Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-08
HEMPHIS APPEAL
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Ihk DkA n OE BESAIONA LAS4.
The State of Ohio has furnished more
than its proportionate share Of the talent Of
the Republican party. The Republican N g.
jority is not as large as that given by other
States, but Ohio has furnished more leaders
and contributed more toward shaping the
general policy of the party than all the other
States combined. Ohio has always sounded
the keynote TO the Presidential canvass.
Since the nomination OF Lincoln, just twenty
three years ago, this State has been extreme
in its uttersnces and potential in the counsels
Of the party, because Of the sagacity, ability
sud Workmanship OF lis leaders. For yesTs
Ohio has led the van in the war on the South.
But the fact that the Republican State Con-
venlion at Columbus on Tuesday last, pre-
sided over, managed and directed by
Senator John Sherman, prominent
aspirant for the Presidency, was devoid
OF the usual slanderous TRADE against
the South, lie full of significance.
Au Ohio Republican Convention with
out the stale calumnies about the dis
loyal South, intimidation, outrsges, election
frsuds, bulIdozing, the shotgun policy and
the.murder. Of negroes at the ballot-box is
"like playing Hamlet with the part of Ham
leP omitted" The platform adopted BY the
Ohio Republicans on Tuesday has none of
the old sectional slang. 1t deals with the
vital questions OF be day. This is an aus
picious sign. 1t elbows that those who have
80 long tbrived by fanaticism and sectional
hatreds understand the determination of the
people TO eliminate from the next Presiden-
tisl canvass stale and exhausted war issues.
Long tossed upon the waves Of passions en-
gendered by sectional strife, the people are
deermined 10 have peace. These favorable
symptoms which promise so much for the
future prosperity of the country will con-
tinue, and in the next Presiden-
tial election public opinion will no
longer blaze with the bAleful fires
OF sectional hatreds. Wise and thoughtful
and discreet men of all parties and in every
section Of the Union are uniting together for
peace. And it ia certainly time for the in
auguration Of this blessed era. That the
Hardness Of our recovery aimee the ternins-
ton OF actual hostilities is due more 10 sec-
tional prejudices than TO the ravsges OF the
war We need only to refer to France in her
rapid recovery and recuperatiou from the
effects of still more devastating war. The
people OF France came forth from their war
united and full OF sympAthy with one an
other, and were ready TO move and did move
forward as one man in the work of rebuild
ing Whist had been destroyed. Bat the peo-
pie Of the United States, nursing the
passions and resentmenis which fol-
lowed the war, could not or would not uniis
in 1 grand effort TO rebuild the restored
Union, and the consequence has been
after a cessation of hostilities for
seventeen yesrs national development
has been materially retarded by sectional
hatreas. But it is relief to know that the
country is again to be united in a common
brotherhood. The silence OF the Republican
party of Ohio on sectional issues is favor
able omen. The people of The Countrywide
honest masses who. want no ofice-have re-
solved 10 elevate the politics of the country
by eliminating sectional issues and substi-
tuting in their place honesty, retrenchment
and reform. The sagacious Repub licans of
Ohio correctly read the signs of the times
and show determination TO place them
selves on their good behavior by needing
public opinion.