Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-25
AIElIPMIS APPEAL
SATURDAY, NAY %, 1873.
WHERE TAR REsPONsIRILITY
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The National party is an individual party,
born OF individual discomfort. All admit that
there is cause for this disquietude and suffer
ing. Honest men, who have labcred to secure
a competency for their declining years, have
seen the fruits of their toll swept away in the
whirlpool of bankruptcy; mechanics, accus-
toned for twenty years TO high wages and
fast living, are now unable to secure the
daily necessities for themselves and their fam
lilies; laborers and toilers who, even In the
most prosperous times, received barely suf-
ficient to live, are now either naked and hun
cry or the objects of charity. Out of these
sufferers has grown the National party, which
may be roperly called, without any disre-
spect, the child Of misfortune. Many of its
leaders are men of wealth, who know moth
ing of poverty and the want of employment
and bread, and who, knowing the unpopu-
larlty of the Radical party in the south, and
that they have been repudiated by the Demo-
cratic party, ally themselves with the Ma
tionals for the purpose of securing fat Offices,
which will enable them to live in continued
luxury. Honest men, struggling for an ex
istence, are induced to join the
Nationals, and to enter the are
ma of politics, hoping to bring
back the days of high prices and prosperity.
Failure in this is as certain as the rising of
the sun. Indeed, the Nationals, if they are
strong enough to accomplish anything at all,
will aid in the restoration of Radical rule,
which is the cause of all our woes. The
causes which created the National party can
be traced to the Republican party, and any
division among those who would crush out
Radicalism only prolongs its power. The
true cause of all the misfortunes which have
bankrupted the rich and entailed suffering
upon the poor can be traced to the corruption
and prohigate teachings of Republicanism.
That party for eighteen years has had sole
control of the national government. In this
long time, by every means in its power, it
sought to make the rich richer, and the con-
sequence is that rich and poor are founder
ing in the same abyss. 1t ruined the in
dustries of the country by ll-considered
and unwise legislation. 1t granted to giant
monopohes almost un1mlUcu power, Une
exercise of which has not benefited its
holders, but only distressed the people. 1t
wasted and destroyed. at time when its
chosen apostles preached as gospel truth
the fallacy that debt was a blessing. By
extravaganza in high places it taught our
people personal proAigacy, so that to-day it
is hardly a reproach for one to sneak out
of paying his honest obligations. Are not
these statements the truth? Are not, we
ask IN all candor, the present hard times and
consequent distress in every department in
life, the wages of Republican sin? Your
answer must be in the affirmative. Where,
then, should the people look for succor
Surely not in a new party, led by untried
men, but in the grand Conservative Democ-
racy, founded by Thomas Jefferson, which
has sustained the constitution in every strug-
gle, which has opposed sectionalism in every
form, and the robbing of the government
and the impoverishing of the people at every
step. IF the men 10 the National party
would have studied the history of the De-
mocracy they would have seen in its prin-
ciples a platform broad and wide enough for
every well-meaning workingman TO stand
upon. The Democratic party is now, as it
always has been, the determined foe of mo-
nopolies and all plans for the aggrandize-
ment of the few at the expense of the many.
Sturdlly as it has fought for the right in the
past, it will contend no less vigorously now
against the damnable doctrines of the COM
mune, which would drag all down into one
common ruin and dishonor. How can the
Democratic party be expected to correct the
evils about which the Nationals complain
when it has been out of power for eighteen
years? The National party would now
have no existence if the Democrats
had not been cheated out of the President il
had elected, pledged to. retrenchment and
reform, and to correct the very evils that the
Nationals propose. New life has been in.
fused into the people of South Carolina, Mis-.
sissippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, so soon as
the Democrats secured power, and the same
result will follow throughout the country as
soon as the Democrats secure the control OF
the National government. The National
party will share the inevitable fate which has
overtaken all third parties. Every Demo
cratic vote which it secures is vote for
Radicalism, and as the Democrats do not
propose to disband their organization, after
defeating the Democrats in one or two elec
lions, the Nationals will retire from the con-
test, leaving the Republican party, the author
of all our woes, stronger than ever. Such hai
been the history of all third parties. The
Literal movement of 1872, which brought
Horace Greeley into the field, was only the
action of a few high-toned Republicans, who
were unable to manage Grant and fill the
offices. Nearly all have gravItated back into
the Republican ranks, some with especia
haste in search OF bread and butter. Most Of
the issues made by the Nationals will pas;
away with the return of prosperity. No party
can exist unless it be founded upon vital
fundamental principles. The National party
is necessarily transitory. The Democratic
party cannot die and the republic live
BADLY FRIGHTENED.