Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-28
MEMPHIS APPEAL
;: NOVEMBER gs, 1852
THE BECAUSE" LOGIC.

THE "BECAUEE" LOGIC.
In the dark ages, when women were
subjected to slavery and degradation by the
tyranny and superior brute strength OF mel
the impression was created tAat they wer-
the "weaker vessel" both physically snd
intellectually. 1t was alleged that women
arrived at their conclusions by instinct, and
could give no reasons for the faith in them,
except because" which the standing
argument TO sustain ali their opinions. This
belief has long since exploded, as men on
returning home from the "club," the "lodge'
or any place Of deviltry, have had ample
cause to learn that women not only arrive
at correct conclusions by instinct, but that
they can, in strong and vigorous language,
assert their rights and depict their
wrongs with a logical ability that would do
credit 70 the reasoning powers Of Webster
or a Calhoun. Women now have something
more to sustain their opinions than the
simple word "because" But it seems this is
the only argument left the Republicans in
their war upon the South. They have
great aversion 10 The South still consciously
Cllu2luR u INC OcmOCTdllC L1uL
offer no reasons, except because" The 81.
Paul Pioneer Fress, a moderate Republican
paper, edited with ability, undertakes TO
give the reasons why the South should not be
solid in support of the Democratic party;
but after all they simply amount to she
cause" and are on a par with the reasons
given for not liking DIR. Fell. 1t says:
II aoffa ha
Democrats preserve, for the most part, discreet
silence. They say nothing about the solid
TO remark that that section is no longer a bugbesr
in politic8 aud is forthwith inglonously sat upon
full subject IN any way. For there stands the
South, as firm as ever, a phenomenon aud a
hind the virtuous skirts Of the Democratic matron
in New York and Pennsylvania. Even the flowing
The Democratic party will discover by and by
that the solidity Of the South Is, for them, the
drawback sufficient to counterbalance the gain Of
more States than one, because It Is sta nding
when the day for national election occurs
Our contemporary candidly admits that
this distrust does "not grow out OF the
bloody-shirt business; that it does not rect
upon any lingering animosties growing out
of the late war. No sensible man now fears |
that the nation will have TO pay for the |
slaves emancipsted. No sensible man APP
prehends the assumption by a Democratic |
Congress Of the Confederate debt, or me
payment of Southern war claims, or any
other Of tue numerous chimeras which have
been created for purposes Of political efiec'.
Bul on the other hand, no sensible mau ia
ignorant of the fact that when solid group
Of Staiez, constituting an entire geographic
cal section of the country, remains stubborn
and changeless through twenty years OF pO-
litical vicissi:udes, that section and the party
with which that section afiliates are unit to
lead the way in securing good government
and true republicanism." This is forcibl IL
Illustration of the because" argument. 1t is not
denied that the South is peaceful and
prosperous under Democratic rule; it is
not asserted that the South is disloyal, wants
to restore slavery. wants pay for the slaves
wants Congress to assume the
Confederate debt, the war claims, or any
other chimera created to frighten the North
ern people. But the South ought to change
its politics, Just "because"-the moon change,
the seasons change, other States change and
change is written upon all things. The Re-
publican party has become so corrupt in It's
methods that the people have swept it out OF
existence, and the Republican press are C
clsmoring for the immediate adoption OF all n
the policies urged by the Democrats; and a
vet the 81. Paul Pfoneer-PseSs insists that the C
South dissolve the solIdity of its Democracy
nd 20 osei 10 Ilo Parry which people u
AVE repudiated and which hopes to regain Il
over by the passage of Democratic meas d
res during the short session which con- re
snes on Monday next. The Republican az
arty hss become a national stencil. The dI
-incinIes of the Democratic party are SO nc
Use and benefcent that thousands of North TO
n Republicans have been converted to the 10
emocratic faith; still the South is urged st'
desert the party whose policy has been m
,cepted by the people, and join the party m
hich has been repudiated by even the wi
oters of the North. Would our cotempo- tn
Try again have solid Republican South, su
Ike that which ruled and ruined during the ef
era? If it is proposed 10 re'
wide the South 'alf and 'alf between the de
emocrats and Republicans, the difficulty NJ
ould be in selecting the States to be trans wi
rred 10 Republican rule. Tennessee is to
llis6ed with Two years of Radical rule, with tic
Iawkins as governor, and would not consent CO
the sacrifice. Arkansas had enough of m
epublican rule with Powell Clayton ex
governor and Stephen w. Dorsey OF
senator, and the people would Isl
.olest against the change. Mississippi has mi
, desire to restore another Ames to power. In
Ioses would have to be pardoned out OF the tel
ew York penitentiary before he could take mi
aros IF Soutb Carolina. Thew are not ho
Inkering for Bullock in Georgia. Holden OF
still detested in North Carolina. The Zee
ople of Louisiana still regard Kellogg as pa
villain, and would shudder at his restora- tn
N TO power. The proposition of the RE
Press to apportion out the Southern OF
ates to the Republican party is not feasible. ia
lder Democratic rule they are prosperous oil
d happy, and have increased in popula- a"
n. The taxes of the people have been rel
Iuced; the school funds OF the States lnt
eAtly increased; the taxable prop ia
y enlarged; the manufacturing interests orr
We been doubled; the development uis
its mineral wealth has been forwarded with POI
oid strides; the agricultural interest is res
urishing; the mechanics were never better EN-
id, and fud abundant profitable employ the
mt. In a word, the South is peaceful, pre-
osperoui, happy, and the outlook never so ed
couraging as now. Is this condition of ope
airs to be unsettled by political revolu- ali
n which restores 10 power adventures, ain
pozeEtE-to-c control the edu- are
ed tax-paying people? The South was viii
before the war, and she has been din
nocratic since, because the National ere
nocratic party stood by her in misfortune, ser
testing against robbery, persecution and me
ing, and now that the government is to hih
stripped of ifs war harness and placed in the
aud that great and leading deg
stions involving fundamental prin- sat
les are to be discussed and acted dir
IN, the South will continue 10 tor.
= solid support to Democracy. The ten
tn was solid against knownothingism, sue
neither civil nor religious liberty, nor Ih'
great interests of the country, suffered ano
that soidity. When this damnable ma
esy was repudiated by the American peo- uni
there was nobody silly enough to advise mo
South to break it's solid opposition. But, pre-
that the long series of monstrous frauds serl
wrongs upon the rights, liberties and and
perry, BY which the Repu blicau party has CIV
.ed and degraded the people since the Try
., have at length destroyed it, the South dist
dvissd to ioin II. The advice will not be allC