Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-31
STILL TRUE TO THE SOUTH.

The Radicals have raised the bloody shirt,
and the SANDER mills are put in motion. In
few weeks it will be charged that the ku-
klux are raiding over the country, spending
their summer pastime in numbering negroes
and loyal citizens. On Thursday last the Ver-
mont Republicans held their State conven-
ton, and Ex-Governor Smith, the temporary
chairman, in his speech said: "Does equall-
ty exist in the rebellious States? Never since
prior to the war has the spirit of rebellion
been so violent, so rampant, as to-day" This
atrocious falsehood was loudly applauded,
and is Endorsed by the Republican party. 1t
has been repeated by their newspapers in the
face of the fact that the south is as quiet
aud peaceful "a the State of Vermont. There
Is no antagonIsm between the whites and
blacks in the south. We hear of no muir
ders, 10 riots, no resistance to law. Yet the
country is told that ''the spirit of rebellion
has never been so violent, so rampant, as TO-
day" And this cruel libel is applauded and
repeated by the Republican newspapers.
While the south is thus slaudered by the
Radicals, the northern Democracy, true to our
people, come to their defense. They show
to the country that this charge is a wicked
calumny. In defending the southern people
from this unmitigated falsehood the New
York Star says: "Who does not know that
The south is the most peaceful and conserva-
tive section of the country? There is not
ripple on the surface of society there, and the
negroes and whites live in perfect harmony
Indeed, ever since the Vermont and other
eastern carpetbaggers of the radical Repub-
licau stripe were squelched in the southern
States, there has been peace, harmony and
prosperity. They were the frebrands and
p!underers who stimulated luminosity be-
tween the races, and caused all the disorder
there was in the south. But the gist of this
crazy ex-governor talk was relative to the
cessation of the reign of Radical carpetbag
misrule. He condemned Mr.. Hayes's
tered and riven' the Republi-
can party. And, of course, he is indig
nant that the army is to be reduced, and car
not any longer rule the south by the bayonet.
lie evidently wants Grant back again, and
his sword-government restored. Such old
wool-dyed New England radical Republi-
cans can never be cured of their craziness
and sectional hatred" This represents the
general tone of the northern Democratic
press and speakers. For fifteen years the
northern Democracy has defended the south
from the calumnies of such slanderers as Ex-
Governor Smith, of Vermont. Yet there are
men in the south base enough to desert
our friends, champions and defenders, and
TO embrace our slanderers and prosecutors.
10 commenting on such ingrates the Okolo-
ma Mss States forcibly says: when Mr..
Hayes was a congressman and helping TO
forge our chains, the northern Democrats
were lighting reconstruction and contending
for our perfect equality in the Union. They
stood by US with fidelity that was sublime.
They fought our 6ght as though it were their
own. They were friends in need. They
came to cur aid in the hour of adversely.
They had nothing to gain by taking sides
with US. They had gold and popular
ity to lose. 1t was an act Of su-
preme unselfshness Oh their part.
They were animated by the purest and no.