Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-27
rNIrY Is orR ONLY sAFETY.

ing elecIlOuS III ~lenn6SsSti tHe Si6a
crime will be visited upon the head
General johnson. He is the leader {
the boilers, and they are hanging on
hiscoat-tail, expecting him to drag ther
to victory. We have no fears as I
JohnsOn's election. But his treacher
may possibly result in sending five Rad
icals to Congress and a majority of Rad
icals to the Legislature. We understan.
that a scheme is on foot to organize
Johnson ticket in every county in tn
State. An effort has been made in thi
county TO organize such a ticket, an,
we have no doubt it will be placed il
the field before the election. Such
ticket will result in sending ten Radi
Gals to the Tennessee Legislator,
from this county. Every man who con.
tributes to such a result commits pOliti'
cal suicide. 1t is known and admitted
by all that the Radicals will not vote fol
Andrew johnson, or a ticket in this
county in his interest. The object, there.
fore, Of organizing a Johnson ticket fol
the Legislature is obviously to defeat the
regular Democratic and Conservative
nominees. We are anxious to see the
Greeley nan in Shelby county base
enough to allow himself to become a
tool in the hands of the Radicals. A
Johnson ticket in Shelby county would
take from the Democratic nominees just
about votes enough to give the county
to the Radicals, and if one be started, it
viii be with this object in view, for
every man knows that it requires
a solid Democratic vote to carry Shelby
against the Radicals. If the people
of Shelby county would defeat Radical
ism, let them unite upon. the regular
nominees already in the field. They are
good men and can prevent this county
from passing into the hands of the Rad
icals if the friends of johnson do not
perpetrate the folly, the inexcusable
crime Of placing an independent John
son ticket in the field. Should such a
ticket be organized, the Radicals will
encourage il, but a few days before the
election they will select a ticket of their
own, and elect it. In an hour like the
present who would suggest dissension,
or hesitate to denounce schism-what-
ever the pretext-is practically and
zealOUsly working against his party
and people, and with the enc
my. No party can succeed whose
members acknowledge no author
itative exponent, and set up their own
individual prejudices and prepos-
sessions as their sole rule Of action
ignoring utterly the usages and the
binding laws Of their organizstion-and
refusing to pull together, on any and
every pretext. No party can be kept
together, or expect to march together to
victory, any more than could an army,
without discipline or obedience to the
word Of command from its officers.
"Divide and conquer is al old maxim
and a true one, and if our friends want
to do the work of the opposition, and
lose the control Of the State, which they
have secured with so much labor, and
have stOutly to contest for now, under
The most united effort, these Earrings
and divisions will do more than the
JTibes Of Grant and the bondholders to
it. We again implore the enc
mics Of Grant and RadicaIism to aban- !
ion all opposition to their regular NOM
nees and thus insure a double triumph .
the enemy and themselves. Every
nan in Tennessee knows what Rad
rule means. He knows it .
means stealing of the school fund and :
.eneral robbery. A return of Radical
ule in Tennessee would overwhelm the 8
with bankruptcy and ruin. "Our d
would be taxed, Just as South :
'arolina is taxed; just as Louisiana is =
lxed; not only to satisfy the demands ;
{ the cowardly cOrmorants who fled, !,
sariDg honest administration, but TO fill !
ne NAV Of a new legion, who yearn for .
he hesh-pots. We speak seriously and 4
and we confess not without ap- )
rehension, lest, in our divisions s to :
neither principle or policy should .
1vern u action in national poll
cs, we do not sacrifice the best
Of the State, and our
be made to descend to the level u
the grinding oppression of South Car r.,
or Louisiana. Would you meas 81
e that degradation by a money value? h,
means five per cent. of all that a man n,
IS accumulated in South Carolina, an ~
and seven OF eight per cent. in n
,uisiana. Would you measure it in E,
bic virtue? 1t means the sacrifice of ~
bic trusts for individual gain-now to dr
~nciliate a Pinehbeck crowd of hungry =,
and now 10 satisfy the inor- of
late wants Of a tribe Of Warmoths. an
ould you measure it by social rule?a an
means the unblushing display and Y
rade Of the gains of fraud and ret
-ruption, and of bribery and pros- 5oi
1tion in public, Haunting in the face c ca9
honest labor the gilded equipages aai
] the impurpled silk-the reward of VII
corruption and vice. 1t means HfPPal
It Legislators should be bought and non
! like cattle in the market, and ] q
islation be marked by price, as the har
res of a brokers' shop. It e that no
Gals shall be tools, and that justice frol
Il be awarded-nOt from the sensi-
: scale Of right, but for partisan ends J.
individual aggrandisement." These gen
the dangers to which we are ex- cal cal
ed, and such are some Of the penal for
to which all are liable upon defeat TOT
discontinue in our State elections. hbf0 10
re is no Greeley in our State cleo The
to make us pause to weigh policy Ugh
inst principle. The maintenance of 7
lesty IN State administration, dou
faithfulness to trust in State us [
are of far more vaIua can
us than any question of Federal put
ley within our control; and. in fbis to
cture Of affairs, viii affect far more und
prosperity Of our people and the con
servation Of social virtue and good Ioos
er- The active and united efforts of and
democrats and Liberals on all ques- ty i
rs OF State politics will maintain the Rae
gnlifcent Democratic majority by
len we now hold the State, and keep O
from US those terrible evils that have the
ic6ed 50 dreadfully the States of the bea
It'll now subject to Republican rule. wor
good citizen desires a return of the is I
cradle, plundering misrule which to