Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-05

the nominees of the Democratic
party, there may as well be no
nominations. Honesty OF administra-
ton and commercial integrity Will be
key-notes of the next Presidential V
No Southern statesman presents a more
unsullied political record than James ID.
Porter, and his name upon the ticket, with
a sensible tariff platform, such as sug-
gested by the Democracy of Ohio and Nir-
ginia, our prospects of success in 1884 were
never better. But be it distinctly borne
in mind that we want none OF Thomas A.
Hendricks and Benjamin Franklin Butler
in ours!
Can a Man be President
Ten Mile Coli Neirs, September 29th.
1t is just as we expected. The South
is growing tired of supporting Northern
dummies for President. They want a man.
| of their own. They have waxed strong
and lusty, and they demand their full
rights, including the right of ~electing a
President who shall be flesh of their flesh
and bone of their bone. The Nashville
| American declares:
The South is entitled to be represented On the
national ticket, and demands that its delegates
go to the convention with. and be understood to
have, the same privilege as those of the North,
and If desired to vote for the nomination of a
Southern man..
The Memphis APPEAL remarks:
The time has come for the Democrats of the
South to go into the national convention
and secondary character which they have
hitherto assumed, but as freemen, having
lie; that they should not content themselves with
mere aequiescenco in the nominations made by
nominees and take an interest in fully testing
the free will of the convention.
Similar language is used by other jour
mails printed at the South. There is mnch
I'll IL Th-@- - Al.
electoral votes controlled by the Demo
cratic party come from the South. Ninety
nine hundreths of the brains OF the party
come from the South. The only Demo
Gratis who can hold their own against the
Republican leaders come from the South.
The policy OF the party to be developed
in the House OF Representatives next win
ter will be shaped by Southern men. Why
should the men who furnish the votes, the
brains, the leaders md the policy be
doomed forever to go outside of their own
ranks for a general? The answer lies on
the surface. 1t is not believed that any
man who, in the full possession of man
hoods judgment, raised his hand to de-
stroy the nation twenty years ago, can
possibly by elected President to-day. 1t
is well to forgive. 1t is humane to forget.
1t is just for the victor to treat the van
quished with a large generosity But it is
not reasonable to reward IN who, less
than a quarter OF a century gone, did his
best to ruin the nation, with the highest
honor that nation can bestow. There is
fitness in all things. Give the defeated
rebels OF 1861 every chance, every en-
enlargement, every help, every right con-
sistent with national safety. But When il
comes to electing the chief of the nation,
with powers far greater than are welded
by the constitutional kings of Europe,
common sense revolts at selecting one who
tried his best to destroy that nation only
a few years ago. These consideration
would be fatal to the candidacy of such q
man as John b. Gordon, of Georgia, whom
the Memphis APPEAL proposes as q
Southern candidate. Gen. Gordon is a
respectable man, a very respectable man,
more successful of late as a railroad finan.
cier than he was as a warrior in the
Southern army. Ii we remember rightly,
he got some tremendous thrashings in the
war; and, if he won any victories, we have
forgotten them. So late as 1850, he wrote
Il letter TO Jefferson Davis, which evinced
no penltence for his treason, though itdid
apologize for his defeats. The idea that
case-could carry New York, or Penn.
sylvanla, or Ohio, or Illinois, OF
even Indiana-is begotten of foolishness,
1t is possible to elect q Southern Presi.
dent. And we don't know that the
election of a Southerner would be the
worst thing that could happen to the coun-
try. Some of our best Presidents have
been Southerners. But no Southerner
would answer who was prominent in the
war. The leaders are barred. But the
mere fact of having carried arms in the
Confederate service would not .be fatal.
Under the conscription, every male who
was able to shoulder a musket was in the
Confederate service. Many a man was in
that service who was guiltless of treason as
the child unborn. Against such a mar nc
Northern prejudice exists. He might carry
Pennsylvania and Ohie. If he was a good
man, he would run well in New York and
Illinois. Especially would he run well il
instead of sulkily and ~grudgingly accept
ing the result of the wan as a fact not to be
gainsaid-Ee not only cheeriully acqui
esced, but manfully applauded the ends
that the war accomplished. There is 6
man in Colorado, the present Governor o.
the State, James B. Grant, who carried
arms while a boy in the Confederate ser
vice, in his native State of Alabama
yet who, when the Grand Army of thu
Republic met at Denver this summer, adj
dressed them in these words:
PeOple in all sections of the country rccogniZ
the fact that those things for which the soutl
the f6h smaintenahee ei q tlSy Ssffssh a q IT, fre eSte ms ion ) ni int
the free States-are questions that can neye
ugain rise to the surface of American politics
They are dead forever, and now that the smoke q
battle has cleared away, and we are remove
seventeen years distant from the closing scenes q
the war, and can view calmly and dispassionatel
the questions at issue, | am prepared to say tina
the results of that conflict are not less ~satisfac
tory to the vanquished than to the victors. Thos
principles for which the Union armies eontended-
the preservation of the Union, the emancipation
Of the slave, and the attendant blessings of enul
rights before the law, and equal chances for all i
the pursuits of life, were not only triumphant
indicated by the sword in 1865, but are to-da
enshrined in the hearts of the people from Main
to Georgia, and under, their guiding inhuenc
friend and foe are sharing alike the blessings of
free, II prosperous and n united country.
Some idea of Grants availability seem
to be percolating through the Easter
mind, though little is said as yet. Tn
editor OF the Springfield Monitor, a leading
organ of the Illinois Democracy, latel,
paid the Governors visit ut Denver, an,
writes rs follows to his paper.
We were most favorably impressed with Gov
: Grant, and if ever the Democracy goes West i
pursuit of Presidential timber, and do rot com
away with the most sensible, sedate, unassrming
and yet thoroughly at home, when business an
brains are needed, we shall then think that lk
sampson, when reaching for the pillars of tn
temple, it had better call on God to help-thei