Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-16
wyTHE STATION.
Immense 0utpOuring of the
People.
The Great Barbecue OF the
Season.
White and CoIOred People in
Council.
Patriotic and Eloquent Speeches

Wythe Station, on the Memphis ant
and Chic railroad, was yesterday tht
scene of one OF the largest, most enthusi-
astic and respectable outpouriOgs of the
people that has occurred thus far during
the campaign. We have from time tC
time, lately, Rdverted to the proposed
gathering there, and published the calls
aud preliminary arrangements therefor,
and as might have been expected from
the liberality and extent of the prepare.
tons ana invitations and the Publicity
given TO the affair, an immense throDg
were in attendance.
The epeeiaI train which left the city 81
$50 a. m, carried out the invited speak
ers OF the day, Messrs. Leftwieh, Pike,
Vaughn, Haynes, Avery and John f.
Harris, eolored,) Wardlow's col0red
Conservative band, and large party Of
ladies aud gentlemen. SO crowded, in
deed, were two Of the ears that there
was scarcely standing room.
On arriving ss the station the speakers
and members OF the P.ess were taken il
charge by the Marshal of the day, Col.
r w. Pitinsn, and escorted TO the car.
riages in waiting to convey them TO the
grounds. a procession was formed OF
the vast multitude which was already
in waiting, aud those who arrived on
tie train, and, headed by the band,
the column took up the line OF
/ march for the barbecue grounds, which
were distant about three-eighths OF q
mile from the station. There
|
dred persons in the line; for
rs the band reached the grounds,
the rear OF the column had hardly
left the station. Tbs rosd was part Of
the way througha beautiful wood, and
lust before TeaeAing the turn of q
large United States lag, belonging to the
steamer Dee Arc, Was stretched from
two large trees on opposite sides OF the
road, and festoonsd &cross it,
On the grounds, the speakers were es-
eorted by the Marshal and Assistant
8Iarshals to the stand, which had been
| erected under an aTb0r in q beautiful
| grove OF post oaks, where, after resting
short time, Col. Lynn, Chairman OF the
! Committee OF Reception, introduced Gen.
Pike, as the first speaker OF the day.
Tde text Of Gen. Pixies speech was
the centrslizing tendency of the Radical
| Government, its endeavors to sweep
away all State lines and State rights,
and showing ths dapger snd ruin Of any
such policy or idea. The State Of New
Hampshire, said he, writes herself to-
day "the free and independent COM
monweslth of New HAmpshire"-s did
tbg State of t1eoEgia, end she may do 30
fo-dsy but spe%k that sentsBee, or al
Iude to either State in that phrGse to-day
in The fgils Of Congress, aud if it were
not received With open laughter and
meetings, It would still be greeted by
smiles and sneefs OF darision. But what
could bs expected from such body-A
body that dares openly to jeer and scofi
At the Constitution, and to say that they
vera working outside Of 1t, and to usurp
10 themselves lie inRliensble rights snd
priyileues which hslong to the Sovereign
States. II The Radical party carries out its
schemes of consolidation. this Govern
msnt csnpot exist any length of
Tins. II mast be merged into military
despotism or sn empire. He was q be-
lever in States rights and the doctrine
80 called. 1t was on this principle, and
this alone, that lie went into the war. |
The slavery question, the perpetustion
of African slavery, never entered his
mind.
In abiding TO the Constitution as now
amended, he said it offered an extraordi- |
a, ha 4
correct. The main body of it, according
to them, wss made by the whole people, |
and these amendments which have been |
tackled TO il have been made by the indi- |
vidual States. He briefly sketched the |
progrt - Of 8 nation toward despotism, |
and reverted 10 the nations OF antiquity, |
citing Athens as an example. Attiea, |
a country so small that pins head
would cover il on the msp Of the globe, |
gave ant and scie1ce, poetry and !
philosophy TO the whole world. Ii was a |
republic, the people were free, yet but |
few short years elapsed before it was a
prey to a horde OF petty, tyraHts. The
thirty tyrsnts, P.sOstratus-sny tyrsnt |
could ruJe.it and Cypress the people.
As when the Bethiehemites laid their
hands upon the ark, they were smitten by
an outrsged Deity for their profanity, go
these wre.ches who have dared to Isy |
their rude, profane hands upon our ark
Of the covenant, the Constitution, should
be smi,ien by the wrath Of the people,
and should be driven from the high
places which they now poilute.
The legend of the coat Of arms of the
United States-e TlGriGus LauHs-wss
then forcibly discussed and explained. Il
did not mean one government, one en-
pire, consolidated from or formed by
many people but it meant one civil COR
porsgioD, formed not Of the people, but
OF the States. The speaker went on to
show that there WAS not, aud could not
la, any such thing as treason sgainst the
United States, without first being treason
AGAINST some individual State. He also
sdverted to the cry about northern men.
citizens of the United States, not being
allowed to come into the South and set
tle-showing that this is not SO. We have
no right to say that citizsn OF Massa-
chusetts or any other State, shall not
come among US ifthey do not come to
psrsecute Us and help those who now
bold us ground down, TO keep US so. and
keep their upgainly hOOfs upon our
necks.
The most forc!ble and beautiful norton
of the Generals speech was his allusiop
to the allegoric meaning or symboliza-
ton Of the American flag. 1.-THE stars.p
said he, "upon its field of azure, are
not like the plaBets Of heaven, revolving
round and drawing their light and heat
and melton from one great central
sun; governed by and subject to
the laws of grRyitation, eentripe.
tai and centrifugal motion: but
they are the constellation of fIxed
stars or suns coeQual, self.luminant in
dependent each Of the other, ail revoIv.
ing around some point in space, but not
around any central source of light and
heat and life. Thus it is in the con-.
stellatton of States that form the Union,
Each State is sun ceequaI with the
others. 1t lie 10 this faith we must give
In our adhesion. We must combat and
destroy the notion OF great central gov
eminent, which is not the fruit Of the