Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-29
deistood in different ways, and have for
years believed it to be fscf, that
TIE WAR Is OVER


ago, 30 that We are now well sioDg IN
the twelfth yesr OF peace. Senator Nor
ton, IN common with q number OF his
brethren, does not know this. PREF ume
he will go down to his grave in the Iuii
belief that the "boys in bluen and the
"boys In gray" are still fighting. At all
events he will hug the fond thought 10
his bosom that the people OF the nortn
and the people OF the south ought TO ieel
toward each other, pow and hereafter,
exactly as they did during the bioooy
conflict. With such men i have no
controversy. They are given over 10 /
their madness, and it deiles ell RENE
dies. But ask all men who love their
country and are able to perform the op
Grafton of thinking, why the subject OF
our late war should be dragged into this
canvass? 1t was a bloody and devastst-
ing COB fiict between citizens aud States
that had lived together in peace under
common flag. and whose union hereafter
is their manifest destiny. Why should
any patriotic man seek to keep alive lts
memories?
LET THEN FADE AWAY
into the recediDg past, and the old bond
of union be renewed and cemented by
the rivslries OF 8 common brotherhood
for the common veal. Our civil war has
taken its place in the past. 1t has goI Q
before the judgment seat OF history, like
The Mexican Wsr, the war OF 1872, or the
war Of independence; and there is no
more propriely in discussing it in the
pending campaign than there would be
In overhsuIiEg the wars OF the antedlln-
vians. There is even less propriety, for
we could talk abcDt those ancient wars
without the least danger of reminding
old animosities. When our civil war
was upon US, and the questions which
have since been go grandly settled on
the side of the Union, hung in Eecious
dispute, gave utterance tc some strong
words which have no desire to recall.
II you can get bach the clock of our poll
tics, and re enact the circumstances in
which I wss placed, l will reiterate
them. l tried to breathe into the hearts
of the people the spirit OF war, and so to
influence public opinion as to promote
the triumph Of cur arms and the Just set
Element OF the great issue then on trial,
But why should 1 repeat my old war
speeches in this canvass? Why should
Senat Morton repeat his? How long
are the political waters TO be troubled by
GRAoELEss DEMAGOGUEs
who so love the honors and emoluments
of Office that they are willing to clutch
at them at the expense of the nations
pesce. Speaking of this canvass in the
south, Mr.. Julian propounded and an.
swered the following questions: But will
the south besaie under the administration
of Tilden? Can the freedmen be safely
committed to the guardianship of the old
slave masters. 1 answer this question
in the language OF the ablest political
journal in the United States, and sup
porter of Governor Hayes: Oar own
solemn belief is that the less ssid on this
point on the Republican side the better;
that the outrage argument serves and
can serve the purpose OF nobody in this
canvass but the Republican knaves, and
that the probabilities are that the south
will be more pesceable under Tilden
than under Hayes, and this for reasons
which lie on the surface. Tilden ia not
a weak or foolish man. He will have
no motive for tolerating disorders at the
south, nor will his leading followers. On
the contrary, they will perceive clearly
the Importance Of tranquility in that
region to the stability of their hold on
power in the north, while those disorders
will actually constitute nearly the whole
politicsl capital OF the Republicans,
Conk} 9~s, Mortons, Chambers and Cor
nells, With whose support Hayes, it
SEEMS, is to be saddled."
THE TRUTH
of this Is patent to every mans unbiased
common sense. The great need OF the
south to-day is deliversncs from the
Ecrde of thieves and demagogues who
have been fastened like leeches upon the
welfare of the people, and backed iD
their misdeeds by the whole power of
the administrations He referred to Gov
ernor Tilden's great reform movements
and to his fight with Tammany. Mr.
Julian concluded; And now,
IN CONCLUSION,
let me remark that, in arraigniDg the
administration of General Grant and
the leaders of the Republican party,
have intended no attack upon the hon.
est and intelligent masses who still fol-
low its flag, and still hope to redeem it
from dishonor. In some other organizs.
ton, and under other leaders, they will
yet perform as honorable service as
they have already rendered in wisely
solving tbs great problems Of the past.
Neither would l pluck single laurel
from the brow of the party in the days
of its glory, when its great hosts we're
led by such men as Sumner, Sewsrd,
Greeley, Lincoln and Chase. / was
with it and of it in all its grand achieve
ments; and no man can be prouder than
myself of its glorious record, and DO
man forsook it in 1872 with more sincere
But when l SAW that its great
work was done, that the marvellous en-
ergy it displayed during the war had
been turned into the channels OF cor
Iuption ard plumber with the startling
Results have attempted to depict, ana
that the devil hsd safely intrenched
himself IN the works that bad been built
TO lombard him, l parted fIom the
friends OF Lifetime, whose love wss
then turned into hate and scorn, and en-
tered upon a fight for political reform
which l am resolved to prosecute to the
end.