Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-29
MahOne, Chalmers and Tom ochiltree.
NEW YORK, October 2S.-The Tribune has
the .ollowieg editorial on

SOUTHERN REPUBLICASIsM.
Whittier are we drifting in the South under the
lead of the administ alton? In Virginia the con-
uahOne-with a rower over his province as abso-
lu,e and unqqestiOned as was ever gwen to 10
the Teiguing emperor. No office, high or low,
throughout the entire State can be filed except as
Mahone dictates. The ordinary courtesy hereto
fore shown 10 Republican Representatives of ask
ing their advice in ard TO appointment OF post
masters in their respective districts has oeen aban
doued, and Mr. Dezendorf, who has fou ht a heroic
battle of Repub ieanism in Virginia, has
been ref sed the slightest voice in the ap
pointment of postmaster even in his own
town. We have heard; though can arcelv
cseditiI, that MT. Dezendori made personal ap
pal to the President the subject, and was
answered that the matter had been left in the con-
0 e-legged Union SO dier, always Republican;
turned out of the poktotiice al LynchbIrg, and
a Confederate soldier-a Democratic Readjus
put In his place BY the same dictation an esti-
mable lady whose relatives have made great sacrl-
postoffice at nassas for the purpose of punish
ing her brother, who ventured to exercise MS own
Judgment in oppos ton to that of NJ hone. The
circu mstanc es Of this removal have been gwen in
detail. 60 popular was he lacy that ne patrons
of the ofice-nesrly 400 10 nu@ ber.petitio9ed.
one could be found within the circuit of deli cry
mean enough to take her place Gen Hon4ne SoISnd
crate from q distance OF fifteen miles. TO NIL the
Office. 1t appears that there was shame ehough
This degrsding business Mr. hImer pigeon holed
the papers while temporarily in charge OF the aD-
K,
General was reluctant to go forward on the path
of humiliation. But Cabinet meeting: we are
told was held, and deliberately decided that Ma
hone must have his wa no matter now disgrace
tul and dishonoring his demands might be.
In South Carolina we have all been made TO be-
Iieye that one Col Cash was guilty of murders so
atrocious that they shocked u communi aceus-
toned to scenes of blood- But Col; Cash has qua.-
relied with his old Democratic confreres and seeks
alliance with he Republicans as a method OF re-
veage Forthwith the administration adopts him,
and its PATRONAGE Is gwen "a ald OF ms ee non:
in Mississippi, Gen. Chalmers OF Fort Pillow
fame is run6i- as an independent ca didate for
Subiican support. Gen. Chalmers was turned out
of the present Cor ugress, where he Claimed 70 SIT
as a Democrat on a certificate that was utterly
fraudulent. He fought deperr tely to hold has
seat but lis case so shame essly bad that many
decent D. mocrats refused TO sustain him Angered
and humiiist d by being turned out Chalmers at
once apIsunced his resolve 10 run as an moe
pendent in order to get even with the ''wh te-
f.v red' Democrats of the NORTH who would not
hold MIN in his seat in defiance of law and com
mon honesty sd sSoh the as G1a@
ton gave him is support, and the Republicans of
Mississippi are ordered to vote for him He is the
same Chalmers tnat is stained with the Fort Pillow
massacre the same that has bulldozed and out
ragged the Republicans of his district; but we are
Tcar s1,nDort 70 h m in order thatAe may wreak
mis- malice on the honorable men Of his own party
who would not uphold him in his political IN
tquities.
To these serious and almost tragic designs of the
admins ration II is proper to add one that is farci
cal In Texas the notorious Tom Ochiltree is the
ecceped leader OF this dispenss ton of affairs
Ne do NOT say that Tom is sitively wicked; we
will not affirm that he is not TO be preferred 10 a
Confederate Democrat running against him; but
we trust it will not hurt his feelings If we intl-
ms e that Tom is not strong man TO stand as the
representative of national a minIstration in q
great state like Texas and that the party accept
ing him as its exponent must inevitably meet
with disaster in the end.
Tbese are serious matters. The old attempt 10
royero the South by a union Of the carpet Gag
element with th- negroes has largely ia led. But
the attempt to place the negro vote under
the control of the desPeracoes OF the South
is omiuous of evil There is moral
streug "a TO such q movement II is inherently
snd Inevitably oad-bad fer the Republican party
in the South bad for it in the North bad for the
negro bad for the country Among the class
called cArpetbaggers there were some of the best oi
men, honorable and tn be Aonored- Their failure
was not due to Ia k of personal character, but TO
causes entirely beyond II, and they have ca ned
renutations for courage selfsacrllce and devotion
~ libsTty OF which the most h. nored statesman
night well beaproud. If politically weak, they
We1e morally strong. To take new departure
ana accept for Republican leaders in the south
Taan 20 had that they even forced out of the
Dernocrstic party is blunder so deplorable and
vitnal so stupid thatno previous Republican ad
mintstraton could ever possibly commit it
should not halt be ealle1r