Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-11


canize the South for the benefit of the Re
publican party. The first attempt was made
with reconstruction as an excuse. The Re
| publicans wanted to control the Southern
States, and 10 create a constituency through
which they could do so, they enfranchised
the negroes and disfranchised many whites
As bad as that first attempt was, this second
is Infamous"
"Who is managing this movement"
"The worst element in the Republican
party at the North, the Grant-COnkling- Ar
thur wing of the party, the Stalwarts, who
have no tolerance for the South except SO far
| as they can use it. / know what j am talk
ing about. The administration has deter
mined deliberately to
| CAPTURE THE SOUTHERN STATES
BY a combination between the negroes, the
| malcontent Democrats and the Democrats
| that they can buy. They hope to keep the
negroes solid by the moral force of the ad-
ministration, and to use the patronage to
| buy such Democrats as they cannot induce
! by argument or delude with the hope of
Office. This is the scheme, open and avowed.
| 1t was the scheme that was worked out in
| Virginia, and by which the honor of Virginia
was stained, and her good people overrun by
| the wicked and ignorant.
| is plausible one. 1t will only take twenty
| five or thirty thousand disaffected Democrats
| 10 combine with the negroes and carry any
| State in the South. The managers here have
| given orders to their henchmen to solidify
the negroes in every State by threats, appeals
| or promises and then seize upon any local
pretext that may be offered, and try to win
| enough Democrats to carry the State. They
are not to regard consisto ncy at all, but to
| take whatever side of any local issue that
offers the most votes. In Virginia it was re-
| adjustment under Malone. In Texas it is
fiat money, under Jones. In North Carolina
it may be temperance, and in Georgia it may
be the
CONVICT QUESTION
or the tariff. / know that they have been
very hard put for an issue in Georgia, and i
know that many are in favor of making a
reopening of the fraudulent bond question
there the issue. After the issue is once found
and the candidates are up, the whole Fed
eral patronage will then be put in the hands
of the Independents for the purpose of buy
ing Democrats. Such prostitution of the
appointing power as will result from this
has never been seen. 1t differs from the old
spoils system of Jackson, because under that
theory offices were used TO reward the parti-
sans of the victorious party. Here they are
to be used to bride weak or vicious members
of the opposition. This will result in such
debauchery and jobbery as will shock the
civilized world"
gu DO not MINK the Scheme Will be q
successful one?'
at cannot be. In the first place the me-
groes cannot be carried solidly under any
such programme. They have too much sense
and patriotism to be driven in herds and
sold like the cattle. The more decent Re-
publicans will not support such a scheme.
Republicans in Georgia like Josh Hill,
McCay and others, will
REVOLT AGAINST IT,
as Wickham did in Virginia. Very few
Democrats can be found that Will be weak |
enough or corrupt enough to join such I!
monstrous conspiracy, when they are fully |
advised as to what it means, and the con- !
spirators who are proposing 10 barter the |
honor of Republicans for spoils and prosti- |
tute the civil service to wholesale bribery |
will be rebuked by popular revolution |
against them in the North. The very men
who are engineering this movement have :
already been repudiated by the good people
of the North. Even with the tremendous
influence of the machine at his back, Grant
was hAaten out of public life by an uprising OF
the best elements of his own party. Conkling
was overwhelmed at Albany by popular indig-
nation, and it was hoped we were done with
these men and the policy they represent, but
restored to power by the assassination of the
president, they are determined to maintain
themselves at any cost. They recognize the
hopelessness of their carrying the North,
and they hope TO make up for its loss by cap
turing the South. They cannot hope to do
this through the intelligent people there,
and consequently they appeal to the
IGNORANT AND CORRUPT.
1t is combination between the worst ele-
nents of both sections that cannot stand for
l day after the people are fully informed
Il was panied and grieved," Mr.. Hill said,
at reading the interview with DIR. FELTON, in
he Chicago Tribune. 1t only proves what
rave always feared, that the Independent
Democracy in the South, no matter how de-
'ious its ways, nor how long, its path must
Inevitably lead to Republicanism. In how
many cases have we seen this illustrated? |
confess 1 thought DIR. FELTON, was strong
nough and patriotic enough to prove an ex-
eption to this rule. / am satisfied that he
vas honest when he started out He has
old me that nothing could ever drive him
rom the Democratic party, and yet, from
lis interview, which l regret to see bears
marks of being genuine, there is no ground
o doubt that he has gone over to the Repub-
leans. ,
81 am satisfied also that no independent I
an get the Republican support in the South
'ithout giving himself over absolutely to
hat party. The Republican leaders in the
outh have orders, as know, to put this uI ,
matum TO every Independent candidate, and
} give no Independent about whose status
here is the least doubt, the Republican sup
ort. The managers here say they have been r
FOOLED TOO OFTEN /;
Y vague promises, and they will take moth +
lg now but most positive and precise t
lodges" q
what course will you take in the natter" t
81 shall give every energy of my body and p
,ul, every hour of my time, and every in c
uence L possess to breaking down this infa- g
ous coalition and holding Georgia true to /
er faith and honor. 1 foresaw Just this il
ling when / made my first speech against Il
-ahone. / did not of course, anticipate {,
lat the movement would be so thoroughly n
ganized and SO furthered by corrupt adj "
inistration In Washington, but did know p
at if Malone succeeded there would be an n
tempt to Africanize every Southern State Il
the interest of the Republican party, or
Their of the worst faction of that party-a a
ction that, repudiated by the intelligence
the North, must look to the ignorance of q
e colored people and the ambitious cupidity II
disaffection of few Southern whites 10 tr
aintain them in power. / never was 80 s
UGH in earnest or in such physical and ii
entail condition for doing the work that is d.
me. can't win, my friend" he said: in
With such people as we have in Georgia OF
is movement will be made &c
MORE INFAMOUS ca
an the first attempt at reconstruction. I'm NJ NJ
re that, it is without reason, excuse or JUS n,
ication. 1t will offer temptations to all 6;
,mocrats who are willing to be bought or m
lose ambition can be spurred. They are re-
ering high for young men and Confederate q;
nerals. The Federal offices in the South A.
; not for Republicans; they are for Demo- i,
ITS who will agree to become Republicans ri
q reconstruction days they tried to make M
Idtrs OF imported oficeholders. They IN
ind that this would not do, and now they
II try to delnde or bride Georgians into the
dership of their crusade. 1 hope that no
ung man who has respect for himself or q,
his ancestors or his children, will be de- ri
we'd by these people. 1t will not give him n,
at it promises, but will consign him to III
ln,e ard ignominy. In 1884 this mongrel NJ
rty, made up, as have said before, of the s;e
rst elements of both sections, both of which ne
We been repudiated by their own people, III III
which now hold power by the accident -;
will be swept from the face ~.
the earth, and those who torsake their -,
'ple in the South to join 90
THIS UNaoLY CRUSADE bo
inst peace and quiet, to reopen for selfish
poses race issues and retard the prosper
OF both races, to stain the name of their nh,