Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-23

Democratic party should remain intact,
and fight out their alleged WRONGS in
side the Union and under the constitu-
ton and the flag. But Davis and his
Southern c~oadjutors, guided more by
passion than judgment, deliberately left
their seats in Congress, deserted the
Democratic faith, and left ex-President
Johnson, with a few Others, to fight it
out as best they could. There was agen-
eral deseTtion of the Democratic party
at that time, but ex-President Johnson
not only was not responsible for it, but
did all he could to avert it. He not only
did not desert the party, but when most
OF his associates were deserving he pre-
dicted the very dangers and disasters
that overlook not only the party, but
the section of country in whose sup
posed interest the unfortunate rupture
was made. If there tUds treason to the
party therefore, as the AUdIdRche fellow
asserts, the treason was perpetrated by
his Southern associates who deserted
their posts in the hour of danger; and
in doing SO, took all the consequences of
alleged treason against their country
and the constitution they had sworn to
support.
But this assailant wants to know
WHY EX-PREsIDENT JOHNSON BECAME
A BLACK REPUBLICAN?
1t is sufficient to say that Andrew John
son tpdS neUer a Black Republican.
When the Democratic party deserted
him, he remained in the Senate and adj
hered to the national government. His
fight for the constitution and the Union
had been so able and statesmanlike that
the eyes of the nation were instinctively
attracted to the gallant and heroic Ten
nessean. Without the reeantation of a
single Democratic principle, without
abating a jot or title of his former pOlit-
zeal faith, Andrew johnson, Is an I'M
hinching Union man, was accepted as
the associate of Lincoln in 1864. He
had accepted the logical results Of the
war he had done so much to avert, and
was esteemed a fit representative South
ern Union man to be placed in high po-
sition by those who professed ardently
TO desire the restoration of free govern
ment in this war-cursed land. Soon
after his Inauguration, by the assassina-
ton of the President, he succeeded to
the Presidency. Although his property
had been lost by Confederate eon
fiscation, although his negroes
had been freed and his prop
seized and appropriated as
hospitals, did he, in that dread hour
of danger" to the Southern people, turn
upon and rend them? On the contrary,
did he not rise superior to all mere per-
sOnal prejudices and wrongs, and deal
Justly and fairly, not only by his former
friends, but foes alike? Where is there
a prominent leader of secession in our
State, that desired pardon, that Johnson
did not grant cheerfully? Ask Governor
Brown and General Frank Cheatham,
both of whom he amnestied, if eX-Presi-
Dent Johnson, in their "hour of danger
lid not give them pardon and amnesty,
and thus save to them and their families
The property they possessed; and in do
that did he not give them a basis of
credit by means of which they were en-
lbled to work out their fortunes success
Hundreds of other al. in fact,
who asked for it-got amnesty from
President Johnson, and by that amnesty
'aved their property! What is true of our
Tennessee leaders, is likewise true of all
he leaders in the Southern States, and
who shall now estimate the immense adj
vantage, to the South and her citizens, |
If this granting of amnesty at that
ime? Did it not save every Southern
eader from criminal prosecution for
reason? Did it not save the property
# every one %pardoned, from confisca-
ion? And was it not on account of this
cry pardon and amnesty, thus extend
d to the South in her "hour of danger"
hat the leaders of the Black Republic
an party, who desired the execution of
prominent Southern leader and
he cOntiscatiOn of their estates, and the
liter extinction and ruin of our people,
pened the walls of their wrath upon
i'm? Did not the leaders of the domi-
Iant party demand of him that he
hOuld call Congress together in extra
essiOn, in order that they might tie his
ands and
STOP HIS Wholesale PARDoNING?
And when he refused, and they found
e had made it impossible to execute
heir programme of vengeance and con-
scation, did they not organize that
irulent opposition, ending in attempted
impeachment, by which they would
lake him suffer, in his own person, for
whom he had thus pardOned? And
ct, with a knowledge of all these facts,
IT they have passed into history, the
.UGldRche falsely assails eX-President
OhnsOn, first, as a "deserter of Demo-
ATTIC principles" then as q "deserter to
lie Radicals" and finally as a "deserter
them" when the fact is, he never /.
deserted a principle in his life, was
anything but a constitution,
nion-lOving Democrat, and for show :
g clemency to the Southern people
marked out for destruction by the
lemies of both. And in that "hOur of
not only to him, but to cOnsti-
government, what a magnifi- :
mt defense did he make of the consti-
ltion and the Union? Read his State
lpers, and where, befUre, has such clear
.lustratiOns been made of constitutional
nth ~bequeathed us by the fathers of
lie Republic? They are not only clear
statement and fOrcible in application,
1t they are 20 able and eloquent in
Ieir appeals to the patriotic of all par ,
as to constitute them alone worthy
2ank by the side of those which ema-
lted from the immortal Washington.
WHY THE OUTRAGE?
All this injustice to the greatest states
an of Tennessee is for a It :
intended to break the force of the pop
ar tide which, with or without convent
ms, is bearing him to Washington as =
'ngressman from the State at large. :
do not the times demand such emf
mt ability and tried craftsmanship as
possesses, to guide Alright, in these
vigorous times, our ship of States
FRIGHTFUL CONTEST.
With a President who has already re-
wed four hundred and ninety-five .
dollars in gift-bribes, and a Il
cretary of the Treasury who lately
med a syndicate with jay Cooke
d four Others, and himself, and actu-
ypaid out of the treasury two millions 81
terest on a loan which only secured
eek for gold from the Syndicate fell ~
ys-a check which they were never
lie to make good in gold; with corrup-
II extending from the highest to the
vest in the lands it not time that
nnessee should send her verv ablest -
.tesment to the national councils? Who
es not mourn over the rule of small
with which our people have been -
long cursed? / rejoice at the oppor-
llty presented in eX-President John
l OF obtaining a Congressman worthy
the palmy days of Tennessee, and 1 q
Oice still more that his pre-eminent =
viii secure his triumphant cleo y
by an overwhelming majority, at
polls. So mote it be.