Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-22

~ III ale
John Campbell, of Philadelphia, in
a very lively speech before the Demo-
cratic Association a short time since,
said: Remember that eight hundred
and fifty thousand new voters have
been recently added to the already six
Or seven millions. It is a fixed fact,
as certain as any fact, that this vote is
added. Now don't let US be afraid to
acknowledge this fact; don't let US
ignore it; it is alive-it is before US
we must face it! How shall the
Democracy poll, on next Presidential
election day, a majority of this vote?
How shall we bridge the chasm that
separates the negro vote from us?
There is only one architect that can
build this bridge-there is only one
man who can poll this vOte-and that
man Is Salmon P. Chase"
It may not be generally known to
those of foreign birth, who have not
become naturalized, that a bill is now
pending in Congress, with every prob
ability of soon becoming a law, that
Will render a further residence Of five
years in this country absolutely neces-
sary. Foreigners, therefore, should
naturalize at once, while the matter
rests with the State courts. For all
necessary papers apply to the clerks
of the courts of the county In which
you reside. The naturalization OBJ
struction bill is being pushed through
Congress with all possible speed, and
a soon as it becomes a law every for
eigner not then a citizen will be placed
by its provisions in the position of one
who has just migrated to the cOun-
try. He may have resided here a
score of years, or he may have de-
clared his intentions, but the law OF
Congress viii require him to renew
his declarations in a United States
court, and live here five years longer
before he car become a citizen.
The Boston Post says: ave touch
bottom again, in matters of trade and
finance, as Dol as we come to a full
crop of cotton. That has thrice DroUe1
dsey our commercial support and SdUi0r.
Intelligent merchants and the more
comprehensive minds among our
public men so understand it. Strange
as it appears to dispassionate eyes, the
Congress that has been doing its best
to cripple, confuse and restrict all
healthy financial operations by its
jargon Of phases, its medley of schemes
and its plots of personal and partisan
profit, Is the very same Congress that
has been revengefulIy bent on keeping
the cotton producing States in a con-
ditiOn of servile degradation, or re-
pressing every attempt of their prop
erty-hOlding citizens to establish
order and a well-reguIated industrial
system, and on driving away
capital from their valuable
fields by destroying the growth
of confidence and trust. The
object Was nothing less than the absO-
lutte degradation of the people that
give those States all the character and
Importance which they ever enjoyed.
Mr.. Sumner publicly announced that
thirty years, the period of a genera
ton, was none too long to keep them
suppliants, dependents and servants
outside the Union, His statesman
ship must have borrowed the eyes of
a mole when it inspired such an
anathema on az entire section Of the
country, 1t did not reckon the vast
productive capacity of their favored
soil and climate, and the great staple
which they alone "a supply for the
resuScitatiOn OF our commerce. 1t
forgot to allow for those pressing ne
cessities in the national finances for
whose instant alienation we should
be compelled to turn to the South as
we had done before"