Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-14
MISSISSIPPI.
Progress Of the Canvass Between
r the Dent and AIc0rn Parties.
Kellogg and Clay IN the Second Dis
trict. p
AlcOrn at Gorinth---His Speech
Democratic Responses.

PROM An OCCASIONAL coRREsroSDBNT,
CoRuST5z, Mrs, october 42.-Gen. Al
corn addressed = large meeting here last
night. Upon opening proceedings Col.
Tyson requested him to divide times with
him, but on replying,in answer to a ques-
tiOnOfGen. .Aleorn, that he was Democrat,
Alcorn declined to discuss with him on
the plea that Democracy being dead in
Mississippi by the act Of the fosterers of
Dentism, he did not care to enter into dis
cussion as to its fossil remains
Gen. Alcorn presented the facts Of the
registration in Mississippi, and showed
that the political power of the State has
passed into the hands Of the negroes. In
accepting that fact he recommended a
a mixed party in ls6G, ina order avert the
evils of the fact; and though he has not as
set infused sufficient whites into the
party, be has at all events drawn couserv-
atism out Of RadicalisIn. The Blacks. he
said, show every evidence OF good feeling.
In selecting as their standard bearer him,
who had owned a hundred slaves, thew
have given guarantee that they were no
bitter enemies. In selecting him, enc of
the largest landholders in the State, they
put in proof the fact that they are no agra
rians. In selecting him, one Of the old
time statesmen of Mississippi, man OF
large family, associated with the best cir
cles Of the State, they guarantee that
they entertain no hostility against classes.
While this good feeling is honorable to
the blacks, he cautioned men of property
against the impOlicy Of returning that
good feeling by injustice-by injustice to
the men who WELD now, as they are des-
tined to WELD hereafter the political
power of the State.
Col Inge replied. Declaring himself at
tfrst Dentist, he asserted, subsequently,
that he was Democrat. lie berated Con-
gress, the reconstruction laws, the Presi-
dent and the North, in terms not found in
the Union Republican Brown Barksdale
platform.
Col. Tyson followed. He declared him
self Democrat, and, as such, hated Radi-
calism in all its forms. The white people, 1
he declared, are with them. They detest, !
be said, the whole thing. lie would not
stultify himself by taking the foul name
Of Republican, which meant no more or
no less than Radicalism.
Gen Aicorn rejoined. He showed that /
after the battle Of Gettysburg he looked |
upon the cause Of the Confederacy as lost. |
Every man slain thereafter, every widow, |
every orphan, added to those which had |
been left st that time in Mississippi, was,
he felt, wantOn Wickedness. He groaned |
in agony to see the flower of the land |
moved down in u vain continuance of the |
struggle, and would have been less than 1
man if he didn't rejoice that the struggle
the vain and hopeless bloOdshed-had /
been stopped. And in this sense he said
he was more than glad when the COnfed- I
crate flag went down Touching his
record, he said that it had been endorsed /
by Gov. Clarke's offer TO give him, in 1854, /
the command Of the State troops, and
again by the Legislature on his election,
in 1866, to the Senate Of the United States.
If his opponents wish to go behind those
high verdicts in his favor they can accept
the challenge be has issued to meet them
in discussion upon his record at given
time, In Jackson, with theView of pu blish-
ing the discussion at the Joint expense of
both parties, for the Judgment Of the peO-
pie. But ne was unwilling to allow his'
to bring up any side issues in
the canvass, and refusing, therefore, to
follow them on all occasions behind the
verdict Of the sovereignty of Mississippi
into his record, he would insist that thew
attempt not thus to lead the people away
FROM the great questions of the hour-res-
torstion, amnesty and material pros
Perity. CHROMO.
lCoMMUSIcATED.l
GRENADA, MISS, October l2.-In your
issue of the 9th inst, you say from all you
can learn the Conservative people OF the
Second Congressional District of Missis-
sippi are bitterly opposed to Judge Kel-
logg. You then go on to comment upon
his Congressional record during the war
that he is the appointee of Ames to the
iudgeship, and wind up with am eulogy
upon Col. Green Clay.
First, as TO the opposition of the Con-
people Of the district, it viii be
sufficient to say that your correspondent
is sinply mistaken, and that, on the con
trary, Judge Kellogg, with tho exception
Of very small number urging the claims
Of Col. Green Clay, will receive the sup
port of nine-tenths of the Conservative L
people of the district.
It is not our intention to reflect upon
Col. Green Clay. We are glad to receive
al such gentlemen as permanent settlers
among us. he has been introduced by
some as the grandson of the great states
man Henry Clay; by Others he has been
pufed and brought before the public as q
near relative ofthe great man whose name
he besrs; and one eulogist speaks Of him,
I" like his great kinsman," etc. This is
ali very well, especially Il true. But the
truth is the great kinsman spoken Of was
not named Henry, but Cassius, whose
nephew the Colonel is. We do not say
This to dispsrsge the claims Of Col. Clay,
because we intend that this Congressional
race shall be made upon the only live
issue, and that is, that the past shall be
ignored and forgiven by the Southern
people, even as to such men as Col. Clay
Uses 0Al OH