Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-12
MEMPHIS APPEAL
SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1872.
THE Duty OF THE DEMOCRACY.

INN VI AAA1
The duty of the Democratic party, in
the present contest, is very plain. 1t is
to givea steady and unanimous support
to the Cincinnati nominations. Less
than this would be to dishonor our
solemn pledges and promises made to
the Liberal Republicans, as FAR back as
the day Of the first movement made by
them 10 break with Grant and his sup
porters. We cannot violate these
promises. This is the sentiment Of the
Tennessee Democracy. At the late
convention held at Nashville, it
was declared: That in our opin-
ion, with the lights before us, the present.
alton Of candidates for the Presidency
and Nice-Presidency, in the approach
ing contest, by the Democratic party
Of the nation would be unwise,
unnecessary and exceedingly dam
geroUs to the welfare Of the
people at large.n And again: owe be-
lieve that the election of the ticket pre-
scented by the Liberal Republicans, and
the cooperation of the Northern and
Southern people, would go far toward a
healing Of the nation 1t will be inn
possible for the Democratic party to go
backward. II, a the st. Louis Repu5-
EcU forcibly puts it, the National DEM
ocratic Convention to meet at Baltimore
on the ninth Of July could commit the
folly Of attempting to nominate a third
ticket,it would incur the same hazard as
the Cincinnati Convention, and perhaps
meet 1t less successfully. Tho ticket
nominated by Il would create more dis
satisfaction than even the Cincinnati
ticket creates. If the Chicago Times
should carry the nomination of Judge
Davis, would the friends Of Adams
be any more content than they are
now? If the nominee should be
Adams, OF Curtin, or Tom Scott,
would not there still be the inevitable
residuum Of discomfort? And would
not the National Convention provoke
the e%xeerations Of the party it pretended
10 represent, by first stultifying that
party with a separate Republican NOM
inatiOn, and then insuring the success of
that one Of the three Republican tickets
which is most offensive to the country
and the Democracy.
If the Baltimore Convention is to
nominate somebody in opposition to
Greeley, it ought to nominate
Grant. The President is the repre-
sentative Of nine-tenths of the Op-
position to Greeley, and ought, by all
fairness, TO be its nominee. 1t has as {
much right to nominate Grant as it has I
u nominate Davis or Adams; and it (
has, as an armament in favor of that I
nomination, the assurance that il would
" draw eight-tenths Of the Radical
vote. Every office-holder Of the North, {
and every carpetbagger of the South, i
and all the monopOlists in the c
country would support it. In fact, Grant d
aud COlfaX would be next TO Greeley {
and Brown, the very strongest ticket Z
lhat the Baltimore Convention could o
present, and lift were not strong enough 4
.a escape defeat at the hands of the great il
movement against the admins 81
ration, il would not be the fault IF those ci
who are now working ira rs a
interest. Ii is next To certain that no pl
democrat viii be presented for the cs
Presidency in this contest. We can hi
lot think Of one eminent Democrat who eT
would ask for, or even accept a nOmi- of
al Baltimore. The act would l.
make him responsible for the inevita- re
ID. reelection Of Grant and the con- q
inued a-cendancy Of Radicalism; and
lac most popular and trusted man in
he party may well quail before
he stern reckoning that would
blow such an event. If the Balti- d
lore Convention should be foolish 4.
u0ugh tomake a separate nomination III
{ all, it could only nominate a Repub- e
lean, and thus give Us three Republican d
10 choose from, instead Of two. ai
But no multiplication Of Republican VI
ludidates can give to Democrats an in Ii
in the struggle which they do not
lready possess. The Cincinnati ticket ~
ffers to US all the conditions that any 10
ossible subdivision of the contest can OF
e made to yield, and, indeed, all that
re can reasonably ask for. It offers to p
S the certainty OF a Liberal President an
nd a Democratic House, while a third "a
.ckct offers us nothing more than aeon ll
mutation Of the evils which we are now =
nduring. hs
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