Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-16
Radicalism

corrupt rule of Radicalism. Since
the formation of the government southern
Democrats have exercised controlling inhu-
ence in the councils of the nation, and, judg
ing from the influence which the Herald
claims for such men as Hill, Gordon, Harris,
Blackburn, Knott, Chalmers and Money, the
southern Democrats exercise controlling in
huence in shaping the action of the party.
Whenever the south presents united front
in demanding a revision of the tariff, or an
appropriation to the Southern Pacific railroad
and the Mississippi levees, the country will
see by the vote that nearly every northern
vote cast will be by Democrats. The south,
with jarring, hostile factions as to the loca-
ton of the Southern Pacific road, cannot eX-
pect aid from northern Democrats until
these feuds are reconciled. Even with a
united south we do not know that bill will
pass congress at the present session, but we
predict that the vote will disclose that the
northern Democrats are disposed to do
Justice to the south. The first great
and paramount duty of the Democratic
party is to cIterminate Radicalism. This ac-
conplished, there will be no sectional feeling
in the north ready to defeat a Democrat for
the crime Of favJrirg the south. In Crisis
like the present, when Radicalism, with its
hideous front is again confronting the Democ-
racy, northern Democrats are reluctant to
cast vote which will result in their defeat
and elect majority of Radicals to the next
house of representatives, who are the avowed
enemies of the southern people, and will
vote against an appropriation to the South
srn Pacific railroad on the ground of section
al hatred. For eleven years. after the war
the Radicals controlled both houses Of con-
gress; did they give US Southern Pacific
road? A bill IN aid of this great enterprise
would have been Kissed out of congress be-
fore the Democrats recovered power. let
northern Democrats are denounced because
they do not reconcile the divisions of the
south and cast vote which will defeat them
and restore power to the party which hates the
south, and is therefore hostile to any enter
prise which benefits herpeople. Crush out the
Republican party, and the south will secure
all she claims. With a Democratic senate,
a Democratic house, and Democratic Pres1-
dent, an appropriation for the Southern
Pacific road is an assured fact; but restore
Radicalism to power in congress, and in the
executive department, and the Southern Pa
ci6c road will be treated with as much con-
tempt in congress as it received when the
Radicals had an overwhelming majority in
both houses. By cutting loose from the north
ern Democracy, the south alienates her only
friend, and the past shows what she has to
expect of Republican congress. For twelve
years the Republicans have hounded down
the southern people. Drunk with power, and
wild with sudden wealth, dishonesty made,
they were ready to hang, behead, disembowel
and quarter the people they commenced rob-
bing. In those dark days of persecution,
they had the sympathy of the northern De-
mocracy. The votes in congress, the voice of
the Democratic press and speakers showed
how true were the northern Democrats in
our hour of need. This friendship, for
which many northern Democrats suffered
martyrdom, has produced an alliance between
the southern and northern Democrats which
the tenders to the Radical locomotives can
never sever.