Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-04

on top. loud cheering They say the
Radical party 10 tyrannical, usurpsrs,
and that they mean TO have their
riQhta They said about the same
thing seven yoars ago, and % hse
predicted, II you bring on the var you
will get most ingloriously whipped. ne
said then, and said II 70 night, and
stick 10 Il, that war did come. Some
things were developed by the war, and
one was that both armies united would
be the most powerful army that ever
history recorded. He had favorable
opinion Of Grant and Colfax. He did
not know whether he ought 10 notice
Colonel Colyers speech. IL repeated
the same thing that was said In 1861,
that people had rights. He made that
inaammatory speech to FIRE the public
mind. he denied that the Governor 9
message declared war. He openly and
boldly denied It II was true, and there
was no war 10 il. There was an organ
lied band providing through the country
with masks. He would not enact law
with war in IT, But he would give the
Governor power TO call out five 10 ten
thousand militia.
We have Sherman, Grant, Meade and
others in the Federal army. Now where
is your army7 We had militia last year
and we had no war Of races. They harp
on the war Of races. Now. Mr. Colyar,
IA voice" Col. Colyar. "]-how came
him to be Col. Colyar 2-let us play fair.
When we were in authority we said
to you, 10y down your arms, don't you
90 to war; there is not one Union
man in Congress who does not
desire that every man in the South should
be disfranchised forever. Let me tell
You how to be enfranchised. Do like
Judge Gaut and other men have;
to-day they have written a letter in
reply to Edwin II. Ewing. Mr. Colyer,
20 home to your office, and never
make any more inAammatory speeches;
Mr.. Ewing, write no more letters; Ban
ner, write no more editorials, then all
will be right Do not, with threat and
menaces, speak of the Union men. Let
the war come; If it does come, God will
protect the right. The Republican party
want you DISTINGUISHED you can drive
or intimidate as you did in 1860 and 1861.
I assure you we have no ill-ieeling to-
ward you. Thank God, daylight has
broken; let us have peace; let us save
the country from war.
You never can get control of this gov
eminent without force. You cannot cut
down the white aud black loyalists with
out war, and you are not prepared for
that.
Now, ask you, in conclusion, to think
not of these things. Suppose you 20 in
for war, you have no money, no banks to
90 to. For Gods sake, do not think of
anything Of the kind; do not consent to
make more widows and orphans. You
cannot get the franchise by threats and
menaces; we are not the persons to be
threatened.
When you surrendered, you surren-
dered everything; your arms, your pro-
perry, even your lives. We have not dis.
turbed your property; your lives are still
your own, but we do not intend to restore
your arms to be displaced by you.
The speaker then touched upon the
money question, declared himself in ia
vor of the Radical policy, violently OPP
posed the idea of reputation, and con-
cluded by offering all of his worldly eff
fects, down to his feather bed, as sacri-
fee upon the altar of Republican IDEAS
He exhorted the Legislature to be calm
and prudent, to do nothing in haste, and
the whole Federal army would back them
in their actions.