Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-10
AEELUCrANT MANIFESTATION.

JUSTICE IL often tardy, but sooner or latel
it triuDphs. Pending an important electier
the South is abused and yilifed; our people
are accused of bulldozing and kuklu1ing-
OF every outrage in the catalogue of crime
They are represented as thriftless vaga bonds
caring more for politics than their msteria
interests. But 20 soon as the elections are ovel
praise end hattery are substituted for these
ISLANDERS. The New York Times recently fur.
nished an illustration Of the tone Of the Re
publican press before and after an important
election. In an article headed "a Phase Of
Southern Progress" the Times does the South
tardy justice by speaking Of our section and
people in a tone entirely at variance with
its utterances when the exigency requires
that the Northern heart should be fired with
sectional hatred. The Times says:
Nothing is more marked in the Southern Jour.
they discuss current politics and the attention
which they give TO questions OF business charac-
that their examination Of commercial problems il
uniformly marked by knowledge and skill
of politics is notably smaller than it was few
years ago, even in times Of quiet, and the treat
but is also more careful, thorough and practical.
There is in the former less of bitterness and cant
and in the latter less of mere vague generaliza-
ton. II is obvious that the temper and tastes OF
Southern newspaper readers are changing, and
that newspaper writer's are recognizing the
change.
These comments are truthful and Just
to the Southern press and people. 1t
is true that both the press and people
of the South have been profoundly inter-
ested in politics for the past sixteen
years. Bot they were engaged in a life or
death struggle, and the zeal, labor and time
bestowed upon politics were inspired by the
same motives which induce the mariners to
labor in putting out the fires of their burn
ing ship. After the war, if there had been
no Radicals in the South, no reconstruction,
no military, no prosecutions, and no carpet
baggers to rob the taxpayers of their hard
earnings, there would have been no
Democratic party, for the Southern PEG.
pie were impoverished, demoralized, i'm
plored sympathy, and were ready to give
their hearts to anybody or party that pro-
posed TO protect them, or even befriended
them with words OF kindness. 1t was this
feeling that caused the Southern people
to rally to the support of Greeley,
their lifelong enemy. So soon as he
showed that magnamity toward the van
quished worthy of the conquerer, he received
the sympathy and support of the Southern
people. The same affection would have been
bestowed upon Grant if, during his first
administration, he had given them home-rule
and that peace and prosperity which has
followed the triumph OF the Democratic
party. The Southern people are politicians
only so far as they are made go by the nat
ural law of self-protection. They know
what Republican rule means in the South !;
they know that there has been tranquility
aud prosperity by change, and they are
Democrats because it is to their interest to
be Democrats. The Southern people would
gladly abjure sectional issues. This they
with the Democrats so long as there is a
Republican party to revile them
and foment discord between the whites
and blacks, whose interests are iden-
teal, and should therefore live
in peace and concord together. 1t will be
seen from the above extract that the Times
has discovered that the South is now earn
estly bent on developing her material re-
sources, and that our success has been re-
markable. This determination was formed
Immediately after the war, but little progress,
however, was made until the extravaganza
and corruption of Radical rule was
supplanted by the honesty and economy of
Democratic rule. The prosperity of the
South would have commenced fifteen years
ago if the Southern States had not been rob-
bed, plundered and ruled by enemies. The
prosperity Of the South since the people Sc
cured home-rule has been marvellous,
and it will be still more surprising at the
end of the present decade. Everything per-
tanning to the South has bsen so long and so
grossly misrepresented for vile party pur-
poses that the Northern mind was
not prepared to believe that the South
had been keeping pace with the other sections
in material progress. 1t was the
generally accepted idea that the figures of
the census would give the North a largely
proportion of congressional repre-
sentation. But when the truth became
known it was found the South gained rather
than lost representation. This was SO much
of surprise that the Republicans denied the
reliability OF the figures, and it was no, I'M
ill the census of SOUTH Carolina was taken a
third time that the Republicans were salts
fed that they we're honest. Deluded by the
ISLANDERS of the Republican press, the ignor-
ance prevailing in the North in regard to
the true condition of the South was sublime
in its stupidity. In future elections the
Northern people will not be deluded by the
abuse and misrepresentation of the Southern
people 1t is now demonstrated by incon-
trovertible facts that they are earnestly en-
deavoring TO work out the problem left for
Them to solve by the result of the war. Never
did a people make such rapid strides in
greatness and prosperity as the Southern
people have made since they freed them
selves from Republican rule. Their entire
system Of labor was destroyed, and an entire
social revolution followed the track of the
policy. Families once opu-
lent were reduced to beggary, and soft, deli
cate hands were compelled to learn how to
work for the maintenance of the dependent.
Necessity has quickened the faculties
Of all, made them prudent, economical,
industrious and energetic. Such marvel
Gus change has come over the South thatthe |
time is not far distant when it will rival the |
North in many industries and surpass it in
others. Capital is flowing into the. South,
are everywhere being estab-
lished, railroads are being built at wonder
fully rapid rate. and the people are looking
solely after their material prosperity.
THE NEW TEMPERANCE POLICY.