Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-02
rHE INconRIarnLE soulful


The New York Times has spared neither
expense nor pains in it's effort TO arrive at
correct conclusions as to the political future of
the South. Alter a thorough canvass of all
the Southern States the Times arrives at the
conclusion that the Southern people are
Joined to their idols; still solid for the DEM
ocratic party. This revelation has induced
the leading Republican papers to revive the
old war upon the South. Loyalty to the
Republican party is considered a test of
loyalty to the government, and it seems our
people are to be slandered and abused so
long as they disloyal to the party that
slisfranchised and prosecuted them. The
South has prospered, increased its wealth
and population in spite of fifteen years of def
amation, and it does not propose to purchase
the praise of its enemies at the price of join
ing them. Initiating the example of poor,
contemplate Hayes, Arthur endeaYored TO
purchase Southern Democrats by placing
abe bestowal of the government patronage in
the hands of such renegades as Malone. But
finding that the Southern people would not
follow the lead of the apostates, pur-
chased cheap for cash, the South is to be
again traduced and vilified. When the ex-
pertinent for buying Southern Democrats
with the spoils of Office was first made, the
Republican newspapers were extravagant in
their praise of the Southern people, their
Ioil, their climate, their loyalty, their dawn
ing prosperity, and their bright future. But
government patronage and soft solder hav-
ing failed to seduce the Southern people
from their allegiance to the Democratic
party, and the men who stood by them in
university, the stereotyped slang which had
been used to exhaustion for fourteen years is
10 be hurled at them again. The New York
Times has arrived at correct conclusions
The South is still Democratic, and there was
never so little incentive for deserving the
Democratic party now, for the signs of the
Times Enthusiastically point to the defeat of the
Republicans and the triumph of the Demo-
Gratis in future elections The Republican
party, with 100000 ofice-holders at its
back, and supported by the enormous
patronage of the government, has not been
able to prevent a majority of the American
people from voting the Democratic ticket. The
Democratic party was never so strong as now,
and the Republican party never SO weak.
The revolt in Pennsylvania amounts to a
revolution equal to that manifested in Cali
fornis, Oregon and Nevada. A revival of
tbe old war upon the South, because it is
still Democratic and refuses to be bought by
Arthur's purchased drummers, will be I'M
derstood by the Northern people. The great
principles which gave life and organization
10 the Republican party, and around which
the Northern masses were wont to gather
and enthuse over, and the great questions
which invited their attention, and in the
settlement of which their best feelings were
enlisted, have lost their power or been |
settled by the sword and the political con-
tests of the past few years. Slavery has
passed away, and nobody really doubts the |
loyalty of the South to the government. While |
the Southern people are inhexibly Demo-
cratic, they are paying more attention to |
the great industrial questions of commerce,
agriculture and manufactures 10 the devel-
opment of their vast resources than to poll
tics. The facts published by the New York
Times show most conclusively that the hopes
of the Republicans and the fears OF some
Democrats as to the future vote of the South
are alike unfounded. The Southern people
will never forget that the Democratic party
was the Moses that led them out of the will
yerness of oppression and plumber; and the