Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-23
BUSINESS.
The Value Of a Character for Industry
-Wha it Should be Worth 70
Memphis and the South.
The Speeches TO be Made by Our Can.
ditates and Electors to North
I'm Audiences-BusinesS,
Strictly Business.

Special Correspondence of the Appeal
CHICAGO, August I9.-Since my arriva
here / have heard but little of politics
The great mass of the people are toe
busy to give the Presidential election OF
the nominees more than passing notice.
And what is true of ChicagO-this won
derful hive, Chicago-is true Of most OF
the towns one passes through coming
here. The people Of this part of the
country generally leave the discussion
of politics 10 the great organs of public
opinion, and the interested politicians
seemingly have a desire to have as little
to do with what is the chief topic with
us as if of another nation. But on the
ears, where there Is plenty of leisure
time, nothing else was talked Of but
Greeley and Grant, the Radicals and
the Liberals. During the thirty hours
ride from Memphis / was a careful lis
tener, and only participated so far as to
answer direct questions touching the
south and the disposition of the people
toward the government. Scarcely any of
The many | encountered failed to make
inquiries under the latter head. The
fear that we are at some day, not
far distant, going to try our hands at
ANOTHER CIVIL WAR,
seems to be chronic here in the West as
wen as at the East. A quick, shrewd,
iar-seelng and f~ar-reaching people, they
have no adequate apprehension of our
sentiments and purposes, even as our
people do not comprehend the wonder
tul activity and limitless resources in
money and energy which are the char
acteristics of Chicago. Many even in
telligent and otherwise discerning men.
expressed themselves as only deferred
from giving the Greeley movement their
earnest support by a fear that if il is II C
c%essful, there will be what the Grant
people are now asserting there will be, a
reaction at the South, and that V
cry man there will become a kuklux.
following upon which, there is to be
A GENERAL CLEANING OUT
Of all but those who belong to the mvs-
TIC crew. L know you will laugh when
YOU e this, fer il reads more like an.
lbsurdity than the sober truth il is. But
when you reflect upon the effect the
general dissemination of an idea like
this must have with a people who have
been educated to call US and regard us
rebels, you will see it is no laughing
matter. l have found Democrats who
cared US as scarcely halfrepentant reb-
and who think that even under a
Democratic administration we shouId
kept well in hand, with a tight rein.
such is the force Of the steady r~eitera-
ion, for seven years, of carpetbag and
calawag falsehOOds. Repeated from
to day during the ever-recurring
.anvasses and elections in towns,
titles, counties, and States, il
come to be constitutional with
he people north Of the Potomac and
he ONO TO believe anything bad Of
IS, and little that Is good. To ease the
Northern public mind of all this libel of
and bring 1t up to a comprehension
what we really are, should be the
york of the Liberal newspapers and
peakers everywhere. Most of them are
DING good service, but none of them are
making the n effort that tells best
nth this mOney-getting people. Earn
st and faithful workers, they believe in
and labOrers. Tell them what
'ork our people have done in seven
ears, and give them the result in dol
Ars and cents, and they will very soon
lake the calculation of how MANY
lacks and whites in a population of a
tile over twelve millions could engage
D kukluxing and the wholesale butche-
y as a Radical paper up here sums ir
poi twenty-three thousand Union neo-
lie in three years. And this reminds me
} suggest again that il is hardly To he
'ondered that the rapidly-reading and
nthInkng masses believe the kuklux
Dries when a man can be found. con-
ected in any capacity with the press.
} give publicity to so patent a lie. I'll,
nat fellow had the sense of an ordinary
lot he would never have published
lch a statement, or a knaye never ,
ould have been guilty of it.. But big
II is, this lie Of the twenty-tbree tbon9
nd-big enough to choke Grant and (.
l his supporters if divided equally
nOng them-it can only be met Nv fhe f,
cures which tell Of our progress in the ,
Is of peace. 1t can only be met by tell !
& of the condition Of our country after /
desOiate and relentless war had sWept !
erything liyingand movable, leaving j
but the soil that could not be
rned or pOcketed; and that out Of that I
the plucky and understanding hus- /
Ddmen Of the South have ~reeuperated [
cir fortunes, rebuilt their homes, re- 4
-ablished all their industries, enlarged i
d extended their towns and cities, re- '
lit their railroads.&c. of which were 5
stroyed-and made themselves again il
4sters Of the cotton trade of the world; il
q ali this without aid from any source. u
e magnitude of this work they could
.ueIsIand when told that our losses by
t war footed up fully C
muor- a
~ ~ ene Liberal papers tell their peo- I
! infanonr3y OF our civil progress despite S
% snJ ave OF carpet-bag legisla- Il
2 wrongs melted by the RadicaII III, i :;
les OF an administration that L.ea,o =.
sded IA making itself a cursa - "
a blessing, let them but present vs -
rly TO the hard-wOrking people Of H. =