Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-05
SHELBY COUNTY SOLID FOR GREE
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Several of the candidates for county
Offices have canvassed every district in
Shelby, and they inform US that the
people are almost unanimous in support
Of Greeley and Brown. A prominent
candidate for Sheriff informs US that af-
ter spending two weeks in various parts
Of the county he found only one man
opposed 10 Greeley while favoring the
policy Of nominating a straight Dem
ocratic ticket for the Presidency.
The information from the coun-
try represents the people as solid for
Greeley, and this support is not I'M
grudgingly given, but warmly, earnestly,
cordially and enthusiastically Bestowed.
The people Of Tennessee regard the
restoration Of the South to her lost
rights and liberties, and the return of
the era Of good feeling between the two
sections "a the vital and absorbing ques-
tons for their consideration. The peo-
pie Of Tennessee, having gained so much
by the Liberal movement when theysup-
ported Senter in 1863, gladly and joyfully
embrace the Greeley movement which
promises similar results. What was the
local policy in Tennessee three years
ago, must now be pursued in the nation
al canvass. In Tennessee, nearly a hun
dred thousand people We're enfranehised
and although at that time many warred
against a policy which seemed to be an
abandonment Of principle, now all can
see the benefits which flowed from it.
Tennessee passed for four years through
the same ordeal which IS affecting the
prosperity Of many Of the Southern
States; yet our sufferings We're less
than theirs, for while we had here the
tyranny Of whites, elsewhere the negro
lords IL politically over a spirited and
cultivated people. What we find in this
county is a correct indication Of the feel
ing throughout the South. The South
ern people, with hardly an exception,
are willing to receive Greeley. They are
for anything for a change-for anything
which viii lift of the despots heel oil
iron which is grinding them to earth; !
and believing that they will find relief
in Greeley, they accept him cheerfully.
in good faith and steady purpose. Who
then compose the mass opposing the
Liberal nominee? Are they the former
civil and military chiefs of the late Con-
federacy? With an occasional excep-
ton they are almost with n voice sup
porting the Cincinnati nominations;
they are working for Greeley and
Brown, for peace, amity, the laws
and order. It is the noisy brawling Of
men Of no true courage at the North
that opposes Greeley. When the chief
Of the Confederacy was arraigned and
held for trial, did Voorhees,, Pendleton, /
Belmont or Brick Pomeroy go to his re-
lief? Did these vociferous, p~retentious
champions Of party exhibit the
broad humanity which sprang sponta-
neously from the heart of Greeley?
Well may Graft Brown say that Gree
old, traditional white hat covers
the largest brain and softest heart in
America. These conceited marplots
now impudently say TO the South that
a straight Democrat must carry the
standard-and for what? Only in the
prospective fact that Greeley shall be
and four years more of
spaulettes and fraud, gift-enter-
prise and nepOtism curse and
iemoralize the Republic; while the
Of terror in the South goes on, UNI
Ter instruments worse than the histori-
al terrorists Of France, and long years
# servitude blaeken with hopeless
Room the future Of a goodly but unfor-