The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-10
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Of the repentant sinner who had quit her
wicked habits-"in great measure
nandigham's Speech
Vailandigham spoke of himself almost rs
continuously as Sam Medary, and certainly
ought to have been canonizei in turn. But
he stuck to himself as a text, and plumed him
SELF and rustied his plumage, aud fused about,
and talked ike Othello to Desdemonia of the
dangers he had passed, until he became dis
casting to his own friends He talked Of
| himself "the elephant whom the peo-
pie had come TO see. He said he Supposed
people were gratifed 10 see that he had nell
ther seven heads no ten horns. He was "a
man fashioned like yourselves The assaults
upon him by Republican papers had not de-
prived him of sleep His digestive organs
were in good condition. Then he c7oaked b q
satisfaction with himself. He knew he was
about to be vindicsted in the "g' eat hereafter
which was close at hand. And so he went on
exhibiting condition of vanity suggesting
disease, aud littleness of real manhood great
ly HI variance with his assumptions. one of
his constituents and followers covered the case
with the remark, "Val is playing too high.
The game he is at is too big for him
One of the meanest things in his speech
| the assertion that the President was seated on
the platform at the Wendell Phillips lecture
in Washington This was lie and Vallan.
But be paraded il before his crowd with an
air of authority and indulged largely in obser-
vations intended Je make the impression that
the Presdent wasu Wendell Phiilipsite. With
| what good purpose could he seek to make
such an impression? Be also told very abb
surd cries about the contrabands in Washing
ton, seeking, without saying so directly, 10
make The people believe that eur sick and
wounded were displaced and neglected TO make
room for negroes.
Ranney's ERaston.
| The speeches of Judge Ranney and Judge
| Thurman were quite as Objectionable as VAL
landigham's. They sounded even worse than
! his, as nothing so mean was expected Of them.
! Judge R4nney talked very loudly Of his 10y
4 atty. He could run back ia his title deeds u
Bunker Hill. HE eounteasnce is 10 fact so
intensely Yankee, that he looks as though It
would be impossible for him TO get over tae
notion that Bunker Hill was the greatest bat
| tie ever fought in the world. With an Oily
ganmon smirk be was in favor of the war, if
| it were carried on constitutionally, aud to re-
store the Union. But if it was to undermine
the Constitution and effect an eternal separa-
tion of the Union, (and his countenance had
Indignantly benevoiel! appearance, which
| could bear no Interpretation other than that
| ne had come to an affirmative conclusion,
then every drop Of blood shed was poison 10
the body polite, and every dollar spent ntforged
the chains Of the citizens of the Republic.
That is all the people will probably care TO
hear of Judge Ranueys speech. The ineffable
| scoundrelsm of such an insinuation IS enough
to put him iu his place in the estimation of all
| decently loyal mon. He is a man of ability,
and he kaou, .yra is no intention on the part
of the goveI4--.'-..L to destroy the liGeItiss OF
the people, al affected alarm on that sub.
ject is false and cio'r IN psltry trick Of
rascally demagoges, you'd sell his 3ouu-
try to buy his personal advancement.
Thurman's Talk
Judge Thurman did not know whether to
say follow rebels or not. There was an int.
nation in this of being funny and here was
hollow sort of laugh AZ it. rhe Judge pro-
ceeded to talk very complaeantly of the idea
which prevailed orce upon time, of whipping
the South in ninety days--of running right
over the country. A voice in the crowd, IN Il
most satisfied manner pronounced, "Yes, and
they got whipped. The Judge knew too much
to hear that remark. Others heard it, however,
and felt that it was exactly what the judge
felt like saying. 1t was that to which his logic
led. OF course he had not word to say of
the notion with which the rebels began the
war, that they would soon take Boston. That
would have been to present both sides, and the
Judge had no intention of doing any such
thing. There was low, tricky malignty in
his remarks, very much at variance with the
character gentleman with which he has
been accredited. He followed all the other
, speakers in lamentations over the arrest of
John w. Kees, who urged in his paper the
assassination of Gen. Butler. He depicted the
agonizing fact that the arrest took place iu the
. night. Vallandigham had stated with grin
like hyena, that poor Kees was not allowed
! even to kiss his wife-"not one kiss before
!, they parted"
The Judge was very severe on the abuse to
hch Democratic Generals had been subject.
! ed. They had been treated in awful style be.
CAUSE they were Democrats. He remembered
, to forget that the Republican Administration
! had been partial to Democrats in making
! Generals. He only remem bered that some
l Abolition papers had abused them, and he as
> serted very roundly that they must stop it,
Indeed, Judge you would not interfere with
:, tie "freedom of the press" would you ~
I | The treatment of Democrats as Democrats had
: been awful. No Administration had ever bad
I such support from its opponents-those whose
feelings had been hurt-those whose preiudices
had been tranpled upon-and what return did
: the Democrats get? "Why" he shrieked
: and here, ordinary language being inadequate
i he eliminated in the exclamation "great God
/ Almighty" Can the Judge tell us Of any
! | Democrat who has done any more than hls
duty in tho war? Is there anything so pecu.
!, liar in the constitution of Democrat that be
i is doing himself an injury and his country
/ great favor when he fights under the old flag
! Judge Thurman wonld have done himself bu
h bare justice if he had denounced the "Lineolr
r government" and the war as "John Brown
:, raid on large scale" That was the spirit o.
the thing exactly.
= Speaking of the dreadful manner in which
: Democrats had been abused, he declared "this
q thing has gone just about as far as it can. Il
3 must stop"
;f This was on level with Vallandighami
"Fellow-citizens bear it notW In this way
o are insinuated threats of resistance to the wal
J policy that it might be dangerous to make
= openly. There is not one of the scoundre
3 who does not know that the Administration
y has treat~d loyal, fighting Democrats will
e distinguished consideration. No Democrat