Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-03
THE APPEAL.
Prospectus for the Centennial Year
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The Memphis APPEAL has just en-
tered on the thirty-sixth year Of its ex-
istence, and great as has been its popu-
Iarity, and brilliant as has been its
record in the past, the proprietor5 enter
upon the Centennial year with de-
termination to make 1t a great repre-
sentative journal OF the southwest.
Notwithstanding the hard times, the cir
culation OF the APPEAL is larger tkan at
any previous period Of its long career, and
we design eDlargiDg our field OF useful
ness during the present year by making
the paper still more worthy of the liberal
patronage it has heretofore received. A
newspaper during the present year will
be more than ever instructive and indis-
pensable to the public. Monentous
Questions are to be discussed; it will be
q wear Of agitation and extraordinary
events, We will have elections, local
and national, for State Legislatures and
governors, for new congress, and
new President. Importsnt events will
be Of daily occurrence. Stirring
issues are shaping for the political con-
test, State and national. The APPEAL
will be found abreast Of all progress,
fully I'D to the times. With no Of
Tense to Conservatives, Liberal Repub-
leans, or any faction opposed to the
corruptions oil GrSntism and Radical
ism, The APPEAL will from day to day
preach the gospel of Democratic truth,
and insist on clean Democratic organ
iZstion. The political drift Is leading
the public to understand that every man
must decide which cause he will serve,
and the current indicates most plainly
that there will be but two parties in fu-
ture eleCtiOns-the one Democratic, the
other Republican. There is no alterna-
tive but to choose between them. The
APPEAL, true to it, normal position and
the canonized traditions of the party,
re-eplists under the Democratic banner.
The Democratic party ia national par
ty, and it should have but one and the
same name throughout the Union.
There is no conference or nationality in
party that assumes different names in
different localities. In the northern
States the enemies TO the cOrruptions Of
Rsdicalism, call themselves Democrats;
in Virginia, Conservatives; in Tennes-
see, Democrats and Conservatives; in
other States, Democrats and Liberal-Re-
pubIicaus. When party thus assumes
different names, it becomes jarring fac
ton, made up Of odds and ends, without
hOmOgeneity or nationality. Enter.
tanning these views, we shall discard all
appendages to the name OF Democrat
and ally ourselves with the National
Democracy. Already its banner floats
triumphantly in the breeze. National
Democrats demand an immediate cessa-
ton of the brutal military tyranny over
the south; that the iron heel Of the des-
pot be lifted from the necks OF pros
trate people, upon whom it trampled in
the wantonness Of power and in the
malevolence of revenge. With the tri-
umph of Democracy in November next,
we may once more hope for
the revival of the good old times, when
the people OF this Union we're
all indeed brethren; when the shadow
of the soldier aud Of martial law shall
disappear beneath the recollectiOns of
the s0rrOWful past. With the election OF
8 Democrat to the Presidency, we may
with gladuess proclaim that the Cen
tenniaI of our Independence is jubilee
even beyond that which it commend.
rates. All that capital and enterprise
can accomplish will be freely used to
place the APPEAL in the front rank of
southern journalism. 1t will contain
all the news OF the dsy, including the
Associated Press kilograms, special tells
grams, and letters from all points of in
terest; full aud accurate financial, COM
merciSl and local reports, and fearless
editorial discussions of all current topics,
In word, the APPEAL will be q first
class, live newspaper, complete in every
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