Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-22
LIE CARPErRAseERs.

The northern people and the northern
,,susospers have at last discovered the
KEY TO all the troubles IN the south. In
the ninth year after the war, there Is
still a reign OF social disorder in the
south, and patriots Of all parties are be-
ginning TO look for the cause. They dis
cover that the Republican party under
took to settle and pacify the country al
ter a great civil, war; it.undertook to re-
store the Union, maintain civil order,
reviva the shattered industries Of the
south. and restore fraternal feeling, by
the reconstruction policy it adopted az
tar the close OF the war. 1t Is too evil
dent that its policy has proved a melan-
choly failure; that instead OF peacei or
der, tranquility, good government, and
the recementing OF ancient bonds, the
practical effect Of the Republican poll
CIV has been TO introduce confusion
worse COMPOUNDED" It has not tran
Quilted the country. 1t has not OolIt-
Grated the old mischievOus distinc-
ton between northern and southern
politics. 1t keeps alive the Jealous hos
tile feeling toward the south which pre-
vailed during the war, and which dc
tsted tie reconstruction measures"
This is the way the good men Of all par
ties are now reasoning in the north, and
they have come TO the conclusion thst
the effort Of the government 10 place
and keep power in the hands Of the car
petbaggers is the great cause Of the
troubles in the south. 1t has been in the
power Of the Radical party and its OH
cials, at any time during the last eight
vesrs. to trsnquilize the south, restore
peace sud concord, and cement the bonds
ufuui0n by misunderstanding the carpet
baz element Uufortuna ely, whether
from mistaken views, from passion or
for party ends, the ruinous and mis-
ohievOus policy Of making pets Of these
adventures, trusting them with power
placing them as Overseers over the ne
Croes aud rulers over the whites, has
been pursued. They have been at the
bottom Of all southern troubles and dis
turbsnces, and If the national govern
ment, if the Republican party Of the
country. if the people Of the north, are
not bereft OF all right, reason and
common sense, they must see the neces-
sity Of removing out Of the way these
Obstacles 70 pesce. The negroes do not
like the csrpetbaggers. On the contra
~, they disuust and despise them.
That they follow their eOunsels is due to
the fact that, seeing them upheld by the
Federal power, they suppose them 10 be
their appointed guardians. Let that
power withdraw its cOuntenance from
them, and the negroes will drop them
like hot potatoes. The negroes feel that
they owe their freedom and their pOliti-
cal privileges TO the Federal power, and
naturally desire to evince gratitude and
loyalty 20 it. Seeing csrpetbaggers rep
resenting it in the south, they stiie their
disgust for them as well as they can, and
dutifuuy accept them as the opponents
OF the government. Is it statesmanship
TO keep in power set Of plundering
squatters who are despised by the col
ored people, and hateful to the
whites, who fOment strife between
them, while they st the same time sedu-
lousy seek to widen the breach between
the people Of the two sections? Not only
are these creatures obstacles to the res
torstion Of peace and order between the |
two races in the south and the return of
good will between the people Of the two
sections Of country, but they paralyze !
industry by their ceaseless sgitstions, |
and prevent the southern people from 1
sliding, as they desire TO do, in re-estab-
fishing national prosperity. A vote for
Barbour Lewis is a vote TO proiOng the
power Of the men who produce all the
discord and strife in the south. But for
the eagerDess Of the adventures to get
Office by fraud, that they may plumber
the tsx-psying people, there would be
no disorderin the south. Remove the
cause Of strife, and the south viii be
the most pescesble and lsw-sbiding Sec
ton o. the Union.