Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-23

North and the West, and there can be
little doubt that the thread of the ku-
klux yarn will wear away by constant
and steady abrasion against home
truths. The people up here would re-
allie the impossibility of the murder Of
twenty-three thousand in three yearsby
twelve million men, women and chill
dren, all working for daily bread and
the means of repairing the rents and
tares of war. They would hardly take
the trouble of counting up that the muir
dered and the murderers, taking
these figures, wOnld make up
less than one hundred thousand, or one
in every one hundred and twenty of
our whole population; a number suffi-
eient to keep the population OF the Re
public b%rOiling in a perpetual strife.
Figures and facts like these would tell
more for US than all the speeches and
talks of a thousand declaratOry and de-
clamatOry speakers, and the world would
soon learn to repeat the truth, and
let the contemplate and villainOus false
hoods many Of them manufactured out
/ Of whole cloth sink into the oblivion
\ merited by their authors. The Southern
people never have had credit abroad
for the business tact and energy which
they possess. To the mind of the aver
/ age Northerner, they are all rich, born
with gold spoons in their mouths, and
with nothing to do in after life but dis
play the natal jewel. 1t is time we were
discussing them of this, and the idea
that we are idle and vicious, and prov
ing by a fair statement and showing Of
what we hare done, u high value in a
commercial point of view. Instead OF
making speeches at home, vi can
| didates and electors should seek
opportunities to address Northern
audiences. and by an array
Of figures and facts, such as are here
suggested, prove that we are neither
wholesale murderers, predatory kuklux,
nor rebels lying in wait for a favorable
opportunity to play the tragedy of civil
wal over again. A dozen speeches of
such a character were worth a thousand
recitations of even the Just complaint OF
Radical robbery and oppression. We
must establish a character for business. |
We must convince the world that, how
ever like Ireland we may be in the OPP
p~ressions we have had to bear, we are
not, like the unfortunate island. tied
down to one crop-that we produce other
than cotton, and with wealth in our soil |
for all we have of people, there remain
thousands of millions for the immi- |
grants we invite with open hearts and
hands. We should tell of all this in
our speeches and papers, and mean
while, by special enactments by our Leg
islature, put ourselves in a condition OF |
more promise for the future. We should, |
in our State, for the benefit of Memphis
especially, have a general act of incoT-
pOTation admitting of limited partner
ships and the formation of jOint-stock
companies for every legitimate purpose
also a mortgage law, that will afford all
necessary security to capitalists abroad
and building and loan associations
should be encouraged, in order that me
chanics and laborers 1.-THE solid and en-
reliance of all communities
might be encouraged to build homes,
ana merchants such palaces as will sat
isfy the demands of their business and
increase the attractions of our city.
Every mechanic should be eneOur-
aged, and manufactures upon eve So
small a scale receive the support OF
banks and capital, in preference to the
dO-nOthing spectators in "shOrts" OF
a ngs." Every feasible project for the
advancement of our labor interests
be sustained. Industrial expOsi-
and agricultural fairs should be
subscribed TO literally, as next to the
laily press the very best means of adj
vertising not only Shelby county and
Memphis, but the extensive and
wealthy country of which the latter is ,
he emporium. The people of all classes
must be worked up to a proper apprecia-
ion of these enterprises, and all must ,
De taught to know that while "JOnesn !
nay make a little more money than !
Smith, as a result Of them, yet, ulti- ,
there is profit and honor await !
ng all, no matter how poor. They must !
,e educated to the intensity of local :
ride and ambition that makes the ,
nen and women of Chicago prefer a |
iOme in its ashes to a palace else
where. This spirit of everything
anything for Chicago is build /
lg it to-day in a way that
one who have not been here can under f
land or appreciate, and is erecting a '
lOnument to love of locality that sup il
the terrible fire that in a few o
ours destroyed one of the fairest cities a
f the Union. Chicago that was the V
Wonder of the World, the admit /,
alton of Americans, and the incOmpre- Z
ensibility of Europeans, which added ]
} her fame for rapid growth and almost c
DOntaneOus development, the greatest d
DnfiagratiOn after that which DESTROYED fl
re cities of the plains, is now improv- %
" il all by, magic-like, uprising from n
er ashes more beautiful than ever, to [
st no doubt her frightening future on il
basis more solid, more enduring, and W
lore re-assuring than that of the past. e