Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-19

was cheated out OF the Presidency by IN
| NJ 'LAns and Dennises, OF Florida, and tn
| Wellses and Eliza Pinkstons, CT Louisiana
Ii has furnished the Republicans with fresl
texts for sermons on Democratic mismanage
meDt, and for charges of trickery where ther
is no room for trickery, and whert
none exists. Had all the move
ments made within the past eighteen month
TO uncover this fraud been conducted IN tn
same bungling manner as has marked tn
subsequent proceedings for an investigation
we should to-day be as far from 1t as we wer
on the fourth of March, 1877, when the prom
Use of Hayes's poll y was thrown to the PEG
pie of the south as compensation Tor los
now deplored by the de fdctO Presidents owl
partisans, and as a measure of atonement TO
a great crime. Happily for the Democratic
party, and for the country, there were mel
enaged In the work of unearthing the proof
of fraud who appreciate the value of silence
but above all, the valne If method. Mole
never burrowed NOR qii'tF, OK to better
purpose thai they. Their work was vel
done. Had the house Democrats taken it NJ
where they left off, and moved with the sam,
determination after result, the secret PeltoI
| meeting in Baltimore would have been IN
necessary, and the defeat of Monday woulC
have been avoided. Detection might havl
shown itself, and the fears of injury to lead
ing Democrats might have been expressed
with view to binder and repress, but these
would have failed. The party, urged by an
eager public opinion, would have been unit
every man would have been In his place, and
the first vote taken on the question of privi-
| lege wonld have warned the Republicans
| against flibustering. As it is, several days
| perhaps a week, will be lost before decisive
vote can be had, and by that much or a;
much more, the day of adjournment will be
! postponed As to the resolution offered IL
| caucus by Casey Young (who is strong fol
| ~ fI,a nc
amended by declaration that it was not in
tended to impeach Mr.. Hayes, or disturb
! him in the possession of the office of Presi-
dent; it is generally deemed impolitic, because
| Potter has covered all the points necessary,
and in view of the fact that the proofs Of
completely 10 the fraud by the de factO Presi-
| dent may be so overwhelming as to compel
| his Impeachment, at least to make way by
which Mr.. Tilden may have the recourse in
the supreme court provided for in the saving
clause of the electoral commission bill.
| Colonel Young has beed very conservative IN
| this matter of the investigation of the fraud.
| He has feared the effect of the reopen
| ing of the damning crime upon the business
of the country, and has felt as if the decision
of the electoral commission was finally of
the whole business. He has gone npon the
predicate that the affair was settled by an
| appeal to the stuffed commission, while ac-
knowledging that the decision of that body
was dictated by partisan zeal and founded
| upon perjury, bribery and corruption. In
this he has no doubt been guided by the ex-
preston of some of the most influential of
his constituents who were caught about the
fourth of March, 1877, by the gittering gen.
eralities of Hayes's inaugural and
the promises of a southern policy
which has not and could not go beyond the
removal of the troops from South Carolina
and Louisiana. say has not and could not,
because the moment the troops were removed
in accordance with Grants order to that eff
feet, issued three days before he vacated the
Presidential chair, the people of the then
Frustrated States were put IN possession OF
the machinery of government In those States,
were by that act fully and completely re-
stored to their rights in the Union, and were
therefore, by the constitution, placed beyond
the reach of the national executive ode fdctO
as well as de jure) and so were out of the
reach of Hayess interference in any form.
But our people were so used to arbitrary
power for thirteen years, that when the last
armed foe disappeared they still remained,
and many of them still are under the spell of
it-they can hardly believe that 1t cannot,
may not and will not at some time be re-
stored. They forget that even though the
Republican party could do it and willed it
land think it is now very far from de-
string it,, there is a Democratic house to pre-
| vent that to-day which would be as prompt
| 10 do so as when last year it refused to pay
| the army unless the Republican senate con-
sented to a proviso that the troops were not
to be used for the purposes of oppression OF
| repression at the south. They forget this
fact as they forget that it is because of the
noble stand made by the northern and
western Democrats that any change in
northern public opinion favorable to US has
| ever taken place, that it is owing to
| the steady advocacy of constitutional princi-
pies during and after the war that we owe
our escape from a bondage worse than
| Egyptian. They forget that when Hayes, as
an Ohio politician, was as radically rampant
as Morton (who was his dearest political
| friend, the northern Democratic party,
working part of the time as hopeless minor
| ity, labored with zeal worthy of the best days
of the party, and after nearly ten years of a
contest without parallel in the history of con-
| additionally governed countries, conquered
not merely a truce or a peace, but a victory
| that so changed the current and drift of pub
| lie sentiment as to utterly destroy the bloody
| shirt policy and anticipate the enforced
| tribute to the spirit of the times which the
| paid hirelings of Hayes still vaunt as his
southern policy. All these things have been
| forgotten by the southern Democrats who
| have lauded Hayes. all these, and the terri
BILE Effects of the Sherman financial policy,
| which has brought ruin to SO many house.
] holds. AS between Hayes, made President
by the corruptlng influences of John Sher-
man, as acknowledged In the letter that wo1-
| thy wrote to James E. Anderson, election
supervisor of West Feliciana, Louisiana-as
between Hayes, made President by the per
| jury of the filthy Eliza Pinkston and Wells
and Anderson, and by the perjury and cor
| ruption of M Lin and Dennis, of Florida-as
between Hayes, made President through the
crimes of these and the corrupting influences
and brioes of Office and money offered by John
Sherman and Noyes, now minister to France
as between Hayes, the acceptor of stolen
goods, and the Democrats. to whom the
south owes redemption from carpetbag ad-
venturers, no man at the south with a heart
| to appreciate good deeds and to hate bad,
| can hesitate for moment Certainly no
such man should attempt to stem the current
| of investigation into the crowning fraud of
Radicalism- Founded on fraud, nursed on
| fraud, prosecuting the war on fraudulent
pretenses, perpetrating ssctionalism, and en-
| forcing reconstruction to cover up fraud, the
| Republican party is fated to go down amid
the kissing and scornful mockeries of the
people, wrecked at last by the most gigantic
of all its crimes, the theft of the Presidency;
theft accomplished by intimidation throu Oh
the army controlled by Grant, and by bribery,
corruption, perjury, stuthng Of ot-boxes.
| robbery of ballot boxes, alteration of
election returns and promises of gifts of
office. Hindered for a few days, the
investigation will go on, and long before it
closes, tohen perhaps only tenth Of the eri-
dence on ,0aich it is predicated is in, the peo-
pie ererytChere tOiI rejoice in the Iab0rs of the
| newspapers that hare nerer ceased to cry
fraud and to iohich is almost entirely due
the present determined attitude of the Demo
cratic representatives. The documentary evil
dence OF fraud is in safe hands. So, also, is
the documentary evidence of the completely
of Sherman and Noyes and others, if not all
| of the Republican visiting statesmen, in the
crime of stealing the Presidency. 1t is also
among the probabilities that documentary
evidence iuculpating Hayes will be forthcom-
| ing. The readers OF the APPEAL can assur-
eddy prepare for a series of startling surprises.
/ j.. NJ. K.
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