Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-14

ARE WE TO HAVE NORTHERN AND
SOUTHERN, Oh A NATIONAL DE-
MOCRACY2
General Wade Hampton and afew 9TH
e. leading Democrats have suggested that
the next national Democratic convention
nominate a national ticket for the Presi-
dency In q sectional convention! This
sort Of political strategy is on a par with
that new policy which has brought defeat
and disaster to the Democratic party IN
all the late elections. We publish in to-
davis APPEAL a letter from Hon. Thomas
J. Judge, q of the ablest and most dis
tinguished statesmen Of Alabama, on this
subject, from which it will be seen he
s~cornfuTy repudistes the idea Of permit
ting the Northern Democracy, who are
not certain Of carrying q single Northern
State, selecting the candidates for those
who are expected to cast n hundred
votes for the Democratic nominees. Such
q cowsrdly policy would disgrace the
Southern Democracy and bring disaster
upon the party, render it a mere mosaic
"a bit Of white stone here and a bit of
black stone there''-a species Of hydra Of
many heads, composed Of "msny men OF
many minds.' It would diVest the party
Of its nationality, and give it a distinctive
Northern and Southern aspect. Il would
dissolve the political partnership between
the two sections. In 1860, Lincoln wss
nominated exclusively by the Nc,rnern
States, a sectional party, and che Demo-
Gratis atten holding this rsct m as evil
dence Of a w~nt Of nationality.
cannot now ADOPT the same policy. The
constitution and the rights of the States
Is the creed Of the Democrats, snd Ten
nessee, with her fly thousand majority,
shouS have as much voice in the national
Democratic convention rs Massachusetts,
with her thirty thousand Radical MAORI
ty. The Dsazocrstic psrty seeks TO up
hold the Uzlen, to bind all the parts TO-
gether by the i~Ddissolubls tics Of friead-
ship, mutual advantage and honorable
industry. Il knows 10 section, nodivision,
no superiors OF interiors within It's ranks.
Entertaining a national patriotism
and sound national principles, we want a
bold compact, universal Democracy. This
is government Of the United States, net
OF the EOrthesa States, AID We mass have
q Democracy Of the United States and not
ct the Northern States, The national
Democratic eonveatioa will be held IL
the interest Of esA and every state alike,
and ssch and every stats should be alike
represented.
The Democratic executive Ooami5tee
meets at Nashville on Tuesday, the Slst
inst. We trust it viii agree 10 cali q State
convention at the proper time, for the
selection Of an electoral ticket, and detecting
delegates 70 the next rational Democratic
convention. Tennessee will give Fifty |
thousand msjority to the next Democratic
candidate for the presidency; n she
feels that she should hGv Is much voice
in selecting the candidate for whom she
intends to cast her vote, as Massachusetts,,
who has no vote to give. No Northern
Democrat has dared TO insult the South,
by asking her to keep out Of the national
convention, But we have IN u midst q
nest Of unclean Democratic birds, who,
with closed eyes, propose to open
their mouths and swallow every
thing furnished by the Nortn-
ern Democrats, whether it be poison or
pudding. Ths d mocrscy Of Tennessee
viii engage in no such shameful servility.
They will send to the national Democratic
convention brave and true men-men
whose object viii be neither 70 lead nor
follow, but to consult, advise and agree up
on the best candidates and the night prin-
ciples that should enter into the canvass,
The Southern States are still sovereign
States, no matter how terribly they have
been wronged, and banded about by des-
pots. The Southern people are still free
men, and they do not propose 70 surrender
their rights and interests into the hands
of others, for they sre as capable OF exer-
eishng sound Judgment as to their rights
and the dutyofthe Democracy as anybody
else Is for them.