Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-17
aEMPNIS APPEAL
THURSDAY, ;: JUNE Ia, 1875.
4pEHoBGoBLIN REaURRECTED.

TIE HOBGOBLIN RE1URRECTED.
In view Of the revived patriotism Of
the country and the extraordinary quiet
ness and tranquility pervading the
south, il was hoped nothing
more would be heard about the
"bloody shirt" the kuklux, and
the atrocious outrsges to which
the poor negro is subjected. But an APP
preaching election revives these ex-
ploded and worn-out calumnies, just Is
naturally as the fructifying sun warns
into life magots in carton. After the cleo
lions Of November last, this party slang
suddenly stopped, but it is evident that
il Is TO be revived, and as the elections
for this fall approach, the Radical pa
pers will be bristling all over with head
lines announcing the slaughter Of inno-
cent carpetbaggers and colored persons
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande.
BY the first Of November the country
will have a surfeit Of horrors. AS the
contest wakes warm in Ohio, Pennsyl.
vanis and California, the truly loyal
carpetbagger will resume his flight
north, chased by unrepentant rebels
and ku-klux monsters, with circular
saw spurs on their heels and rattle
snakes as bands around their broad
brimmed hats. Already has this kind
of exhausted humbuggery COM
menced. Ten days ago the Re-
publicans Of California held
their State convention, and solemnly
resolved: "That the conduct Of that
portion Of the people of the south who
defy the fifteenth amendment, and seek
by intimidation or force to prevent the
lawful exercise Of the elective franchise
by the great body Of colored citizens res
ident therein, is rebellious defiance Of
the national authority, and an attempt
TO prevent the election Of the next Pres
ident by the people, calcalated to arouse
the worst passions Of men, and to dis
turb the peace of the nation, and should
be met by all lsw-abiding citizens north
and south as an effort to revive the
flames Of civil war. While admitting
that differences OF opinion exist as to the
extent Of the conspiracy against the con-
stitutional election of the President in
1876, we deem it well to caution the peo-
pie against slumbering in the face of
DANGER The canvass has COM
menced in Ohio, and the Radicals
are lifting high the bloody shirt.
Congressman Danford, in q recent
speech said: ITO elevate to power the
party that ciings to the lost cause is
disloyal. At the election last fall forty
four'ex-C onfederates were elected to con.
gress. Missouri elected small Confed-
crate general to fill the place Of Carl
Schurz. These gentlemen when they
get power will exercise it ia favor Of the
lost cause Peace could be restored to
the south in thirty days if the govern
ment would withdraw the army and re-
fuse to enforce the provisions otthe four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to the
constitution. But the kuklux and
white leagues follow in the wake Of this
advanced guard, and they must be re-
strained" We had fiattered ourselves
into the belief that this sort Of clap-trap
had been used to exhaustion, and that
the people, weary and disguised with
such stuff, would hiss it out Of future
elections. But an old dog cannot learn
new tricks, and Radical politi-
clans are setting up the same howl from
sheer force Of habit. But the result Of
the elections last fall demonstrated that
the people can no longer be deluded by
the hobgoblins which formerly fright
ened them into the support OF Radical
ism. The cry Of "kuklux," disloyal-
ty,n outrages," intimidation" and
the Fifteenth amendment" will be
about as potent and appropriate as the
use OF coon-skins, hard cider, polk
stalks and the cry of abolition, free-soil
and squatter sovereignty, the cast-of
trash of former elections. Eliminating
all humbuggery in the approaching
campaigns for the election Of State Off.
GERS and President Of the United States,
the people north and south are deter
mined to come in closer fellowship. The
southern masses, more especially the
southern soldiers, plodding along, with
all their energies strained, and their in
genuity actively exercised for expedients
in frugslity to enable them to live to
meet the tsx-gatherer, enforcing bur-
dens imposed by rsscally adventures,
smile when they see such charges !
against them, and wonder at the amount
Of credulity and ignorance required to
be bamboozled by such nonsense.