Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-01

y L0AaAAAAEnNEAH anu w.
Welles-fhe oDlv man of real ABILITY
who has dealt with these questions sine
= the war-ft cost the country nine olllloi
= dollars. or two thousand TWO hundred
, and fiftv dollars apiece, man, woman
: and child-nore than four times enougi
z 10 have bought them all, TO say nothing
v ~ fbe estr9nQement Of affection pro
3 dueed IN the country by the war, or o
: the loss of probably more than million
Q of lives. Now, are you willing 10 ado
l TO All this the permanent alienation il
e feeling of this great section Of the coun-
e trv. as must be the case with the policy
I now pursued by the Radical party? Sup.
z pose YOU aid the Radical party not only
in sowing ineradicably the seeds Of
I I hatred between the blacks and whites
in the South, between the South and
the other great sections of this Union,
where viii you stand in
THE EYES OF POsTERITY?
Every great nation regards its standing
In the history Of the world. Where viii
be your standing in such an event? VIII
the treatment OF Russia to Poland be
deemed worse than yours Of the South
in such an event? Are you willing TO
be the GOths and Vandals Of modern so
eiety? You are proud Of enfranchising
four million blacks; are you willing to
enslaye double the number OF white
men in return for so doing? You say
you have restored the Union. How
long will that Union last, if you SOW in
eradicably the seeds Of hostility, not only
I between the different races Of the South,
but the different sections Of the COnfed-
eracy? What sort Of Union can that be
IN which, by policy and design, you in
fuse feelings Of hate and hostility be-
| tween the different members?
CAN A UNION OF FORCE
be long maintained between parties so
strong, If they be once taught to hate
each other? The only Union which can
be valuable is one Of affection, of inter
est, Of fraternal feeling. No other can
be valuable or permanent Rely upon
il that such appeals must make their
way at last to the public mind and heart.
7 The party which opposes them in this
! country must go down. They may not
/ succeed at first. Large bodies Of men
| are slow to move. Feelings engendered
/ by the recent contest have survived the
| contest itself But the language of
I truth and reason must be heard at last
/ where the press and public speech are
[ free. Such at least are the views Of our
situation, as they strike me. A nation
may be defeated more than once, and
| vet recover at last. General Washing
I ton had been defeated more than once
I in New York, driven across New Jer-
| sey, and almost envelOped by the Brit
! ish troops on the Delaware. His case
/ seemed well-nigh desperate, when he
broke through
THE Tolls
which had been set for him; he walked
up the frozen echoes Of the morning at
| Trenton and at Princeton with his guns,
and restored the fortunes Of the war
| What would have been said by those
men, many of whom were bare-footed,
and had left bloody trace of their march
upon the ice aud snow, if some one, sup
posed TO be endued with the gift of
prOphesy, had whispered to them your
struggles and your sufferings are in vain?
You will indeed gain your indepen-
dence and establish popular institutions;
but before a century has passed your de-
scendants, in the full tide Of prosperity,
and in time Of peace, viii suffer their
right to self-goyernment to be wrested
from them-either from indifference to
its value OF from a want Of energy TO
defend it. They will suffer themselves
70 be bought and sold. They will sell
their liberty for money, for even that hOr-
rible suspicion is afioat. How many an
arm would have been then unnerved!
how many hearts would have been filed
with grief at such prOphesy! All this
may take place. / will not deny the
danger Of such an end to all our hopes,
but 1 viii not believe it until l see the
actual result. l still have too much con-
fidence in my countrymen to renounce
NY HOPES OF A BETTER DESTINY
and a glorious future for them. But to
secure these they must show a higher
sense Of what is due TO themselves and
their own self-respect. They must seourge
the money-changer from the hustings,
and repudiate every man from their
councils and confidence upon whom
there rests even a reasonable suspicion
Of bribery. It is the money power
which, Of all Others, is most dangerous
to a republican form Of government.
Philip, Of Macedon, boasted that he
could subdue almost any Grecisn city
into which he could intoduce an ass
with a sack Of gold. The Persian kings, 1
when they found it impossible to subdue
Greece by arms, divided and ruled il by
money. A people should trust no man [
who is believed to be accessible TO tie |
improper influence Of money. If this be |
so, what are we to think Of the present !
times, orOf the future which is in store for |
us2 A great State is supposed by some |
10 have been purchasable; a great man /
is believed by many to have used money |
for that purpose. If this thing be not /
checked at once, how long before our |
prsetorians Of the civil service put up
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR SALE
as unblushingly as did those Of Rome to !
the highest bidderl In this case the |
man who bribes is worse than the one |
who is briOed. In such a case there |
would seem to beequity in the judgment !
which
sent the thief who stole the gold away,
And punished him who putt in his way" /
These are fearful times, indeed; but II !
there be virtue in the American people |
such sins will not be long unwhipped Of
justice after they are plainly exposed to |
view. The existence Of these evils |
which surround US affords no excuse for |
inaction, or argument for dependency, |
On the contrary, we must do our best to |
remedy or avoid them. Let US vote the |
men out Of power who threaten US with !
these dangers; and if we cannot do this, |
let US organize TO resist them 10y appeals |
TO the public opinion Of the country.
LET Us RALLY TO THE POLLS
with all the force we can muster, TO avoid !
these perils; and if we cannot effect this |
we can at least enjoy the consciousness /
Of having done all in our power to that |
end. l know there are some good men !
who will not act with Us because there |
are things in the past course Of Mr.. !
Greeley which they remember with re- |
sentiment and who therefore insist on /
- straightOut ticket.n But they should I
reflect that nearly all our Southern |
friends, and almost the whole Demo- !
cratic party, North and South, have |
staked the success Of their cause upon |
the election Of Greeley and Brown; and |
if we wish the success Of that cause, |
which Is ours, we must vote for their /
election. They should remember that
GRANT Or GREELEY
must be the President, and how much !
we should gain if the latter should be |
chosen. / like and respect Mr.. O'COnOr, |
and regret that he should be placed in a |
position where the v6te OF the South |
must reflect 50 little their estimate of |
him. Iregret, TOO, on his own account,
that nearly every vote given TO him T.
will be substracted from Mr.. Greeley, |
who must be elected, five can, to defeat !
Grant. / must strike for Virginia, for !
the South, for the constitution and the |
country. To DO this under present cir |
cumstances, / must vote for Greeley. l
could not vote for O'ConOr, however |
much I respect him. But no man viii
ever hear me utter word Of reproacb in
regard TO him. He was friendly to US
i'm our time OF trial and difficulty, and |
for one ] shall never forget it. We viii !
not only remember, but reward our
friends, II they viii place them !
selves fairly within our reach. Said
Ranaid Mac Eagh, in one Of the most
beautiful Of modern fctiOns, in his
dying charge 10 his grandson, "If Mac
Jan come to you with the head Of the
kings son in bis hand, shelter him,
though the avenging army Of the father
be behind him, for IN Glencoe and Ard
namurchan we have dwelt IN peace in
years that have gone by''--a sentiment
that commands my sympathy whether
In fiction or history, and honorable to
either the savage or civilized heart. But
our first duty now is 10 save the South,
and the country, IL We can. Whether
we can do so know not; do not pre-
tend TO foresee the future. But whether
We do or not, We ought to
VOTE OUR WHOLE STRENGTH.
Such Is our duty, whose path we ought
to pursue. There is no other mode for
man or a nation to preserve
self-respect, without which none can be
happy, or even contented. L stand here
TO enf0rce this duty as well as / can, and
q. ha1r .ratr rarF ~ Iaat.rrl xaraatapar
may be the event We must never give