Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-09-26
Ths Prespsot PARK meeting Closed.
CIVIL RIGHTS AND TENNESSEE
The Democrats 20 Carry All but the
First DIstrfet-A Very Safe
Prediction.
From the Tennessee Correspondent OF the

From the Tennessee Correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Commercial.l
The Republicans will carry the first
district, and that is the only one where they
have reasonable hope. Indeed, there are
none OF the other districts that are at all
doubtful, except the second. But even give
that 10 the Republicans, and the Democrats
viii certainly gain i've. They Will carry the
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth
ninth and tenth.
me first district is Roderick Random But
ler's property, and no sort OF combination has
ever been sufficiently powerful TO get him
out. The district is Republican by about
three thousand majority. Butler opposes the
civil rights pill as bitterly as any Democrat
IN the state. Otherwise he wOuli be doomed.
No man c-n be elected TO Office in this Sta te
who favcrs that measure.
The second district has been Repu blican
since the war, until the August election,
when the Democrats carried nearly every
county in Il. In this district live BrOwnlow
and Maynard, and the revolution there was
solely on account OF the civil rights bill.
Knox county, for instance, has always been
the stronghold OF the Republican party. IN
Is72 the Democrats got but seventeen hundred
and eight votes ~ the whole county, while
the Republicans had three thousand three
hundred and slXty-eight. Nearly three thou
sand OF these Republican voters were white,
there being about eight hundred negro voters
IN the county. Look at these figures, and
then think what a reVolutiOu there must have
been 10 have given the county TO the Demo
Gratis last August By nearly one thousand ma
fOIity. civil rights did IL. Had that iufernal
nrebrand not been thrown into the south be-
lieve the Republicans would have carried
Tennessee in less than four years. They were
making nne strides in tnat direction. But
their TAT is in the fire now. The Internal nre-
brand has done 1or them what the kukluX ac-
complished for the northern Democrats.
The third district will be carried by General
Dibrell, Democrat, by not less than tn rec thou
sand majority. Dibren Is nne old-time
gentleman, and the worst thing that his
enemies have been able TO rake up against
him yet, j. Tie isct that he was general in
The rebel array. Well, what IL he was? 1t is
rather late to be obgecting 20 him on that ac-
count. The war has been over about ten
General Dibrell Is a man OF fine qualities.
For thirty-fve years he has been q consistent
member OF the Methodist church. You may
be sure that this long christian life Will count
IN MS favor among class that are not a lew.
These three districts take Us out OF Ezst Ten
n nessee. In Middle and West Tennessee, the
Democrats have their nominees in the field
and VIII carry every district. Bright, 10 the
dfth district, got the nomination after a long
and severe struggle. Unfortunately, Bright
cannot be defeated, for the Republicans are
faF below par in that district
In tie Nashville district the Democrat'
have nOmlna;ed John 4. House, an old Whie
and very able man. These old wings are q
rather good class OF men. ! notice almost IN
Variabiy that the old Wings are softer In their
feelings toward the negroes t4an the old
Democrats. They are more charitable, more
humane, more cOnciliatory and mOie kindly
disposed toward the upfOrtupaie black race
actual observation that tt Is 80. There Is
nothing that keeps the old Wings out OF the
Republican party but bundle or two Of eG-
plodtq pre- udices, and that internal firebrand,
the clv1i rights bill.
In the Best Tennessee districts the Demo-
erats VIII sweep everything before them.
None OF the districts have majority OF ne
gro Eoters or anything like IL, and white Re-
publlcans aie rether scarce in tllat direction.
The civil rights bill has driven tnOuSabds OF
them back TO their hrst love, or rather 70 what
they consider a lesser evil than the party oi
TOO many equal rights.