Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-02-16

and crime, and Teiufet all remedies for
the peoples wrongs. The people of the
| southern States would not be Americans,
| they would hardly te human hsisRs, II
| they rest 4 content under such mon
strcus misgovernment rs that Cf their
/ Republican rulers mas been. The result
has been that gradually, in most Of these
! States, the decent anu intelligent part
| Of the whites lave been driven into the
Democratic party. Louisiana, for IL
| stance, is Wing State, and the Wings
would lave carried it over to the Repub-
| lican party, bpL tae corruption OF that
party teTe!led thsm Sd stroI g.
ly that in the election OF 1874
les thsn five thousand white1 voted
with the Republicans, ani these wsre
almost entirely toe tfice-holders and
their personal following. The same is
true of Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi,
and other southern 8 ates. 1t was not
merely disgust at Rerutlicsn piundellrg
which drove the white votes away from
the Republican psr;y; it was because
thew could not Rtaud tns too long con-
tinued robbery, the exhaustirg taxes,
the heavy debts, Another cause justly
confirmed theft deteslation Of the Re-
publican rule. In their extremity they
turre cd for help and justics to the Federal
government at Washington, and there
both help AMI justice were cOntemp,u'
onslv denied. Tnsy fl'I.d the rObIe;s
fayoTites at the White HOu5s and iDf1I-
ential in congress, and their own COM
plants and rem 0Dstrances were rejected
rs those Cf "rebels." The President
gave the Federal patronage in the south
TO men like Spencer, DJrsey, Packard,
Casey and Amas, and these men were
allowed to appoint to important Federal
offices In their States persons many
dozens of whom have since been con-
victed Of public p,undeEing. Many
Others have rua away to avoid inst pun
ishments, while most OF them were
mere adventures and political bum
mers. Nor was this sll. Toe President
has seemed to take especial pleasure in
making appointments which were sim-
ply insults to these southern communi-
les. Thus, when the revolution
aTy scheme of Blr. Brooks filled
in Arkansas and Republi-
can congress declared him to be in
the wrong, General Grant app0inte him
postmaster at Little Rock, turning out
an honest Republican to give Brooks the
place. To one of Brooks's adhelents he
gave a consulship; to another Toat-
Office. Yet these men had just been pro-
nounced by congress guilty of having
planned crime against the State which
would in other counties have made
them outlaws. Again, when two con-
gressional c0amittt es had declared the
Louisiana returning board of 1874 fraud
and had overturned its verdict, the Pres
ident at once appointed Wells, the chair
man Of that boarj, the chief PERI era
tor of this revolutionary fraud,
to one Of the most important |
Federal Offices in the south, and the |
senate hes lately cOnfirme met him. When |
Alsbama became Democratic Spencer |
had still influence enough at the White |
House to procure for his creature Hines |
the marshalship of the State, and he |
would hold it too dsy had he not been |
detected in committing frauds on the |
postofflce. When Mississippi, in. turn, |
no longer willing to bear the CORRUPTION |
and maladministTation of AmeE, bs- |
comes Democratic by the help OF honest |
Republicans, Senator Morton tries to |
rip up the election by an investigation |
which has no warrant in the cGDstitu-
ton, and whose single aim is to main |
tain the power of a set of uHscrupulOus |
and laWiess co r1ptionigt'. When Gov !
ernor Chamberlain in South Carolina |
tries to purify his party ne is openly de- |
nounced in Washington as mo better |
than a Democrat Is anything else |
needed to account for the fact that the |
south is s0lidly Democratic? With |
only fair end honest management st |
Washington four or five Of these States
weuli be strongly Republican to-day; |
aad, what Ia OF greater importance, in |
all OF them parties would be divided ON |
natural and proper issues instead OF on |
the color line. 1t is the fault OF the ad- |
ministration at Washington that this !
has come about. The President has de- |
Iiberately and constantly taken the side |
of the plundeTers in the south. To them,
and to them only, he has shown b0und-
less favor and given unfalteriDg support;
when the people Of their States Tepu-
dated them he has given them Federal
places; when they appealed for help they
got it; when they misFepresented the
south he believed them and refused TO
hear other evidence than theirs. And
now the Republican party is alarmed at
the result.