Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-05-31
MEMPHIS APPEAL
41TTRnAY- MAY 81. 1879.
FOSTER AND OHIO.
MAY 81, 1879.

The Republicans of Ohio have, in nominal
ing Foster, satisfied the administration.
Whether the party at large is satisfied is
another thing. That will appear on the day
of election. Intelligent Democrats regard this
advancement of Hayes's friend as equal to
twenty thousand votes for our nominee, who
ever he may be-whether Thurman, Rice or
Ewing. Anu both Republicans and
Democrats claim that it decides
the Presidential question by the adj
vancement of the Hayes Sherman faction at
the expense of Grant. However this may
be, we know not. What concerns us pres
emily Is the tone and temper of the eonven-
ton of one-half the people of a sovereign
State with whom we are not only at peace
but with whom we are in the daily interchange
of the courtesy and comfy usual between
peoples who are equals on the dead level of
a common civilization. The governorship of
Ohio, a possibly victory for the Democratic
party, nay, the Presidency itself, is as
nothing where our honor, manhood and
virtue as a people are deliberately traduced,
and by men who are the confdents of the
President of the United States. We take
the speech of General Garfield at the
ratification meeting held subsequent to the
convention, ard for recklessness of state
ment. for downright lying, we know of moth
ing in the whole range of our political ex-
perience that will match it. A christian
and we are prepared to believe devout one
belonging to, minister in one of the most
simple yet ultra of the branches of the Pro-
testaut church, he does not hesitate to stand
before six thousand of the wire-pullers and
ward bummers with few. very few of the
intelligent and reputable Republicans of
Ohio, and make of the south, with its COM
mercial, its religious, its educational, its man
ufacturing and its vast agricultural interests,
the bug-bear of national safety, the skeleton
in the closet of which Republicans must be
reminded before they sit down to feast. Gar
field deliberately and maliciously, with a
purpose as hell-born as any sin he ever elm
mated to be Stunned byihis felow-chrlstians,
makes statements In relation to the south that
are-ln the particular, as well as the general
wholly and altogether untrue. He deliber-
ately traduces fourteen million of his fellow
citizens for the sake of making capital
for gubernatorial or Presidential aspirant,
and as earnestly as if he were preaching re-
demption through the blood of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Garfield, the student, Gar
field, the statesman, Garfield, whom the
Ohio Republicans have in their minds for
any possible honor, deliberately, in the face
of the facts of our church organizations, of
our universities, colleges and schools, in view
Ill .CA L.
enlightenment and intelligence of our people,
of our willingness to forget and forgive and
our desire to perpetuate the Union, to forgive
the robberies of the carpet-baggers, the
thefts and other crimes of the freedman's
bureau, to overlook the numberless viola
he and his party ignore, in the face of all
these things Garfield, who tells US has Christ
in his heart, deliberately traduces the people
of the south, who have no interest in the
Ohio election. deliberately libeIs them, de-
liberately lies about them, and all because he
would pave the way to the White House for
Sherman or for Hayes, perhaps for himself,
with the prejudice and passion we had hoped
were buried many fathoms deep long ago.
1t Is this desperate attempt by lying, by mali
cious lying, to perpetuate Republican as
cendancy In this government that alarms the
south, not for her own safety-that is as well
assured as that of any of the northern States
but that it is sought to make her factor in
the politics of the country as Ireland is 10
England, and Poland to Russia-that the
free people of great republic are to be held
at bay, ready to spring at each others threats
at the risk of present peace and future well
fare. This is not craftsmanship. It is the
work of political assassin. 1t is the work
of man who, knowing better, feeling
as if lifted upon wave of popu'
lar feeling, prefers to go with
it, even to destruction, rather than, by exert
ing the powers within him in Legitimate
channels, help to stem current that must
ipjure, if it does not destroy, unless it is
turned aside by the patriotism of both Sec
tions. Garfield, like Hayes, would fix the
stigma Of chronic rebellion upon our people
because they will not join the Republican
party, and march and counter-march as he
and they list. But 1t is not only Garfield and
the fraudulent occupant of the stolen Presi-
dental chair who thus feel toward us. The
newspapers that only few years ago were
sympathizinR with the south when we ten
dered our support to the noble and :lagnani-
nous Grecley-these are now leading the
yelping and yowling crew whose stock in
trade is hate of our people and their steady
traductien, with view to make the outside
world believe, as DR.. Holland, of ScribHer's
MGgaSiHs, declares, that we are seml-eivil-
lied, barbarous, chronic rebels, and ought not
to be trusted with personal liberty or the care
and supervision of our own affairs.
Nothing 80 cruel, so wanton, so infamous
as thus was ever attempted in this or any
other country or by any other people. Not
content with destroying the slavery they
helped to create aud perpetuate, they would
Vindictively destroy our labor under a plea
that has no foundation in fact, would not
only destroy our labor system for the sake of
making political capital and perpetuating
their power, but would hold US responsible
for their devilishly conceived purposes, and
besides efecting our ruin would stamp US,
as Sc'ibner'S magazine does, as brutal Doors,
cowardly assassins; and, as the Chicago
Tribune paints US, idle, lazy, shiftless, thrift
less and aimless Migrants, with only one
idea, and that the control of the Federal gov
ernment. They look in the glass and
mistake their own counterfeits for our pre-
sentiment. They sound the depths of their
own sbasement and would st il all to u.s.
They declare their political purposes already
tainted with fraud, corruption, theft, rob-
berry and murder, and would, by crying
stop thief" turn the world Efrom their