Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-22
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FRIDAY MORNING, -: kAscH "a, 1872
THR APFEAL-a PURIFICATIOE ARn
PACIFICATIOR" HIS FLATRORH-
A recent misprint In the APPEAL.
nosed out and commented on whilst
knowing it was a typographical error,
has ELECTED comments from some Of
u cotemporaries which show that
they are either wilfuIly disposed to dc
us injustice or incorrigibly ignorant,
Ia order 10 place the APPEAL right,
we would say that it consistently and
persistenty warred against the new
departure. 1t opposed the movement
before it was adopted by Vallending
ham or a single State convention.
since the Sedan defeats of the
Democracy in Maine, Caliior-
MIA, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa,
and other States, where the new de-
partuTe was adopted, the APPEAL
has shown that not q single proselyte
was made. The result proved that
the new departure disguised the rank
and file of the Democratic party,
without winning a single deserter
from the enemy. Prior to the adop-
ton OF the new departure, in every
eIectionin almost every State:the Dem
ocrats were moving forward in line
10 the contest and to victory. Cities,
counties and States were following
Democratic ballots out Of darkness
into Hght-out from the scabbaId to
the bauot-box-out from the din OF
drum-head courts to the sanctity OF
LAYOUT from long exhibited Re
publican corruption to Democratic
honesty and reduction Of exorbitant
and unnecessary taxes, taken from
the industrious to support the idle,
corrupt and vicious. When the grand
column was advancing in splendid
trim for the contest Of 1872, some one
anxious to Guido those who wer run
ningt 10 the camp Of the enemy, cried
q halt, proposed another road-a
nearer route to official plumber. Then
the column halted until it could bede
cided which was the best road-straight
ahead and straight on or turning here
shttleo or there q little the column on
the march, but never nearing the
landmark erected years ago for the
guidance Of lawmakers, the protee.
ton OF States and the salvation Of the
people. This halt or rather this OBJ
noxioUs departure brought defeat and
woe upon the Democratic party.
As an aggressive defiant organization,
marching with streaming banners,
beating drums, and blsrring bugles,
the Democratic party has not existed
since its unvarying defeat under the
new departure humbug. But let not
its epitaph be written until it may
be recorded that in the great struggle
between freedom and despotism, the
last expiring efforts Of its disbanded,
1ut still patriotic sdherents, were di-
reeted to the preservation Of the coz
sdtUtion. Then
49, while the tree
or freedoms withered trunk puts forth a leaf
for its tomb 8 garland it viii be-" [
II 1t be decided that the Democratic
party, made powerless by the blum I
der Of the new departure, shall !
no candidate in the field {
for the presidency, we have only one I
Of two alternatives left-either to re- 9
main inactive spectators sof the COL l
liet between reform and liberty, cor 0
and usurpatiOn, or assume g q
position in which our influence may {
help to save the country from the poT- {
evils By which it is menaced. I
Ia such a contest the APPEAL will .
that ''serene indifference" which d
serene" bigots profess. As David y
Davis says, The prizes for which =
he people are cOntending are =
publication and p~scifcstion." To 9
such q patriotic purpose, we U
ne willing to forget old party shib. a
and party nomenclature; !.
for this great question has ceased to u
ave q party aspect; and good men u
nd reformers, without reference to
asst political issues, msy well COM
inc and cooperate in efeeting it,"
divinity itself, while in human form :
n earth, did not disdain to drive the -
and the money-changers from =
letempIe which they polluted with =
1eir presence, and the base uses to -
,hiea they put that holy place. The az
Of American liberty, the true n,
lnctuary Of the government, is now ~
sfled by a similar set Of harpies and %.
like pollution. Congressional enact 10,
tents, even If honestly framed and No
tended, and capable of execution, ri
oppose no barriers to this rule Of
jrruption-this shameful prostitu H.
% Of high public trusts into mere ~;
igines of private speculation and ON
lculatiOn. There is q voice A..
one potential enough to make In.
EFF heard and obeyed by the do,
spublicau 6espot who sits in the oar
Il OF Washington, and his hungry sb1
arm Of smaller pillsgers." That col
ice should rise In a grand chorus Of 80
5iguation from the patriotic and r.,
net men Of this country, and pro- e.,
unee the expulsion from our temple 49,
this new race Of money-changers, -,
sell not doves, but pots of honor r.
d profit, and whose continuance s
for another term Of four years -
Uld create a moral pestilence mOie 49,
al and incursble In its effects on our
pie than plague, pestilence and go,
hire could in combination. Up, H..
q, with the standard Of PuIifcs- -,
) and PaciAeation! for health and -
ling viii come upon their white e.
lgs, and cur country, u whole A.,
ntry viii once more be the home n,
sonor, peace, plenty and prosper 1or
- CIF
THE aPPOsITEOE PARTY.
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