The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-28
A Few Sensible Remarks for. ehe Hem.
-, eft OF Political Hotspurs.
From the Louisville Courier

The Memphis appeal is.moved by sol
emn fear Of new party. It smells treason
in every wind that blows. There is no
faith In Israel except the faith professed by
It, and that faith, ,as it explained a few
weeks ago, is the repeal of the Fifteenth
amendment-th and that only. 2.,f.;s
- The. Radicals have possession Of nearly
all the Northern States. They have the
Senate Of the United States. They have
the House of Representatives. They have
the Supreme Court. They have the Presi.
dent. They have an election law by which
whole States may be disfranchised. They
have the counting of the ELECTORAL vote,
and, If suffered to run ut viii, undivided
and undismayed, they have the disposition
to employ their power to its fullest limit,
by, force or by fraud, trusting the issue to
the Supreme Court, which they control,
and. at the worst, to the army and navy,
which obey their orders: -
The man who does not see and admit the
danger, can see nothing, and is not capa-
BILE Judge of affairs.
There is but one, hope of upsetting this
formidable combination Of organized power,
and that is to divide it within itself. Hence
it is the most obvious interest of the Demo-
cratic party, being In minority, not only
to encourage the division of the enemy, but
to shape its own courseso literally as to ab-
sorb those moderate elements which have
been hitherto cast against it. se--
The Memphis Appeal is of different
mind. It has stomach for sounding periods
and resonant 1ourishes, and, instead of
modulating its tone to- suit the temper of
the time, it would grow louder and more
boisterous, collecting the exploded frag-
ments of old campaigns, ramming them
into its mortar, and shooting them of
again, like blank cartridges, without the
least aim or hope of effect. It would
proselyte no one. 1t does not desire to
make any converts. It would consolidate,
not divide, the Radicals. According to it.,
one would fancy the Democratic party too
strong instead Of weak. 1t serves its read
ers every day sort of mush pudding,
stuffed with adjectives, and expects the
Democracy to live on diet that
would very soon end the days of a spar
row. -. IL .a -.
The appeal is doing itself and the Demo-
cratic party infinite wrong. II it would
employ it's forces in plain and business
like way, it could hardly fail to add to its
own weight and the weight Of its party, for
it is not without certain dash and power
that are attractive. Its high-blown talk
about treason is not only inslncere, but
vapid. The Democratic party is in no sit
uation to raise up any lofty tests. 1t is out
of power, trying to restore itself to power,
and ought to be, and is and will be, thank
full for all the aid and comfort j. can get,
thankful for small favors and for large
favors-thankful for favors from old friends
and old enemies. 1t cannot afford to put
on any airs. Its leading idea should be to
secure more votes, not to raise up more
tests, and particularly such a test as that
marked out by the Memphis Appeal,
and it's comrade, the Mobile Register.
Those papers seem to be much more eff.
cient, as they are certainly much reader, in
assailing their political companions than in
assailing the party they affect to despise and
dread. II they really dread and despise the
Radicals as much as they say they do, they
had best look to the course OF events and
observe the things that lie just before them
We had thought the lesson we gave them
last summer would be enough. But if they
want another drubbing, they can get their
fill oft. Still. we insist that we wish to take
no unfair advantage Of them and had rather
see them shooting harmless fragments into
the enemy's camp than fattening their
heads in blind and stupid raid upon that
Democratic liue Of battle which Is extend.
ing from one end of the country to the
other. They cannot turn it back, though
they might fall in and march with it. As
it is, they only add to their own absurdity
ut the same time that they strengthen the
hands of the Radicals, who have lived and
thrived for years off just such game as they
furnish,