Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-27

ers; victim to their petty quarrels
and Wranglings, and more than all to
their greed and corruption. When
these undeniable facts are we'll under
stood, the Republican party of the ma
ton will understand the situation.
Until such facts are realized, there is
no hope of a Republican organization
in Tennessee. Once admitted, how
ever, and left to itself-that its leeehes
may die a naturnal death-and there |
is the material upon which to base /
hopes Of reconstruction.
Past issues aside, and the Old Line !
Whig element in Tennessee to-day /
stands on the same ground as the true |
Republicans. The present State Gov
ernment is admitted to be failure. |
1t represents the extreme Democratic |
element. 1t is therefore extremely |
obnoxious to the Old Line Wings. Its |
every act but widens the breach. |
More than this, ii can but make itself |
a disgrace to its party through its !
legislation. 1t has slaughtered the !
schools. 1t has practically repudiated |
the State debt by providing no means |
to pay interest on the same. It has,
in TACT, done nothing but to the serious
y
undo Republican legislation, it has
undone itself. The old feuds
of the Wings and Democrats /
lican organization properly cut
loose, as it will be, from its old,
wholly incompetent, and extremely
obnoxious leaders, the Wings and Re
publicans may unite upon the liberal
platform of the National party. This,
1 know, is the view of the more re-
spectacle and intelligent Republicans
of Tennessee. Such Republicans are
found, to a man, opposed to any Con-
greSsiOnal interference. They look
upon such interference, in fact, as ut
terly ruinous to their hopes, as well
as suicidal TO the party at large.
Surely, they say, if a Republican Con-
gress can interfere in Democratic Ten
nessee, a Democratic Congress may do
the same in Radical Massachusetts.
So far have found none in favor of
interference save a few blacks, who,
perhaps, reason more from instinct
than Judgment. l saw, a day or two
since, for instance a GOlOred man rum
ming about town collecting means
with which to send a cOlUred delegate
to Washington TO urge Congressional
interference. His sole visits seemed to
he to few ofiice-holders. whose only
hopes of reelection lie in the success
of such q programme. As far as l
could ascertain he visited none of the
more prominent and lifelong white
Republicans. OF course, comment IS
unnecessary.
RECONSTRUCTION IMMINENT - REA-
SONS FOR IT BY THE NEW YORK
WORLD.
WASHINGTON, March 2l.-There Is
no longer a doubt of the issue which
the Radicals in Congress, abetted by
the President, are prepared to force
upOn the South and before the country.
Alarmed by the certainty that the
Southern States, reconstructed or un-
reconstructed, cannot further be re-
lied on to sustain the Republican
party, and convinced by unmistakable
signs that that party, qnsuccored from
the South, cannot overcome the pow
ers arrayed and rising against 1t III the
North and West in season for the next
Presidential election, they are ready
for the desperate resort Of another
civil war. Their legislation indicates
this; their acts lead to it; nay, their
leaders proclaim it here in the
antional capital. 1t is their purpose to
regain and retain by military force, If
possible, the ascendancy they have
/ lost in the quarter where they vainly
/ thought to have constructed OF negro
suffrage, and cemented with carpet
bagism, a new political stronghold.
The strait is the more desperate by
/ reason of the mOnStrous corruptiOns
/ in which some CT the leaders of the
| party are implieated-coFruptiQns
/ which, in the event of a change of the
national administration and the over
! hauling Of department records here,
would at once be exposed and fastened
upon their authors. Motives the
/ Observation-Disclosures, OF self-pr6ser-
/ VatiOn even-inspire these men and
/ their political associates to retain their
/ hold upon the legislation and admin
/ istratiOn of affairs,
! In a recent conversation, General
! Banks, one of the ableSt Radicals IN
the House, aVerred that, if he had
| his way, he would make war on the
Southern States, and again obtain
1 military possession of them. Being
asked to explain the object Of such a
course against States which have
complied with all the requirements
of the reconstruction acts, he an
gWered that what the Republican
party have to fear Is the Northern
and Western Democracy, and that
safety in such a juncture demands a
new and arbitrary control OF the
! South, The statement of which the
substance Il thus given was repeated
by General Banks at dinner party,
Nor are such asseveratiOns confined
to him or to half a dozen like him.
General Butler, while examining
the Hon. Dorsey B. Thomas, Speaker
of the Tennessee Senate, as witness
before the Reconstruction Committee
last Thursday, 50 grossly insulted hln
that Democratic members OF the com
mittee had to interfere. 1t is belieYed
that General Butler has as much per
sonal and political reasons as any mar
in his party for adopting, at this crlti
cal Deriod. such methods OF r9pYlSa
ands aggravation toward representa-
tiyes OF the Conservative party III the
South. He is sready-anXious-t ieac
the vindictive crusade; and, We're i
not that the President is so ben
upon assuming himself the role of {
g leader, might hope for speedy recog
milton in that capacity, But Presi
dent Grant gives every token OF vii
linqness to play into the hands OF thu
carpet bag Governors and Congress
men, whose game is now the game o
, Radicalism, as decided upon in 1t
, most confidential councils. he ha
TODAY expressed himself in favor o
+. Bullock, and there is little reason Il
, hone that he will not comply with tn
, demand of Holden. he promised IL
, his message to execute the laws
Whatever Congress does, looking to
new subiugatiOn of the South, VII
stand in no peril of his veto.
The Radical party cannot anOFd I
lose the next House of Represents
I tives. and Grant cannot afford to los
: mis- hold upon the suffrage of the South
: | ern negroes, pending the next Presl
( Dental election.
u NASHVILLE.
The Nav Constitution Ratifisd---The Gel
mans of Knoxville Opposed 10 Reconstrut
r tion----Pro5aOllity Of ReCOns trnctiHn--
}. Senter Called 10 Washington.
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