Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-13

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what he said" His testimony in regard
1 to the caTpetbagger was the testimony
of 4 mourning friend; for, like Marc
i Antony weeping over the dead body of
! Caesar, he could say, e I speak only that
which do knOwn In his description
of an old Virginia gentleman, written
early in 1870, when he was in full fell
lowship with his party, he gave US full
credit for dignity, capacity, and incOr-
1 ruptible honesty, and admitted that the
I government had then much need for
such men.
It is true that he brought about the
emancipation Of the Southern blacks,
| and it is equally true that be caused the
! disabilities to be removed from the dis
| franchised whites. He was the first to
proclaim universal amnesty, and his
/ nomination at Cincinnati compelled the
/ unwilling Grant men to pass the am
nesty law such as it is, aud this is the
! first reason I give why Southern Dem
ocrat should support Greeley. The sec
! Ond reason is that whenever q great
majority party splits it is always the
policy of the minority to 90 for the
/ wedge. A third and better reason is
! that Greeley represents -...-..
THE HONESTY, DECENCY AND CAPACITY
OF THE OLD REPUBLICAN PARTY.
while Grant represents spoon-thief
Butler, diFty-work Logan, general order
/ Leet, and the irrepressible custOmhOuse-
! thief Murphy and their friends, imita-
I tors and advisers.
The fourth, and a better reason, why
| Southern Democrats should support
| Greeley is this: We have said that we
are willing to abide the results of the
war, and the abolition of slavery, and
to forget and forgive the past. The Sc
verest test that could possibly be applied
to an old Southern STAKEHOLDER to try
the sincerity of this declaration is to
ask him to vote for Horace Greeley, the
man who did more than any other man
living to bring this abolition upon US.
When General jackson was about to
die, il is said that he was asked by the
attending minister if he had forgiven all
his enemies? 'tYes.u "Have YOU for
given Henry Clay?u nYes.n "Have
you forgiven J Ohm c. Calhoun?'' eyes"
Have you forgiven the author of Ma
iOr Jack DOwning?'' "NO, and, by the
Eternal, / never willw Now, there
may be, here and here, some old hard
shell, irOn-side Democrat who has not
forgiven Horace Greeley, and, ''by the
Eternal, never will, " but the great bulk
of the Southern Democracy have given
this last, greatest and severest test of
their patriotism, and have thus given
the highest evidence that the charge
made against US that we were a people |
of passion and prejudice, and unrepent
ant rebels, ready to break out into re-
bellion at moments notice, were foul
ISLANDERS, concocted by the party in
r, haf Gin
iniquities, and to enable them to justify,
before the world, their infamous kuklux
acts, and still more infamous enforce
ment of them. Political lies for polit-
ical purposes, concOcted by Grant and
indOrsed by Greeley, are persisted in by
Grant to the bitter end, but abandoned
by Greeley when the true situation of
the South was witnessed by him. We
have stood the test, and to-day we pre-
sent the most remarkable spectacle ever
presented in the history of politics, and
which defies philosophy to comprehend.
THE OLD SHAREHOLDERS
who for forty years have been villified
and abused by Greeley, and who have
been bankrupt by the success of his
policy, are to-day his almost united sup
pOrters, while the negroes, over whose
whose freedom he at onetin1e encountered
hatred, contumely and disgrace at home,
are now almost to u man against him.
Our fifth reason for the support of
Greeley is to be found in comparison
of the character and conduct of the two
men. On the one hand we have Grant
representing the corruptions of power.
On the other We have Greeley promising
reform. Grant is military hero, with
a sentinel at his door, and staff officers
surrounding his person and attempting
to make the civil government suberdi-
nate to military rule. Greeley, who is a
civilian and a politician, who knows
that Republican government have most
to fear from military despOtism, and
whose life and character gives assurance
that under him the military viii be
made subsergient to the. civil power.
Grant whose promotion of relatives and
gift-bearing friends to Office, over the
heads of tried political adherents, gives
assurance that he regards himself and
not party as in possession of the govern
ment, and smacks of the British nlOn-
archy, where battle SCARED veterans are
commanded by the fledgelings of nObil-
ity. Greeley, whose devotion to his
country and his party, has shown him
ever ready TO sacrifice his personal well
fare for the good of the country. Grant
who was a pauper which, depen-
dent on his own eXertions; who has
been made rich by presents from the
public, and who, not satisfied with that, !
Ike little Oliver Twist, cries for more, |
and demands that his father and his !
children and his ehildren's children TO |
the third and fourth generations, and all |
his wife's relations shall be made rich at |
the public expense. Greeley who is |
comfortably provided with this worlds |
goods, but who has made his money by |
the sweat of his brow.
GRANT WHO DROVE THE JEWS FROM
THE LINES OF HIS ARMY
because it was said they were engaged |
in trading for cotton with the enemy, |
while his father was permitted, under |
his order, to carry on the same business
for the mutual benefit offather and son. |
Greeley, who engaged in no speculations |
during the war, and whose pockets are |
untainted with any unhallOwed gains |
arising from the unhappy conflict be-
tween his cOuntrymen. Grant, who cam
not write decent English, and whose prin- |
cipal topics of conversation are horses, |
dogs and cigars. Greeley, who converses
weH upon all subjects, and who writes a |
good essay upon anything from a history /
of the war TO what he knows about |
farming. Grant, who received presents l
from his friends, and in return made /
them presents of lucrative public offices.
Greeley, in whom no special propensity I
Tor gift-taking has eyer been discovered. |
Grant, who was a defaulter to the gov
ernment when he went into power, and /
whose leniency toward defaulters since
he came into Office has verified the po-
etc idea that "fellow-feeling makes us
wondrOus kind.n Greeley, whose hon
esty and pecuniary integrity is admitted /
by all And lastly, we have Grant see
ing the hungry horde of carpetbaggers
come upon US like the locusts of Egypt \
TO eat out our substance, and when we /
raised our cry against their theft and |
robbery, turning deaf ear to our lamen-
tations; deeming US unrepentant rebels, |
of protection aud undeserving |
belief On the other hand we have old |
Horace Greeley, who heard our cry and /
came TO see for himself, and having seen,
had the honesty and the manliness on
his return home to proclaim to the an
believing Northern people the startling
Intelligence, Raj
THE THIEvING CARPETBAGGERs
are mournful fact T; they DO ertst there, |
and have seen them" Thus the two I
are presented to US, and we
unhesitetingly accept Horace Greeley as
our choice. 1t is Idle for men now to |
talk about straight Democratic tickets. |
The race Is made up. The issue is upon
or Grant-and We must |