Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-17
APPEAL
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL IL.
THE CINCINNATI OONvENTION-EIB-
ERAL REPUBLICANS MOVING.


ERAL REPUBLICANS MOVING.
The magnificent success Of the anti
Grant demonstration in New York has
inspired the friends of peace and the
constitution with renewed zeal and
hope. Heretofore the Libefal Republic
cans have shown an infirTnity Of pun
pose and a lack OF political courage.
But the voice Of Trumbun and Schurz,
and Fenton and Greeley, speaking from
New York, has been like the blare OF
the trumpet sounding the charge, and in
every section Of the Union the great
tide of national reform is swelling and
surging with irresistible power. The in
spirations Of patriotism have extended
TO Tennessee, and the Liberal Republi-
cans are moving. A meeting
has been called in this county for the
purpose Of sending delegates to the State
Convention to be held at Nashville.
The Liberal Republicans Of Tennessee
have been slow in moving because they
had fears of the success of the CinciD-
natl Convention. But the New York
meeting and the great ~upheaval OF the
people in behalf of Reform and a contest
which has resolved itself into one for the
continuance of our republican system
Of government, OF the substitution of a
corrupt military despotism, has nerved
the arms Ga patriots with strength, and
they look to the Cincinnati Convention
for deliverance. As the St Louis Re
publican SAYS: ''Tbe Cincinnati move
ment has become strong enough net
only 70 take care Of itself, but to
take care Of those who commit them
selves to It's keeping. 1t is not yet three
months old, but it displays the power
Of a giant A few weeks ago IS Mr.
Schurz says, "ft was spoken of by poll
6cisns with 9 eontemptuoas smile; to-
day that smile has turned sour on their
lips" Missouri, Ohio, Kansas, Iowa,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, New
York, Louisiana, Georgia; South Caro-
lima, New Jersey, Nebraska, Texas and
Michigan, have already chosen, o.
called meetings to choose, delegates e
the May convention. Illinois, Indiana. !
California, Maryland, Massachusetts, ana !
Pennsylvania are preparing to do the
same thing; and it is believed that Wis
consin, Minnesota, Oregon, Delaware, |
North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, |
and Others even Of the New England
States viii also take measures to have
their voice heard in the meeting. The
States we named number twenty-eight;
and we have reason 70 estimate that the
number viii be represented in the Gin
cinnati Convention, and takepart in the
movement which it expresses. There is
a rapidly spreading conviction that Gin
lnnati viii be a good place for Liberal
Republicans to be at about the first OF
May, and We shall not besurprisedtO see
a larger assemblage of persons there than
was ever witnessed ST asimilar conven-
ton before. The movement has become
thoroughly national, and already in
wolves a great number of States and q
scope Of country than the conven-
ton that nominated Abraham Lincoln
We trust the ball viii Be
kept rolling until it crushes out the pres
INT dynasty, whose conuptions and
iespotisms have alarmed the country. f.
Every man, not blinded by bigOtry and
tupidity, now sees, and feels, and .
1nOws that the defeat Of Grant can only )
e attained by a union Of all the ele-
nents Of opposition that can be
together. Should the Gin ),
innau Convention nominate candidates !.
cceptable 70 the opponents of the pres !
nt administration, we cannot hesitate
5 70 the duty of the Democratic party. !
t is to unite upon the Cincinnati nOmi-
ees, and to unite cordially with the
liberal Republicans for publication o
nd p~acifcation.D The Southern Dem Il
cratic press are willing to form the g
roposed coalition; but we doubt if they +
you'd consent 10 the proposed dis 5
migration of their party. That idea, ii
/ would appear, has not obtained j
or it would have been mentioned. G
Happily, our leaders have not reached f
hat hight Of madness TO which some OF b
be Northern Democratic strategists d
and in some instances have at Il
aimed. n