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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-12
HON. JAMES L. ALCORN.

EDITORS APPEAL-Thoughtful men
who evince an interest in public affairs,
are now much concerned to be assured
of the course which the Mississippi Sen
atOr will persue in the pending Presi.
dental contest. Of course, he will cor
daily support General Grant as against
any Democratic candidate which Bel
mont and his sympathizers may NOM
mate at Baltimore in July. But should
the popular desire be gratified, and a
single-handed race be made up between
Greeley and Grant, under which banner
will Senator AIcorn be found? There is
no rashness in assuming that the atti-
tude of Mississippi win mainly depend
on the future action of this gentleman.
Doubtless there are many who viii dis
sent from this view, believing that, as
Resolutions never 60 backward, Mr..
AlcOrn cannot, If he so desires, arrest
the popular uprising IN favor Of Greeley
and Brown which is so manifest in Mis-
sissippi as well as in other southern
States. w cannot avoid dissenting
from all such hasty and inconsiderate
conclusions. We should never, be-
cause of our prejudiees, under
rate the moral or intellectual
qualities of an adversary. Cen
eral Alcorn has never been deficient
in either. Whatever he may not have
been, he certainly has been the expo
nent and representative of his personal
convictions. Many years ago, when
Mississippi was dominated by the Dem
ocratic party, when all the roads and
avenues to high official station were
held and guarded by that naughty and
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WHEN THE SOUTH WILL VOTE ron
- GRANT.


The aversion with which Grant is re-
garded by the masses of the people is in
dictated by the readiness with which life
long party ties are sundered in order
to effect his overthrow. Party leaders
do not so readily assent. They are sad
dened-amszed. The World has been
the organ of q consolidated force, dis
bursting millions, and as effective in
Washington, when great subsidies are
given to steamship and railroad lines as
Radicalism itself. In fact, the Demo-
cratic party is only potent for any Fed
eral purpose in the South, and now that
the South has pronounced, with almost
perfect unanimity, for Greeley and
Brown the World might well yield to
the demands of public opinion and no
longer appeal to prejudices and partisan
ties, useful enough TO the masters of the
people, but OF little practical value in the
South. Where a Clayton reigns, the
impersonatiOn of negro minstrelsy;
where a Warmoth is a bohemOth;
where an Ames, a little military satrap
and adventurer, and Brownlow, the i'm
personation Of all the passions generated
by war, assume to represent States;
where laws are written, as i'm South
Carolina aud Mississippi, with bayonets;
where freemenfs homes are infested
with spies and infOrmers; where the
best citizens are constantly dragged to
prison by strangers who come among us
only for plunder-is it expected that we
here viii be very squeamish as to the
means employed for our own liberation?
1t may be very well for Eastern gentle
men, who see and feel and knownOthing
of these facts except hroughnewspapers,
to pirate about the sanctity of party and
deplore the present inaction of the De
mOcracy. O-fice-seekers and habitual
masters Of the multitude, reigning
through the agency of our organi-
cation, may shed bitter tears. We
sympathize with them, but infinitely
more with our neighbors of Missis-
Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana,
.plundered, insulted, robbed, anddeprived
Of every civil right as if only fit to be
victimizedb by Radicalism. If the World,
and Belmont andthe Washingtonringa at
drive Greeley from the field
by nominating a Democrat, the South,
to appease the monster may vote for
Grant, and Grants party, to induce
treason to Greeley, will proffer freedom,
at Philadelphia even to States above
designated.
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MAX b. WELLBORN AND ALABAMA


Alabama, like Tennessee, is entitled
to a Congressman representing the State
at large. Two years ago NJ. B. Well
born made a vigorous and mostsuccess-
Rl canvass Of the Eufaula district. We
remember with what extraordinary in
terest the progress of the contest was
watched within and beyond the confines
of Alabama, and how an Overwhelm-
ing Radical majority was lessened in
every county and town in Wellborn's
district. Crowned with such a victory
that was unavailing to himself, and
thoroughly conversantwith the schemes
of his partizan ~adveTsaries whom he is
thus enabled 20 thwart, Mr.. WelIbOrn
it occurs to US, would be a proper repre-
sentative of the State at large. In So
cial life he is a faultless gentleman and
a proper impersonatiOn Of the best peo-
pie of Alabama. Boris reared and edu-
Gated within the State, he represents, in
his own person, traits, history and lit
erary requirements, every peculiarly
of the true people of the Gulf States.
Let US have Max b. Wellborn the rep
resentative of Alabama in the next Con-
gress of the United States.
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CHICAGO.
A Sedacer's Scheme to Suppress Eyi.
dence Of his Guilt-A HOr-
rible Story.


CHICAGO, May 1.-THE General Court
Martial, of which General ID. S. Stan.
ley is President, has been in session al
Fort Dudley, Dakota, and adjourned
yesterday to assemble at Fort Rice on
the tenth Of June. The only case that
was reached for trial was that of Cap
tain t. H. Sanger, of the Seventeenth
infantry, who was tried for seduction
and abortion, which resulted in the
girls death, and for conspiracy against
Captain Donovan of the same regiment.
Donovan and one or two Others were
the only persons who knew anything OF
Sanger's guilt. Sanger entered into a
conspiracy with Surgeon Goddard of the
same regiment, withthe view of shutting
Donovan up on a charge of insanity.
The case came before Surgeon Goddard,
who pronounced Donovan insane, and
he was at once ordered to be confined at
st. Elizabeth hospital, Washington. He
was taken to Washington in December
last, but through the influence of friends
obtained a ~re-hearing Of his case, and
the surgeons there pronounced him per-
fectly sane. He was ordered back to
his regiment, and has now been instru-
mental in bringing Sanger to trial.
The finding Of the court-martial has
not yet been made public, but he viii
be disgraced and Immediately impris-
oned for a long term. IL is understood
that Surgeon Goddard will be tried
when the court re-assembIes on a
charge of abortion and conspiracy in the
the same cases.
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the perfect development Of the Alexan-
drian Platonism. sHeathenism accepted
this philosophy, and tried to elevate its
dumb gods and gid its stupidity and
superstitiOns with it. They found won
derful meanings in the blindest and stu
pidest old stories about their gods. Even
in the most corrupt and vile stories they
undertook 10 find some high and sacred
meanings that had escaped an men.
You viii thus see that there is nothing
new under the SUM-. / have yet 70 meet
a single objection or line Of objection to
Christianity that has not been already
put and met.
NOTHING NEW.
I do not think that a heresy could be
invented that has not already been in
vented and had its cause. l have vet
to find, in modern times, a single line
Of philosophy that has not already been
taught among men. i have been
unused in finding that some Of the most
wonderful discoveries which modern
philosophers have originated were fee
bic echoes Of the doctrines taught by the
teachers Of this PlatOnism in the mu-
scum Of Alexandria-the same line Of
objection to Christianity; the same high
tone and air Of profound wisdom which
they put on toward those who believed
the simple statements Of the Gospel. ]
am not aWare that in America or any
where else there has been a solitary new
thought or a new way Of putting q
thought on this subject invented. You
may think that there was something
ike wisdom in this philosophy, for il
sounds like a great deal we hear now in
another line Of philosophy. 1t is con-
sidered a most admirable thing for men
TO agree, that each should not hold very
decidedly to his WI particular faith.
OF course he is welcome to it, but he
must not undertake to propagate il I'M
pleasantly; he must not dare to say that
somebody else is mistaken; the age is
passed for religious earnestness and the
propagation Of a definite faith. This
talk is twaddle, and sickening twaddle,
too, to any nan who believes there is a
spiritual truth as well as intellectual and
visible truth. II there is such a thing
as truth il is definite, and for my part /
viii teach it. But the present age says,
precisely as Alexandria did, at the time
of which / am speaking. '"This is OBJ
viOusly a shOp-keeping age" They say
you must not interfere with the shop,
and they are right if we are to 90 on in
the FOOLS paradise forever. But in the
long story of a nations or a city's life
there comes a time when.it must render
up an account and we must declare to
God and man why we are here, and
then the deliverers of that nation or
city, if it is to be saved at ali, are the
men who a come out and give you a
distinct, definite, elear-cut, ringing faith
that has some eternal truth to hold
ON to-
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GOOD BOY.

A yongster attending school has writ
ten to his mother the following charae-
teristie letter:
Dear Mothep-I got another licking
Yesterday, but / had on three pair of
pants, and it didn't hurt me much. ]
was licked because / put six pins in
MI. is chair. l knew they would
not stick him, and made a bet that they
would not. Mr.. - was so mean and
hard that the pins could not go in. /
won the bet which was a dog. He is a
good dog and / am training him to bite
old sHardsides," as we call him, some
night when he comes home after dark,
and if lack is as good after him rs he
is after cats, l won't get licked n
more. lack and I killed the cats Sun
day, though / was at Sunday school
and church all day, and it wasn'ta
good day for killing cats either. That
makes the third licking 1 got this week,
One was because ] had a bottle of milk
in my room and the other was because
/ wrote a composition on negroes that
old Hardsides didn't like. / said that a
negro was a dark subject to write ON.
It was like a dark African going down a
dark cellar on q dark night without a
light to look for a black cat that was
not there. Old Hardsides stopped me
and licked me for that. Send me some
more of them pies. Imade a good trade
with some of them, If you viii send me
five dollars l will stop all my bad habits
except cursing and swearing and chew
ing and drinking and one or two others.
You had better make the trade. Give
my love to Julie, and tell her to send
that little fiddle / left in the old
trunk. Your aficetionate son.
VIZ -
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JOSEPH MAZzINI; his Life, Writ
ings and Political Principles is the
title of a work to be issued shortly by
Hurd & Houghton. Mazziniis recent
death has called out a number of letters
and articles from devoted friends, and
the statements of the London press have
generally been fair. He was certainly
the best misunderstood man of the day;
but his life of ~unceasing toll and faith
had already begun to wear out the cal
umnies which assailed him year after
year. His funeral was a procession of
eighty thousand mOurners from the peo-
pie, and the Apostle of italian unity,
who had moved necessarily over Eu-
rope, the one man whom Louis Napo-
leon feared and thousands Were ready to
die for, closed his life in the land and
among the people to whom he gave all
the wealth of his intellect and his self
sacrificing love.
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WETY OUR MASTERS ARE NOT BE,
LONED.


It IS asserted that offices were multi
piled by Brownlow, and their number
and cost, if too great, as alleged by Colo
mel VIM. r. Moore, should and will be
leszencd. InsufTerable burdens of State
and local taxation result partially from
this multiplication Of offices and sine
cures, and from the absorption of reve-
uues by individuals which should be
applied to the diminution of the public
debt. The debts Of the Southern States
hcaped up since the war by Grants ap-
pointees and other Radical masters of
the South, are greater than those Of the
North, and such are burdens incident to
the multiplication Of place-holders that
industry is paralyzed and trade driven
from our cities. All these woes had
origin with adventures who came hith-
or TO plumber and destroy They used
the negro and loyal leagues exclusively
for these unholy purposes. The knife Of
Reform will be vigorously applied and
local leaders Of Mr.. Moore's party will
soon discover no trace Of their misdeeds,
involving the multiplication Of offices
and sinecures, and defacing the statutes
Of Tennessee. The revolution that was
begun in New York when Tammany
was overthrown, has swept over States,
must reach all cities and purify even
the polluted atmosphere Ct Washington.
On the single idea of Reform is based
the Democratic purpose Of supporting
Greeley, who is approved simply and
solely for his honesty. The statement
in Mr.. Moore's letter as TO the relative
costIiness Of different administrations
is wholly incorrect. Grants, by long
odds, is the most lavish in wastefulness
tlat eve plmdered a people through a
fraudulent tariff system. Defalcations
havc been multiplied until they no lon
ger shock the moral sensibili-
ties Of honest men. They even
pass unnoticed by the press. As
Johnson, confessedly honest, exceeded
Buchanan i'm the amount Of public funds
wasted, so Grant transcends johnson.
u
and this without reference to war debts.
In fact, even if Grants lifelong habits
and moral i-diosyncracies did not render
him wholly unfit for civil position, the
bare fact that he stipulated with Fornev
as 10 the sum he was to be paid in
consideration Of the abandonment
of a lifelong military position,
shows that Grant is wholly un-
worthy Of a position honored by
Washington and the fathers Of our sys-
tenn Of law and government. Ne sutor
slfra crepidaD,-let the tanner and sol
der stick to his trade. We would have
a civilian who has no selfish love of
money degrading his soul. Grant at
this hour, even while he lives, for his
sordid nature is as detestable in the eyes
Of honest people as Marlborough be-
came, for Grants vices, in English his
.ory. Il is a Greeley and not a Grant /.
hat American freemen honor and adj !
nire. For the stolid, selfish, grasping
President there is little popular respect, {
md no popular sympathy.
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AT a meeting of the Radical Reform
ers last night, Mrs. Woodruff made an
address, in which she prophecied that
from this convention would go forth a
power which woald shake the world.
She denounced political parties and the
constitution, and declared that on our
cOuntry's centennial a new constitution
would take the place of the present
blood-stained document. Her remarks
were greeted by a tumult of applause, at
the conclusion of which Judge w. Car
ter, of Kentucky, nominated Mrs.
Woodruff as the choice of the Equal
Rights party for President of the United
States. Mrs. Woodruff accepted the
nomination. For the Viee-Presidency
there were q dozen nominations, inclu-
ding Fred Douglas, Beecher, Tilton.
Ben. Butler and Spotted Tail.
The convention adjourned in an uproar.
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government, we should look, with ;
reasonable prospect of seeing it accom-
plished, to the restoration of the coun.
try to more than its lost prosperity anC
happiness. They are not Democrats
they are pdtriots-which is better-ant
we hardly think that any serious oppo
sition will be made by the moderate anC
liberal men Of the county TO the nOmi
nation.
The Columbus hader, under the title,
"anti-G Grant ticket" hoists the name;
of Greeley and Brown, and concludes
a timely, strong and sensible editorial
thus:
We said we should support this tick
ct cOnditionally. That condition is,
that if the Democratic party does not
nominate their own candidates in the
coming National Convention. If they
do so, of course our duty will be 10
60 with ouT own party. We hope, how
ever, no such event will come about, as
it would most certainly ensure two ca
lamities-the reelection of Grant and
the humiliation of the Democratic par
ty. Let us all pray that wisdom and
not passion may Undue the counsels OF
leaders, and that the decision Of our
party may be to stand by the Greeley
and Brown ticket, as the only present
hope of the country.
The Holly Springs Reporter ardently
advocates the nomination. 1t says there
is a strong disposition d~iscoverable
among the other political elements OF
the country to fraternise with the Lib
erals, and thus secure the overthrow OF
Grants bayonet rule, and restore the
government TO the constitutional land
marks which our fathers set" The Ma
tional Democratic Executive Committee
met in New York yesterday, and had
under consideration the question of call
ing a convention. 1t is believed that
the Liberal movement has taken such
deep root in the heart Of the Democratic
and Conservative masses that the con-
yention, if called, will adjourn without
making nominations. In that event all
honest and patriotic men of whatever
political opinion, will support the nom
inees Of the Cincinnati Convention.
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THE Brownsville States reviews the
management and manipulation Of the
Cincinnati Convention in a lengthy and
well written editorial, which closes with
this paragraph:
The Democratic party should not, in
our opinion, suffer itself suddenly de
mOralized by any new movement; but
proceed with its organization slowly
but surely. Let an electoral ticket be
put in the field, North and South. And
as to the nominations for President and
Nice-President, it is a matter that eau
be determined by the Democratic Ma
tiOnal Convention after certain other
things have t%ranspired, and as may APP
pear best under circumstances existing
al the time. But uRdCr no circumstances
should the party Jda to PIT an electoral
ticket III the fetd, eSPccidtythe Southern
.N0fog
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FIGHTING MEN.

All the principal countries Of Europe,
except Austria, are recognizing their
army systems. Germany is about to
increase her available military force by
four hundred thousand men, and Russia,
whose army, including ~irregulaFs, has
hitherto numbered one million three
hundred and nine thousand men on a
war footing, expects, under the new
system, to have a force of two million
nine hundred ninety two thousand
eight hundred and nine men at her dis
pOsal, not reckoning the local troops and
the militia. The new military OrganiZa-
ton of France is not vet decided upon,
but it is believed that its result viii be
to increase her army to n million,
four hundred thousand. Italy, whose
war establishment hitherto amounted to
five hundred and nineteen thousand SIX
hundred and thirty men, including
reserves, proposes by the plan of re-
organization which has been adopted
BY her government to raise a force of from
seven hundred and fifty thousand men.
The Turkish army, when on war foot
ing, has hitherto consisted of two million
seventy thousand men, inclusive Of the
nizams or militia. 1t is 10 be increased
to six hundred thousand men. Finally,
the military force of England st home is
to be raised under Mr.. CardwelIs
scheme to about thirty million five
hundred thousand men. When all these
plans are carried out the total WA estab-
lishment of the armies Of Europe will
be increased from six million one
hundred and sixty six thousand men
to about ten thousand million. 1t is to
be understood that this number of men
is not to be actually withdrawn from
peaceful pursuits at n time. The
plans proceeding more or less upon the
Prussian idea, are to secure a military
training TO a large part Of the male
population which may be promptly
drawn upon in case of a
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-12

IN ANNOUNCING Mr.. Peyton J. Smith
as the choice of Upton county for Sen
ator, the Upton Record says: "We dc
not think he will have any opposition
in Fayette county, and surely Shelby
county's sense of justice, expressed
through her delegates to the Senatorial
Convention, will accord TO Upton the
courtesy of naming the candidate for
Senators provided she presents a man
who is well qualified for the position
and worthy of support. Mr.. Smith is
of the leading members of the bar
at this place, is a lawyer of fine ability,
and, as a practical business man, he
has few equals. No MAJ is better quail
flied, and certainly none would more
faithfully represent the interests of this
Senatorial District, than Mr.. Smith,
and We hope, and are glad to say we feel
assured, that when the convention
meets, the claims of Upton county and
the qualifications of Mr.. Smith will be
duly considered
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ATTENTION is directed to a call adj
dressed to the taxpayers of Shelby
county, and issuing from the late Grand
Jury, who are determined to follow up
their Investigations and compel reform
wherever they may find it necessary.
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HELP wAsTED-FEMALEs.



Women good and true viii find
Steady places. wages fair,
Plenty OF work aud-plenty Of al
Women wanted. smart and bright.
Not % set the nation right
Not perhaps 10 vote with others,
IatiieEs, ancls- cousins br0tkers-
ButtQHaoud The infant mind.
Shape lie future Of mankind,
Guiae tie feet that else might stray
From Tie straight and ndrrow way.
Manted-Wanted-WOmen true,
For the work there Is TO doc
Not the living fa~shiOn-piates
SVaTning round our doors and gates.
NOtthe heediess butterflies
Ba>kiug meath the summer skies.
Women brave. that cen viii dare
Though her hands be white and fair
Dare 70 turn aside sins cup,
Lin n fallen sister up
Dare To teach Gods sober truth
To the precious growing youth.
Wanted-Wantcd-wOmeD true
For the work there is 70 dot
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For the Sunday Appeal
KUKLUX KHAN.

For the Sunday Appeal
KUKLUX KHAN.
BY GUILE JR.
We journey with the mighty winds,
With midnighIis mournful breeze,
Our banner waves unseen in air,
Der land and DER seas.
We seek the blood Of craven hearts,
The Oppressors of the free,
Assassins black and fends Of hell,
Who'd wipe out Liberty!
Kukluxt
Down by the "CrimsQn Tide
Its seething waters fOame and rave,
It's breath blows far and wide.
Springs thence the avengers magic dart
Tit dread invisible point
That pierees every bastard heart,
And wrenehes every joint!
Kuklux!
All danger is TO US unknown,
We walk the earth n sky,
We scatter death Where'eF tbs meet,
And we've never diei
h waters stand beneath q feet,
The winds shrink back and shrek,
Our gaze there re non who dare would meet
To US cen he'll is weak!
Kuklux!
Grim skeletons in size, and frame
OF giant height are we,
We rend the forests as the storm,
And still the sounding sea.
We gather to our ACaye Of Death"
The despOts of the land,
all the miscreants of earth,
Who cross the spirit band
sKuklux!
Done at iThe Cave" this nineteenth day 0
April, AID, lS72-