Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-20

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God and nature doing everything fol
US, shall we refuse to help ourselves:
Must the Arkansas Packet Company
l be dissolved and lost?
PURE DEMOCRACY AND UNBEFILED
Unfortunately for the true Interests
Of journalism, there are a few editor,
who, unable to cope with their oppo
nents in argument, have recourse to &
species Of sneer, taunt and impudent
s~elf-assertion that takes with the IN.
thinking few, but even with these is
not always effective. OF this class are
the conductors Of the AUaldHchs, o.
this city, a journal that pretends to
be Democratic, and to be pub
Iished in the interest of this people,
while it publishes and magnifes as
Ku-Klux Outrsges affairs having their
origin in private feud, and utterly
scouts the platform Of the Democratic
party, adopted by over five hundred
delegates, elected to the convention
in New York, for that purpose, by the
whole body Of the Democracy Of the
United States. The AUul0qcHs pur-
posely, as persistently, misrep-
resents US. 1t takes here and
there a few lines nom our edi-
tOriaIs and comments upon them
as if they were the burden o. our song,
when, in fact, they are but parts Of a
whole that will not bear to be thus
unfairly and unjustIy dealt with.
What the APPEAL holds to, and will
hold to, no matter what any one man
or paper may say to the contrary, is
that there is but one body competent
to give the Democracy a platform,
and that is the National Convention.
1t spoke in 1865, and said a to the
Constitutional amendments:
THAT We REGARD TEE RECONsTRUg-
IlOS ACTS OF CONGRESS, SO-CALLED.
As INSPIRATIONS. UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
REVOLUTIONARY VOID"
This we accept Is the resolve Of the
Democratic rank and file of the
United States. When that rank and
file meets in convention, in 1872, and
makes a platform, whether that plat
form embOdies this, as we believe,
honest sentiment, OF not, we will ac-
cept it and stand by it, defending it
against all aggressors from within or
without, believing that it is impOssi-
bic to hold the Democratic party
by any other means than by
a platform that embOdies the views of
the majority and has the consent Of
all. If there is a necessity for party
organization, it is that the people
may be united to support men for Of
fee upon a basis Of principle, clearly
defined and plainly wOrded, upon a
platform that shall serve as the
guide and rule Of action during
the interval that must elapse between
great political contests. This seems
10 us a proposition so s~elf-evident that
It needs no words to enfOresit None
put those who are unwilling to be the
opponents Of the viii Of the people, in
hat way expressed; none but those
who are full Of an impu-
lent self assertion, as stupid as
{ is vain, would for a
moment attempt to combat it. We
viii not be led by any one man, no
who he may be, how inteuectu-
j or inteligent, OF high he may stand;
Tor by any number Of men, unless
hey represent fairly and justly all the
in whose interest we work, and
n whose behalf we desire to
maintain a party organization that
hall have strength and consistency
efficient to cope with the accursed
2adicalism to which we owe all the
.alamities that have befauen the coun-
~. Let any man regard, for a mo-
nent, the d~eplOrable condition Of the
and say that it is not a result
f the Constitutional amendments
which Democrats are asked TO
1dOrse in violation of all their
.ast pledges; in face of the
ccOmplished thefts, arsOns, military
murders and other Outrages which we
very day record as following upon
heir existence. To surrender our op-
.OsitiOn TO amendments that disrau-
hise our best citizens, and puts a
rand upon them-as upon so many
aims - is not 10 our liking.
Oes not accord with our con-
Of right, our comprehension
Democratic principles. We ask the
.UalaHche to say when, in the history
the Democratic party, the dicta F.,
any one man, the address Of Con.
-essmen, or the resolutions Ofa cOun.
convention efiaced and wiped out
le platform Of the united Democracy
the United States? 1t cannot.
has ever been usage for Demo ,
attic Presidents to stand upon the
upon which they were {
ected, and that, too, throughout
cir whole term. They have always
elected upon a pledge so to do. !
then, the platform Of the party is [
for four years upon the Office
)lder, it must be equally binding -
ION all Others, be their condition {
the ranks Of the party what q
may. We have never known %
departure from so whole r
me a rule; and when such DEPART d.
g is encouraged, or 10 any great ex- =
1T adopted, we shall believe indeed
1t it is Office and spoils, and not s
.tesmanship and principle, that is
guide and moving cause Of party -
ion. We prefer principle. Ghe
.alonche may continue to avail it. :
( Of the designs and desires of the !
smies Of our party; as for US, we 6
Il remain true though the heavens