Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-29
ONWARD.

/ From every part Of the South we hea
the same voice swelling the volume 0
the revolution which is now surging up
and serving to bind together with com.
pact energy and will men Of all parties
in favor Of Horace Greeley. Most o.
the Southern people fear that the Balti.
more Convention viii nominate a Dem
cratic candidate. No such egregiOus
folly will be perpetrated. With a united
voice the South will demand the nomi-
nation of Greeley at Baltimore, and such
a voice must be respected, for withoutthe
vote of the united South the National
Democracy, in a Presidential election,
viii undertake to play Hamlet with the
part OF Hamlet" omitted. In most OF
the Southern States county meetings are
being held for the purpose of electing
delegates to the various State conven-
tions. In Arkansas the Democracy
seems to be moving in solid column for
Greeley. AS far as we have seen any
expression in the county meetings in
Mississippi, it has been in behalf of
| Greeley. The Virginia Democratic
lState Convention viii unanimously favor
the nomination Of Greeley. A short
time since we had fears as to the policy
Kentucky might present. But she too,
Will wheel into line The first gun thun-
ders for Greeley. a State Convention
will be held in a few days and the pri-
mary meetings indicate that Kentucky
will pursue the course adopted by Ten
nessee. Everywhere the policy obtains
that it is the duty of the trusted expo
nents and representatives of Democracy
not to guide their friends and followers
into ''last bitches" or the field Of Tin
evitable yet honorable defeat" but to
point out the way to escape continued
disaster. There has been quite enough
Of "dying with face to the
Ioe." Ultimately the best disciplined
troops will come to distrust
the ability Of the general who, falling to
inspire courage and turn the tide of mis-
fortune, always leads them to defeat, and
he viii protest TO no purpose about
preserving the organization" who
launches his legions upon %invincible bat
teries, knowing the charge must be re-
except in the defamation Of the
storming party. 1t is a matter Of con-
and pride that, as a general
hing, the trusted leaders of the Democ-
have acte6 well their parts in the
present emergency, sinking their per-
3onal ambition. In the latter part of
March of any other Presidential year,
he Democratic journals would be filled
with discussions as to the most avail
able Democratic candidate. Now,
Inc name of a Democrat is scarcely
lreathed in this connection. So Ger
ain is the defeat of a Democrat
or the Presidency that the position of a
tandard-bearer is literally begging for a
candidate. No Democrat who has any
hing to loose is willing to risk his rep
in a contest where ignOminious
iefeat is certain. Perhaps some man,
anxious for brief nOtoriety, could be
Induced to become a Democratic candi-
late for the Presidency. But sagaclous
feel and see and know that
f the Greeley enthusiasm extends and
as indicated, it will require no
Of prophecy TO predict n of those
sudden political hurricanes, periodically
our history, which sweep away all
opposition, and only end in a grand tri-
and a splendid manifestation of
he power of the people, of their ail-cOn-
zeal and patriotic fervor, when
,nce aroused. Such were the tOrnadOes
which swept Andrew Jackson into the
Presidential chair in 1928, Harrison in
$40, Polk in 1874, Pierce in 1852, and
lincoln in 1850. The present indica-
ions are all of a like character in favor
# the Greeley movement. Everywhere
.mong the people you may perceive the
frightening Of the eye, the earnest tone
f voice, the emphatic ~utterances and
which betOken a deep senti-
nent and purpose that will rapidly swell
nto an irresistible torrent of popular en-
husiasm, 50 that long before the ides of
November the white hat of the philoso-
her viii become a notable an emblem
f glorious victory as the plume Of the
ieroic Henry Of Navarro. /,