Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-05-15

OF Arkaneas and AlSb9 ma parOdlas OF
the name of Justice. De!auU should be-
trOtted before a grand aud petit jury fOl
his participation in Indian irauas; Cres,
well should be held account ole for the
stealing of his pOst-rOute cOEfreres and
the tricks Of associates in the patchiDg
OF maiI-bags s8indles
Grant may be only the IOng-headed
d0lt MS adveTsaries have EeeD trying to
make themselves believe he is al tcase
many yeers, but he and his more quiet
advisers contrive to do the sharp things
in seasons of vital peril. UncOmpr0-
missing investigation is the one great
thing the inner working Of bis admin
istration has TO fear. Yet he is shrewd
enough to draw even that sting in ad-
vance. - Washington correspondence
Chicago Times.
Blast OF War FROM BrOWnI0W.
1t is eighteen months before we have
| an election 70 7! is State for State Off
! GERS, and yet we see leading Democratic
! journals appealing to their party leaders
for harmony, and urging them TO thor
| Oughly organize for the next cam paign
! Dread some Of these effusiOns one would
naturally suppose that the State was
almost equally divided between the par
ties, and that few votes would turn the
| scales either way. When we take into
| consideration the fact that Governor
| Porter was elected last fall by fifty thou
| sand votes; that the last Legislature
| contained ninety two Democrats to
| eight Republicans; that the governor
and all other State officers, including
! members of the supreme court, are all
! Democrats, this apparent anxiety on
ha nartn of Hn fnl1 hn toh1
| towers, is surprising and unaccOuntable.
| But when we take another view it is
not so surprising after all that these
| leaders should feel little frightened.
We read in the good book that the gull
ty flee, even "when no man puTsueth."
To suppose that Democratic politicians
| in Tennessee, with their ffightful re-
| cord, could rest entirely easy, woul
be equivalent to charging them
with being wholly void of COIL
sciences. Some Of them are dead to
every sense of shame, but there are
those among them who do know right
from wrong, and who feel their guilt
with some degree of keenness. 1t is
these that make the appeals, and ex-
press the fears of defeat. They know
that the people are acquainted with
their TorbGtt issue swindle, the public
printing and other sWindles. They re-
member what fearful load the last leg
islature will prove for any party to carry.
II was the most infinitely worthless
body o men, collectively considered,
that ever assem- bled at the State capital.
There were a dozen or two OF good men
in it, but the blatherskite, dead beat,
gas-bsg element prevailed, and with all
their inetficiency and general worthless
ness the Democratic party must carry
them. As g matter OF course, there will
be areckOniDg. The people will not al
ways be imposed upon thus, and it is FIR
this reason that the drill-sergeaDts and
the whippers-in are appealing for organ
izati0n and harmony so far in advance of
election day.-RROIUiNe Chronicle.
wings, Democrats and Conservative.
"H, H. S." correspondent Of the
WinODR AdUd11ce, has written a second
letter to that journal in support Of his
proposition that our people should aban-
don the name OF Democrat and adOpt
that OF conservative" He argues that
the hostility to the name OF Democracy
is so great among the people of Missi5-
sippi, that that alone constitutes an in
surmoUntable barrjerto any hope Of sue
cess in any effort to rescue the State from
the grasp of the spoiIsmen. Speaking
of the Disadvantages with which the
people, the taxpayers of Mississippi
have to contend, "H. H. s." says:
"Now, every intelligent person in the
State well knows that we start out in
this contest with q majority of from
twenty TO twenty-five thousand against
US. We will have to recruit, and that
largely from the ranks of the opposition
to achieve success. Fortunately, how
ever, for us, there are thousands of this
number who have sickened at the desc.
lation that their party has entailed upon
themselves and the State, and are ready
to avail themselves Of any decent pre-
text to abandon it,and affiliate with one
of retrenchment and reform. This num-
Der is made up Of Conservative whites,
native and adopted, and colored, the
latter, OF whom constitute the aiOTity
in the State, and TO whom this name
Democratic is not only Objectionable,
but tiuly repugnant, and | cannot say
that this is greatly to be wondered at,
as the unfortunate black code of 1865
the result of a Democratic majority in
the legislature, has been constantly
held up before their eyes as a scare
crow by the opposition from that to the
present. I thought it the part of wis
dom to deprive our enemies of these |
weapons that they had so successfully !
turned against US in the past, as 1 am
sure they now constitute the chief OBJ |
stacle in the way of affiliation."
Without pausing to inquire into the |
validity of this claim to Radical "ma- |
jOrity Of from twenty to twenty-five |
thousand" i'll Mississippi, not one word |
OF which we believe, we pass on to an |
other assertion that is utterly unfounded, |
and which is not sustained by the facts. |
4" II. II. s." declares that there are large |
numbers in Mississippi to whom " the
name Democratic is not only objection
able, but truly repugnant," f" and th at this
hostility is not greatly to be wondered |
at, as the unfortunate black cOUe OF .
1865, the result of q Democratic major
ity in the legislature" ETC., etc. Now .
we undertake. to say, that there was no |
Democratic majority in the legislature
of 1865, nor in that of 1866 or 1857! We /.
affirm that the government OF the State
of Mississippi has not been controlled by
Democrats for single hour since Gen
eral Charles Clark was dragged from
the executive office to q military prison
in the summer of 1865! In October of
that year General Ben. Humphreys was
Gl6CIeu RONSEuOIJ dlu al lie same EiGC-
ton new legislature was chosen. Gov
ernor Humphreys was lifelong Wing,
a Union Wing, friend and follower Of
Henry Clay, and in his admiration of
the great cOmmOner he sWal-
lowed, without qestIon, all the
political absuTdities put forth by that
wonderful man, A majority of the
members Of the legislature elected in
1865 were also Old-line Union Wings,
and they signalized their accession to
power by electing two Wings to the
senate OF the United States. One was
HoH William l. Sharkey, all his life q
Union Wing, and the other was James
L. Alcorn, Wing up to the hour he
degraded himself by leaping into the
arms OF Radicalism. The "black code"
referred to by "H. H. S." with ali the
other obnoxious measures enacted in
1867, and OF which the Radical press
has hOwled so persistently ever since,
was the result Of q Wing "maiority in
the legislature" and was not the iTnit
Of Democratic ascendancy. When the
war closed, the Democrats Of Mississippi
they mad all favored secession-verv
modestly stepped To the rear. They felt /
that their predictions had all come to
naught, that their judgments were at
fault, and that it would be decent and
modest to let some other people run the
machine awhile. The Whivs on tho