Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-28

nomination and the election, be seemed to
be deaf and dumb and dead when the great
crime against the republic was openly threat
ened. Protesting to love the constitution
and free institutions, he tsmely submitted
to see their subyersion without word Of
protest. he did not utter one word during
the melancholy, memorable days which IN
tervened between the day Of election IN 1876
and the day Of Mr.. Hayes's inauguration.
Not one syllable. During all those dark
days and months, when the millions of patrI-
otto Americans feared and plainly saw the
| coming crisis and crime, and looked to Mr..
Tilden for words of counsel and courage,
they heard not one syllable. Not until
months after the Inauguration Of Hayes,
when Mr.. Tilden returned from Europe, did
he recover his speech to utter the first word
of protest Is this the quality and character
| the American Democracy admirep Is this
man to represent the free choice Of five NH
| lions of yoters-of FIVE millions Of men with
| blood in their veins? Is this the fit person to
| lead against Grant and his desperate gang ?
What if Grant would do N 1880 tor himself
what he did 10 1876 for Hayes-what would
Mr.. Tilden do il the will of the people were
defed again by the Republican party? If
| they refused TO surrender their power with
so undesirable, uupromising and weak man
as Hayes, is it not likely that they will try 10
do the same in 1880 with a character like
Grant? And has Mr.. Tlden's conduct
in 1876 been such as to warrant
the slightest confidence in SINH
lar emergency?" Twelve months ago
the APPEAL took precisely the same posi-
| ton. The people want new man, fresh
man. It is true Mr.. Tilden came out OF the
| investigation Of the cipher dispatches tn
umphantly-and it seems there would be an
eminent fitness in his election to the Presi-
| dency after having been swindled out of the
| place. But the Democrats will never forgive
| him for faltering, when, by nerve and cOur-
] age, he could have secured the position to
which they had elected him. Moreover, Mr..
| Tiden Is mixed up with the petty squabbles
! of New York, which may endanger the re-
suit in that State and thereby hazard the
| final result. New York has been permitted
to furnish the candidate for three successive
campaigns, and this homer has not always
secured the vote of the State for the Demo
cratic nominee. The chickering's and jealous
les in New York among leading Democrats,
suggests that the candidate for the Presi-
dency be selected outside of that State
as the safest policy to secure the
vote of the State for the Democracy.
Bayard, Randall, or Hancock would be
more certain of carrying New York
than would Tilden, who is most cordially
disliked by powerful wing of the Demo-
cratic party. The Democratic party south
and west have become Disguised with the
| Democracy of New York insisting that the
candidate must be from that State to carry
it, and if that State was not carried that they
could not elect President. The Democracy
| of the south and west have three times
| yielded to these demands Of New York, and
yet they failed to elect a Democratic Presi-
dent Such local Democrats are not Demo-
cratic, and fail to create a national enthu-
slasm with the party. The legitimate infer
ence is that they are governed by local inter-
ests and not the general welfare of the party.
| Mr.. Tilden'a past history in the city Of New
York makes him the representative of that
| Objectionable faction of Democrats In New
| York