Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-26

1t no more occurred to me that he or tn,
men who had nominated him woulC
have the brazen audacity to expec
Democratic support, than it did that tn,
disciples Of the Christian religion woulC
turn away from their faith in an houl
and worship MahOmet as the Prophet O
God, l congratulated myself, and my
friends about me, that the unexpected
folly of the convention at Cincinnati
had opened to us a sure and easy road tC
victory and to the restoration of good
government. / knew General Grant
would be nominated at Philadelphia,
and then the Republican party would be
torn in twain, each wing under pow
erful Radical leader; one the founder OF
the party whose pernicious ideas called
Ii into existence, and have filled the
statute hooks with all the corrupt and
unconstitutional legislation now to be
found there; the other a production OF
war, ignorant of the principles of gov
eminent, and in the hands of the most
reckless and unscrupulOus managing
POLITICAL CABAL
known TO history since the reign of
Charles the Second of England. have
heard that a house divided against itself
! uOl ELdLAls L saw AllE lOLAot VI III y
political adversary divided, and knew
from the rules of the most wise ancient
| philosophy that il must fall I did not
see that my own house was divided
against itself, and I saw no reason why
| 1t should be. / knew that we had voters
enough TO beat the Republican party
thus disunited. l believe we could beat
| Grant with a pure and qualified states
IL hG aNnTna IN fhe Eal1
1 He is not strong before the people, If
he was confronted by a candidate who
had not advised and indorsed his entire
policy, as Mr.. Greeley has. was not,
therefore, bowed down when heard
! from Cincinnati. NY face was rather
lifted up and frightened with hope, and
talked and wrote and telegraphed in
the tone in which / am talking now,
taking il for granted that Israel would
go to her tents and display her honored
flag. Irecollected the fact that
Mr.. LINCOLN
was elected because two Democrats
were running, and was convinced, as l
still am, that we had a better OppOrtu-
nifty for success than we had known
since Pierce was elected, twenty years
ago. The path Of duty and policy was
the same; our party principles and our
party policy cOnjOined. They were
Identical. You can hardly imagine,
therefore, the feeling with which / saw
certain unsteady newspapers hauling
down Democratic names at their mast
heads and placing in their stead the
name of one who has more fairly
earned and more fully enjoys the hos
tility and aversion of the Democratic
party than any other man in the United
States, and that, I know, is a strong
statement, while
MORTON AND GRANT
and their coadjutors are in existence.
Impartial history, however will sustain
me in il. For thirty years, cOmmenc-
ing far back when these gray heads
before me were black and young, and
continuing until within the last three
weeks, there has been no form of coarse,
brutal and infamous assault which
Horace Greeley has not made on the
Democratic party. In the aggregate as
in the detail, en- HldsSe and individually, |
his malevOlence has been unceasing,
unsparng and universal. He has
ranged everywhere for objects of his |
hated and vindictive abuse. He has
not hesitated to call our foremost men, |
like
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
liars, villains and traitors. He has also |
singled out the people in private life, |
and denounced them as ignorant, sordid 4
and vicious. Selecting Democratic |
one of his special callings for |
years has been to assan the constituents |
Of gentlemen who voted against his |
heresies in Congress. Our own extern
sive and magnificent district has often
his maledictiOns because /
it and always denounced
ais favOrite theories. In his estimation
majority Of this noble population of
-wo hundred and fifty thousand souls,
nearly two hundred miles up
and down one Of the Oldest, wealthiest
and most cultivated valleys west of the
mountains is sunk in ignor-
ance and wallOwing in mire because they
10 not look at public questions
as he does, and elect a man to Congress
10 make such a man the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, ] would
ieel that / had, indeed, betrayed you.
But let US make a still closer examina-
ion of Mr.. Greeley as a proposed Dem
JlAaAlG N1AlahAudtCs L At lbN DllfEEl 10 llllil
rs a Republican candidate at all; he is
he best embodiment of the principles of
now living. Republicans
an vote for him consistently, and ought
%. He is an older and far abler Repub-
lean than Grant. He was a violent
when
iRANT WAS a BUCHANAN DEMOCRAT
n st. Louis. commend Greeley, there
ore, to his own party-and how can
nine support him at the same time? A
nan is supported for a small Office pure
Y on personal grounds, because he
5 an amiable and worthy man,
With good qualifications for the position.
such motives alone, however, never
the choice of a President,
Who, to a vast extent, shapes the whole ,
'Olicy of the government for veal or ,
voc. There is nothing, however, in ]
fr. Greeley's personal traits and pecu- ,
iarities to commend him for the high !
,OsitiOn to which be aspires. On the |
ontrary, a man personally more unfit I
o fill the office of Chief Magistrate of I
his mighty government was never ,
mentioned in connection with it. But I
rhen distinguished gentlemen remen-
iOned in connection with that lofty pO-
idon, their principles determine the
UFFRAGEs OF AN ENLIGHTENED PEo- =
PIE I
nore than anything else tried by this J
tandard. Horace Greeley irresistibly {
epels every Democrat in the United I
tates. What is he for and what is he I
gainst at this time? One Of the living I
sues that has been before Congress dur
lg the whole of the present session is t
4 Mr.. Summers civil rights bill. 1t es-
ablishes a bylaw and enforces, with '
eavy penalties Of fine, damages and /
the absolute and unquali- /
ed equality of the blacks with the t
7hites in every schoOlhOuse, seminary,
ollege, church, tavern, bOarding-bouse, /
abroad car, steamboat, theater, circus /
nd stage-cOach in the United States.
.fter a long contest and much debate S
MS most Odious measure, injurious to C
9th races, passed S
THE SENATE t
n two different occasions, Senators
Iorton and Pratt, both voting for it on
le ayes and noes. / thought of max
~ an issue against these two Senators q
sfOre the people Of Indiana during the Il
anvass, on account of their votes in u
hich they so grossly misrepresented v
he sentiments and wishes of the peo- +
e Of the State, but Mr.. Greeley warm 8
indonses this measure, and if ] sup &
lrt him how could / censure the Indi- n
IA Senators. A bill substantially the I,
me as that which passed the Senate, has e
zen before the House for months past, a
I'd the Democratic members under the n
ad on that subject, Of that very able, a
liable, upright statesman I,
CHARLES A. ELDRIDGE, u
Wisconsin, have resOrted 10 every +
Iethod known to parliamentary law 70 u
-eveEt its passage. Mr.. Greeley is so =
Iuch in favor of the principles which it L L
'ntains that, within ten days after bis =
he went into a negro y
lu7ch at Poughkeepsie, New York, y
1d there declares them as his own, y
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