Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-08

Win lU6 E6cpODklDAAlJ VI Wh0e my
could no more help than we Of Mem
phis. For the riot there is no excuse,
and for the rioters only ~execration or
pity. The result CT a feud as old as
the Strongbow Invasion of Ireland, it
might have been avoided had either
party willed it. The Orangemen
might, in the public interest have re-
solved upon an indoor celebration, at
which to their hearts content they
could have toasted the glorious,
pious and immortal memory Of the
Prince of Orange, who beat his father
in-law, shameless Shamus, out of his
throne; and the recusant Irish who,
as is their right, choose TO deny PRO
testant ascendaney," but violate the
plainest tenets OF Cstholicity as riot
ers, might, in a strict attendance
upon their callings, have avoided
a procession Of bigOts, whose
crime lies in the perpetuadon
Of religious hostility and the haunt-
ing of banners whose colors and de-
vices have never in this country,
hank God, had any significance. But
it Is not in the hearts Of either OF these
now small Irish factions to forget or
forgive. For the one, the green flag,
and for the other, the orange, contains
all the taunt necessary to produce
scenes like that of the Deplorable
Twelfth, ending in death and bringing
restitution TO hundreds thus berelt of
their only support. But while thus
we fix the responsibility for the July
riot upon fractions of the Irish race,
it is unjust, as Harper's Weekly does,
to hold all the Irish voters OF New
York responsible for the wholesale
thefts by the Tammsny ring, re-
Gently so promptly and foreibly con-
demned by the New York State DEM
ocratic convention. The voting pop
ulation Of New York city is put down
at something in the neighbOrhOOd OF
100000; Of this number there are,
say $4,000, of Irish birth, a
small minority, truly. These $1,000
are Democrats; why, we will inquire
further on. They votethe Democratic
ticket always. at all elections, nation
al, state and municipal, and this be-
cause on these occasions both the
great political parties put tickets in
nomination having the names of men
who represent them as leaders and
able defenders Of their peculiar doc
trines. Appeals are made on strictly
party groun is, and all the forces Of
both parties are mustered for victory.
The Democracy, outnumberirg the
Republicans, T successful, and We
hope will always be; not with such
creatures as Hall, Connolly, Tweed,
sweeney & Co., but with men who
will stand squarely and honestly on
platforms such as the New York Dem
ocracy can present as from those in the
van of the party in the United States.
The Democracy Of New York city
have been successful because they
wiIled and fought for success, and be-
cause they considered, and rightly too,
that there was propOrtionately as
much ecLGt in party success
in their city as in the
State or national contests. And they
have been successful, not because Of
frauds at the ballot-b0x by "repeat-
-ers;'' but because they have all the
votes necessary TO an overwhelming
majority. 1t is true their opponents
might poll a larger vote and perhaps
endanger their sseendsncy, if all the
men Of property who DO business
there and who reside in adjacent
towns were permitted to vote, as those
owning property in Memphis and re-
siding in Shelby county may vote at
our municipal elections. But they
don't, and their failure admits OF easy
triumph for the New York Democ-
raey-triumphs which the Radicals
would not tail to posses themselves of
could the Irish VIVA aud enthusiasm for
Democracy be but transferred to their
"iSm" cursed ranks. And it is in these
"isms" the Irish OF ell classes and con-
ditions In the United States find their
strongest, because natural antipa-
thies to Radicalsm. WoOed by the
word Democracy, they are soon won
by a consideration Of its principals
Is compared with those of the
opposing political organization. To
them Democracy means opposition to
the old tyranny that has made them
exiles from the land OF their father,
from a land they love with all the pas
sionate longing for its freedom that
distinguishes their ardent, generous
natures; it e personal freedom,
and conveys assurances of political
such as their patriot sires have
died for in vain; it means freedom
from oppression by religious and po.
litical minorities, and from the curse
Of 8 earpe,-bsg rule that has been per-
petuated since Henry II. became
lord Of Ireland" In 1172. DemOcra-
cy, to the Irishman, means immunity
rom ''all and singular" the disabili-
ties, the robberies and the legalized
murders, of their alien governors.
And what it means, they find il. Ey-
cry opposing party that has ever ex-
isted in the United States has been
by the Democracy on
the enlarged principles which
the word conveys, not only,
let Us remark, TO the Irish, but
TO every foreign ear. Jefferson, the
father and founder OF the party, has
been cursed and stigmatized only less
than Aaron Burr, whose only crime
I" Annexation" He was held up
10 scorn and contempt as q follower Of
the Robespierres Of the French Tevo-
to whose rspacity and fate the
modern Communist has fallen heir.
It was said OF him that he was a
and, worst Of sD, an stheist.
crime against politics and re-
igion was laid to his charge, and yet