
examinations and recriminations
must cease. 1t is the duty of all true
Democrats to do everything that will
tend to increase the power and con-
solidate the party. Dissentions of
every kind should be healed up, and
everything done that will lift up the
party to that position of power and
consolidation which will secure be-
yond doubt the elections of u can
didates for Governor, for Supreme
Court Judges, for Congress, for State
Senator, for the Legislature, for May
or. for Sheriff, and all the offices
which the Radicals have mOnOpO-
lied by DISTINGUISHING the white
man and enfranchising the negro.
The Democratic party through
out West Tennessee should organ
ize at once. 1t would be a scandalOus
shame if, after SO many years of OPP
preston by that great nightmare Rad
icalism, we should by Our own folly
thus prevent the glorious doctrine Of
Jefferson from being lifted to its high
place for the good of the whole Union.
A drop Of honey viii attract more
flies than All ounce of vinegar, and
Cancellation among all true Democrats
is the duty of the hour. But we a
never have that perfect harmony so
essential to success 50 long as the party
is cursed with self-cOnceited bigOts
who vainIy believe that when they
button their coats about their
sinewy chests the whole vi
tai fold of the Democracy is warmed
and cared for. 1t is an evil which be-
longs to weak human nature, and is
inseparable from the experience of
every strong and successful party, for
the more giddy of its political leaders
to become pulled up with an exagger-
ated opinion of their own importance
to the party, to attribute to their own
agency its success, to appropriate its
ecLat to themselves, and, like the fly
on the wheel, to fancy the dust and
renOwn excited by the great party
chariot in its triumphal progress, to
be their kicking up. Inconsistent as
the pretension would SEEM, there
are always to be found a few
leaders in the party, who, while pro-
Tossing a prOund ense Of the equality
ofmankind, and a~sseverating the most
humble Difference and submission to
the supremacy of the Democratic peo-
pie, would yet make of their party o.
kingdom and constitute themselves its
monarchs or autOcrats. Forgetting
that the Democratic organization is a
great aggregate of equals, wherein
there is no respect of persons, where
the services of all are valued at the
true mark, where monopoly of merit
and of importance is out of the ques-
ton, where dictatOrial airs and pre-
tensions are sure to be punished with
the guillotine, and attempts to play
monarch OF king invariably insure a
summary dethrOnement, an ignomini-
Gus expulsion; forgetting, we say, these
essential characteristics, there are al
way a few men in the party who in
sist upon mOnopolizing all its merit,
directing all its councils, usurping its
entire government and control, using
it for their exclusive advantage and
exaltation. When we see a leader,
after a vigorous and arduOus struggle,
appropriating to himself the exclusive
honor of success Won by the common
exertions Of his whole party-when
we see, after a great struggle, a party
setting himself up as a monopo-
list Of the guardianship, and a par
agon Of orthodoxy in expounding its
principles, we may expect trouble;
for just as surely As our grandfathers
had to "declare independence of
King George, and try the experiment
Of getting along without him, just so
surely have the Democracy a fight on
hand with the vain leader who would
be their Jactotlna and their king.
WE are fortunate in having quite a
sufficient number of gentlemen of
competent talents, character and at
tainments, for the supreme Bench, so