Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-07

not in q free country avow the Repubbcanism
it is thus sought to feed to the people coated
with Nationalism. The New York Times is
correct. Tue whole movement in its incep-
ton and purpose Is Republican. The Re
publican ofice-holders, and those who want
TO be SEfice-holders, the hungrily exPectant
candidates for congress. and the little clique
who, fearing as they say, to lose social caste by
a plain ayowal of the Republicanism which
they aid and abet, desire nothing so much,
after office. as the overthrow of the Democratic
party. There is nothing so contemplate
a. deceit, 1t is the lowest form Of lying. 1t is
that form by which those who practice 1t
make tools OF themselves. Worse than any
other form of deceit is that which Is exempli-
fed by the fear and dread of public opinion,
and which clothes itself in one thing while it
practices another. Memphis Nationalism, ac-
cording 10 the New York Times, is of this
character. Republican in purpose and Radi-
cal at heart, it covers behind the word Ma
tional, like the guilty thing it is, fearing the
lash Of an indignant public, indignant be-
cause 1t has suffered so much at its hands,
and would shun it as it would the leProsy,
Sherman and Eliza Pinkston, and RESPONSE
bic, as 1t must ever be, for the oppression OF
the south, the robbery of the south, the theft
of the votes of States in order to rob the
Democracy of the Presidency, the robberies
during Grants career, the credit mobilier, the
Secor Robesons, the whlsky-rings, the cor
rnpt supreme judges and all the nefarious
and Infamous crimes and criminals that
stamp Republicanism as the most odious
partisan organization known to the English
| speaking tongue. Worse even than that
which robbed Ireland of her parliament and
reduced her to beggary, to pauperism, crime
| and chronic condition of revolution, driv-
| ing her children in want to the four corners
| of the globe; worse than that which in Eng
| land connived at the debaucheries OF George
| " and distributed offices to strumpets-such
as the Republicans used in Lomsiana-to be
sold in the public highways. This is the
party which, as the New York Times shows,
offers itself under the guise of Nationalism,
and which by the selection of an Irishman,
proposes to entice from their allegiance to the
Democratic party, men who, but for that
party would to-day have neither status nor
public. We repeat that no Irish Democrat
can afford to strike hands with the common
enemy, come in what disguise he may. He
cannot forget the past. The years that have
passed SINCE 1860 are each one of them
| marked by q special lesson learned in bitter
ness of spirit under Republican domination.
These cannot be ignored. The past is the
great teacher. What the Republicans in
power have accomplished they will try for
| again. Their last great crime, the theft of
| the Presidency, they want to be ready to re-
peat again; hence the desperate struggle to
| carry congressional districts eneugh to secure
| them the national house of representatives.
Hence, too, this Endorsement of the Times,
and perhaps the distribution of the corruption
fund which has been collected in
Washington for special use at the
| south. No Irish Democrat can afford
to vote or act with such party. No man of
their number can have such claims upon
them, of kinship or friendship, as would re-
quire Of them the surrender of principle and
desertion of party and friends. There is not
an office in the country that is worth such a
price. We ask them, then, to look before
they leap; to reflect before they take step
that may separate them forever from lifelong
friends and the associations and principles to
which they have hitherto gwen a hearty,
earnest and intelligent support.