Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-12
4ME DEnIOCRATIC CLUR.
Speeches frOEn Gen. pike and
Col. EandOn G. Haynes.
Great EntElalsiasnl.

10 the hall il the Stillman Block. There
were about two hundred persons present,
representing the brain, bone and sinew
of our city and county. At $50 o'clock,
precisely, the President, Gen. Albert
Pike, took the Chair, and called the
meeting to order. The minutes of the
preliminary meeting were read and con
siderable business, of which the follow
ing is q synopsis, was transacted
J. II. GOodlett, Esq, OF Whites sta
ton, asked, by letter, TO be excused from
service on the Executive Committee,
and suggested as his successor for that
district Capt. r. NJ. Mason. Mr.. Good
lett was excused as requested, and Capt.
Mason appointed instead.
Several bills, including one Of $50, for
music furnished on the occasion of the
late demonstration, were presented and
| ordered to be reported to the Finance
Committee, with the approval of the
Club.
The following Standing Committees
were appointed
To Solicit Subscriptions-H. Brinkley,
J. B. Marley, w. G. McCune, T. D.
] Smith, II. Seessel.
On Speakers and Addresses-Judge
Scruggs, P. NJ. Winters, ESQ., and p.
| F0ute, Esq.
on Hall, Custodian, ete.-W. NJ. Nc
| Clure, Esq, J. NJ. Sehooles, Esq.
| On Printing-Messrs. Geo. Mellersh, J.
T. Pratt and r. A. Thompson.
! By special request, Irving Halsey, ESQ,
! was appointed to address a Club now or
| gsniziug in the Eighth Ward, on Organ
| izstion, etc, at time to be designated
| hereafter.
| Gen. Pike announced that with the
| consent Of the meeting he would en-
/ deavor to get Hon. Emerson Etheridge
to address the Club on Saturday night.
Approved.
The feature of the evening were the
addresses of Gen. Pike and the Hon.
| Lsndon @. Haynes, an outline of which
we present below.
| Gen. Pike said The present is one of
| those times which makes man feel in
spired. The gentlemen had reason to be
| proud and LOOK with enthusiasm upon
| the present meeting Of the Club. II not
more than the halfway, If not more
| than one-fifth Of the number present
were here tonight, you would still be
more in number than the men who as
ssm5lei in Boston to listen to John
Adams and his compatriots, in the meet
ing which was the inception Of the
American Revolution, ana which tore
from England the brightest Jewel ia the
British crown. The cause which led to
that revolution, SIS all know, was taxa
ton without representation. England did
not establish in the colony Of Virginia,
a military despotisnn she did not gov
ern the province Of South Carolina by
martial law she did not bind them hand
and foot with government of bayonets
ike this sO-called Republican Govern
ment has done ten States of the Ameri-
can Union, four Of which were Of the
original States Of the Union. There are
more of you than met at AIeckleu-
burg, North Carolina, or Charleston,
South Carolina, in the Conventions
chat threw those States into arms against
the mother country. If we wanted any
thing to nerve US in this coming struggle
it would be to read that list Of members,
then to lock around US and see this as
semblgge, and then to think that if we
were 10 say to the voters, go you to one
side, and the DISTINGUISHED, go you to the
other, how small would be the percentage
Of those who can vote to those WhOcRDnot.
And what have the one party done that
they shCuld be debarred from this ines
Unable privilege? Gentlemen, what
cause is there that can nerve men that
yOu have not? What voice have you in
the Government? You are taxed, and
compelled to pay your taxes into the
hands Of men whom you are not even
allowed to have a voice in choosing
men, if you demand guarantee for the
money paid into their hands, will laugh
in your face and tell you that you have
no rights that they are bound to respect,
for you are not " loyal" II the colonies
had a right to rebel and throw of the
yoke Of English tyranny, we have ten
times the right. How much better is
the british barbarian African, than the
descendants of English, Irish, German
or French parentsge, or OF the Irish,
Germans, French or Italians, whose |
only crime is that they are white
There is q world Of philosophy in the old |
MOnkish proveTb, +" Id6Ordre est Orare, - |
to labor Is to pray. There is no use for |
Us to have grand and imposing demon |
stratiOus ike that which we had on |
Thursday Dight-the simultaneous, spon- /
taneous uprising Of the people-if we al |
low the effects TO pass OF. We must |
keep up this enthusiasm. Letus resolve, !
come what may, not to be discouraged. |
We may often meet here and not bring |
half so many together, but woe to the /
man who puts his hand to the pillow now
and turns back. We must struggle,
wheImed. Far better, to paraphrsse the |
words Of Of the poet, to have fought and /
lost than not to have fought st all. Il is
the old story OF Hercules and the wag-
oner. You must each and every one put |
your shoulder to the wheel, or it will |
do DO good to call on Hercules. Our
officers must do their duty, and we must
have the siDaws Of war. Finance COM
mittees must be appointed and got to
work. These Democratic headquarters |
must become the center whence the
light shall rad:ate to the surrounding
country, with which the Democratic
clubs forming all over the country must
be put ia teiegrspbic communication as
it were, so that when we are ready, We
can rise as one man to revolutionize the .
State and free her from her bondage and /
degradation. Applause. By all means
let US say nothing that We do not mean.
Let US not temporize. It is not for Us to
ten every one our plans, and what we
intend to do, but let what we do tell be |
the truth. Wesmeau that the white |
race, and that race alone shall govern
this country. 1t is the only one that is
fit to govern, and 1t is the only one that
shall. It will not require much to COM
pletelY revOlutionize this State. A few
more such 0prisings and Outpourings as
we bad on Thursday night would do it
effectually-for every Northern man
among US who has fraternized with
this party would leave it-they
would feel that they could no longer
have anything in common with
it. Snd would abandon It COM
pletely. Applause. This is not a po-
litical eontroversy-like the old differ
ences between Wings and Democrats
this is a struggle for life or death, cur
honor, dearer than our life, is at stake.
{ Applause.l The man, or the set of men,
that denies me the right to vote in the
State in which live, is not my political
opponent, he is my personal enemy and
deadly foe. Great applause 1 only
wish, gentlemen, that the voice OF one
who is now dead could be heard here to-
night. only wish that s. S. Prentiss,
could stand among you, and with his
clarion voice and sOul-stirring eloquence,
rouse the people to q sense of the ire
mendous crisis.
We have among US gentlemen of eIo-
quence and used to public speaking, who
can arouse and sway the people. They
must come forward and take part in this
contest. Let times and places be APP
pointed for them TO speak and let them
know they must speak. IL there ever
was time when high and mighty re-
sponsibility rested upon every man ia
the community, it is now. The crisis has
arrived; the time has come when wemust
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