Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-18
POLITICAL.

AL the Eastern young women opposed
. Greeley bitterly because he advised al
/ the young men to 60 West.
/ The Legislature Of South Carolina
meets on Tuesday, the twenty-fOurth
. instant. = Senator to succeed Mr..
Sawyer is TO be elected.
Davenport, the New York election
/ outrage commissioner, f0ots up his ex-
I penses at two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars. Uncle sam fOOts the bill.
The Legislature of North Carolina
I meets at Raleigh next Tuesday. The
election Of q United States Senator to
succeed Mr.. Pool VIII take place two
weeks from that date.
1 General Joe Hooker says: d" I do not
/ pretend to be a prophet, bat tell you
/ that Grant aches for another war, and
/ that he viii make one il there Is the
slightest pretext." "
Fred Douglass SAYS that Grant would
have been beaten without the negroes,
aud that the negro element must be rec
Ioguized and rewarded. Fred is right,
| but he can't make the Radicals believe
it.
The vote Of Missouri, according to the
| present aspect Is, Greeley, l49, 666 ;
Grant. 1llSO5; Greeley's majority,
/ q, 6ol; WOOdson, Isl, 400; Henderson,
I lis, 955; WoOdson's majority, 81, sos.
/ This includes all the counties but SUOd-
dard. Democratic. for President, and a
hundred and nine counties heard from
for Governor.
The proposition to have Grant for a
third term is squarely indOrsed by Sena-
tor BTOWulOw, in a letter written after
the election to the New York Times
he says be would even prefer Grant for
life to q return Of the Democratic party
TO pOwer. That the President is seri-
ously thinking Of a third official term is
asserted by a prominent Republic,
upon the strength Of a recent interview.
An effort is on foot by certain parties
in AleX8Ddria, Virginia, 10 have that
city retroceded to the District OF Terri
tory Of COlumb bia. IN view Of the mod
crate taxes imposed there and the heavy
fleeing of the Taxpayers in Washing
ton, il is believed that this proposition
emanates from spectators who want to
prey on their fellOw-citizens, as the ring
has done under the pretense Of making
improvements. haro are no indica-
lions that the citizen f Alexandria
generally would favor such a scheme,
and il would further require the assent
Of Congress and the State of Virginia,
the last Of which is very improbable.
The latest report in respect to the ap-
pointment Of a Maior-Genera in the
place Of General Meade, is that the place
is to be given to QUartermaster-G General
NJ. c. Meigs. Meigs is distinguished by
his sectional TancOr aud passion, by the
stupidity shown in planning the halls Of
Congress wilh their defective light and
ventilation, and by the fact that history
supplies no record Of his military
achievements. Whether he will get the
prize or not, be certainly stands better
chance than General Hancock, who
would naturally be appointed but for the
Presidents well known personal hostili-
" to him.
Some months ago the Press and
Herald was savagely attacking Nelson,
Baxter and SEWER for their circular pro-
posing % disorganize the Democratic
party. Il thought they were guilty Of a
terrible bluuder IN suggesting that the
Democratic party could do no more
good. and ought 10 get out of the way.
Now, Fleming admits Democracy
Is dead, and what is more, be seems to
feel reioiced over it. Why this change?
Is he following Baxter now in the very
path be denounced him for marking out
d few short months ago! And why
does he rejoice so st the death Of his
old "organiZation' to which he has
rallied the old guard 50 often, in his
frantic appeals % them TO 'vOte the
straight ticket?"
All the questions that figured in the
recent canvass are at the mercy Of The
administration paTty-the public debt,
ciyil-service reform, the treatment Of The
South. the character Of our foreigI ep-
resentatiOn, nepOtism, cUsJ0mhOU-y cor
ruption, and verythiHg else. lt Is Ie-
sp0nsible for the tIeatmcntOf these mat
tiers, and II is certain that in the arro-
-gauce of victory 10 viii not permit any
Liberal, or aay Democrat, TO assist in
the management Of them. IJ Is not
probable that it VIII reform the abuses
complained OF; it is more likely
that it viii leave them 10 grow worse
and worse, till they compel a second eN-
Odus Of Liberals from its camp, and
make a second schism worse than the
first, or else bring on an issue between
tine President and the majority. One
thing may be regarded as certain The
administration party VIII break in twain
by its own weight, if left to itself, and to
leave il 10 itself that il may break il the
wisest thing the opposition can do.