Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-08
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS


WHEREAS, The present sdministrs-
ton of our national government has
been characterized by the most reckless
extraYsgance and grossest corruption in
high places. While our taxes have been
onerous to q degree that renders our Ia
Dor Improbable and our property worth
less, our government has been unable,
through the mismaI agement, incspacity
aud dishonesty Of cur rulers to meet its
obligations and redeem its pledges. An
irredeemable and fuctuating currency
has been entsiled upon Us, making BUSH
ness calculations uncertain, aud invest
ments unsafe and insecure. The enor-
nifty and frequency Of corruption and
crimes in official stations are only
euualed by the bo!dness and etfrOntery
of the criminals, and the impunity with
which they escape punishment. Our
late secretary Of war, after being guilty
of the boldest and most heinous offenses
that ever disgraced any administration,
confesses his crimes, resigns his high po-
sition with the "regrets" Of the execu-
tive, aid stands acquitted upon the re.
cords OF radical Republican senate.
Through the incapacity OF Robson,
our navy has been robbed Of its pristine
excellence, millions Of dollars squan-
dered, with no purpose or effect but to
fill the Golfers and satisfy the
greed Of a corrupt and aVsriciOus
official. The course of the
party in power toward the south
has been unWIse, ungenerous and IN
Just. Instead Of speaking to US encour-
aging words to rekindle the hope in our
sOrrow-stri cken hearts, and lending Us
helping hand to build up our waste
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and resorted to every scheme which the
ingenuity of devilish malice could in
vent to goad US to desperation. ''They
have erected multitude of new ffices
and sent hlther sWarms of new officers
to harass our people and eat cut their
substance" Between the white. and
colored man, whom God intended should
be friends, and whom fate has placed
here in one common country, they have
attempted to stir up bad feeling and
strife, to array one race against the
other. Though the last shot Of our IN
fortunate and unhappy civil war was
fired over eleven years ago, and the true
and brave men of both sections desiIe
peace and harmony, this party would
obtain longer lease of power by reviv-
ing and appealing to the passions and
prejudices that wisdom and prudence
dictate should long ago have been sup.
pressed and made to yield to reason.
They would forever fight over and over
issues that have long been settled and
are desd. Like the ghOul of eastern
story, they take a savage pleasure i'll
haunting the graveyards OF the past in
the hope of digging up fessts
upon which to grow fat. The people Of
our country have at length awoke from
the lethsrgy which has 90 long possessed
them, and have begun to look anxiously
about fer some relief from the many
troubles that beset them. The conven-
ton of the Democratic party which Ss-
sembled at st. Louis on the twenty
seventh day Of June, 1875 did but echo
the voice of the whole nation yearning
for retrenchment and reform; therefore
bel
RESOLVED, That we do this Icy
ratify, confirm, indorse and approve
every article OF the platform of the Dem
ocratic party adopted at st. Louis the
twenty-seventh day Of June, 1875, and
we pledge ourselves to do all that lies
within our power for the election, in No
vember next, of Samuel J. Tldan snd
Thomss A. Hendricks President and
Vice President Of the United States, and
Van II. Manning, member Of the lower
Louse of congress from this cor ressinnaI
district.
Resolved, That the interests at stake
in this contest are too great and too
vital to admit of division and dissension
in the raUks Of our own party. That it
has long been a maxim OF the Demo-
cratic party that IFS constant effort snd
steady aim is the permanent establish
ment of the true principles Of q wise
and good goVernment-nOt the aggran-
dizement or elevation OF individuals;
that their party leaders and candidates
for office are not men whom it wishes
peculiarly to have or enrich, but simply
and merely opponents OF grand truths
and principles. We will therefore lay
aside all personal preferences or feelings
and work zeslously and hsrmoniously
together for the accomplishment of
common object. We will do cur part
toward giving Tilden and Hendricks the
State of Mississippi by forty thousand
majority, and Manning this congress
siOnal district by ten thousand.
ResolUed, That the thaDks-earnest
and heartfelt-of the good people of cur
grand old State are eminenty due, and
are hereby most cordially given, to our
representatives in the last legislature fol
their earnest and successful effort in the
line of honest government, retrench-
ment and reform. That for>their prompt
action lin fre eng US, as We hope, for
ever from the presence of that Corrupt
class Of carpetbag" officials, who have
80 long disgractd US abroad, while prey
ing upon us at home, they are entitled
to our gratitude as men TO whom We
are willing to intrust our dearest inter-
ests.
These resolutions were unanimously
sDd enthusiastically adopted, and the
committee instructed to publish them in
the Memphis APPEAL, the jackson
Clarion, and all papers in the congres.