Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-24
ID EMPHIS APPEAL
THURSDAY, $: AUGUST "a, 1876.
THURSDAY, s: AUGUST "a, 1876
NATIONAL DEaOCRATIC TICKET.
FOB PRESIDENT.
SAMUEL ]. TILDEN,
or New York.
FOR vICE-PREsIDENT,
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS,
or Indiana.
FOR GOVERNOR,
JAMES d. PORTER,
OF Henry.
An ADHESION.

The Republican press is making a
great ado over the fact that the southern
S .ates are likely to go Democratic, with
the single exception Of South Carolina,
making il text or pretext for revival
of the crusade against the south which
all good msn, north and south, had hoped
was never more to be h ard Of. Occa-
sionslly, however, we find exceptions to
this rule Of threatened guin for the south.
The New York Independent furnishes
one in recent letter OF its Washington
correspond ent. That person, while as.
senting to the fact of all the southern
States bsing for Tilden, and in wild
way thres ening US with a united north,
gives 8 reason for it and the possible DE-
feat of Hayes and Wheeler, III the fol-
lowing extract, which We mske from
his letter, which ought to be good and
sufficient, even to himself, for voting the
Democratic ticket. He says:
The recent DEBATES in the house of rep
Tese0tstivss have exhibited the Repub-
lic8n orstors to decided disadvantage.
not pleasant: "Ii you as a party are so
earnestly Ia f.v0r of reform, how comes
it that Bristow and Jewell and Pratt
and Wilson and Yarysn have been
driveG out of Office, aGd men Of easy
virtue have been designated for their va
cant places? p And nob3dy could reply.
There were Republicans present VINO
would have liked 10 say: General
Grant did all this evil work, and we
oannO. help it. We know that he is
incompetent and has been acting shame
fully; cut We must endure it," Nobody
dared to cay this alcui in the debate, for
itwOuld have deeply offended the Presi-
dent and LED to q quarrel among Repub-
Ncans. But it is perceived on ali sides,
and generally admitted, that If the Re
publican licked is defeated in November
It will be the w0Ik of the President and
the clique OF politicians in the senate
who stand by him in everything he
does.
II we add Republican party TO Grant
in the above it will be about right.
While the President has sins to answer
3Jr they are mainly such as the party
forced him to carry, and such SIS SOL
der called TO administer the civil affairs
OF the country, without any previous ed
ucstiOn, taste or exr erience fitting him
for it, might be expected 70 commit in
sheer ignorance OF the consequences, es-
pecislly when, IS in Grants case, he
had bat one idea uppsrmost, to reward
his family and friends, and bend the
powers of government to their selfish
and mercenary purposes. That
Grant did evil, and that contin.
uously, SIS the Independent ad-
mits, there can be no doubt, but the
responsibility for il rests with the party
which has made tool Of him and now
designs making him a scspe-gost. II
rests with the party that would control
Hayes and Wheeler if elected; party
without other purpose than the main
tenance Of sectional passion sud preju-
dice, and which, aside from Grant, is re-
sp0nsible for sn amount of POPULATION,
fraud, theft and usurpstion which, in
view Of our form Ot-government and the
independence OF the people, is almost
past belief. The Independent may rate
Grant and rail at him, but it cannot
shift the responsibility for him from the
Republican party.