The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-08-05
Three Immense Meetings at the
Same Time.
VIGOROUS MEASURES RECOMMENDED.

VIGOROUS MEASURES RECOMMENDED.
Mayor Bishop introduced Gen. Lew. Wal
lace, whose appearance was the signal for the
most enthusiastic continuous and deafening
cheers. When silence was once more restored,
the General proceeded to address the assembly,
who paid the most marked attention through
out his speech, as follows:
GEN. Lew. Wat1ace's Speech.
FELLOW CITIZENS: l am all unused to the
speaking mood, and from late habit, | am be-
come much more familiar with very short
speeeh-ore used usually in very energetic
manner, too; it was, Forward, my lads y
instead of the more polite, conventional and
oft-used phrase, "My fellow-citizens." l re-
collect some time since, while taking journey,
! that fell overheard one dark night while
fearful storm was raging, and the feeling is so
wildly stamped on my memory that L shall
never forget it-a feeling of lost lost lost
and have the same feeling here tonight as l
| look around on this great sea of human heads
and watch the excited and eager faces of those
before me. But / am not stranger with
Ohioans / have been with your troops in
camps and on battleields in scenes of all kinds
of danger, and l can say L know them we'll
I anu L Know YOU W0El, LOO. L KNOW tH6ln HSll
| l say, and God bless the boys that followed me
so bravely and unainchingly at the field of
| Shiloh. have heard their inspiring shouts;
| | have witnessed their noble and undying
/ courage and say again, God bless the noble
| sons of Ohio l have heard hard things said
! of the boys of Ohio-of their conduct
on the battle field; have head it said that
they were towards, and that when they met
the enemy on the hard-fought battle fields of
Tennessee, they basely ran, but stand here a
| living witness to the falsity Of these charges
1t won't do for any one to say before me that
the boys of Ohio are towards; l know differ
| emily. l had six Ohio regiments under my
command at Shiloh, and L will pledge my
word that not one of all those men once
turned his back on the enemy. l believe that
they all love me; anyhow, l know that l love
them, and that l always shall do so.
This is a war meeting-a meeting called to-
gether expressly for the purpose of giving
fresh vigor to the war powers of the country !;
and in discussing the present it does good to
consider the past. Before the war commenced
every man in the nation had his own thoughts
and theories on the subject; but when once
the war commenced all these theories went by
the board-being absorbed in one great princi-
pie, the preservation of the country. We
have all made mistakes; and without meaning
to say anything that is unkind of really good
and true man, 1 think that the greatest mis-
take that has been made in the whole conduct
} of the war, was that made by Gen. Winfield
Scott. He thought that $4,000 men woul1
prove sufficient to put down the rebellion, and
acting on his advice the President of the
United States issued call for IS 900 men. ]
} do not say this OF that good old man with any
, bitter feeling whatever. He was SO true and
noble-hearted himself that he could not under.
stand the bitter and undying hatred with
which the rebels regarded the Federal govern.
} ment. And let me say further, in apology fol
him, that there were at that time several States
not out of the Union which have since gone
What right had he TO say that kentucky woult
: 90 out, or that Maryland would raise agains
the Administration? What right had he to say
, that Virginia, the mother of States shoulC
, follow In the wake of the evil tide, or tina
! Tennessee or Missouri should secede with tht
D rest? He thought that if we called out 40, ,00'
: men. Virginia would come forward at one
for tho war; that Kentucky and Missouri
would march out at the sound of the drum
with the glorious star spangled banner al thei
9 head, and that Tennessee would quell the re
g bellion in her own State and help her sister
. | to put down the rebellion throughout the land
, But as said before, Gen. Scott was too good T.
understand the enormity of the offense or tn
fiendish spirit of the leaders of the unholy re
= bellion; and when the first call was found I
:, be insufficient for the work, second call wa
:, issued for 100000, but even that was ne
enough; and after we had swelled our armle
;. to the enormous number of 100000 men, W
J. have to-day an additional requisition TO
:, 300, 900 more.
I have spoken of one mistake; now | wi
7, proceed to the secoEd. 1t was mistake /
q suppose that the objects of the war might }
accomplished by conciliation. There wei
many who thought, when the trouble fir
: commenced, that we could win back the rebe
y by kindness; but after one whole years figh
g. ing, we have become awake TO the fact thi
b. no compromise can possibly be of use; TIT
= nothing but war, real, terrible, earnest wa
y ever can be successful in quelling this unho
$. and infamous rebellion.
" Now, / come to a third mistake, and "
II. must pardon me if in alluding to it happt
to run against any of your prejudices. wa
70 you before / speak of this last mistake, pc
a fectly to understand my thoughts and feeling
and say you must pardon me if l commen
r. by saying that heartily desplse the neg
!. race. / can't help it. L never see neg
~ pass me in the street, without thinking: the
ay stalks the cause of ell this trouble. I ney
he will permit him to be placed on an equali
,sa with white men; it never shall be done; | W
fight myself if it ever comes to that. Lo
10 and prolonged cheering
70 / have now given you my opinion OF
negro race, and | believe ! have done SO