Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-15
POLITICAL.
The Next Contest Ia Tennessee-DemO-
cratic Speech by Hon. William
Allen, Of Ohio.
The Democratic Party a BsHble-Mis.
Trial in South Carolina-Demce-
raey in Pennsylvania, Etc.
MISSISSIPPI CONSERVATIVE AND DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTION.


| MISSISSIPPI CONsERVA ATIYE AND DEAfo-
CRATIC CONVENTION.
4 Special 10 the Appeal
JACKSON, August 14.-The Conserva-
live and Democratic executive COM
mittee met here to-day, pursuant to a
call. A large portion Of the commit
/ tee were represented.
A resolution was passed calling for q
/ convention Of the oppOsers Of Radical
ism, to be held at Meridian on the sew
/ enteenth Of September, 10 nominate 3
State ticket, or 10 take such action as
| the convention shall deem proper. The
resolution advises county conventions
to instruct delegates accordingly,
FUNDING AND ANTI-FUNDING.
EDITORS APPEAL read with much
4 interest an editorial from the Paris In
| telIige3ccy, an anti-funding paper, which
was published ia the APPEAL of this
morning. That paper takes the true
grouRd. The funding Of the bonds is a
| fixed fact. Those who are disposed to
o.
/ the interest on them, must be in favor
Of reputation. 1t is too late now TO
/ discuss the funding bill. The writer of
I this had nothing to do with that meas
ure: has no interest in the bonds; does
not own a bond, and will not be per-
s0nally benefited by their appreciation.
As a Tennessean, he is interested in pre-
serving the credit of the State, for he
knows that reputation would be far
more expensive than paying the debt.
! Nothing was ever so costly to a State as
reputation, even in a money point of
view, to say nothing of State character.
| Tennessee pays less tax than any State
in the Union, except one or two, and if
she should repudiate lof which there is
no danger, however,, her loss would be
five times as great as the amount of her
taxation. This attempt to get up an
anti-fuBding party can only have the
effect TO divide the Democratic party,
and place the State under the control of
the Radical party. Is this the object OF
/ the anti-funders? TENNESSEAN.
WILLIAM ALLEN, DEMOCRATIC CAN
DIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, AT CHILLI
COTHE.
1t has been said that the Democratic
organization, to q certain extent, acted
unwisely in attempting to restrain the
unbTidled fury OF the opposition in the
late great struggle in this country. That
| is a grave mistake. The passions of the
other party carried them far beyond
what their sober prudence would have
dictated in their condBct of the late war,
and it was necessary that while the
Union should be preserved intact, and
the supremacy and dignity Of the federal
government vindicated, the matter
should not be allowed to run into the
channels Of bloody revenge: therefore
it became necessary that the Democrat
ic party should enter protest,
and tnat northern feeling should
intercede when those ends had been
accomplished, and had it not been
fer this protest on the part of the De-
mOeracy, let me ask you where the war
would have ended? You can answer in
the destruction of the whole south and
the southern people. But the destructive
feeling found its check in the north, and
mainly in the Democratic organization.
The time has now come for action, and
say TO you, my friends, that next to
the act OF abolishing a free government
would be the abolition Of the Demo-
cratic party. What is Democracy? Is
it not a government of the people? 1t is
simply a government for the whole peO-
pie, and not for any special or particu-
lar class. We, as Democrats, are in
favor of no special laws that in the least
look to the favoring Of classas. The
great point now at stake is whether the
government shall be carried on by the
people a. a unit, or by a few persons
who live to fill their Golfers and enrich
themselves and their descendants at the
expense of the people; sucking away
at the public moneys until they Tesem-
bic the rat in the meal-tub that had
eaten so much that he could not get out
az the bung-hOls and all these men are
retained in Office and aided in their
Blunderings by the federal machinery.
Not one in fifty of the Republican party
and by Republican party l mean the
masses, and not the office-hOlders-win
cry out that they want things to remain
as they now stand. No human in the
United States who is not paid officer Of
the government can deny the fact that
the coTuptions existing have dissatis-
fed nine hundred and ninety-nine out
OF every thousand in the country, and
the Democracy intend that they shall
have an opportunity of remedying these
evils.
A BAUBLE.
1t is very evident that the st. Louis
republican has not that confidence in
the usefulness and vivacity of its old
party which is prOfessed by its cotempO-
raTies. II calls the Democratic party
bauble which has "become the mere
plaything of its enemies and adds:
"Whenever it is about to sink out of
sight they lend it a helping hand, lift it
to the surface and cheer it up with words
Of encouragement. Whenever it seems
to be making too much headway against
the stream, they adIoitly heave Tam
many round its neck and sink it again
to the requisite level. Whether il sink
or swim is a question for them TO decide.
The recollection of the Tammany frauds
is one Of the hvest parts of the party,
and no amount of talk about credit
mobilier matters and the salary-grab can
create an oblivion Of the thirty-millions
robbery which Tammany is held to be
responsible for"
TRIAL BY JURY IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
The following, says the Baltimore
Gazette, is sent US by prominent firm
in this city:
GKNTJEMEN-Your favor OF the thirtieth
ultimo is duly to hand. We are sorry 70 say
The case against - was not called Orreaehed
at the January term OF our court, and before
the next May term our model governor, for
purposes Of his own and 20 avoid conviction
some OF his officials, removed our jury CON-
missioner "a white man and appoi nted a ne