Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-23
HoMEWARD BOUND.
Letter from Our Special Correspondent
The Heaviest Blow ever DelIvered-A
Wonderful Man and Great KnaYe
Danger Of the Hour.

CINCINNATI, April 20, 1870.
Here in Cincinnati, in Washington, and
! along the whole line of railroad, MortOn's
/ Internal speech is the subject of conver-
satiou. Drake caught up the disgusting
theme, Sumner echoed il, smaller men in
the House chanted the doleful refrain,
until a continent echoes with hideOus
/ lies. in the diffusion of which wealth and
/ genius, and telegraphing and the printers
/ art, exhaust themselves.
MortOn's speech has cost the South,
] perhaps, ten millions of dollars. The
mere fact that Federal soldiers may garri-
son Georgia and Tennessee, that our local
/ system of government may be overturn-
1 ed, signifies much as the liberties of the
| peopIe Of the United States are involved; I;
! but pecuniary losses that How from this
revolutionary legislation are compare
/ lively trifiing, wnen Senator in the
1 United States Congress, perhaps second TO
none in intellectual Yigor and in that
moral power yielded by an ardent sup
porter of LincOln's administration, rises
in his place and tells mankind that 10000
people within the past five years have been
murdered in the South, when such man
declares that no northern citizen south OF
the Ohio is safe, when southern people
are described a. more murderous than
Thugs, and bloOdier than the Borgias, and
hleu kHlE ELOIh II AAH~FA4l-AAnADA
where in Europe and America, the detrl-
ment done thess States cannot be eXagger-
ated
AN ILLUSTRATION.
I encountered this morning a gentle
man from Buffalo, New York, on his way
into the Gulf States. He was the agent
and precursor of twelve others They
dared not enter the south with their
families until they learned whether Nor
ton and Drake spoke truth OF falsehood.
After this gentleman has made the in
vestigation required at his hands, he will
publish his conclusions in the Buffalo
Courier, and perhaDs in the APPEAL. He
should visit the scene Of Morton's and
brakes " battles in the clouds" wherein
ten thousand radical heroes are said to
have fallen; he should count the grave
stones OF the dead, and learn one
staple truth that the freedmen's bureau,
to which Morton Is indebted for his facts,
could only exist on the supposition that
blood and whisky flowed, two mighty
currents Of desOlation and death, through
every district Of the South.
Morton's speech was drawn from the
foul, sinking, disgusting eNcretions of
the bureau, as full of political sores and
pollution as Morton himself
SAD, VERY.
II Is A sad thing to hGze, 81 the embOdi-
ment Of the genius and force Of resist
less party, man whose physical cOndi-
ton makes him a desperate adventureT.
Morton is vet young, and already death
holds him by the arms and legs. He hob
bIss into his place in the Senate Chamber
with a CrEtch on one side and stick on the
other. He OcGup,eg his chair while his
pleasing accents rssOHn-a throughout the
capitol. His left arm is Upheld ~ an
iron framework, while he gesticulates
with Us right. His memory is faultless,
and though the written speech lies before
him, he rarely direGts his eye to the per-
fected manuscript. Men Isto1., vhether
thew approve or not, for there Is a uel- ,
vous force and yigOr and earpestness OF
matter and manner .tSst magnetizes an
auditor. Then, too, the heaFe- Is con- !
sciORs that the speaker is doomed /
victim of incuFable malady, and
this fact invests saGh utterance
with singular interest. And it is this /
certainty Of approaching dissolution and |
this rage with fortune, which denies long |
life. that maddens Morton as it did Ste
Yens. He must achieve, within the year, |
all the aims Of insatiate ambition. /
He must die, but wouid be immOr-
tai hs would light up with in
extiuguishapls fameE fairer tenn |
pie than was ever : lred in honor |
of heathen gods, and J n destroying /
Trt-EsLl aEfl IN the E0Ohlhs Nlt DEuFhlla EAAb ]
ruins or TIE cOuntry's constitution and |
laws. Proximity Cf death maddens as |
many as Il lifts into tt-e brightest empy- |
rsan Of beatitude and hoP5s A.cgton IS |
crsge1 by ambition, which he is conscious /,
cannot be appeased; ana Drake is simply |
a abideOus, stitf-haired, black visaged flend. |
There is an apology IN ni- physical condi- |
tiOn for Morton's misanthropy Gs-c de- |
moniacsl passions and hates, but Drake /
q doc
tue or the heaven descended gift of ge- /
niuS which decks with rainbow nUes the /
frightful conceptiOnso, nd orstOry OF Nor |
Ion. as baleful as eQso e. lights that dance |
over fsIon's graa Isas the Fuddy fires
that fash fGTth fr3fl the jaws of a vol !
csno. when there Is nothing but redness |
and ruin and the tires Of the damned |
within.
WHY STAND WE HERE IDLE?
Almost every county in Tennessee has |
its Radical lobby member, dancing I
upon Stokes and the Recon- |
structlOn Committee. Spence, StQm Nur- |
feesboro, is the " head deTiessSs' 81 this or
raniEation. It is a pr6x . rIng which cut /
5qlIows jacob, who, il Is recorded, had to 1
81 1T upH his voice to weep. Senter, too, |
still lOiters about ths capitol. ] am told /
bg some of these gentlemen that the do |
ifigs OF our Convention will be Eunulled, /
and all acts Of the late Legislature will 1
surely be pronounced void. In fact, It Is 4
deemed better 10 have our whole system 4
Of repub ubican government overturned /
than suffer thsse hungry, thirsty Gel /
lows to return TO ayOcstioas for which they
are adapted by nature and attainments. 1
Having grown drunk they cannot sbsn- /
don power. There Is no crime, In morals 1
or fact, that ignorance or knavery, once 4
in high places, will not com /
NIT rather than retire TO native obscurity. /
In this simple fact consists the danger TO /
which Tennessee Is ezEosed. and which 1
we are making no effort TO avegt
III, a.