Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-10

IL ~ M "AAA AeHN
q properly sealed paper from A. D. WITHER.
SPOON, Business Manager. None others
should be recognized.
IN the long and labored article in
the AuaJGache of yesterday there is
much that we do not clearly compre-
bend, because we wish to believe
the editor honest in his opin-
iOns-that he speaks from con-
viction, and not from a mere
idle within, or in the hope of making
pecunisry emOlument or personal pre-
ferment. He seems offended that we
did not explain TO him what had
become ofsthe conservatives who sup
ported Etheridge. We believe he
still rather leans to what he under
stands a conservatism. If it means
TO oppose Democracy in everything,
and claim all official station and plum
der, we can understand that; but he
really has the advantage of US il il
mean anything else. That is precisely
what it did mean when it claimed
that every State Of the National
Union, in or out, was represented in
the grand National Union Conven-
ton, and there was never a mOnstrous
bubble so suddenly burst, when it
was ascertained that the Democracy
did not consider themselves dead, and
where they were in the ascendency,
or struggling TO effect it. believed that
they were entitled to some of the
offices. 1t was short-lived indeed.
Those who figured in the New York.
Convention could not abide the name
OF Democrat, and there are some who
are not yet Radicals who are Just as
squeamish to this day. We are
asked: 4" Do they wish to build
up a new party?" We answer,
Not so. We are satisfied with the
name, style, principles and organiza-
ton of the Democratic party, and are
willing olive and die in the harness.
Others may call themselves ~eOnserva-
tives if they prefer, we care not, so
they aid Us to crush out Radicalism
which has eaten into the very vitals
Of our institutions, and contemplate
their overthrow. But we are not
willing to receive blows from that di-
reetion, with q smile upon the lips Of
those who give them, and under the
guise Of friendship. We can but re-
gard every stab at the Democratic
psrty-every menace-as the thrust
of an enemy. We snail be relieved
from the imputation of entertaining
extreme opinions, and intoxicating ex-
IRENE sentiments by all who have
been readers OF the APPEAL. We
have striven to impress upon our
friends the hazard they would
run in departing from the
sage counsels advanced by the
Democratic Congressional Commit
tee. We have been willing to
sacrifice lifelong friendships, If neces-
sary, on the altar Of the common
good. What more can be asked?
what more could be yielded? We
shall not travel over the sophomore
periods of the 4raLGnehe, to unravel
their mysteries, or attempt to eluci-
date their hidden meanings. That
paper, in its historical reference to
parties, and their sentiments toward
each other, at or just prior to the COM
mencement Of the war, is not fortu-
nate. There was not the furious op-
position between the Breckenridge
and Douglas Democrats and the Bell
Wings, which that paper would have
us believe existed. When the war
came, which no power, or humility
short Of degradation could have
averted, these all, with unirnportant
exceptions, enrolled themselves to the
same banner, and barred their breasts
to the same carnage. We were all
friends then, for W were all
patriots. To gain our independence
and build up a free Government such
as our fathers had b~equeathed us, was
the highest aspiration of every heart.
Who remembers the denunciatiOns
by the Democracy, OF douglas or
Bell and Everett men now COM
planned of All had embarked in
the same boat, and such distinctions
were not regarded OF revived, unless
to season a jest or animate conversa-
ton around the campfire. We can
not tell why it is sought to bring up
such r~ecoliections, ii there were ever
ground for them, which we do not
believe. The patriotism of all was
too often c~onsecrated on the
battlefield to need recount
al now. But we are told
that we are a part of the United
States $50 long as the dominant party
will consent), that we should restore
the sentiment Of nationality! Our
Shelby county people are misrepre-
sented-we mean the Democracy.
They have neither entertained, ex-
pressed, nor cultivated "a sectional
proscriptive sentiment, arbitrary and
vindictive." Who says they haye?
One who says "eveEy approach TO
broad national views Is av0ided.n We
dislike to call the Misrepresentation.
the misconstruction of motives, to be-
found through the whole mosaic oil
the Acalanehe, by its proper title. I'll
nothing but a departure from the
leading facts of our history before,
during and since the war, were CON
templated, the object could not have
been more perfectly accomplished,