Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-16

mated for Governor by acciamation, and
being called upon made the speech re-
ported by telegraph IN the APPEAL of
Wednesday.
A SPEECH FROM GENERAL QUARLEs.
General Brown was followed by General
w. A. Quarles, who spoke substantially
as follows:
am perfectly satisfied, gentlemen of
the Convention, that your Judgment has
been exhibited and proven today in Sc
lectiug one 20 take the lead in this great
political contest. L am satisfied with what
has been done, and do not believe there
is a Democrat here q mean those men who
are indeed against Kadiealisml who is not
of the same opinion. / do not mean to
claim that the party organized before the
war through which we have passed, is
the party which we represent to-day. 1
do not wish any old-line Whig to 90
away from this Convention feeling that
he has been to the funeral of his old
party. Gentlemen, can we ask more? Is
there platform of principles in the world
which is sOunder or better? or is there
candidate whom we can feel prouder of?
Gentlemen of the ConYention, is there
any more to do? Is not our work COM
pleted so far as the Convention is con-
csrned? / conceive that IL Is. We have
platform of principles which every man
can be proud OF, and VIC have can
didate whom nobody can speak
word against and tell the truth,
It seems that this is all we have to do.
This is not so. Remember that when YOU
go home, If your counties are not organ
lied, organize them Immediately, for, in
organized discipline there is strength, and
without it there is no strength. Do not be-
lieve that in your imagined security, your
enemies are not organizing against you.
They are watchful and yigilant. We must
be also Watchful and vigilant. Rsmem-
Der, gentlemen, that there is wisdom in
but one word in party organizations, and
that is harmony. Let US have harmony
of action here and everywhere. Let us
determine that the same harmony we
have had here oday will be practiced
throughout the State. Let no man tread
upon the toes of the other. But, fellow
citizens, l feel as if l was trespassing upon
your time. Go home and determine to
make this organization perfect, and you
will see, in short time, a government in
Tennessee which will be open and frank.
You will find no more corruption; you
Will find no more legislative commit
tees reporting frands and thefts from
new era has dawned upon the
land, without which your standard
bearer cannot administer your govern
ment. The battle is not vet won. We
have gained, it is true, successful tri-
umph, but you know that rally may be
made and your victory taken from your
hands. We are marching on in this
fight; marching on, it is true, with John
Brown at our head. John Browns soul
is marching on. The soul of the one
marched at the head Of his columns with
the torch of the incendiary destroyin g
everything in his reach. The John Brown
who marches at the head of our col
umns, marches with the whole soul of
a gentleman. We are following after
the modern John Brown. After thanking
the Convention, the speaker closed amid
loud and prolonged applause.
ANOTHER FAMILIAR VOICE FROM MONT
GoMERY.
Hon. John f. House being loudly
called for, responded in a few brief but
well-timed remarks. He said that for the
first time in ten long years had the free
men of Tennessee come up TO their proud
capitol and assembled in Convention to
nominate a candidate for Governor. The
DAYS of the Brownlow dynasty were
passed, and Tennessee emerged from that
long life of despotism in which the liber-
ties of the people were trampled under
foot, the rights of citizens denied them,
the treasury plundered and the instincts
Ofthe manhood of their sons insulted by
this irresponsible despotism which has
been voted down into iDfamy. Some
thing had been said about Wings
and Democrats. He used to be an
old-ine Wing, but loved any man
or party who opposed the party
that puts the yoke of African bondage on
his neck. He was willing to forget the
past so far as it ought to be forgotten, but
It is treason to liberty to forget or to for
give the wrongs they had endured. He
did not mean that lie would violate con-
stitutionsl rights to put any of them
under disabilities. 1t is treason to liberty
for every freeman not to do all in his
power to make their acts infamous. He
had walked down the streets of his old
town when they were black with voters,
and yet he was warned not to go near the
polls. With such a picture as this staring
him in the face he could hardly respect a
man who would come to him and ask him
not 70 affiliate with the Democratic party.
When he returned home from the war,
how was he met by this Republican
party. He was denounced as a rebel, a
traitor, and insult after insult was heaped
upon him. He would fight under the
Democratic banner as long as God per-
mitted him to live. Some men say they
do not like the name. He liked any name
upon Gods earth that is opposed to the
Radical party. The people of Tennessee
have their destiny in their hands. As
they had heard to-day, they were on the
eve OF new era. The day-bresk of a
better day has already begun to purple
| the horizon with its luminous lights,
which win bring the State back to a
greater prosperity than she enjoyed be-
tore all these evils fell to her lot. He
then thanked the Convention for its at
tention.
| A VOICE FROM SHELBY.
Judge T. w. Brown, of Memphis, spoke
/ substantially as follows: 0
! CiGzeaS-I feel that the Genius of Lib
erty is in our midst. The renewed yer.
dure and abounding fields of peaceful
/ agriculture bear witness that the rosy
feet of this divinity have touched oul
soil. But more than all, this assemblsgt
of freemen, bearing from a great people {
delegated authority and their credentials
TO consider and determine grave publ,
questions, attest her presence. The bay
onet no longer affrights from her ALTA
willing worshipers. The tyrannies o
civil war have at Last yielded TO the law
| If guided by wisdom we may at no dis
tant day realize in our federal relation
the same freedom that now belongs to oul
domestic affairs. But we must remembe
that If liberty flies from the rude alarms
of civil war she hides in shame her fac
| when faction divides her votRries. Hith
erto united by common calamity anC
l COulp6lA6A 70 Ieblsb the same ndru LOT
tunes, the partial success already achieved
offers no reason to renew past antago
nisIns or to indulge old feuds. Our no
blest citizens are yet excluded by odiou
disabling statutes from participation ii
the government Military menace still
lowers on peaceful States. Capitalization
threatens to overthrow local self-govern
ment, and corrupt administrations de
stroy the virtue and waste the substsnc
Of the people.
In face Of such untoward circumstance
we cannot yet break the locked step 0
the Macedonian phalanx. The division
of the past must not impair our unity o
interrupt our harmony. What matter
it, what war cry cheers on the sdvancin
ranks9 whether it be that Of a HHuntl
or a Home." Memory in seeking for Al
apt illustration of how a good cause ma,
and ought TO unite the good and true il
It's dsfense, whatever may be their pas
or present diversities of opinion or race
with loose rein, sweeps backward owe
the lapse of some centuries, and present
viyidly a scene beneath the walls of Acre
under the burning skies of Judea. Fo
the rescue OF the Holy Sepulchre tb
united hosts of many and oft antagonist
nations are marshaled with other inde
pendent bands on those barren sandi
There floats the pennon Of Austria
Duke, the banner and lilies of France
and the ampler standard of the great
hearted Plantagenet, all. side by side. ,Th
defiant a Allah II Allah " of the Mosler
is answered by thousand different wal
cries from the Christian ranks. But thos
ranks move in mutual support of eac
other against the common foe--blended /
harmony by devotion oone all-absorbin
cause, while in the enthusiasm OF a
earnest conviction they imagined that
Dhantom cross blazed effulg6ntly in th
air above their charging ehivalry, the sig
of victory for them over the Paynim fot
For us the Holy Sepulchre is the Oonsti
tuition, and for its rescue We are now en-
battled; while our phantom cross is lii
. erty. which, IL we but do our depoir righ