Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-01

{ Emerson Etherldge, would ne eleclet
governor. To the cOlored people presen
he desired TO say that the humbug storiel
told them by the radical party were cal
culsted to mislead them and he warned
them to beware.
; Col. John Martin was introduced anc
gave a description of the meeting a
Bartlett and cOlored as well as white were
enthusiastic for the conservative ticket
He believed from all that he could learn
that the desth-kDell of radicalism wa:
sounded in Tennessee; he thought there
was no doubt that the whole ticket would
be elected. Col. CAN'T was next called
upon, and said:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
ask your attention for a short time until
speak 10 you about the great questions that lie
Just before us, shall not undertake 10 discuss
the issues that are involved in the canvass, bui
to utter some word OF encouragement that will
! inspire you with hope, that Will make you be-
! ieVe a brighter day will dawn, that the long
night Of darkness viii part, and that sunshine
Of . better era VIII dawn upon Us, l cannot
speak TO yon OF politics as we spoke IN inc
! Otden time. The Q2eSlOn which ag1tates you
tonight is notlikvt those OF old; 1t Is Of tremen-
dous Importance and significance Tomorrow,
gentlemen Of the jury. Applause and laughter
throughout the house Lsdies, l made a slight
mistake. IL Is my daily habit 70 address Jurles
/ OF the male sex, and II 4 have addressed you as
! gentlemen OF the jury, 1 Deg your pardon.
AupIsuseand Iaughter.I 1 wish YOU, ladies and
gentlemen, and You, cOlOred people, 10 under
stand that / feel as solemn as II I was address
ing a jury PERHAPS 1 ought not 10 do 50.
embarrassed-some Ynters, Tor am
not enfGanchised; but 1 trust when
tomorrow night comes I win be unshackled
and hundreds OF others with me. lGreat APP
pfausel The great work Of to morrow know
how tie peoples mind has been burdened.
! know the great weight that has oppressed Us.
/ Gloom and sorr " weizhed the people down.
/ Can We get nd ofitF Many good men remain
in the ship, upon your farm. Many a good
mother in sOrrow and silence remsins ia her
chamber. Can we do any thing? All! but you
1 can YOU can do every thing. The fruit is ripe.
l Before to morrow you may pluck II you may
/ pluck a glorious victory LGreal applause
/ Tomorrow morning, mothers and wives, viii
| YOU tel your husbands 10 go forth four out OF
/ nYe may be dlsfranchised, but tell them theH
are giued with a tongue; heaven has gifted
them with q mind and reason; tell them TO 90
oul and reason with their white fsllOw-citizeus
20 night the battle with error. Error is
against yol, moth and sistsr. send fodh
| the males OF the family, and Il they
! cannOr vote, let them reason, let the moral in
ward, and when IL cannot control and manage
the elections. we have got no country. VIII
/ YOU do 10 voice, very 6mph2tlcalIy, yes,
/ AID apulausei. II yOu do, the victory is yOurs.
! Do Won suppose that your cOlored friend has no
.~aielecJ; that y4ur white Mend is uathink-
iugY Why, erIainly you can reason with biiu
aud couyipE him just as you did before the
war. what 10 You want' Light taxes aud
universal snifrage. you want peace, a bet er
] administration. crime Rbolished, vice driven
] away. error bauished from the community. II
you do, rise up and struggle for ~ pnt forth
! your arm ana strike forl H. want the radical
I party beaten tomorrow; i want the ms &c ca
/ plugged from ihe vOcahulary-t is an ugly
I Eame, L~applauseh wipe it clean out, and lei the
radical kn0W when you wipe IL out he shsu
! not he harmed. Tell Inn 10 Join fences with
YOU. pillow AZ the next furrough with him, and
pray that Dzity Hay send down the same fer
| tiiizIug ralu upon hiss and your own crops. Tell
him g.. come TO your church and worship with
you. but wipe out his politics FROM the face Of
{ e vsrth, lApplaase Are you abe 70 40 -
Voice, Is les. Why, certainly You have 10 in
sour pO~eT, aud We mUSi do u Voice, " And
We ID 90 IT, Iulol, our comfy Is Tue
white mans country, IL is the cOlOred mans
country. 90 - for al; and we shall take care
ana zee that @ is q better country tomorrow
than to-day Wtyy Because We mean to have
betJerlpoLt5cS. We are going o. SEM the same
member to congress and 20 me state legislature,
anu have better aw and light taxes. An the
cotton lax we WIZ wipe ulft on lgIea. ap-
plalge1 so that the cO'Ored man, when he to Is
and digs, shall gel the earnings Of his labor.
But. ] hear some Old gentlemen say, VINO has
lived along time " Oh, we cannot DO anything:
let us fold 0Cr arms aud allow the ship to drift
aIoug' On no. . is a noble ship; do not do IL;
nuf vour most skUHLiI pilot at tie helm: save
her, she has most precious freight Whose
country Is thisT II is ours Wal a country
you have, what rivers, what mountains and
valleys, what institutions you 81 nave left,
railroads. Leieg apis, churches and school hOu-
ses, what a mightg people youare. Lying nom
ocean 10 ocean rom the Cauauab 70 the lauu
Of the bananas. What g country Is this Il is
the white mans andtheL black mans country. 1t
is great inheritance. Are you going 10 give up
these railroads, telegraphs, and farms, and let
them relapse into oarbarismg are you going
To abandon your cnurches. leg rning, wealth
end IOwtrse Are You going 20 dTiu into dark
ugzs and barbarisne Will you LET the Ight OF
science. OF learning and liberty in the western
hemisphere he eXtiuguishe1S " hat is your
dutvs viii tell you. Fathers. mothers and
slster-gO to the coIured man, say 20 him, step
up here on t1is platform OF equality with us
yOI have a ugnL 90 vote. hat you most need
is cultivation. You must have school houses
ana churches: YOU must have farms, and you
sau+ have them when, by your industry, you
earn than. "a hen Won are SICK We Will come
aid see yoS-my doctor shall come and pre-
scribe for you, YOU haye no doe
way. and will all live under the same
great flag And when you have done that. In
@eed OF going down 70 ruin instead OF the
proud cid ship Of slste being engulped In the
maelstuoIa o. destruction, we SHAH go on TO IN
eQuted and tnconceivable prosperity and
happiness. Who says gop are the enemy OF the
cOlOred men, that you wiz spill his blood .
~0utheru-rs, tell men that your ciVillE alton is
mi Wi with such charges; that there Is not a
southern man who would rob him OF his rights.
Every southerner would zee him better on,
better edbcatsd he viii help them and do all
he can for them. Vow the sOCtherner raises
two bales Of cotton aud the negro one, and three
bales will now come TO the CRY, and the drays
in the city VII haullt lhecolored mansmoney
is just asgOOd 90 uraymen as ihs white nants,the
dray men, merchant, aud everybody, viii be
benefited; his happiness is yours, and your
happiness his. That is the true theory. You
can help him. All we hit these little hot-hOrse
politicians that have no fences. daughter and
applauEeI will tell you, as stand here in the
IAENNNhN - eAA%AAH-Ass ~ -.r-r NH A. me-
men want, is your vote. Iuey cannot take
care Of you when you are SICK. Voice,
prosperity; the prosperity Of The whites IS
yours Gentlemen, 4 can imagine IN the future
o p cture Of such prosperity snd glory, as was
Iufs. Ne5, when the fierce fires OF radicalism
shall have died ouf, when peace shall have re-
turned, when you shall need no more soldiers,
no more detectives, no thieves 10 catch
thieves. then there would be fewer courts ana
less ari tinal trials. When the co.OIei and
White man shall have ahO &c and they snail all I
work together When all these forests and
plains shall TEEN With abundance; when di- !
vine providence shall be III a goo1 humUr with
US and shall smile upon rs, when Memphis
shau boast OF lg,CU0 inhabitants; when me /
protected railroad shall connect the Atlantic
with the Pacific aud dempuisshali bethe great
cent. z OF east aud west. from whence ]
shalt stretch cut the great arteries or Ommcr- !
cial prosperity 10 al parts-north, SOUTH, east
an vest. then &c viii be your country; IL will
be nine; il Will b. the black mans home, and
me need not 90 to the radicals, his friend
head into a loyal league. Applause They /
are his sunshine friend, bis politi al
fr end j will tell you colored people
what they want: they want your votes, they 1
w4nf 70 UEe you 10 climb into office with, they /
want the lJavss aud hshes-ify you ask them for /
any theY say " nary Loaf or FISH % fApplause.
CO tO-morrOW and vote; nobody viii keep yOu
fom voting. Ihaye heard meu say thee Tere
10 20 and vote, becau-e they have been
people would not Let them vote. Don't
you be aHaid-try IL one time; stand
By your hiends AND they viii stand by you
vote for your CID ffieIds,tA pBiause.I are you
going 70 have wOne ships, more wealth. u+ore
power7 Are you going 70 drive away passion,
crime and error, and let truth reign ? DO you
want peacs and f-aterpal bappiness9 Do Won
want 10 live every man under his own vine and
az tree, with none 70 mole-t him Or make him
YOU want Gov. Brownlow? Numerous voices,
No, No. Voices from the colered people.
BT2yRloT' FTo W. 3Sat s s6oSt So7 eroR5 are
Is all they can do. lAPplause.l They
think tn y viii get the fyIty acres OF land
Great applause and laughter don't blame
Them. the Door deluded men, but the foul
" rerchts that take men into loyal l~eESues;
ne ipfsUsOug wre.ches who take the coiored
men into the loyal league 20 induce him 10
vote for BrOWnlOW, he Is the man who is TO
blame. The cOlored man - mislead by these
dCmagOgues, those pestlleutial Wretches,
who, as he climbs Into power, soils the steps,
when he gets there, II he walks up the car
petCd halls, he will soil the carpet he treads
upon, IL is responsible. he never labors, he
work, he don't argue, he don't meet you
ia public. Look for him at night in the
F" LOYAL League" as head Clos CUTS. No. my
friend, you will never get the land they
promise yau. Tomorrow, the telegraph will
announce tEat ElLsTtege has cleaned up Brown
10 Mr.. Leyy's or Mr. Tr~eEevants, and sou will
old loyal league trumpery for safe At aaO-
ton. Laughter and applauseJ set Of sec
ond hand radical politics for sale who viii give
anything for them, going, going. Go, colOred
man, tomorrow, -and vote as you see Mt. I
You tonight YOU are deceived. We will 1
Lear no u1kind feelings toward you whether
We are successful tomorrow ornot; l beg Of my
Giends 20 bear no IN will toward the radicals; /
beg OfyOu to make no war upon the radicals In
community let hisu toll, provided he will
work in The daytime. The law VIII protect
they won't hurt anybody there won't
be enough of them tomorrow night 10 make a
grand jury, and one halfOf them viii be getting
certificates 70 prove they never were radicals.
In conclusion, be advised his eOlored
friends il they desired peace, plenty and
prosperity, 10 join hands with the con-
sentative party and thus prosper alike
with their old friends. he concluded his
speech amid loud cheers.
Robert Wsrdlow, q eolored man, was
well received Rad made = short speech,
addressed particularly TO bis colored
brethren. He discussed BrOwnlowis re-
and placed him ia no favorable
light as regarded the eolored people.
Tom Avent, another colored orator,
next spoke, and said he had labored
among his colOred friends for some time
past, and found that they were inclined
TO vote the conservative ticket. He ad-
his colored friends Of both parties
TO go TO the polls and vote open aud
above board, irrespective of any infu-
sDce.