Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-11-19
POsTMASTER-GENERAL KEY.
Rls Present Attitude as 4 Supporter
or BsdSc ssicr1i and his Recent Utter
nhces Against the South Com
pared with his Speeches and
Position in 1876.

EDITORS. APPEAS-=1he friends of Postmas,
terieneral key were greatly shocked when they read
pf that gentleman, taken from the Baltimore I,te-
lcdp. General Key had alre Idly prepared US for a
little speeches while travelling about the eountFF
But We we're totally unprepard for Sil5 and VEN
cially those Democrats who have been The warm ad
herents OF General Key in bis own State He classes
Az az 1hc makes political war upon the hondhoider
Communists" He Is bound to know that hundreds
OF thousands OF Democrats are opposed to the prn-
ciple which exempts the bOndhoidef from taxation
States bonds is taxed He also knows that very
small pOrioh OF those Democrats belong to or anil
lists They are greenbSck DemoeTats. Who op
pose Radiealsfn and all the devitry that has been
S0mmiIted by that party since i has been party.
These Democrats and the Nationals General
Key calls Communists. There is a deep
meaning In that word, used by aIr. BeE. when he
was on MS rambles out west last summer some
body said to him. ut IL said sou are to be on the
1882 and Neg replied that There was nothing in
harder things an that about BIN and he would not
get mad" The answer plainly showed that those at
took his seat in thsnostofiee dspaTtment cI0TS b,j
Tyler's desk had made him believe they would
make him Vice president in or3er TO cause him to
spread himsel. in the endeavor to split the Dem
ooratic patty II was either this, or his vanity,
prompted him to make the reply which showed that
he was full of the idea. The deep wrong he does
about '"s0lid south" He is Representa-
as saving that SHOULD the solid south
S6ge n I'd Be dsr grid" thai There is great fear
thar an effo t Ould be made In that event to pay
the millions If southern claims growing out OF the
war" These are the words from a man who, as a
DemocIat, stumpad the State OF Tennessee in 1876
cratic legislature and as Democrat asked election
from them. And now this man, southern born.
rats I'd and educated, pandes to Radical tckeTy and
hatred of the nth and f0ully ISLANDERS the southe
people. Mr.. Key represents the present generation
OF white men in the south as entertaining un
friendly fe ling against the north which will net be
eIadeeted until the next generation comes o. This
Mr.. Key cT9Ot believe because he 6OlrS TO the Goa
trary. But why this venom on his part against the
south? Let US take retrospect. When Key was
evidently expected of him by the RadicasJ that he
would be the means OF dividing The Dem-
Ss9T party In the Soqt 7rv and One pa TSo
has observed his actions since that time knows that
he spread husef in the effort to divide the party,
and in order to make him limp OUT and do his
level best in that direction the RAIDS last summer,
er sn he sh%y pc pbssed ee
the currency question, and the papers were fJl OF
came of in November, and the Democratic party, in
Keys own state, did1,t spit worth cent. On the
m 'de the RAIDS think he was the cock Gf the
walk, in district heretofore largely Radical tn
(who could play the fiddleO to congress, over the
most talented Republican now In the State. Ald
grass from Tennessee, there Will be nine in the next
congress. This was too much for Key. He finds
enqt ne h f s ne WRONG Gu a6 OF course
as a bad egg: So in order to heed of
Sucn Il CtilaInlly 10 himself Dy Inc loss OF elglt
thousand dollars year salary, he turns
loose his hood-gates upon the whole south,
and panders To those people at the moth
who continue to wave the bloody shirt. If Mr.
Key Will read some of the speeches he made when
he and Hayes and Devens were junketing through
New England In 1877, he will find that he then told
the PEOPLE OF the north that the people Of the south
had long since buried the Ratchet and entertained
no lll-Will against the northern people. He now
says they have illfeeling and 1t will only pass away
when the present generation PASSES away. That "a
division OF the white race in politics Is ABSOLUTELY
necessary before dinerent state OF affairs in the
south can BE- brought about Thus, according &c
Key, the present generation of white men must die
out and the next one must be divided in politics
before this feeling against the north be eradi
Gated. By utterng such sentiments above quoted
Mr. Key plainly shows that he has cut loose
from the Democratic party and is trying to
make capital for himself with the fanatcal element
OF the north who still wave the BLOODY shirt. Afte
such utteranceS- We predict that Mr.. Key will have
no political friends In the south, except Repubi
cans, for he denOunces the Nationals, and large
majority Of the Democrats, as communists,
transit Key. He has played his little hour upon the
public stage and will soon be thrown aside by the
RAIDS as a squeezed lemon for which they have nc
further use. Should he be candidate for the Vice
Presidency, there Will 10 doubt be "sOlid south
against him. The south WILL It is earnestly hoped
ever be solid against any man or party who SANDER: