The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-15

Maj .-Gen. Lew. Wallace was sersnaded at
the National Hotel last night. An immense
crowd was in attendance. On making his APP
pearance on the balcony, Gen. Wallace was
greeted with uproarious cbearing, which was
continued after almost every sentence of his
speech. He said he accepted the compliment,
not for himself but for his brave comrades be
had left behind him, and who had won for him
the distinction his friends were comforting.
he supposed they were mostly Indisnians,
VINO We're rendering the compliment, and had
peculiar pride in accepting it as such. There
were peculiar circumstances under which In
disnians had entered the war. They were
under cloud; they had been pronounced
towards BY authority. They had written his
| tory differently now; for the reg: ment he had
| the honor to lead had sworn as they took their
banners, to remember Buena Vista, and wipe
Out the stain. The other day they had re-
turned those banners to the halls from which
they came. AT Fort Donelson they had been
shot TO shreds. At Pittsburg Landing they
We're almost SHIT away, and still had carried
on their whole Union, but they had reyer
waved save over victory fer the nation and
honor to the "cowardly Indianians."
He was no politician. He had been at the
Senate session to-day, and had fonnd the ques-
ton TO De whether they should use the niger
i Inc audience here broke out into tumultuous
cries of No" Yes" the yesses largely pre-
dominating.l The general remarked that ne
found his audience very much as he found tn
Senate-considerably divided. Let him give
his answer IL should be that of a soldier, not
OF politician. As q soldier he believed it
his duty to use every means of success God
had given him. If he could save his soldiers
from unhealthy work by having negroes dig
trenches or erect Notifications, he would hold
himself lnexcusa0le not to use them.
The cheering here drowned out his voice
for some minutes. AS silence began to be re-.
stored voice said: "Thats right; no guns,
but spades for item" "Wen,' resumed the
General, "after putting these negroes in the
army In positions of great peril, and after
reaplng great advantages from them. wouldn't
it be unjust to leave them without arms to de-
fend themselves? o.
Uproarious cheering again drowned every
thing for some minutes. The General con-
tinued by saying that he would not wound the
sensitive feelings of the soldiers by calling ne
groes to their aid in fighting, except in cases
OF great emergency, and then they would be
glad to welcome assistance from any quf rter
, In justice to those negroes who had rendered
f assistance IN the hour of peril, he would at
the end of the war give them their freedom
{ The cry cane, though he hoped it was false,
, but 1t came, that the army of the Potomac
was IN danger. If SO, the Government was
in danger. Ought Congress then to hesitate ?
we want soldiers, we want them quickly
Was Is safe then for Congress to goaway with.
out passing drafting law to be used. jeff
Davis had drafted long ago The rebels man
aged better than we, because they were more
desperate. OH that the voice Of the peopl,
could infuse backbone into these people tha
are governing them. He hoped they would
|. inaugurate new policy. He never wanted
: to march his column again through countr,
! filled with everything they needed belonging
to armed rebels, and yet net be able to usei Il
make his soldiers comfortable.
The General spoke some little time longer
and retired amid unbounded applause anC
e cheers for Lew. Wallace, the Hoosier State
fighting man, DC.
J; Sam. Carey followed with tip-.op speech
}; urging more earnestness in the war, and de
claring that he could say such was the voice Q
IN the whole West and Northwest.
Senator Lane, of Indiana, followed in th
y same str lin, and Schuyler Colfax is now (mid
night making a highly significant speecl
fully confirming the intimation above giver
$, respecting probable change of Administers
te tive policy. He declared with great emphas
that from this day forward the war is to
conducted on war principles.