Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-01
RaDTCsLIsY PURE AND SIMPLE.


RADICALIsH PURE AND SIMPLE.
BEN. WADE, for many years Senator
from Ohio, has, by an affectation o. rough
bluntness, always gained credit for fair.
ness and sincerity. On the 10th instant.
he addressed q Radical meeting in Mari.
eta, and discussed the issues Of the
campaign. The position which Mr.,
WADE now occupies, makes the senti-
ments he utters peculiarly interesting to
the people Of the South. He is n OF
its masters, and may fairly be presumed
TO speak for the rest, and TO utter the
true sentiments Of Northern radicslism.
We propose to lay before u readers
some portions Of his speech, with such
comments upon them as may occur to
US. They ought to be peculiarly inter-
esting 10 the people Of q city at whose
expense be was Toasted not many months
ago. His speech VS. especially q response
10 Judge THURMAN, who, with other
Democrats is csnvassiEg the State, in
opposition 10 those who, having estab-
lished military despotisms over ten
States, have no longer any right to call
themselves Republicans. Mr.. WADE
said
Judge Thurman, how comes it that this
republican party, once so despised by
YOU and your party, to-day are reigning
Lriumphanty Over the once proud demo-
cratic party, and trampling the princi-
pies Of that democratic party under their
10 H. = aN.an L. IHH A----
about? Judge Thurman ought 10 be q
philosopher, and to look at the cause Of
those things. / viii tell you the cause.
II is because God il Just, and because the
republican party has Travelled according
10 the dictates and principles laid down
bV Him. You and you party have
served the devil, and in the end you
didn't come out triumphant. Now, sir,
that may be q harsh expression, but it is
bitterly true. From the time that the
great republican party was first organ
ICED, aud they were weak in their organ
lzatiOn, how happens it, that step by
step. ia this great controversy, their
numbers have continually increased, aud
their principles become more aud more
settled, more firmly held by the Ameri-
can people to-day, than st any period
previous 20 this ? Why is 1t?
Every party that has ever attained the
possession Of power in any country,
could, with the same reason, have
proval Of God. The false religion is
more often victorious than the true.
Think only Of Radicalism thanking God
for its late triumph in Tennessee! Glory
was ascribed to God for the browning
mercies Of Drogheda and Limerick and
the Eve Of st. Bartholomew.
Having thus assumed that Radicalism
was the special ~favourite Of the
Almighty, as the French Revolutionists
did when they were cutting of a hun
dred heads q day, because the owners Of
them were sristocrats, Mr.. WADE pro-
ceeded to expound his views as TO negro
suffrage. He said
But they say these men are too igno-
RAM b vote. Well, q great many men
are more ignorant than ] wish they
were ] am 50 myself; / am q good deal
more ignorant than ] wish ] was. know
that Of the great numbers that come up
10 the polls, many are very ignorant
~ aAA AAEA1 AD- - A1ANAAA COUNTY,.
and We give them the privilege to vote
when they know no more about our
government than the horse you drive.
Do the democrats complain Of them that
they are too ignOrant2 Sir, If the victim
or d foreign de-pOtlsm whO comes here Is
nj, after n residence Of five years, 10 ex-
ercise the right Of voting, do you suppose
he understands the subject better than
the older man who is a natural born citi.
zen, and who has heard those great
questions discussed from his boybo0d
up-who has displayed q f~aithfulness 20
the dictates Of their better principles
beyond any other class Of men
that / know OFF am mot
for striking of any nom IN
list, because l / hold that the wise and fbe
ignorant, the rich and the poor. are
equally entitled 10 the rights OF citizen
ship. Il is e principle Of natural Justice
that II 3 man must live under a govern
ment be must have a right 10 participRte
IN It. ] am glad 10 say that those peo-
pie whom your legislature has referred il
70 you TO say whether they shall he
voters OF not are infinitely above H.
class / have alluded 10 in ali that inteUi-
Rence that qualities men to vote right
And / am glad to know that ia order for
q man 10 discharge his duty right he
needs not be 8 profound jurist, or an ac-
cOmpliEhed scholar, or n great states
man. II it was, this government of ours
would be absolutely impossible. That
would bring you back 70 this pink ofl
aristocracy. Some gentlemen who had
been through the mill, aud become
qualified with scholarship, would have
10 certify that you were qualified 10 vote.
No. sir, the affairs OF the government are
not so complicated as that comes 10. An
That Is essential in 3 free government is
for a man 70 wear in his bosom az honest
heart. That is all you want. Men
Lnow the difference between right and
long. and there is no difficulty fn ascer-
ss5ning whether this man or that is right
- wronq. Is there any man who claims
tbs riOhf 10 vote for himself, who does
IF nov he would no more part with ii
~ tbsn with his life, and that he would
hrsnd lie man with infamy who would
~ withhold it? He knows when
= claims that for himself, that his
whatever color he may be, If
- x moi a criminal, has that right,
-a-sctIv the same degree that he has.
Val snv man tell me why he has pot?
yan ssy he does not know as mueh as
~ 50 much the more necessity IoT
sVnirg him with the power TO protect
1890 and 70 defeat You when you At
$3.50 a lrampis him and his rghA