Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-19

majority Of a National Democratic Con-
ventiOn TO be, yet if you were fully per-
suaded you could better serve the -eoun-
try and morecerainly rescue her from the
shame and disgrace into which she has
been plunged by leaving your old or
! ganiZatiOn and seeking
NEW PARTY RELATIONS,
you would he justified in such a course.
! But let me say to the Democratic masses
/ in this District and dtlrOughOut the State,
| that ! see no such course open to any
/ friend of his country. To those who
have so warmly conceded in opinion
with me on the propriety of Mr. Gree
/ ley's nomination, and their name is
/ legion, let me say that the Democratic
party is infinitely preferable, in my
| Judgment, even with
HORACE GREELEY
as its candidate, to that portion of the
/ Republican party which acknowledges
| the leadership of Grant, and the prOtii-
gate managers by which he is lead to
his own and his county's ruin. No
thought of recreancy or intidelity to the
Democratic party ever entered my
mind. As | cannot control its councils, l
shall submit to them, hoping that time
may show its ways to be wiser and
more
BENEFICIAL TO THE COUNTRY
than l predicted He who cannot have
his own way in this world, isnot, there
fore, in my opinion, justified in doing
nothing. He can, without inconsistency,
cOncede that others may be more en-
Iightened than himself, on the points at
issue, and give their plans a fair trial. If
we turn, however, for brief survey of
the broad field of national politics,
many strange and significant aspects
are presented to our view. We con-
stantly hear of the unwOnted position
of the Democratic party. Its action and
its attitude we admit t3 be unusual, but
l think, if we examine, we will lind
other occurrences in the political world
quite as novel and striking as anything
in the conduct of the Democracy. Is the
condition of the
REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.
so natural and healthy that il can afford
to sneer at the supposed sickness and
death of its powerful neighbOr? At the
close of the war it succeeded to illimita-
bic power and possessions. It's means
by which to seduce the venal, Overawe
the timid and cOerce all others into its
support were absolutely boundless in
eleven States and nearly so everywhere
else. If this powerful party had been
PURE AND UNsELFIsH
in its devotion to the welfare of the
country; if it had been managed with
an eye single to the prosperity of the
labOring people; if it had fOstered the
industrial classes, instead of the m0nopO-
lies; if it had conciliated the conquered,
instead of bTuising them every day
afresh with additional stripes; if it had
sought to invigOrate and enrich an inn
pOverished section of the greatest
natural wealth, instead of scOurging it
into a still more horrible barTenness and
misery; if it had lived on
LOVE AND PATRIOTISM
instead of hate and greed, it would have
had before it a longer lease of power
at the hands of the American people
than was ever granted to a political
party in the history of the world; but,
bloated with much power and countless
wealth, its career has been full of
wickedness, gradually but surely forfeit
ing the
CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE,
and driving the best clements out of its
party. This fact is strikingly illustrated
by the history of political contests in
1854, when the waves of Radical misrule
reached their highest point in this State.
A majority Of twenty-One thousand was
rendered against the Democratic party
Two years LATER in 1866, we again met
the same enemy, and reduced his ma
iOrity to fourteen thousand. In 1868 we
fought again under the same cOlOrs, and
wiped out the entire majority against us,
the Radicals only saving the State Of
fices by fraudulent returns Of a few hum
dred majority. Thus stood the contest
in Indiana when the
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT
was never legally ratified, fraud, in
my individual judgment, on the
American people, was enforced and
gave an increase Of ten thousand
negro votes to the Radicals; vet
in 1870 we defeated this coalition of
blacks and whites, and placed about
three thousand of a majority on the side
Of the gallant and unfaltering Democra-
cy OF the State. Certainly this is not a
record to beget Encouragement. 1t
shows
STEADY DECAY
of the Republican party in Indiana. It
shows loss on its part in eight years of
at least thirtyfour thousand votes. It
shows further, that if the Democracy
does as usual, ON its own account this
year, we will carry the State by fifteen
thousand majority; and if the Liberal
party can even moderately
well fulfill its expectations, the
VOTE or THE STATE
mill Il, A a faf,a -,
party, both ia October and November,
by larger majorities than have ever here
tofore been known in her history. There
is another branch, however, Of the do
Inestic policy of the present Admins
ton which has perh APPS more strongly
induced the present political movement
against it than any other, for it COM
prises within itself the
WRONGS AND N4BLAINIEs
Of all others. The condition of the South
has at last aroused universal attention,
and almost universal indignation. That
unhappy section is at last recognized as
a portion Of our common country, and,
rs such, is entitled to an eQ uality before
the law, with all other sections. General
Grant was elected to the Presidency,
" Let us have peacepi but
the cry has been
CHEAT AND A DELUSEON.
There has been no peace for the help
less people Of the South. ghey have
Longed for il, and prayed for it, but has
not come. A worse form of war than
of columns has proved on
them; it has been a war of robbers, spies
and jailOrs. | say, without fear al in
telligent contradiction, that in all that
goes TO destroy the prosperity Of a coun-
try, and crush the welfare Of its people,
the administration of public affairs III
the South for the last three years has
been the worst, the most truly Internal
ever known in the history of a civilized
people. 1t is a subject on which / have
bestowed an earnest attention, and with
which have made myself familiar dur |
ing the last session Of Congress, demon
5trated from official proof, that i
SYSTEM OF PLUNDER
lad been pursued, and the protection
and approval of the present administra-
ion, by which the entire eleven recon-
structed States of the South had been |
impoverished, and a majority of them |
made bankrupt Debts and outstanding |
amounting in the aggregate I
~ 81 ANtAf'A NV AnllA3OlAS VI AAbl-
arS have been fastened,
BY OFFICIAL THIEVES,
IN the taxpayers of that blighted re-
gion, for the purpose of aiding in this
wholesale robbery, by reducing the |
southern people to silence and submits /
ion. While it was going on it has been |
alsely assumed that they were in law
ess frame Of mind, and must be placed |
mder laws as despOtie and infamous as |
IN Austrian edict against Hungary in |
$40, or a British act of Parliament !
,gainst Irelandin the last century. The /
rue policy Of bandit prevails from
VIRGINIA TO TEXAS.
Wherever the touch of thiss.administra- |
ion and its followers has been felt, it |
las been the money Of the people or
heir lives and liberties, and in the ma
ority of the States they have not only |