Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-13

PROSTITUTION.
Nothing can be more absurd than The
course Of the Soathern papers and poll
ucians, who pretendedly in the interest
Of the people Of the South. denounce
the gentlemen who held high official
positions in the State or Confederate
Governments during the late civil war.
They howl as Indignantly at any call or
mention Of the names Of these leaders
as il they had been guilty Of some great
crime, some gross ofsnse against So
ciety, against the w~ell-being Of the
people. They cannot bear to hear that
Jefferson Davis IS still enjoying good
health, that he is in the best possible
spirits, that he is doing well and will in
all likelihood live vet many more years.
years Of usefulness and honor. They
grow furious at the mere mention Of the
name Of General Cheatham, and de-
nounce his candidacy for Congress as an
impertinence and obtrusion, as II he had
no rights Of citizenship in the State Of
his birth. They are impatient Of an old
soldier who upheld the banner Of the
State for the Union as well as against it
and who since the war has conducted
himself with a mOdesty becoming the |
high military station 70 which his
valor in the field had elevated him.
And so with Landon c. Haynes,
whose only crime, in their eyes, lies in
his service in the Confederate Congress.
and the zeal that characterized him in
that body in behalf Of the cause Of the
South These blatant demagogues,
who are travelling through the State
calling Justify upon the people to elect
them 10 Office, fercely denounce Quarles.
and Bate, and Governor Harris, and all
who from Tennessee were conspicuous
in the late civil war, and yet they pre-
tend to be friends and co-work-
ers Of Horace Greeley, our can
didate for President, who has
ever since 1865 denounced the proscrip-
ton OF the leaders of the South as little
less than a curse. They pretend to be
Liberals, and yet are pro~scriptienists Of ;
the most extreme type. They would 1,
ostracise the men who have proven their
fitness and capacity TO govern and legis- J
late they would deny to the country .
the e~xeruOns and ability Of the men who 7.
have shown their sagacity and powers !
of craftsmanship in keeping alive, for r
four years, q aus that was a failure !
from the beginning, and for what?-be- )
cause they consented-because they had !
b courage TO consent-tO serve eleven :
States without an e~xchequer, without an I
army, without a navy, without organi- :,
zauons the result Of a sudden cause Of ,
quarrel, OF the revolution ola day. They
would have Us deny TO ourselves what i,
Horace Greeley says we stand in need -
brains and ability Of the South.
They would have Us foster the CARPET
Dagger and scallawag, or perhaps worse,
encourage incompetent fiedglings ike
The Independent in this Congressional W
who is strUtting about in asuit of 9e
craftsmanship too large for his meagre po
frame. They cry aloud against our best "a
speakers and repeat the stale Ibels of Al
our Radical opponents, telling tales hl
rs idle as those Of the oV
Arabian Nights. They would have Us in
that these men of thought, from wa
whom came f~ul-handed, with constitu- su'
ion, army and navy, organization and "
avs, the Confederate States; they ~
would have US believe that these men 1h'
have ceased to grow; that like the words Oh
II the tabled Northman, their ideas were col
rozen in 1865, and can neither thaw nor san
They would have Us believe a
the men We selected in 1882, be- me
ause OF that selection, are not 20 be NI'
rustedi that their service for Us in the 1uI
ears that really tried mems souls, in an
ONE way impaired their usefulness and nu
.eadened their faculties. This is what II
hey would have Us believe, but it is not u
he occasion, Of course. Of their objec- SUI
to the Confederate leaders. They enc
office themselves, they want posi- DER
they want to lead, and by the mea- Oh
lre Of these men whom they stigmatize me
nd prescribe, have learned that they are
re but Pig-lies, but ueophytes in a pro pea
sssiOn which these have illustrated by II
genius that, before the century closes. "oi
ill be recognized by the world. It Is cen
IVY and jealousy and fear Of the pub '"o
e confidence in these old leaders that zen
this continued prescription. As
Lorace Greeley has said, and all the ln'e
liberals at the North have echoed, these 0hel
r the men we want in our high mo
these are the men We would me,
ave n continue in our service, these ana
Re the men we want to assist in ce- rePi
the Union for which they used ear
Labor in the golden days Of the Re yea
lhlic. Out, then, upon the cant and trlO
hypocrites who would prescribe nan
lem; out upon the cowardice that ciPa
ould desert them; out upon the base loul
that would join the Radical hue snol
against them. We tried them AHu
Id found them true, and we love them
2 the dangers they have passed, and M
.e failure they have endured with q
sroism more noble than that which me
laraoterized them in the flush times Of sum
e South. -