Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-07

/ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 70 break up the
Government. Whenever any law is
passed, it is the right Of citizens to
discuss that law, and, If possible, to
repeal it. and that is all we propose
20 do. We propose TO show the peO-
/ Dle the enOrmities placed upon them
by the Fourteenth Amendment. Ihe
Ku-KluX bill was prepared In Con-
gress BY General Butler, with a sec
ton providing that if any Individual
OF two individuals, should 60 into
vOur county and trespass upon an ln-
/ dividual. he might bring suit against
the whole county, and 1t passed the
| Senate of the United States with that
nrovisiOu in it. Can YOU favor any
| hing of that sort? But it is not in
! there now, and you are indebted to
/ the Democrats IN Congress for its not
/ being there. It did pass the Senate,
I and would have passed the House but
| for the action of the brave Democrats
who stood against it, and with the aid
| of q few conscientious Republicans,
defeated that provision.
It viii be seen from the above that
Governor Leslie accepts nothing that
is wrong. He plants himself squarely,
not only in opposition to all the
| amendments, bat in favor of their
| repeaI. Governor Leslie feels a con-
| scious rectitude in opposing these
| amendments, and refuses to
give the lie to his former view, sac
rifce honor, manhood, personal
dignity by accepting fraud and vii
lainy for the paltry pay OF power. We
congratulate ourselves on the fact that
Governor Leslie is making the can
vass for Governor in Kentucky on the
APPEAL platform Of principal in pref
erence TO policy.
After receiving the nomination for
Governor on something like the Val
landigham platform Mr.. McCOok
made a speech in which he said:
And now for a moment let me tax
/ your patience for a word on the Fiji
teenth Amendment. A voice: "a
word upon the Fourteenth Amend
ment.H1 No sir; I pass by the me-
LANCE OF the Fourteenth with its spe-
cialties, its pecuharities, its limita-
tiOns and provisions for future legisla-
ton. I have not time to enter into
that, or discuss at any length here to.
day. Let me speak now upon the
Fifteenth, which cOnfers the right Of
suffrage upon the blacks. II tCGS no
legitimate consequence Of the lCGT. 1t
IrIS no legitimate consequence Of Sc
cesSiOH, but Il UOS passed W the eriQeB-
cy Of a political party, that they might
hare control as much 10 Ohio as ia
these States az the South. Applause.
opposed IL, as did tie Fourteenth,
from the beginning, and / HAVE NO
REGRETS OVER THAT OPPOSITION.
Applause
Again, further on, he concluded to
free his mind on the Fourteenth
Amendment, and said:
It is full Of clap-trap upon the sub
ieCt of the limitation Of the represent
alton of the States. It is full of clap
trap upon the subject Of our own
debt, which no Democratic COnven-
ton has ever proposed to repUdiate-
individual Democrats may have
thought it ought to have been repu-
dated. 1t proposes that we shall not
assume the debt of the Confederate
States. God knows that we have as
sUmed as much as Wecan pay already,
without undertaking to shoulder the
burdens Of any State or Confederate
in the South. TApplause.l It
IS a mere cyGp-trdp Of cLGD-trGpS, Chicb
DIsGRACEs the Fundamental instrument
such as tie Constitution Of the United
LApplause.l
Do you hear that? If we were
chow is that for high?" we
answer that it reaches the alt-
5ude upon which the APPEAL would
place the Democratic party. Mr..
McCOOk says the Fourteenth
Amendment " disgraces " the Con-
5titution, and he gives the lie
10 those who pirate about the
result Of the war when he says the
Fifteenth Amendment was not a 'le-
Ultimate consequence Of secession"
Mr.. MCCOOk's speech shows that In
ohio the Democrats have a platform
IN one side Of the question and the
candidate on the other, for surely the
Democrats of Ohio are not base
enough TO accept as a hnality an
amendment which ~disgraces the Con-
ititution. The situation in Kentucky
and Ohio plainly indicates that the
great Democratic party Of the nation
viii return to its canOnized creed.
Democrats begin to see and assert
hat if Democracy indOrse Republi-
,anism, that is the very reason that
Republican voters cannot be pursuad-
"a to endorse DemOcracy for if Repubh-
an measures are acquieseed in asright,
hat viii only strengthen the allegI-
,nce Of Republicans in their own
party. When the MahOmets of De.
nOcracy 90 to the mountain of Radi-
there is no use in the Radical
mountain coming to the Democratic
Iahomets. If Democrats would gain
occasions, they must not abandon
Democracy, and accept the Usur-
Of the party from which it
would make converts. The old enc
mics Of Democracy changed their
lame, tried many departures; y but
.ach stratagem resulted in defeat and
humiliation, and the resort of Demo
rats to similar tactics viii produce
imilar rasu1ts 2