Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-27

THE breed Of great men is not yet
entirely extinct. A few patriots and
statesmen are yet in existence. These
are to be found in the Democratic
party, and prominent among the
number is Eugene Casserly, United
States Senator from California. This
distinguished and rising young states
man was born in New York, and dur
ing a recent visit to the city he was
invited 10 address the people on the
political issues of the day. Sem
ator CasserIy accepted the invi-
tation, and his speech is one
of the ablest we have read since
the days OF Webster, Clay and Cal
hOun. We placed this splendid pro-
duetion on file with the view of pub
fishing it in full, but the pressure is
50 great upon our columns that we
are enabled to give only the following
extract:
When the war wa over, was there ever
a party that had so many opportunities
for good as the Republican party7 The
South was Frustrated; she had fought the
Issue to the last man and gun she was
as helpless as a newborn babe, bleeding
at every pore; she was an object to excite
the sympathy, the generous impulses of
the sternest foe. Republicanisp might
have built up a great party in those
States. Had there been one statesman
among them will not say q statesman
one man of American ideas, Of Christian
heart, they might have founded a party
then, which would in time nave ef-
fected a permanent result in the politics
Of the country. But yet they took coun-
sci of their narrow fears; they took coun-
sci of their hate. They ceased not to ely
for vengeance; they hespsd indignity
after indignity upon the States OF the
South; they sought TO make them even
the unwilling instruments of their own
dishonOr, when they demanded Of them
as a condition of their restoration into the
Union that they should put a brand of
disability upon their own leaders in the
Cabinet and in the field. What did they
ask? They asked them to vote for an
amendment to the Constitution declaring
their Lee, their LOngstreet, JacksOns, and
Stephenses no better than felons. WHY,
suppose it had been our lot 10
have failed-and great soldiers tell
Us that war is uncertain, and that it is
utk dlNhNs Aub bEeL cause LuaL has the
best succeSs-and though they say
there is a Providence in these things, vet
il is equally true hat more great wars
have resulted in favor of the wrong cause
than of the right cause. l say if we had
been conquered rather han they, sup
pose they had said: Here, you men of
The North, you are to tax your friends
and disfrsnchise them; your tried and
chosen leaders, the men Of your love and
affection, and brand tEem.' What would
We have said? What take our Sher-
man, our Farragut; take our Mcclellan
loud and l-ong-continuei cheering.
again ami again renewedl-take them and
put upon their brow the brand OF your
dis~hOnor-neyer, never, never" TGreat
cheers n applause. We would have
said TO them: Whatever they were to
you, they were only too faithful to US,
and we will not be the instrument of
you malice and unnatural hate" lAp-
plsuse. That is what we would have
said TO them. LApplause.l The South
refused those terms, and l honor the
South for doing 50. Applause /
would not ave desired the states Of the
South in the Union on such terms, be-
cause a people who are capable of 50 dis
hOnOring themselves by their " act. I
should not regard as worthy TO be eiti-
zens Of the great American Republic.
Loud applause.l
ALNN HAAAAAAoAD4N ~ GNtuNn-h udL llNIG
ave they done? They have overthrown
their armies-they hav be cen able TO hold
them down by bayOnets at their own will
ever since. Is that much2 Is that much
for a great and enlightened psople TO ac-
comphsh2 Why, gentlemen, any barba- /
rian out of Asia could have done that If
he had armies and cannon enough.
Laughter A wal which results in
nothing but that, is a war that has but
a.barbarous result. The grand point was
10 conquer the affections of these people.
Applause But, has the party in power
done anything of the kind? Why, their
own declaration is, that they are more
disloyal to-day than they were the day
Lee surrendered at Appomattox. If they /
are, in the name of heaven whose fault is
1t? Great applsuse.l People do not be-
come more disloyal amer such a struggle
As that. They have not changed their
dispositions, such as they were at the
close OF the war, except for some cause.
The American man is naturally a man
of order, Of peace, Of social relations, 1
and OF obedience to law and government. |
iApplause.l Now, why is It that these
men, whose dispositions were so peace
able directly after the war, have now dis
positions so bad7 Why, there isouly one
explanation of it. The persecution which
drives the wise man mad has done its
work among them. If they are discon-
eDLNCA - II AhD kONtEuUlG0E OF h6ulCal- II
ism which has made them discontinued.
They are outraged by the extraordinary
legislation which has by the Radical
leaders at Washington been put upon
them, and which can scarcely be con-
ceiYed. Though they are faithful to the
Union and Constitution, they are not re-
stored to their rights in the Union until
they are prepared to attach themselves TO
the Radical party. You see, gentlemen.
what a predicament IL is. These Radical
leaders of ours curse the people Of the
South morning and evening at their
prayers. They spit upon them and re-
vile them, and then they are enraged that
when the Southern people are called upon
70 vote they should prefer to oppose
them and cast their fortune with the
party that has level cursed, eNecrated,
and outraged th~em-loud applsusel-and
Tor mat they are to be punished. is that
JUSTIN that merciful2 is that wise? TAD
plause.l
These are words Of craftsmanship.
truth and wisdom. II the Radicals
had adopted the magnanimous and
cOnciliatOry policy suggested by Seua-
tor Casserly, peace would long since
have been restored, and the Republi-
cans would have secured the affections
and confidence of the Southern people,
instinctively grateful and easily won
by kindness. But instead of this pat
riotic and philanthropic policy, the
Radicals sent into our midst brutal ruff
fans, villains stamped by God in His
coinage of humanity as the lowest
type of mankind, and the refuse scum
and ofial Of invading armies long since
disbanded, who have united TO make
the South as unfit for the habitatlon of
honest white men as r the pestl-
lential jungles of Africa. When the
great political fabric which the rebels
We're building in such grandeur and
beauty was dashed from its fonnda-
tons and crumbled to pieces over their
heads, they stood amid the ruins with
the calm dignity of men who can con-
front their destiny, in the conscious
ness that they had done all In their