Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-07-30

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Tar LAoRANGE, OF TUESDAY, July asra, is57
TWs are indebted TO our heigbboys Of the
BulIdis fer The fo ilowing TePOr. q Gov JOEEs'
speech at L GrAnge:
lFEzEow<CITuBNssI an no stTangerto you,
and need no introduction ss to who and what
an--I I am here TO-DAY BY Invitation to address
you. on the political issues Of the day. /
shall do 50, not as a Jealous partisan, for the
says of nv idslatry ia politics have passed. !
an here as AZ American freeman, to speak to
American frsemen on topdes which concern cur
common welfare.
Il has been said that it was an outrage upon
ny past character and course, that ], a Wing.
sbosId be here to-day, speaking, az shall
SPEAK But hoss an Outrsgs? Ian,a as have
been, an Old-Lins Wing and I have a right to
be heard By wings. have been Denounced as
a traitor and as a d~ssertsr, and the b~ittsrest
vitupsratiOn has been hsapsd upon me; but /
shall not return it IN kind. I dsnounes error
aud condemn Il, call it By what name you will.
But when have 1 proven trsitors Inwhat con-
sists my desertioA? ehallehgs The exhibition
Of sas single principle, one solitary measure Of
the ola Wing party that Ihave abandoned.
The dessrtiOn, the abandonment, have been on
the part Of those who usHrp the right to pre-
scribe how ! and others shall think and act in
the new political relations which they them
selves have created. IGov. JeNEs here took
NJ a COPY Of a handful which had been extern
sively posted Up about Lagrange, on which
were set forth in iaxtaDositiOn extracts from a
speech sf his in 1874, in which be said very hard
and bitter things against the Democratic party,
with others, Of a more recent date, favorable
to the election Of Mr.. BUcHAEAE.l Here, be
said. is a specimen Of the war these new born
politicians wage. They doubtless thought it
would be a terrible exposure Of Inconsistency.
What does il amount TOT Why, that ! have
warred heartily against the Democratic party.
In 1874 I spoke and wrote these things here
put down against it. What then7 Why, at
the most, that I thought badly at that time Of
Democracy. II The little fellows who got up
this device, had applied to me, I could have
furnished them with stronger evidences even
than this, that, under the then circumstances,
thought and felt that the Democratic party
against which and the gallant party was
then identified with, and which / have never
betrayed or abandoned to 90 into a new organ
~izstion, was a bad thing. So thinking and
feeling. I spoke what | thought and felt, and
have nothing to take back So thinking and
feeling, I should speak again, under the same
circumstances, the frank and honest sentiments
Of my mind.
But whatever l may have thought, or may
now think Of Democracy, l am driven to choose
between q, and Knov-NsthiRg Anerieanisn ;
and, bad as Democracy may be, Know
/ Nothingism is a thousand fold worse. Power
less for aught but mischief, I cannot hesitate,
and have not hssitatsd, as a Wing, as a pa
triot, as an honest, frank man, to choose CO.
operation with the Democratic party and the
Administration OF Mr.. BUCHANAN in their en-
beavers u maintain the Constitution against
the assaults OF the hordss Of AbOlitiOnism, a
thousand times in preference to analgsnatiOn
with the thing which assumes to be, par eresS-
Iesot, Know-Nothing Amsrieanism.
Gov. JoxEs said be had been invited to ad-
dress bis fsllow-eitizens on the great political
issues OF the day. He felt some smbarrass-
msnt in responding to the invitation; for his
Judgment and that Of those who had given shape
and color % the CANVASS now going on in the
| STATE, differed very widely as to what are these
great issues. In his judgment, there are great
questions which the people ofthe United States
viii be called upon to decide. Among them
the difficulties that environ the adjustment Of
the relations with Central Ameriea-Our for
eign diplomacy in regard 10 il, and other issues
which have sprung up or may spring up in the
course Of our progress, with other natioRs-ths
means Of uniting our possessions Gu the Allan
tic and Pacific coasts by a Railroad, and thus
fulfilling the duties OF the Federal Government
and others which be might nsntioR-were
questions of practical Importance.
But these, be said, are not the questions in
this canvass. The " great ISSUE" in this can
yass by the Know-NOshing Americans, as far
as be could understand theu, were Distribution
Of the Pablie Lands and Alien Suffrage These
-ovsrIylng the deeper and more real issue
upon which they rested, viz. to get the Dsno-
Gratis out, and themselves into ofhee-eOnsti-
tuted the questions in controversy and, having
accepted their invitation, he should speak to
them. In doing 50, be shOuld speak plainly,
frankly and sincerely. He did not design 10
inpugn motives, but would d~snOuncs error,
leaving the people, and especially his Wing
and American friends, to judge what he might
say By its accordance with truth. He should
psnder to no man or set Of mems prsjudieeE,
let the consequences be what they might. Re
tirement from public station had no terror for
him, and would bring with it no unhsPpinsss.
Gov. JoSEs said be had never questioned the
constitutional power of Congress TO distribute
the proceeds Of the sale Of the public lands
among the States; but on the contrary, had
constantly, on every suitable occasion, given
his voice and his vote in favor Of the policy.
II the power rested alone with him, he would
nav establish hat policy. But, said be, every
nan Of intelligence knows that even before the
disruption OF the old Wing party by Know
Nothingism, and while it existed in strength to
leuG responsibility to whatever it favored, that
the country at large had decided against the
policy. The patriotic men who led that noble
party, had acquiesced for the time in the deci-
siOn which the voice OF the people had pro-
~nounced, as they had sequissesd in another ques-
once earnestly advocated By them.
How is it, then. that it is now sxhumed and
made one Of the " great issues of the day, by
= party which, VIGOROUSLY, has infinitely Iess
power to sngraft it upon the policy OF the gov
eminent, than had the old Wing party? Twill
tell you, fellow-eitizsns, said Gov. JoNEs.
KnoV-Nothingism, or as they now call it,
Ansrieanism, having failed BY its hobby Of
nti-Popsry, and its eatehwoTds Of " Americans
must rule America, . to install itself in the pop
rsgard-but finding itself going down con-
sought out FOR this as a new issue.
Mr.. BELL get it up for them, by his bill intro
in the Senate, Just three days before the
adjournment, when it would have been impos-
Iibls for it to have been passed into a law, even
Z q majority OF both houses had been in its !
iayor. Bat every man, woman and child in the !
and kuoUs that there is no earthly chance /,
Il its receiving the sanction Of Congress. /
A large and overwhelming majority Of the
Senate are opposed to it; while in the House
4 Representatives. there are now, as repre-
Isntatives Of the party which puts forth this
great issue,"-whieh you and /, my old Wing
risnds, are now commanded by Know-Noth-
ngisn to espOuse, or be denounced as traitors {
nd deserters,-jsT two member! Suppose I
give to them the entire delegation from
and the delegation OF every State yet
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