Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-18
THE WEAPONS OF RADICALIsm.


The extracts published in the APPEAL
ysstt rday exposed the character OF the
weapons the Radicals intend to use in
the present contest in Tennessee. 1t is
plain that they will endeavor to avoid
all argument, and to prevent an expos
ure Of the infamous record OF their party
by slaudering the Democratic leaders
and appealing to sectional prejudices.
Against the attack Of honest investigs-
ton and inquiry they propose to hurl
the most venOmous shafts, and by din
Of uproar ard confusion hope to drown
the voice Of truth. The speeches OF
Nnlsan and II lux at Knoxville Oh Mon.
day night against Bate and Harrls, were
evidently intended to provoke them and
their friends into some overt act or ex.
preston which will give the Radicals
RI opportunity to miscOnstrue and
p 'esent to the north as an evidence that
thu south is still disloyal and rebellious.
6 9nersl Bate and Governor Harris will
take care Of themselves dur
only discuss the political issues which the
Radicals Of East Tennessee have insug.
urstCd. Seeing that the negro ia becom-
ing weary Of Radicslism, Mr.. Nelson
hopes to retain their support by levivipg
an exploded falsehood. He said in his
Knoxville speech ON Monday last that
"thsre was a deep-laid scheme to re-
enslAve the negrot s, and advised them
to avert the impending doom by voting
the straight ticket every time, and thus
stave off the possibility Of resurrec-
ton of the Confederscy." Mr.. Nelson
must presume largely upon the igno-
rance and gullsbility Of the people Of
Tennessee, or he would not make
charge 30 baseless. Why did he not ex-
pose the scheme and the sehemers?
Nelson givey the world startling piece
OF information. The Confederate"
congress has just adjourned without any
effort to re-ensIave the negro, and whsre
can this deep laid scheme originate il
not in congress? What should possess
mRu CT Dave Nelson's Characteristic
son Of a man loved by the Democracy
Cf Tennessee-to thus dishonor his own
intelligence, is past all human compre-
hension. In charity we can only ex-
cuse Mr.. Nelson at the expense Of his
creduiity, for permitting himself to be-
come the victim Of wicked hoax. 1t is
a reckless attempt to prejudice the col
orsd vote against the whites, who have
shown a disposition to free themselves
from the party that has promised them
q mule and forty acres Of land. We ad.
wise Nelson and Houk to cease their
personal war upon the Democratic elect
ors, and the peddling Of pstty SLAM
de9s about re-enslsving the negroes.
More than a decade has passed into his
t)ry sirce the last gun of the war was
fired, the last sword was sheathed, and
the last Confederate flag was fuTled.
Eleven years have hsstened by since
the r publican party reached its grand
contamination; and it had but to rule
fraternally and iuiintegrity to gather, for
ages to come-the ripened harvest Of its
struggles and triumphs. But there came
stains upon its crown and blots upon its
fair escutchen as the placement adj
varced with their groveling ambition.
The mousing owls burrowed into the
foundations of the graodest monuments
# Republican achievements, and Judge
Houk cannot obliterste these facts by
traducing Democratic electors for Ten.
nessee. Under the administration OF
Grant misrule and plumber and de-
hatchery and shame in high places
have taken deep loot, and public atten-
ton cannot be diverted from a consid.
Grafton OF these facts by the exalted
craftsmanship of D. R. Nelson, whose
panacea is tHaddling about ia deep-laid
scheme to re-enslave the negroes"