Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-24
How He Swings Around The Circle,
Accompanied bY Norton, Of
Indiana.
Norton Repeats State SlaHdsTs
About the South, and Coins
FaIsshO0ds for the OCCs-
sion.
He Takes His Cigar from His Mouth
long Enough to Speak
PieCs.
Merton Apologies for the Grinding
Taxation and Excessive Expen-
dituFes of the Admins
tFatiOn.

QiIuF6S OF tlB AuHliiiiS-
tFatiOn.
INDIANAPOLIS, April %. - The
Academy of Music was crowded to its
utmost capacity last night at the re-
ceptiOn of the President, and a large
number were unable to gain admit
tance. The hall was handsomely dec
GRATED with flags and flowers. The
President appeared on the stage ac-
companied by Senator Morton, Gov
eruor Baker and a number of other
distinguished gentlemen, and was
/ greeted with enthusiastic applause.
| Governor Baker delivered an address
of welcome, and the President re.
spOnded as follows:
I thank YOU heartily for the cordial
greeting, for 1 assure you it is uneX-
| Dected. When l left Washington, it
was with a view Of going 10 St. Louis
without stopping by the way, but in
meeting your distinguished Senator,
| Governor Morton, at Pittsburg, he re-
duestpd me to remain here during
! this dav. That I consented TO do, eX-
peCting to see you people OF Indian
apOlis turn out to greet your Senator
and not expecting a greeting to me,
and I leave him to thank you in more
appropriate terms than ! could do, if
I were to try" Applause.
Senator Morton declared that the
meeting was wholly unexpected to
him. The vast audience was the
strongest evidence of the distin-
guished esteem in which the Presi-
dent is held by the people of Indiana.
Such evidence greets him wherever
he goes, He administers the govern
ment with ability, integrity and pa
triOtism. Governor Morton proceed
ed to speak of the measures of the
party administration, saying that
nothing is done under cover. All
is made public. Within twenty-five
and a half months two hundred and
ten millions of the public debt have
been paid, or more than One-tWPlfth
of the entire amount. This
has been paid by faith
full and honest collection, re-
ceived by the retrenchment and
economy in every department Of the
Government. By this payment we
half millions of annual interest. At
the same time eighty-three millions
Of taxes have been taken of, and as
things are going now, it will be in the
power of Congress, at the next ses-
sion, to make another large reduction.
Referring to the Indian policy he
said: We are now more nearly at
peace with the Indian tribes, than at
any time in the history Of the Govern
ment. He attributed this to the
adoption ofthe policy Of Pennsylvania.
The Republican party was National
and could not afford to make a dis
tinct issue of the tariff and civil serv.
ice reform or any other individual
question of policy. The Democratic
party was denOUncing everything Re
publicans did and the better the act
the more bitterly it was denounced.
The Ku-KluX bill and every other
measure to give peace and security to
the South was denounced as uncOn-
stitutiOnal, but that was the old cry Of
the party.
In reviewing the condition of af-
in seven, and he believed that
he might say eight Southern
Statas there existed a cOnfederaCy
called the KU-Klux Klan, whose his
tory was one OF blood and crime, out
rage and murder toward the descend
ants, or at least, relatives of the sons
Of liberty. All its Outrages were in
fiicted upon negroes and Republi-
cans, with the view to cause them to
abandon the Republican party or to
quit the country. II was an impOr-
tant fact that not one member of the
organization had been arrested or
punished as such for the crimes
so committed. The questions to
be settled by the campaign of
1872, are those which have grown out
Of the war. These are not dead, and
will not be dead until the Democratic
party is willing to accept as accom-
plished facts the settlement of these
questions. The Democratic members
of Congress, in their recent address,
dared not makean issue on the accept
ance of the amendments, and the re-
construction acts would split the party,
and there would be two Democratic
conventions, as in 1850. He then
proceeded to 90 over the grounds Of
his recent speech, saying the
South would control the Democratic
administration, refuse to pay the
pensions OF soldiers widows and
orphans, and pay the public debt.
Unless the Confederate soldiers
widows and orphans are placed upon
the same footing, and the slaves paid
for, the Democrats would overthrow
the amendments, disfranchise the
cOlOred men and unsettle everything.
The Democratic address opposed eve
rything, but offered nothing better.
In concluding, he declared his be-
lief that if the Democratic party came
into power, the Southern States would
quietly secede, with the sanction Of that
party. The people of the South did not
believe that the cause they had fought
for was lost cause, and still cher
ished The dream of the COnfederacy.
JEFF. Davis had so declared in a recent
speech, and such was the hope in.
dulged in by all. They did not be-
lieve that there ever would be anOth-
er war to preserve the Union.
Senator Morton was followed by
John COburn, M. O., who said,
among other things: The Republi-
cans claim, singly and alone, to have
extricated the nation from the direst
and most fatal dangers, and kept 1t In
the great highway Of peace. The Ku-
KIuk bill was q great act Of legisla-
ton. worthy Of the former work Of
the Republicans; one great achieve
ment of the party. The country was
safe in their hands, and he trusted he
was hODored and revered as their
chosen President.
ST. LOUIS, April 23-President
Grant arrived here at s o'clock this
morning, and was met at the depot in
East st. Louis by two or three per.
sonal friends and quietly conveyed tC
/ the residence Of VIM. III. Benton,
! whose guest he viii be while In The