Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-17

the capital protesting our politics, o.
course the people take it,"
Many Of the leading Democratic
papers of Arkansas are denOuncing il
the severest terms the course of the
Gazette. In commenting upon an
article that recently appeared in the
Gazette, the Camden Democrat utter:
the following just and indignant Ian,
guage;
When we read this we invOlun.
tarily looked to the title to see If we
were not mistaken in %suppOsing that
we were reading the Gazette, but
found that we were not, and in close
proximity to the above extract we
found the following sweet moroccan:
/" Revels, the late cOlOred United
States Senator, has become President
Of AlcOrn (cOlOred) University at
Jackson, Mississippi" A noble work
for a great man."
AsfOnishment changed to indigna-
! ton as we compared these two COM
ments upon the eX-President Of the
! Confederate States and a thieving
| negro preacher, who, by virtue of
/ Ames' bayOnets, lately disgraced a
seat in the United States Senate,
when he should have been expiating
his rOguery in the Kansas peniten-
tiary.
1t is evidently the intention of the
Gazette to make its readers believe
that Mr.. Davis, at Atlanta, made an
incendiary speech, calculated to array
the South against the North, and that
could be fairly used by the Radicals
to stir up the preiudices of the people
of the North and keep alive sectional
prejudices engendered by the war.
Any one can see this intention.
It'll a well understood rule of law
that anything offered In evidence to
prove a fact, must be taken as a whole,
and that the intentions Of a writer or
speaker can only be arrived at by
taking ALL he says, both text and
context, to Judge by. With this rule
in view, after reading Mr.. Davis
speech, we pronounce that the Gazette,
in the articles above given, proves
itSelttO be MOST CONSUMMATE ASS, OR
A MALICIOUS CALUMNLATOR, and we
intend that our readers shall see this
to be so, by giving them the whole OF
the speech, which, taken altogether,
is an appeal to the people of the South
NOT to interfere in political affairs,
but to allow the men of the North to
work out the salvation of the land.
We do not care to enlarge upon this
topic, it is too disgusting, but we can
not refrain from saying that the Ga
zeHe claims to be a friend of the South
ern peOple-n it is, it can prove it by
keeping silent.
A few more articles such as those
we have givend do more injury to their
cause than the writing OF all the Rad
ical papers in the South, and Cover
nor Hadley should Immediately di-
vide the public printing with the Ga
zette, as it is much more effective
champion Of Radicalism than the Re
publican.
One thing we, in the name Of the
Democracy of this section, do ask,
and that is if the Democratic and
Conservative State Central Com
mittee intend to retain as their or
gan the paper which perpetrates such
vile ISLANDERS and misrepresentation
upon Mr.. Davis, whilst it lauds his
saddle cOlOred~ successor in the Senate,
we-wOuld suggest if they can do no
better that they take the Republican,
as an open fOeis less to be feared than
one who inflicts a stealthy wound.
The Chronicle, published at Darda-
nellie, Arkansas, also administers a Sc
we're castigation to the Gazette. We
are reioiced to see the Democrats of
Arkansas speaking out against a pol
icy whfchswiH result in demoralizing
and destroying the Democratic party.
This "new departure" humbug, in
stead Of making converts to Democ-
racy, has only confirmed Republic
cans in their principles, for they very
Justly ask what motive have they to
desert their party and join the Demo.
Gratis when the Democrats themselves
are fgravitating toward Republican
ism by accepting the obnoxious en-
3ctments of the Republican party.