Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-07
4lElTPHTS APPEAL
SATURDAY. DECEMBER Z, 1878.
SENATOR LAMAR.

The Republican press in their eagerness to
inauRurate a new war are striking at every
southern man Of prominence, with all the
venom of a serpent blended by It's own poi
son. Ii was supposed that Senator Lamar's
patriotism, his conservatism, and his massive
weight of character, would save him from
abuse and traduction, but the New York T'-i-
June, now the most malignant of all the Rad
ical papers, makes an atrocious attack upon
the Missssppian. In defending Lamar, the
New York World says:
The attack Of the Tribune upon Senator Lamar
turns out according to our washington dispatches,
10 be less wanton than appeared on the face OF
10 be- but IL Is not less but more scandalous on thai
account. In truth, nothing could be more scandal,
Gus than a deliberate attempt to revive sectional
the business OF the country and retard-
which II seems that nothing short Of purposed plot
postpone. 1t is perfectly true and Senator La
mar showed at once his good sense and his courage
BY saying It, that self government and public order
are issues az the south. Spectators and
simpletons. their instruments, are playing with hre
1hen they try TO set the laborng men of the south
against It's property and its Intelligence In point OF
lima comparable to that charged by Butler In Massa-
chusetts. what the country wants at the hands OF
congress Is peace and practical legislation.
No man in the south has contributed so
much toward the restoration of peace as
Senator Lamar Peace has been his unvary
ing theme for seven years; but he now pro-
claims to the country that ''self. government
and public order are paramount issues in the
south" With Grant as the candidate for
the Presidency, and sectional hatreds forced
into the canvass, the southern people in self
protection would unite IN a solid and inn
pregnable phalanx. So soon as the southern
States were freed from the rule of carpet
baggers, and secured self-government
through the persistent efforth of the Demo-
cratic party, the people cared nothing for
party prejudices. Men became Indifferent
to party slogans, and there was an evident
disposition to elect good men to Office with
out regard to past party affiliations. This
fact was evidenced in this county in the last
August election. But now that the Repub-
hcans have raised the bloody.sh banner,
and commenced new crusade of SANDER
and utilization of the south, the watchword
Is, ''To your tents, o Israeli The people
are again turning their eyes to their friends,
the ever-faithful Democracy, with as much
confidence as the worshipers of the sun look
to the morning twilight. The prudent, the
moderate, the conservative statesman, L. Q. G.
Lamar, tells the "stalwart" simpletons that
they are playing with fire, that self-govern-
ment are paramount issues in the south,
that it overrides all other questions, that it
will swallow up the tariff, the resumption,
the reconciliation of silver, the demand for
greenbacks and all other questions. This is
a vital issue. 1t involves life and death.
The south will always be "sohd'' for self
protection, but never "solid' against the
north for anything which will iDiure single
northern State or community. 1t is solid"
against the restoration Of carpetbag rule
and those who are laboring TO kindle into
flame the expiring embers of feud which it
is our desire and our interest to forget. The
south IS ''solid" in behalf of the preserva-
ton of good government, and nothing else.
The problem of maintaining reasonably hon.
est government, with tremendous negro
vote which needy adventures are constantly
leading into efforts to renew official robbery
by putting known thieves in office, is seri-
Gus one, but not one of the south's own
making. That the white people will make
some mistakes in dealing with it is to
be expected, but they are working out
their own salvation from the flthiest of rob-
Der despotisms, and they are going to do it.
The north can insaneIy make itself solid
against them and keep alive a needless sec
tional hostility, but no power on.earth can
compel people to submit again to govern
ment which is more unbearable than DEATH
If people will but honestly and coolly think
of the matter they will comprehend the diff
ference between "solid south" and ''so,id
north" The south is combined to resist the
of such government as no north
ern community would submit to, even if it
had to overthrow it by violence, and the
north is asked to combine in favor of an eff
fort to force just this very kind of govern
ment on the south. No appeal more desper-
ate was ever made in behalf of the party.