Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-15
DAN VOORHEES, AND SOUTHERN
nEWOCRA II

DAN VOORHEES, AND SOUTHERN
DEMOCRATs.
Our correspondent may misconceiv
the purpose and policy o. Senator Al
corn. The South would have peace am
repose, and therefore prefers Greeley t
Grant. To the restoration of just an,
equal government the South sacrifice
both its preiudices and convictions al
fecting countless great political ques
tons. We were not the less Democrat
when supporting Senter for the yer,
reasons impelling u at this hour 10 sup
port Mr.. Greeley. Therefore Mr.. NOOr
hees is at fault, grievously al fault, il
asserting treason to principle wheI
there is only fidelity to the whole coun
try. Saving part of the wreck to-day
We may recover the whole tomorrow
More cannot bedone at present than eject
Grant by the election of Greeley. Oul
correspondent may be wholly mistaken
as 10 the motives ~actuating AlcOrn.
even as Voorhees, ascribes false purpose,
to the Democracy Of the South. i
Alcorn find that Greeley may be elect
ed; if Democrats do not defeat him al
the instigation of Grant and Belmont,
or, impelled by that honest, impulsive
zeal which has ever distinguished Mr..
voorhees,; if Greeley may be elected
and the signs of the times fOrebOde 1t,
AIcOrn, like Summer, may support
Greeley. If, on the contrary, the sue
cess of the Cincinnati ticket be en-
dered impossible by those who love
themselves or party more than
country, then Alcorn, like Sumner
and, for aught we know TO the contrary,
like Greeley-will support Grant. Why
not? The Cincinnati Convention was
held with the assurance that Republic
ans, Schurz, Brown, Palmer, Clay,
TrUmbull, Greeley and Others, shaping
its policy, should have the support Of
the Democratic party. While it was
thought that Adams, the favOrite Of
Belmont, or Davis, of Washington poll
ticians, would be nominated at Cincin-
matt, there was no word Of objection
uttered by the World, Baltimore Gazette,
Belmont or Voorhees,. Mr.. NoOr-
hees and the rest were silent. Belmont
charming. The political landscape,
as one looked down it toward Novem-
Der, never wore a more peaceful and in
viting aspect. Democracy and Repub-
lieanism moved onward to certain tri-
umph hand in hand. Their pathway
was to be bestrewn with flowers by Carl
Schurz and the Cincinnati Convention.
ButnOw, when the convention, made
by common consent the m arbi-
ter of our fortunes, selects Mr.. Greeley
our leader, and the Washington poll
ticians are robbed of Davis and Bel
mont's ring, of Adams, we who are not
accustomed to violate pledges made TO
partizan friends or foes are required TO
betray those whom we induced to organ
ize this new combination of parties at
Cincinnati. Mr.. Greeley may not have
been our first or even our second choice,
but he was the choice, and fairly, Ofthe
convention. We agreed to support the
nominee of this convention, as did Bel
when snipe-shOOting, and as did
Mr.. voorhees, when Davis lowered ma
iesticaIly above all competitors. The
right or wrong, viii adhere
10 its pledges. Even if honor
and sacred obligations did not impel US
10 this course, we have nothing to gain
by adopting any other. If the Demo-
cratic Convention reject Mr.. Greeley,
such is popular want of confidence in
The body supposed TO be controlled by
Belmont, and by unworthy influences
smanating from New York and WASH
that the South, if Greeley be
lorced by the Baltimore, Washington
md New York politicians to withdraw,
will stand alOOf from the contest. Very
many in the South will seek to appease
Grant, necessarily victorious, by giving
lin their support. Mr.. VOORHEES, is
wholly at fault. There is no American
statesman or orator for whose virtues
md elOquence we have profOunder re-
pect, but if he would preserve
he Democratic party unframed as it
vas after it voted for Senter in Tennes-
ee and Brown in Missouri, and un-
harmed as it viii be after supporting
ireeley, lac would not interpOse this
Belmont convention at Baltimore. He
would not, at this juncture in the for
Of the South, when it seeks escape ,
ON the thraldOm Of bayOnets, force us (
0 dissolve the Democratic party, or ,
men like AlcOrn, Sumner and :
.thers, hesitating as to their future pol I
sy, TO remain sources Of power hum Z
led beneath Grants weight Of omnipo- A.,
ence. !