Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-08
hEMPEIIS APPEAL
THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1875.
nI.aIssIPPI PnIIIIrs.

The tax-paying people Of Mississippi
are preparing to make q bolt, deter
mined, desperate effort TO free them
selves from corruption and misTule
West Tennessee feels a deep and pr,
found Interest in the result. ATkaI sa'
Is redeemed, regenerated and Olsen
thrslled.n Peace pervsdes the State
and its future prosperity is assured
There is 3 silver lining to the dark
cloud that has 30 long hung ovel
louisiana. The people OF Mississippi
are still gropingIabOut in darkness. An
archy peTvsdes the State. There is
great antagonism between the two
races, and unless wiser cOunsels prevail
riots and bloodshed will he the inevita.
bic result. The Democrats will hold a
State convention early in August, for
the purpose OF nominating a regular
ticket. Senator Thurman, of Ohio, b.
II. Hill, of Georgia, and other distin.
guished speakers have been invited to
address the convention. 1t is to be
hoped that a campaign will be insu-
gursted which will result in the election
of men that will give prosperity to the
State, and that peace and tram
quillity without which there can be
no permsnent prosperity. We are graft
fed to see determination 10 make the
fight under the Democratic banner.
The fusion programme in former cleo
tions have resulted in ignominious de-
fests, and matters cannot be worsted by
the proposed change. General Dent,
Grants carpetbag brother-in-lsw, was
defeated by thirty thousand majority.
Senator AlcOrn was odious to the De-
mocracy, and he was overwhelmingly
defeated by Ames. Grants majority
over Greeley was nearly fifty thousand.
These facts demonstrate that many
thousands Of the truest and best Demo-
Gratis OF the State, dissatisfied with the
policy Of nominating Objectionable
Radicals for acknowledgements, either alb
stained from going to the polls, or, in
desperation and anger, voted for the Re-
publican candidates as rebuke to the
folly which suggested such humiliation.
We hear the most encouraging news
from every part OF the State. A straight
out Democratic ticket will create an en-
thusiasm in Mississippiwbich can never
be inspired by Radical-by such men
IS Dent or Alcorn. The Demo-
cratic party is determined to
enter into no more entangling
alliances, no more combinations to car
ry elections by voting for ancient enc
mics. The New Orleans Bulletin says:
/" Mississippians are by nature a noble
and chivalric people. More fortunate in
one respect than Louisiana, Mississippi
possesses q homogeneous white populs-
ton, and, as necessary consequence, a
healthy public opinion. Patient in ad.
versity, courageous under the severest
trials and Affections, they have won for
themselves unfading laurels, both in
war and ia peace. On the plains Of
Chalmette, upon the ensarguined fields
of Mexico, and in every engagement Of
the late unfortunate struggle, her heroic
sons fearlessly barred their breasts to the
battles storm, and wrote their names in
letters Of blood On history's brightest
page. Since 'grim-vissged war has
his wrinkled 'front.' they
have best their swords into plow-
shares accommodated themselves to
the new order of things, and entered
with commendsble zeal into the greatest
of battles-the struggle against adverse
fortune. They have risen superior to
every difficulty that surrounded them in
their social and material relations, and
it only remains for them to display the
same wisdom and foresight in their po-
litical affairs, as they have in all the
other walks of life, in order to raise their
State out of the slough Of despond TO
which Rsdicalism has reduced her. We
shall awsit the approaching struggle
intelligence andignorance, hon.
ssty and rsscElity, political virtue and
official vice, civilization and barbarism,
Democracy and Radicalism, with an
abiding faith that victory will crown
his final effort of people determined to
De free. II, however, in the memorable |
iecrees Of fate she. should be again man.
.cled and chained to the oppressor's car,
hen, in the eloquent words Of her own
fitted Prentiss, we may exclaim, Blot |
rom the banner the brightest star that |
,litters to the name Of Mississippi, and |
cave but stripe behind, fit emblem Of |
Ter degradation