Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-06
sRAsT,s CONTENTION.

We publish en- our second page thii
morning very full report of the pro
ceedines Of the Grant Convention now
ln session in Philaielphia. 1t is chanc.
terized throughout by a temper that tc
any olservsnt and thinking man will
carry conviction that the fear Of defeat
oyeEshad0ws this gathering Of needy and
greedy office-holders. Al the old raw
head and bloody-bones banners that have
been Haunted in the faces of the masses
Of the North ever since the waT, 10
stimulate and keep alive the sec
tionai hate on which these and s1ch
as these can only live and succeed-Gil
the assumed fears Of kuklux, Of oppres-
sion Of the black laan, and Of another
rebellion, were reyamped and made to
do service over again in behalf of a
party that received its death-blow at
Cincinnati. Every species Of clap-trap
that could be devised by the veriest
paTty-hack, was resOrted to for party
effect. William Lloyd Garrison, who
some years ago sOlemnly declared the
Anti-Slayery Society dissolved because
it had accomplished its mission and he
desired peace, fraternity and goodwill
between the sections, was put up
and not without effect. Several ne
gr0es present made haste to indOrse the
dodge and abase themselves before the
old calf of the Abolitionists. 1t was well
planned and took immensely. The
negroes forgot everybody and every
thing else but Garrison. All the other
lights of abolitionism paled before the
effulgence Of Garrison, who was made to
know and feel however by some Of bis
jealous white compeers, that all this adu-
lation and worship was given him be-
cause he was for Grant-had it been
otherwise, he would have been cursed
as heartily as Sumner and Greeley, who
did more toward abolishing slavery
in one month than Garrison
in his life time Morton was
particularly severe upon the South.
he did not even have the egratitude to
remember the efficacy of the Hot
Springs, and say good word for Ar
kansas. He denounced US all as ku-
klux, and seemed to be full of regret
that the Cincinnati Convention had
forced upon Congress the defeat of the /
ku-klux bill. Bitterness does not ex-
press the tone of the speech Of
Er,r+rg -i,-F,+ l,1,r-or o,,1 % ,r-o. S,,l,-
surpassed in baseness by that |
delivered by the recreant Orr of South /
Carolina, who was so anxious to prove
his reliability as later-day Republican
to prove that he was trueT " "loyalist /"
than Sumner and Greeley, whom he
used to fight so fierceIy as Democrat
that he endorsed the kuklux false
hoods of Morton and endorsed the ku-
klux laws which have well nigh ruined
the State that honored him with Office
and upheld him 50 long with pride as q
public man worthy the esteem Ofa brave
and intelligent people. This was the
sorriest spectacle of all. 1t only needed
this to cap a column that does Grant in
finite credit since it is all in keeping
with his administration of the
government as pictured by Sumner.
The rage and fury Of the whole
crew seems to have been turned
upon the South they have robbed I
and plundered, and Of which they de-
sire to make an Ireland for plaee-hHnt- :
ing thieves. No earnest lover of the /
South can fail to see this and to note
that, 20 escape the fate the words of
these men indicate is in store for US, 10
escape kullux bill and renewal of ,
thieveTy we must give an un-
divided support to Greeley, whose words
and the words and acts of whose Re
publican supporters are in direct op-
position to them. We must rally TO the
standard Of Horace Greeley and B.
Graft Brown, and 10y mastering every
vote, defeat Grant and so "layp forever
the internal spirit that will only be ap-
peased by the total destruction, abase-
ment and enslavement of the South.
With Greeley for President, we will
have peace, with Grant, a very hell.