Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-19


defeat tie reelection of the man who has
inspired them, regarded them with grim
and heartless satisfaction, and in many
Instances committed them himself The
man who is drowning, or who sees his
wife and children perishing in the
/ flames, must not be blamed for adopting
any method, not criminal in itself, by
/ which to save himself, or all that is dear
/ to him. l have, therefore, listened with
perfect patience to the
VOICE or THE SOUTH
Z in this crisis, knowing as l do her ex-
/ treme and immediate necessities. Her
urgent appeal for the nomination of Mr..
Greeley has been regarded by her friends
/ in the North almost as the last despair
/ ing cry of a brave and noble people, re-
| duced to hopeless extremity, beholding
as they think, one more chance to save
4 themselves from a ruin infinitely worse
than death. fervently pray God that
[ their hopes may be realized, and many
"A Northern man viii suspend his differ
I ences with Mr.. Greeley on account of
the people of the South, who would not
DO so on his own. They believe the
ELECTION OF MR.. GREELEY
will afford them relief, and in that belief
I they demanded his nomination. It has
I been accorded, more in Difference to their
condition and their wishes than to any
other cause. If Mr.. Greeley, under
these circumstances, should be elected,
he will stand pledged, by the strongest
obligations that ever rested upon an
honorable man, to
BEsTOw UPON THE SOUTH
a., I,I.psi,, ,,s ,,i. n ;,r.t g-;r,I -,l e.,4 -
nal policy of government. If he did
not do so, after the confidence reposed
in him by that section, he would be ac-
cursed among men. Let us hope, how
ever, with our brethren in the South,
that the experiment may be a complete
success; that his election may Danish
misrule and plumber from their midst
restore peace in reality as well as in
name; bring back a cheerful and c0n-
tented devotion TO the laws of the coun-
try and a
PRIDE IN THE FLAG
which affords an etiectual protection To
all citizens. Let US hope that the dead
ly paralysis so long affecting the South
and destroying her vast productive en-
ergies, may speedily be succeeded by
perfect health and VigOr. flour govern
ment is to be restored to its natural pro-
portions and strength, our States must
be as free in one section as in Others
We must have no lines where freedom
is halted by the bayonet, on American
soil; and when all are treated alike by
the government, they will all bear to it
the same allegiance, whatever may have
been the
BLOODY STRUGGLES OF THE PAST.
when this kind of union of hearts in
support of the government shall take
place, having for its basis the principles
of justice, liberty and equality, then will
this nation rise like a strong man after
sleep and go forth to new glories, renew
ing the purity Of its youth in connection
with the gigantic proportions of its age.
But there was one more step possible to
be taken by this administration to COM
plete its scandalous career in connection
with foreign affairs, and it took that
step when it permitted its officehOlders
to engage in the sale of vast quantities
of arms and ammunition, to be used in
slaughtering the people of Germany,
then engaged in a war forced on them
by the ambition of Louis Napoleon.
The spirit Of
SPECULATION AND MONEY GETTING
was 50 active in the official circles of the
Government, that il broke out in traf-
fic of death-death to friendly people,
whose kindred are honest and hard
working people in every county in the
United States This sinister and revolt
ing fact does not rest upon Democratic
testimony, but upon that Of the oldest
and ablest Republicans. There was no
denial of il, and when the German who
vet acknowledged his allegiance and
military duty to his fatherland, hurried
back from this country to join the ranks
of his countrymen, as many did, per-
haps he crossed the ocean in a vessel
laden with the weapons of his own de-
stuctiOn, furnished by the
OFFICIAL AUTHORITY
of the American government, and doubt
less there are now German soldiers
sleeping in their graves, sent there by
American bullets, fired from American
guns, furnished to the army of the
French Emperor by the administration
of Ulysses 5. Grant. 1t cannot be other
wise, when we reflect that enough was
sent to equip an army of sixty thousand
men for the field. Gentlemen, it is
against an administration stained by
practices such as these, and many more
of like criminality, that the people of
the United States are now mastering
under various organizations for united
assault. 1t does not follow that those
who think alike in regard to the neces-
sity Of the overthrow, should think alike
in regard to everything else. 1t Is con-
caded by men of various opinions to be a
COMMON OBSTACLE
to the general welfare and common re-
proach; to the good name of the coun-
try. II a common nuisance was created
in a city, the residents would not stop to
inquire into each others views on all
other questions before they would agree
70 unite for its abatement. They would
leave them for subsequent discussion and
settlement, and proceed at once TO de-
stroy the cause of a general discomfort
and sickness. So now we find men who
are in favor of 90
HIGH PROTECTIVE TARIFF,
and those who are against, it as I am;
men who are for negro suffrage, and
those who are against ii. as | am; men
who are for immediate return to specie
payment, and those who are against it,
as | am; men who believe in paying the
bonds Of the government in gold, and
those who believe in paying them ac
c0rding to the law of the country as de-
cided by the Supreme Court of the
United States, as do; men who are in
favor of exemphng them from taxation;
and those who are opposed TO such ex-
emptiOn, as L am; men who believe that
one thousand seven hundred National
Banks are necessary to furnish the peo-
pie circulating medium of
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION
DOLLARS,
at a cost of thirty per cent. to the tax
payers, and those who believe as l do,
that currency can be furnished to the
people without this enormous per cent;
men who, in fact, differ widely upon
nearly every political ISSUE earnestly
agreeing that the first step toward good
government and a general reform, is to
drive from power the present admins
tration and its corrupt surroundings. All
Democrats viii join in such work, in
strict consistency with the principles of
their whole Lives, and will welcome an
laliance with all honorable men who
esPOuse the same cause. In advocating
this cause, | shall
ABANDON NO PRINCIPLES ~
on which ! have heretofore obtained
your support. Governor Morton has
much to say about the alleged inconsis-
the Democratic party and COM
nlellts upon the expression that we have
turned our backs on the past In one
sense every man turns his back upon the
past with the dawn ofevery new day and
with the incoming of its new duties and
Who lives to accom-
plish the true work of life lives in the
present and with his face to the future
However well his work Of yesterday is
done, he cannot waste the remainder
Of his days in its contemplation. He
must listen to the voices that bid him
on, and obey the hands that beckon him
forward. The Democracy, therefore.
DOES NOTrTURN FrS BACK
upon the past in reputation of its
record; it simply faces the future and