Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-20

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tered the maxim, "Let us have peace
is to serve as q basis of a renewal of
war. Fhe promise OF peace is b. be cut
down like a shriveled stalk and cast as
fuel into n Fe-lighted fire.. Suchis the
moral of Philadelphia. Not SUCH, to
our minds, is the
TRUE PHILOSOPHY or II HOUR.
We believe that the anti-slavery bat
tie has been fought out. Slavery is
abolished; and the Thirteenth amend
ment makes its impossible.
The negro has been invested with the
right of suffrage; ard the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendments make his
disfranchisement impossible. Legally
the negro stands exactly where the
white man does. Socially whatever
stigma rests upon him is far more op-
pressive in the North than in the South.
Mr.. Summers civil rights bill is more
needed here than there. For instance,
a Methodist bishop, only a week or two
ago, protested in the Tribune against
the exclusion of a oolored Methodist
preacher from the common wayfarer's
privilege Of refreshment at the Dorlon
tavern in Fulton Market. The same
bishop, and the entire general confer
ence of that denomination, was then
sitting in the churcbliest city of
the North, in whose public schools
cOlored children and white are
forbidden to associated If, therefore,
what Gerrit Smith calls the anti-slavery
battle is not yet fought out, its chief
battle-ground is in the North rather
than in the South. There is now 10
existing difference of opinion concern
ing the negro in which the South takes
One side, and the North the other. To
array section of the Union against
the other on the negro question, is to
create a false issue which has no exist
ence in reality. In reviving this antago-
nism, the Philadelphia Convention has
failed to adjust itself to the circum-
stances efthe time. Feigned and fcti-
tiOUs is the contest which Senator Nor
ton prefggres when he re-paints the
boys in blue a once more fighting the
boys il gray. The boys in blue have
put off their blue; the boys in gray have
put off their gray. Former Union sol
diers now mingle freeiey with their
fellOw-citiZens of the South, and former
Confederate soldiers do the same in the
North. From the moment when there
was an end to the political distinction
between a white skin and a black, from
moment there was an end Of the
partisan distinction between
A BLUE COAT AND A GRAY.
The Cincinnati Convention, recogniz-
ing this great fact, "built upon the event
in marble" 1t dared to say that there
is no longer a war, no longer a%rebelliOn, |
no longer a traitor. It buried the past.
Its motto was, LET bygones be by
1t clasped hands across the
chasm. But the Philadelphia
Convention, not content to let the South
accept the verdict of the war. not con-
tent BGssee the former shareholders sub
to the doctrine of political
equality, not content to see the original
ec~essi0nists pledging themselves to the
perpetual union of these States, not con-
ent to see the rebels volunteering to
Keep inviolate the national debt, not
.ontent to see the whole South jOyfully
accepting the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
and seeking to be at peace
lot only with the negro but the North
lot content with all tlis, the Philadel-
lhia Convention now propose to fight
he finished battle Owe again; recon
our present friends into our
primer foes; re-imperiling the peace and
of the negro by unnecessarily
reating q political antagonism against
i'm in the South; and reminding a
uenched animOsity between the Sec
ions at Il moment when both are equal
anxious to be of one mind and heart.
n other words, in the city of brotherly {
I'VE the Philadelphia Convention in
ugurated a policy Of unfraternal strife.
US, therefore, draw a =
ARALLEL BETWEEN THE TWO REPUB-
LICAN PARTIES. :
Cincinnati, fresh from the people, in ]
lated a lOng-needed movement of re- !
,rm; Philadelphia, drawing its breath K
ON the public offices, clamored like
aqUers in a tbeater for a continuance
the administration and the reap :
ointment of its fifty thousand paid
ipendiaries. Cincinnati declared for 7
one-term principle; Philadelphia .
as IS hush as the grave concerningt this 7
,ntral and handspring measure of Il
vii service reform. Cincinnati de- -
anded that our foreign policy should
k for nothing that was not right, and |
.bmit to nothing that was wrong; Phil d
forgetting this maxim of Jack :
n, connived at the Alabama surrender, |
III gave this ignonliny the name of Ie
)nOr. Cincinnati protested against ele- d
lting the military over the civil law: u
liladelphia entertained itself with a
cture Of Grant on horseback, as typical 4
the administration which it seeks to V,
in power. Cincinnati de- :
,unced the abuses which the govern /
ent has feared to investigate; Phila- 81
lphia was a pre-arranged mechanism =,
bOrdinating the individual freedom of 4
delegates to affect a unanimity which D
4 not exist, by an enginery which =
elf was one of the chief abuses of [
lich the administration has been 70
lily. Cincinnati was for universal r
lnesty; Philadelphia was for limiting l
is clemency. Cincinnati denounced TO
G distribution of public offices among :
rsons who had given gifts to the Presi- Ct
ut; Philadelphia officially represented T
ese givers and receivers. Cincinnati /
nOunced nepotism; Philadelphia ban ~
ged its eyes into blindness to it. Gin 10
matt indicted the President as a VIC da
or of law; Philadelphia gave a sycO- n
compliment to his practical wis L
m. Cincinnati proposes 10 unite the TO
nth and the South On the basis of =
equality, and fraternity; Phila- y
lphia determines to tear open afresh Ie1S
healed wounds of the two sections, =
ncinnati is for peace; Philadelphia for =
r. Fellow-countrymen, choose be- 81
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