Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-14

Ben has been leaning affectionately in that
direction for s5me time, and 1t is possible
his opinions derive their color from the
hope that the Southern vote may at some
remote time be utilized in behalf of
the elevation OF B. T. Butler ;,''It
has beeh hearty twenty years since
the war ended" said the old man from
Massachusetts, "and the time has passed
for distinctions on account of that strug-
gle. While the Republican party claims
the honor OF whipping the South back into
the Union, it practically refuses to recog-
niHe it as q part OF the Union. The Demo
cratic policy is nearly as bad, for while it
owes all its success to the South, the
Northern wing assumes to absorb the
leadership, and it emphatically claims all
the Offices. / am told that one of
the objections to be urged against
Carlisle is that he is a Southern man
and that it will have bad influence on
Northern Democrats to put him in the
Speakers chair. This is the sheerest nom
sense. The war is over, North and South,
and the party that is afraid to so declare
does not deserve to live. So with the
proposition to give the South show on
the national ticket. At the Chicago
convention, when it,was proposed to put
Settle, of North Carolina, on the ticket,
the Republicans simply sneered at the
effrontery of the men who suggest
ed nominee from the South. Perhaps
if the Republicans had treated the South
with more consideration it would not now
be so hard to find decent man in that
section of the country who will acknowl-
edge that he is Republican. The Demo-
cratic party should take warning from this
inglorious record of Republican folly. No
man should be nominated from the South
simply because he is from the South; but
if he is man of brains, integrity and 10y
atty, the objection that he is from the
South should not be urged against him.
This is political cowardice OF the worst
sort, and the party that makes this
plea will, in the logical course of
events, bring upon itself the merited con-
tempt of the intelligent people of that
section. The bulk OF Democratic brains
is in the South. Why should not some of
the high political honors be distributed
there? The war is as completely over as
1t will be fifty years hence. There is less
bitterness among the men OF the genera
ton that fought than among the genera
ton that has joined the voting population
since the war"
WASHINGTON NOTES.
David Davis is at the capital. He called
on President Arthur and had long talk
He says he is out of politics
Senator Call and family, of Florida
reached Washington to-day.
1t is understood that Gen. Schofield will
succeed Gen. Sheridan.
Ex-Surgeon General Crane, who died
yesterday, held Lincoln's pulse when he
died, and his picture appears in the famous
death-bed scene.
ExMarshal Pitkin, the "My Dear Pit
kin" of Louisiana fame, called on Presi-
dent Arthur to-day.
Judge Sabin. of Galveston, who is after
the vacant United States District judge
ship in Texas, also called.
The remains OF l42 Confederate North
Carolinians have been exhumed at Arling-
ton Cemetery, and are now at an under
taking establishment in Alexandria, Va,
being placed in handsome caskets. Next
Monday they will be shipped to Raleigh.
On that day there will be an imposing
funeral procession in Alexandria from the
| undertaker's place to the wharf. The
| local militia will serve as an escort, and
the church and fire-bells will toll
The Russian Minister has brought to
| Washington Russian landau" Il gor-
geous bnt heavy equipage, the first ever
seen in America.
| The Alabama Claim Commission has
| 5000 cases for consideration on hand,
enough to keep the commission steadily
at work for five years.
| A politician said to-day: Foraker
made two. The result proves the truth of
the old adage that speech is silvern but
silence is golden" ARIEL.