Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-15
THE NORTHERN DEMOCRACY.
Our Relation to Them-Extract from
General Chalmers's Speech at Sen
atOhia, Hiss, September 11th.

atOhia, Hiss, September 11th.
In the Presidential canvass Of 1865, it
was said that our advocacy Of DemOcra-
cy was the cause Of it, defeat. That the
bare fact that Hampton, Forrest and
Gordon were prominent members Of the
Democratic Convention Of 1865. impart-
ed a faint Of rebelliOn to the party which
was as deadly and fatal as the leper's
touch. Out OfTespect to this feeling the
Confederate Generals abstained nom
any interference in the Presidential
nominations of this year, but held them
selves ready to support any nominations
the party would make, which did not
require d sacrifice Of their manhood.
The masses of the people assembled at
Cincinnati, and against the judgment Of
the politicians, nominated Mr.. Greeley,
the lifelong opponent Ofthe STAKEHOLDER,
and more than any other One man, the
author of all our woes. The Democratic
Convention at Baltimore renOminated
him, and the Southern Democracy have
not only accepted him as their leader,
but they have entered enthusiastically
into the canvas 70 promote his election.
Shutting our eyes 20 his past,and putting
our trust in his manly ~utterances Of the
kACoE4LF We ADAlON A1AAAf alt 4ONlA VIII
confident hope TO his future. We ac-
cept him in token of our utter fOrgetful-
| ness Of the past and as a pledge Of our
earnest desire for peace and reunion.
But while we are thus striving TO wash
from the skirts of Our Northern friends
any faint of rebellion which cur touch
may have impaired; while we are max
ing the greatest sacrifice Of sentiment
and prejudice which a political party
was ever called upon to make, or in or
der to relieve our Northern friends from
any unjust suspicious Of completely with
rebellion, We have been startled by
the announcement that Northern Dem
Ocrats willnOt support Mr.. Greeley, and
we have been panied to see such men as
Charles O'COnOr and John Quincy Adj
ans lending the shadow of their great
homes to such q sentiment. The ami
hilatiOn OfBlanton Duncan's movement
by the refusual Of Charles OiCOnOr to
accept its nomination, shows that he is
unwilling to become an object Of ridi-
/ cule, but his sympathies with the move
ment show that one of the great men
of the North, in whom in times past We
put u greatest confidence, can in the
selfish security Of his own freedom for
get that we are in chains and slavery.
If the Northern Democracy unite heart
iIv upon Mr.. Greeley his election is safe
beyond all doubt, and the day of our
deliverauee seems lea at hand. If it
comes the wild shout of joy that will go
Up from every hilltop and valley in the
South, viii tell how deep has been the
humiliation under which we have sUf-
fered. But if the Northern Democracy
eNaIt their pride Of opinion above u
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are more dear to them than u assOcia-
ton; if their local jeal0usies are more
difficult to appease than our lifelong
cause of hatred to Greeley; if they, like
Achilles, retire in Jealousy to their tents
and leave US TO the mercy of the foe,
then, the Democratic party viii not only
be dead, but it viii deserve TO die.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
When we point to the corruption, the
extravaganza and the populations of
Grants administration We are met with
statements Of the populations and defal-
cations under Andrew Johnson as we
were responsible for his administration.
They had as well attempt to hold Us re-
spOnsible for the acts of Ben Butler in
New Orleans, because both were Demo-
Gratis before the war, Andrew Johnson
was nominated with Mr.. Lincoln by the
Radicals. He appointed non to Office
but those who could take the irOn-clad
oath of allegiance, and if his a%ppOintees
stole money il was IOyGt Stealing by the
LOgdI men. He deserted the. Southern
Democracy in their hour of s0rest trial,
and he is now engaged in a vildictive
and malicious effort to break Down the
Democratic party in Tennessee. The
chief elements Of his character are mall
ice, hatred and revenge. His opposition
to Radiealism grows out of his personal
hatred Of Grant, and every effort of his
life shows an Unborn hatred of every
thing like elegance, refinement or
wealth. He hated the Southern cause
because its leaders were gentlemen whose
social circle he could never enter. Ills
idea of furnishing the South. after the
war, was to create a feeling Of hatred to-
ward its leaders by making treason obi
0us. He gratiied his envy and malice
by requiring men Of wealth to sue to
him for a special pardon, thatlike Uriah
Heep, he might feast his envioUs soul
in a tyranical display Ofhis power over
those whom misfortune had placed in
his grasp. His chief desire in his crusade
against General Cheatham is to stir up
enmity between the rich and the poor,
1Al0 GACAACF II NNCoAblCf q AAstlAEA GCA@ECAA
the private soldier and his late COM
handing officer, an undertaking worthy
Of the great mind which could hang a
woman to appease the appetite ola mob
who thirsted for blood and who he had
reason TO suspect, If uHsatisfied with a
victim, would make D of him. He
did not levy assessments upon General
Harding and others from any desire of
personal gain, nor did he do it as he
falsely claims from any love for the Con-
fedeTate poor, but that he might crafty
that feeling Of hate which William I.
Haskell 50 well described when he said,
"AndreW johnson curses bis Maker
every day, because he did not make him
q snake that he might hide on his belly
in the grass and bite the heels Of rich
mems children" He is the last man in
the world who should claim to be the
defender of the constitution We de-
denOunce the Grant party for its recOn
~structiOn policy, but they had at least
the form of law in Congressional enact
ments to justify them, while the 'imy
policy Of Andrew Johnson was without
the form or the spirit Of law. Heeaused
the mob at Nashville to enforce upon
Tennessee the most OdiOus constitution
ever enacted. After the war he seized
our wounded and crippled hero, General
Clark, and imprisoned him in the Dry
TOTtugas, simply because he claimed to
hold the office OF Governor Of Missis-
sippi to which the people had elected
him. He appointed Sharkey Governor,
called a convention on his own author
ity, and dictated in advance what it
should do. \ more complete example
Of the One man power was never ex-
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utterly refuse to recognize him as a
Democrat, and deny that the Democrat
le party Is in any way responsible for
his administration of the Presidency.
Truly, money is spent most lavishly
on criminals in Great Britain and Ire
land. In England and Wales, in 1868,
there We're thirty-six thousand criminal
prosecutions, which cost one million
one hundred and forty thousand dol
lars. In Scotland there were eight
thousand two hundred prosecutions,
costing one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars. In Ireland there
were five thousand five hundred prose-
BUTTONS. costing two hundred and fifty
five thousand dollars. Thus each Eng
Iish persecution costs thirty-two dollars
and fiftv cents, each Scotch about ff-
teen dollars, and each Irish fifty thou
sand dollars. In England, the total of
attorneys and cOunsels' fees amounts
to two hundred and eighty thousand
dollars; in Ireland to one hundred and
eighty thousand dollars. The English
journals are inquiring how it is possible
that il costs almost double to prosecute
a criminal in Ireland that it does in
England.
1t is reported that a man in Cincin-
natl fell from the top Of a fOuI-stOry
building, the other day, to the stone
sidewalk, without being injured in the
least. He was 8 li~fe-insuranee agent,