Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-12
MEMPHIS APPEAL
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 1s, 1872.
rHE cINCINNaTr CONVENTION.

THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.
The course of the Liberal Republican,
in New Hampshire and Connecticut
during the recent elections created dis
satisfaction. But as the Cincinnati Con
vention approaches, the liberal Repub
licans begin to develop more earnest
ness, sincerity and strength. Indeed, in
every quarter the Liberal movement il
daily gaining volume and power. Not
a day passes but prominent Republican;
signify their adhesion TO il, and it is now
apparent that the Cincinnati Conven-
ton will be apolitical event of unusual
significance. The eyes of the whole
Nation are already turned in that direc-
ton, and its probable course Is the
most absorbing question of the hour.
For the time the PhfIadelphia Conven-
ton is not heard of, nor thought
of. II is looked upon as sure TO be a
c-onvocation of selfish and greedy
placemen, and nobody doubts what
it will do, or cares. A disposition to
nominate candidates at Cincinnati,
and thus form the nucleus for an organ
izatiOn that viii command the eo-opera-
ton of all the elements hostile to Grant
is more and more manifest. Senator
Trumbull has given his unequivocal adj
hesion to the Cincinnati Convention, in
several letters TO his friends, some Of
which wiz be published in a few days.
Greeley has already given his approval,
and Sumner is daily expected to an
nounce his determination to support the
nominee Of the Cincinnati Con
vention. The Liberal movement
at Cincinnati is gaining proper
tons too huge to be disregarded.
We believe we are on the threshold of
the beginning of the end. The dark
clouds which have so long lowered over
the South are already fringed with
silvery lining. Day viii oon dawn.
The South, during thepast seven years,
has learned in sadness and sorrow that
sublimest lesson of virtue and religion
how to suffer and be strong, and in the
present hour she again calls upon her
children in accents of holy tenderness
TO learn that other great lesson-hOw to
wait. All our dearest hopes, all our best
interests, all our purest and hottest as
p~irations, all our highest duties and first
born affections are bound up with the
destiny Of the South. What the future
may have in store for US is a question
Of the deepest import There is much
in the complexion Of surrounding events
10 occasion soIicitude and anxiety in
the calmest and most rational minds.
But there is nothing which can justify
our sinking into apathy and despair.
We have no sympathy with those mis-
cradle croakers who describe the condi-
ton of the South as hopelessly lost and
ruined, because they cannot go into the
Presidential election undera Democratic
banner; who paint the South as a blind
Samson, crying in their bitter anguish
20 dark. dark. dark amid the blaze OF noon,
Irrevocsbly dark, total eclipse,
Without al hope Of day, e.
and in the frenzy of desperation aban-
doning themselves to the instigation OF
revenge, seek to invoke a common
destruction upon despoiler and de-
spoiled. Such gloomy views are weak,
unmanly, contemplate, not to say
wicked, and unworthy a Christian pee
pie. We have no patience with those
who indulge this moping humor, any
more than we have with those sapient.
after-wise people, who knew all the
time what secession was going to bring
upon US, who now take malicious pleas
ure in reminding US of their sage pre-
dictions by way Of affording a soothing
balm for our grievOus Affections. Letno
misfortune weaken our faith in Provi-
dence, or unfit us for the discharge of the
pressing duties Of our daily lives; and
above all, let US strive to preserve our
devotion TO the imperishable truths of
constitutional liberty-that immortal
creed Of the great Apostle Of American
freedom, which, first proclaimed on the
soil Of Virginia, viii live in all its origin
al purity and power as long as there ex-
lists aspot Of earth
Where mans free spirit, -uneonstrained,
Exults In mans best rights maintained.
Should the Cincinnati Convention
heed the voice of the people, instead Of
consulting the contemplate aspirations
of aspirants for office, it will be the in
strument ofpreserving the country from
corruptionists, calm the contending
waves of faction, unite Democrats and
Liberal Republicans, and combine, I'm
fraternal unity, the patriots Of all parties
in opposition TO Grants corrupt dynasty.
In such a contest all true men, true TO
popular govsrnment, true TO the right,
viii be on n side; and the horde of
plunderers that have the great present
taker as their chief, will be on the other.
In this contest no honest man should
stand Indifferent. There is now abroad
a strong public sentiment that looks to I
the publication of Polities, the revival Of
public spirit, the rescue Of the interests s
Of the many from The control of knavish j
politicians who I've and fatten on plum
der. Everywhere this public sentiment !
strengthens the hands Of the party that )
true to the principles of free govern-1t
ment-the party that resists the scheme 4
to set up a couupt-mittary despotism,
like the pstaEn one that lately tambled
. pieces in France. OF that scheme, {
the great military present-taker is the
tool. 7
III
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVECTION. q
The recent action Of the Democratic {
Committee of the State, /
a convention of the party, 10 c
be held at Nashville on the ninth ?
81 Nay next Wa thinl IL hu fmn q