Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-13

IT is hard to judge men and parties
by the results of their conduct and
policy; it is at least the stern decree
of fate. We cannot take time and
pains TO examine critically and pass
upon the policy and plans of states
men and generals-and so we approve
or condemn as what they accomplish
is good or bad. Reason and remon-
strate against the decree as you will,
still this is the decree. And now, by
this test, We ask where stands the
Radical party? 1t has promised
much and accomplished little. 1t
has undertaken to preserve the Re
public, and it has given despOtism.
1t has undertaken TO build up indi-
vidual and public prosperity, and it
has given US poverty and stolen the
spOils. In the Southern States mis-
chief and anarchy has been in the
ascendant, to all the extent the infiu-
ence and power of the disfranehised
and trOdden-doWn has not prevented,
in the sheer necessity of selfdefense
and protection. And even in Wash
ington City, where the power of the
most corrupt body of autocrots who
ever, as a hydra, held a throne, is
most potent and supreme, the result
is the same, the condition of the Dis
trict of Columbia is wretched beyond
all former precedent, and the people
are coming to the conclusion that
where ignorance rules it is "fOlly TO
be wise" The Gdzette's Washington
correspondent says:
The people here are emphatically Tin
a mr." Some have thought and emO
enough to look back, and compare the
present with the past. But, IS a general
thing, our citizens, by gradual approaches,
nave been educated up" las the phrase
isl 10 acquiescence in the dogma of negro
superiority, although they nave the tam
gible fact directly before their eyes of the
moral, physical and social degradation of
the negro as a class. Posterity will dwell
upOn the present page of our national
history with perfect bewilderment; it
viii be puzzled in the extreme to guess"
at what manner of people we were; ex-
hibiting in some phases of our progress"
GElAhLkdDle dEuLltu. anu III OLLtTE a Stu
pidity bordering upon that OF mere brutes.
Cardinal de Retz, somewhere in his
works, makes an observation, which, up
to within a few years past, must have
been to a degree, if wholly, incompre-
hensible to the American people. Il is
this: THAT the things which happen in
our own times, and which we see our
selves, do not surprise us near so much
as the things which we read of in times
past, though not in TIE least more extra
ordinary" And he adds that he is ''per.
suaded that when Caligula made his horse
a Consul, the people Of Rome, at that
time, were not greatly surprised at it,
haUiag necessarily, in some degree, been
prepared for Il b. an iHSensiJIe graduation
Of e-LtrGUdgdHceS from the same quarter"
l declare that at this moment mems
minds here, as well as elsewhere, are in
such condition as TO give assurance
doubly sure " that if the mania in respect
TO the negro now dominant at the North
shall continue for two years longer, if a
babOon shall be ordered by Congress TO
be Worshiped in national churches, as he
is even at this day in some parts of Hin
dostan, there would be no very extensive
expression Of surprise or adherence. /
Unless the Radical bubble skaIl shortly I
explode under the universal derision of
the civilized world, certainly we shall Z
have presented in 1872 at least a mOngrel c
Presidential ticket by the infatuated n
masters Of the nation. Perhaps it will :
be " Grant and Douglass or il may be i
"a COlfax and Revels." Even if the par n
should be reversed, and either of the
named negroes should head the ticket, u
.snRtics and corruptionists in abundance Fl
will be found to have been " educated up 3,
70 the advanced point. And the nation Il
rs a whole viii not by that time be in the il
east astonished, or feel in the least :,
ashamed. II