Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-09
iOurnaIIstIc WIndlIaIIs.

engaged just now in form ally reading
out of the Democratic party every
person ana newspaper that does not
make haste to mount the flying
horses Of the s'neW departure" They
admit Of no excuse. They allow OF
no discussion. The formula Is SIM
ply ''sha1 we give you q stirrup, OF
shall We erase you mime from the
party roll" The Right Hon. Smell
fungus, of the AVdLdnchL and Doctor
j. Diddler Dulcamara, oil the Courier
Journal, are the AutOcrIts, and from
their decisions there III no appeal.
Without a certificate from these emil
nent patriots and statesmen, no DEM
Ocrat is allowed 70 claim allegiance TO
their party. Without their indorse-
ment, no voter can consider himself a
Democrat. When and by whom this
Autocraey was Instituted Is not pre-
cisely clear, but TO deny that it exists,
which some practical people may be
disposed to do, would place the Right
Hon. Smelfungus and Doctor j. Did
der Dulcamara in a ver.t silly attitude
indeed.
II a Southern man, Llboring under
the possible misfortune of having
been a rebel, shows a disposition to
investigate this "neW departure "
movement, If he intimates the most
remote desire to get ut the precise
terms of the platform 10 order to I'M
derstand it thoroughly-if he exam
ines it the least critically or curiOusly
he is Immediately beset with a col
umn or so of verbose rhetoric from
DR.. J. Diddler DulcamAra, which is
Immediately taken up slnd feebly re-
echoed by the Right Hon. Smelfan-
gus.
When General ToomIs sees proper,
in q fit of grotesque hunor, to cram
and stuff an i~mpecunious Yankee Be-
hemian, Dr.. Dulcamara Immediately
proceeds, in a series of silly platitudeS
land really the series seems to be in
terminabIe-to read the General out
OF the Democratic party. and in doing
so works himself up into a frenzy Of
patriotism-does the Hen. ]. Diddler
Dulcamara. What right has Toombs
to an opinion? is the interrogatOry Of
this newspaper patriot. Does he not
belong to q class that is effete, that is
played out, that failed in the war;
And then DIR. J. Diddle: plumes him.
self, and administers the formal SEN
tenee Of excommunieaidOn.
When it was amounted that Mr..
Stephens had made arrangements to
take part in the newspaper discussions
of the day, the Hon. j. Diddler Dull
camara wakes exceedingly Wroth, and
Immediately puts his editorial mill in
motion for the usual process. Mr..
Stephens is old; " his point of Obersa-
ton is bad (" she dwell5 in a Georgia
Village;" "he IS surrounded by old
associations, old habits, Did books, and
Is, Of himself, an old min, much out
of the current Ofthat fresh and gener- |
GUS vitality which is beginning to
| pour its rich blood into he politics of
the periOd;H "his career belongs TO
the past; (" " he stands already knee
deep in the waving grass that grows
above the graves of the dead and dy-
ing political issues" and much more
| of the sort. In brief MIR. Stephens is
not TO be recognized as q Democrat.
His wisdom and experience are to 90
for nothing. His known patriotism
is worthless. His craftsmanship and
his learning are tribes which the
Southern people are to ignore and re-
pudiate. He and his conpatriOts, the
sageS and statesmen Of the South, who
have made the study of the COnstitu-
ton and the true philosophy of our
Republican form of government the
business OF their lives, whose wisdom
has guided the councils of the nation
and reflected honor upon theAmerican
name, are to stand aside In this crisis
OF our fate and give place to the
fresh and generous vanity which is
beginning to pour its rich blood into
the politics of the periOd!" and all
because DR.. j. Diddler .Dulcamara, of
the C0lHieT-JOtTnGL, wills it. To con-
ceive Of anything more utterly absurd
is beyond the power of human inaag-
nation. If the editor CT the Courier
Journal desires to accomplish any
thing beyond an Obtrusive parade OF
his blatant and disgusting self-cOnCcit
and egOtism, he will meet with sore
disappointment. Southern DemO-I
Gratis do not intend to ignore either
Mr.. Stephens, Mr.. TOOmbs or Mr..
Davis. They accept the situation"
which the Radicals hayg forced upon
them, but they do not propose to lend
it their Endorsement. They accept it
under protest, and il tho protest goes
for naught, it will be owing solely to
the endeavors of such Patent patriots
as the editor of the C0irier-JOagRGL.
The difference between Mr.. Steph-
ems and DR.. j. Fiddler Dull
oamara is precisely the differ
ence between honest men and
charlatans and pretenders the world
over, it is the difference between q
regularly matriculated physician and
a quack vendor of patent nOstrums.
MIR. Stephens is a statesman, whose
ability IS recognized wherever the
English language is spoken. The cd
.it0r of the COtHier-JOtg99dl is a per-
son who has some repatstion as an
amateur musician, and who undOubt-
eddy has a knaek at what is kOuWn as
''fine" writing. His present posi-
ton, however, appears to be the result {
of q series of circumstances wholly [
adventitioGs. ,
The Courier Journal pretends to
have some sympathy for the Southern y
people. Why not also have some re- {
gard for their feelingsn Its attacks
upon the men upon whom we rely, .
and who have been faithful to us {
amidst the wreck of things, are GER
not calculated to promote good
feeling. Why discuss these men at
all? Time, and not an obscure Boz
herman, will decide WHITTIER they are {
to be leaders in their own land or not. I
The political situation, just now, is 1
striking. The Southern Democrats Q
are compelled to defend themselves |
against the attacks not only Of the l
Radicals, but against the most furious I
and fanatical onset from those who I
have at least pretended to be their I
friends, all simply because they refuse !
TO show any RrdOr in indOrsing the i
evolutionary acts Of the JacObins. u
We may be wrong, bu. this IS the y
way it appears to us. What other =
grounds can they have for their at !
Jacks upon us? The Southern Demo- {
rats certainly ''aceept tae situation y
ii is called. They hive no other 1
,hoiee. The fraudulent amendments Y
md the unconstitutional Ku-Klux n
bill are in force, and the ctthat there .
5 no revolution at the South is evil q
ience that we accept these things. But I,
t by no means follows that we ap- y
and indorse them as fnalities. y
They are fraudulent inn3vatiOns, and Y
We shall continue to Protest against y
hem as Tlagrant usur patiOns while y
live, although the protest may y
no mOreeeffect than q breath of 4
.ir. The Southern DEMOCRATS will y
leUer indOrse these Radical usurpa- 4,
ions, and if that is the difference be- z
the thew departure" men and I
he true Democrats of the South, we II
promise them that the Inference will =
continue to'exist. f.
We sincerely trust thsst the unealled 4,
or attacks made upon southern men II
" the new York World, the Courier n
IOaY7ldE, and the shOal al smaller craft III
hat swarm in the rear CT these appar- q
INF Inadnra may hear N h ILL fuif Wa ~