Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-08

The venerable SIRE of the Radical can
didate for the Presidency has been
making q speech at Mineral Point, Wis,
where be WIS on the % n OF last month.
! Whether he has commenced the canvass
thus early, with the expectation of get
ting around the circle, before November,
we are not prepared to say. 1t is evil
dent his tongue is not so tired as the
veritable I" "'Lysse's," and will wag at
both ends, as will appear from the fol-
lowing correspondence of the Cincinnati
Enquirer. 1t is dated May 9th:
On last evenings train Gen. Grants
father arrived here ct this city, and
when it was known, land such things
are generally known in a very short
tlme," the leading Radicals of she CITY
came in, and were introduced TO him.
and they were making a great fuss over
him. At last the conversation turned
upon politics, and Gen. GraqL's father
said: Gentlemen, there never was
such nomination made as the enc the
Radicals have made In nominating nv
son as President, and Colfax is d very
good man for the position OF
Vice President He said he was
glad that Ben Wade was not put il
~ Vice, for lie had not bit of sense, snd
talked TOO much, and would have bs,n
the means Of the Radical ticket losing
at least a hundred Thousand votes in
OhiO-don't believe 10 letting negroes
vote says il Is too much ike irving To
make them equal to the whites, and said
the only reasUu he thought Uney ought
70 have been freed for, was Financially
and politically, not because they were
not in their place, for he thought the
only place they were tit were as slaves,
for tney are not able 10 take care OF
themselves, and be told a story 20 Illus.
trate tie fact. Said the only way they
would work and only way 10 treat them
wac by using the WuIp freely. He thinks
the people Will be ASHAMED Of giving the
negro his freedom. be sAys Geu. Palmer
made q fool OF himself al the Cunvru
tiOu in his speech. he don't think much
OF Palmer or the piatfCrm. He said he
advised them 10 leave uIggeT cut of the
pla form, for be told them il they dId
uvt they would be beat; aud said one OF
the most disgusting things he ever wit
nessed WIS ths Eigger delegates at the
Convention RJ Chicago. IL he had his
way he would have clicked them out.
He said never-no, never-WUuid he be
willing for nIggeTs TO Vote; he thinks the
more they Are educated the worse it Is
for them, and says he dou't believe In
educating them. He dou't believe ia
them voting Ia the South or any place
else. They have no civil rights at all
this country was made to be ruled bv
white men and not niggsrs; thinks the
Freedmen's Bureau the greatest swindle
the country ever saw. He said he
had seen the time when ne had nothing
Ia eat, aud the United States did NOT
feed him, tut he had TO WSTk or starve.
And as long as they INDUCED the niger
IN idIeness the longer they would Lave
70 and said il he mad ten cents and il
would educate niger, he would throw
IL Ia the Tire before they should have II;
says he thinks IL will beat the General, |
and Will be glad IL be IS defeated.
Toe RAIDS Kept putting In once In q |
while, but the Old gentleman would tell /
them he knew what he was talking /
about Il. He says they trotted him out /
on the front of the platform At the Con- 1
vention to show him oil, and he knew 4
how matters were. Before ne was done /
talking every one Of the RAIDS had left, /
aud the old gentleman was talking 10 /
Democrats.
The fact IL, what Is bred in the bone
must come out of the flesh, and in these
plain sayings of the father, the opinions,
underlying all others, OF the son, may
De understood, just as the "horse talk"
1f the lad, as dilsted upon in the biogra-
ply, has kept pace with the maturing
years Of Grant, the reticent, as contra
distinguished from Grant, the loqua-
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