Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-10
70 monr rnAups WANTED.

Nj MONaE hAAD9
Nowthat Africanservitude isno more,
the American Union, from which many
in the South once apprehended every
conceivable danger, becomes the only
hope of personal, political and CONNER
cial freedom and independence, and the
day is not distant when unity of inter
ests viii 50 consolidate the Central and
Western States of the valley of the Mis-
sissippi, that they Of the East, who were
recently most eXtravagant in conces
sions TO the ~centralizing tendencies Ofthe
age, will confess errors of principle re-
Gently crystaIlized into organic laws.
The changed social condition Of the
south and overturned social systems be
get new systems Of social and political
philosophy, and it is therefore true that
he who was the staunchest adherent OF
the Confederacy and advocated absolute
local freedom may adopt under this
norqs OrdO ~Sccaor1aH the political phi
lOsophy Of Hamilton even As expOunded
by Patrick Henry, in his last memOra-
bic speech, when he approved the Fed
eral Constitution, as he believed it was,
and not as be sought to make it. Even
as Patrick Henry was the exponent of
absolute State independence before the
constitution was adopted, and a FEEDER
alist in after years, because il was adopt
ed, so Landon c. Haynes, fiat all fitted
for the position to which his genius and
eloquence adapt him, adapts himself
and theories of government tothose con-
ditions of social and political life begot
ten by the great American revolution.
He is not Of those whose ideas and pre-
conceived opinions and partisan passions
are so i~nduratedsthat he cannot ardently
support a former enemy, Mr.. Greeley,
when Mr.. Greeley becomes the truest
available friend of the community which
Mr.. Haynes would represent. 1t is very
true, that Mr.. Haynes ioaS a secession
Democrat; and it is equally true that Mr..
Haynes is not q secession Democrat. II
is a trite legal maxim, ratione o~eSsaHts
csssaf ipsa Ter, the reason for Mr.. Haynes
hostility to the Union, as it once was,
having ceased, the rule Of action that
shaped his course is no longer operative,
and that the people of the South, who
concurred in 1850 End 81 with Mr..
Haynes, may be thoroughly understood,
they should be represented by precisely
such a man in the Federal Congress.
We have almost invariably sent original
Union men, since the war, up to
Washington from the South. Ii has
awaited US nothing. The North knew
quite well that the number of original
secessionists was not lessened, and we
gained nothing, as seen in the allega-
tons made by Mr.. Speaker Blaine and
others, in dispelling prejudices and mis-
app~rehensions Of Southern purpose and
character prevalent in the North. Quite
as well for US and for the whole country
do We deem it to have now and then a
genuinely representative man in Wash
Honesty is the best policy, and
while We would have supported either OF
the late aspirants with unmixed satisfac-
ton, it could avail Us nothing to send a
Congressman from this district simply |
because in 1860 he was a Unionist, and
such conduct on our part changes in
nothing the opinion Of US entertained by
Northern people and statesmen. We
can delude them in nothing, and would
not If we could, and therefore it were
wiser to deal honestly and fairly and al
least send no mon fraudsupon Southern
morals, manner and opinions to Wash
Colonel Haynes, like L. @. c
Lamar, of Mississippi, is a representative
man of the South, where he was born,
and educated, and such are they
who at this ~junGture should speak for
the South in Congress. When Gener
Smith and the carpet-baggers have even
defended US, their assertions were deem
ed worthless, and for the reason that they
were known to represent us in nothing.
Haynes and Lamar are elegant gentle
men, of taste aad learning and ability.
They pronounced for Greeley and the \
Cincinnati platform when the one was
nominated and the other promulgated.
They will show the North how a seces-
Of Is60I can be Unionist of1S72, |
and how, when the whole structure Of
Southern society and government has
been changed, Southern political think
ing is also changed n-Other words,
Haynes and Lamar, statesmen rath-
er thanpoliticians viii dohonor TO States
and communities they represent, serving
hem with infinitely greater success
han any fraud upon ourselves sought to
be palmed off as a fraud upon the FEEDER
n Congress.