Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-20
ETHERIDCE.
ETHERIDCE.
He Speaks at DancyViIIe to a Large
Crowd.
He Does not Favor Wholesale Re-
pudiatiOn.
He Claims the Late Canvass was not
for Universal Suffrage.
He Promises to Stand by his Pledges
to the Negro.

| Special Dispatch to Memphis Appeal
| BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, August 19
10 p.m.-Etheridge spoke to-day a
Qancyville to about twelve hundred
people. More would no doubt have
been present but for the intense heat
About half the number were wOmer
and children. His speech was an
hour and three-quarters long, and was
very diffuse, consequently l will not
attempt a synopsis by telegraph. He
opened with a brilliant historical re-
sumo, showing that attempts to force
a Government or religious system
upon a people have ever been odious,
and have always been successfully re-
sisted and overthrown. He passed
thence to the decay of public virtue,
and among his scathing historical par
ables he administered fits to
Andy johnson by referring to
the trial of Mrs. Surratt
and reciting the Intellectual prayers Of
her daughters for mercy. On the sub
ject of the public debt he said that
history sohwed that no great public
debt had ever been paid, but that
while he believed in Judging the fu-
ture by the past, he thought it posi-
bic for this country to pay its debt,
but it would have to be under a to-
tally different management and re-
gime. As for repudiation, he would
not declare himself for it, except as an
extreme measure, the last resort and
argument when all others had been
tried. He prophesied that in less
than two years, however, re-
pudiation would be the doctrine
announced from every forum
by candidates for Office. As
for himself, he would max e
no promises. He had seen, he said, a
little newspaper squib stating he was
for repudiating BrOwnlOw's bonds; he
was for repudiating those illegally
issued, and nothing more. At present
he advised the sale of such railroads
as could not pay the interest on their
bonds to some one who would take
State bonds in payment. To the blacks
ne said that the white people would
prove those Radicals who said they
would take away the rights of the
negro liars. AS for himself he would
not go back on any promises that he
made them. He had promised them
if they assisted his people to their
rights of which they were deprived,
he would guarantee them, the negroes,
theirs, and he wanted to stick to his
pledge. He declared the issue of
the late canvass not 10 have
been universal suffrage or the enfran-
chisement of the negro, but the re-en-
franchisement of the white man. He
took the ground that Senter's great
majority was given by the negroes,
which he argued showed the negro in
favor Of the 'enfranchisement of the
white race. He told the negroes,
however, that they must not attempt
to, or think they can, govern this
country; if they do they would be wo-
fully mistaken. He favored Chinese
immigration to certain extent, but
did not commit himself fully. He
urged the union OF all old parties un-
der the Democratic standard, address
ing himself especially to the old
Wings present.
The speech was received with very
little enthusiasm-there being scarcely
a demonstration from beginning to
end of it. 1t was followed by an ex-
cellent barbecue, which was ap-
plauded. F. l.. j.