Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-19
JOHN MoRRlssEY.
his Personal ana Political 0pIsloHs-Shat
be Thinks Of Ku-KluX, Horses, Grant
aHd Rabsss Corpus.
HoFFlssey's Character asd NoFth-What he
Thlaks Of Himself

HoFFissey's Character asd W0Fth-What be
Thlaks Of Himself
Since Mr.. John Morrissey viii probably
/ spend a few days in Memphis while the
races are in progress, the appended letter
from a special correspondent viii have q
peculiar interest;
NEW ORLEANS, April IA, 1871.
Two remembers of Congress, Just from
washington, were on board the steamer,
the Hons. Messrs. Morrissey, Of New
York. and ShsrrOd, of Alabama. They
ware o engaged in the discussion of
the merits of the several horses 70 appear
at the Memphis race course, and then OF
the terms on which 2 marvellous cock
| tight, for a stake Of 5000 IS 70 be con-
/ Quoted. Northern cOOps are to be pitted
against feathered bipeds OF Alabama,
rare spor is anticipated by those
/ VIII, in one sense only, are chicken
hearted.
WHY MoRRIssEE IS HERE.
The races at New Orleans attracted Mr..
| MOrrfssey and many others from the East,
and sports of the turf, after the tedium of
weary months spent al the Capitol, must
have for one Of Mr.. MorTissey's temp6ra-
mens extraordinary sttractlveness. In
fact, Mr.. Morrissey said that he was not
peculiarly well pleased with his official
modes Of hfe-that Congress cost him not
less than half q million dollars. He said
that, whether usefully employed at Wash
iBgtOu or not, be could not frequent the
streets Of New York, since every acquain-
lance whom he encountered would annoy
him with the question, why are you out
Of your seat2" Moreover said be, 81
have lone a share Of good service.
HIS MoDEsTY.
"WhfIe am a stsunch Democrat, 1 Rm
so uuquestiOuably sound that l could af-
ford 70 vote in opposition TO my party
whenever I thought that mere partisan
ship diverted il from paths of duty
and right and patriotism" He said of
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC ROAD
that. in opposition to Cox and the whole
party in Congress he, with Sherrod, vOt-
cd for the land subsidy bill which secured
the construction Of the great Southern
highway across the Continent so essen
tisl TO the prosperity Of the South. We
had no constitutional authority for the
acquisition by purchase OF Louisiana or
OF Calif0rnis, or of part of the domain Of
Texas, but custom makes law and no n
in view Of multiplied presidents quss-
tiOns the right which Grant asserts to ac-
quirs San Domingo. From the time that
1AAA91 AA4 A9ANL W aA-e oL3
tenn OF r~aiirOsd land grants by building
the Illinois Central road such a series Of
measures of this character hsv been
adopted and approved that ! can no lon
ger delve INTO Institutional theories, but
sm compelled by weightier questions Of
practical right and wrong, growing out
OF past legislation, to do Justice to the
South rather than adhere rigidly to we'll
founded theories. The North has alb
sOrbed so great a share of public wealth
that 1 am constrained by consideration Of
simple justice to cOncede something 10
THE PArENT NECESSITIES OF THE SOUTH.
"Your section,' he said, "hss
been desolsted; your people lost
all that we won. While you were
impoverished, we have been enriched;
while you have one backwards,
We have rushed forward; while you strug-
gle to perfect your system Of roads east Of
the Mississippi, we have spanned the con-
tineut. III were q Southern, as 1 am a
Northern Democrat, and Democracy de-
MED my people practical rights p~rOfered
by the Republican party, I am not sure
that 1 would not prefer the positive good
to empty theories and adhere to the Or
gsnizstiOn which proposed to confer solid,
substantial bauefaCtiOns upon my people.
In other words, as matter Of duty to my
party, and more as as q matter of Justice
TO LlB EOuLla I AuNDEaHCA 6nQ NDkcu ltE
the land grant to the Southern Pacific
road" Mr.. SberrOd said that he was in
ducsd by much the same considerations
to pursue the same policy
MORRIssEY AND GRANT.
Grants message asking Congress to
conced6 single point, the power to
suspend the writ of hGbeGS corpus, was
pronounced, if yielded, the end OF repub-
licsu freedom. GIvs him that power, said
MOrrisssy, and he need ask no more. He
viii 50 use il that no Southern State will
be suffered to vote against his party or
against himself. Marshal law supreme,
and Grant is supreme. You will be sUf-
fsred to hold nc elections, or, if held, they
viii be pronounced null and void. The
message was very brief, and seemingly
harmless, but il involved the result
81 the next Presidential election, for
which Grant and his party provide by
heir constant clsmOr, based upon absurd
stories about Ku-KluX outrsges.
MoRRIssEV PHILOSOPHERS.
lam well satisfied, since the South was
.he scene of conflict, that the South is the
of operations of most Of the knaves
1sgOtJsu By ths war. All the villains OF
.h8 continent were swept by the breath of
he tempest into the Southern States. The
3reezss that have tanned the trssses of
peace have waited backward lit
lie of the kuavsry that was driven by the
Hhirlwiud into the Gulf States, and I
Fan well understand how Ku-KluXism
vas generated by Loyal Leagues, and by
hat sublime scOundrelism which created
.hess leagues and sent their worthy rep
.esentativss Co occupy seats In Congress,
It Washington. When it was stated by
correspondent that the Ku-KluX or
ganlZa-iOn was dissolved lUug ago, and
hat it was created simply for the pur-
l0se of protecting property against the
Expectations of thieves. and 20 Brighten
blacks who would not suffer q pig sJye or
hen roOst TO exist, Mr.. MOrrissey an
.wered that the Radicals hadssix TO each
Jingle Democratic newspaper in the North
md that ii. was utterly impossible, unless
perfect order were maintained IN the
south, to correct popular m~isspprehen-
ions Of fact. Until I came here
saw That Northern people
constituted everywhere an undistin-
part of the masses of men in so
.ial and business life, 1 was led to be-
ieve that fierce p~reiudiCes survived ths
var, and that the people OF this valley
we're imbued with enmitiss which moth
ug less potent than the lapse of years
eradicate. Here, at the st. Charles,
fad Republicans and Democrats, and
X-sOIdiers of Northern and Southern
so thoroughly fused into enc mass
the component parts are undistin-
Unstable. At
III CARD TABLE
sch political party, and both Sherman's
Brsgg's late armies had representa-
ives. The discussion of the con-
itiOn Of the condition of the South
5d Mr.. MOrrisseY to say that the people
lisconcaived the capacity and chsrsc-
sr Of Grant. He is by no means
n idiot. No man who, q few
ears ago, was utterly impoverished {
nd meanly obscure in Galsna and St. Z
Ouis could rave achieved, without tact Z
nd a share of sound sense, all that Grant )
as accomplished. He is endowed with I
one OF those shining qualities that con-. I
itute genius; but having the bare capac I
y to understand what is required to at
lin a purpose, be has the hsrdihOOd !
+, sacrifice everything to achieve his pur-
0se. Least Of all would he hesitate to !
his own or the lives Of myriads !
F, attain ends of selfish ambition or Of 1
srtisanships He would not hesitate, fit I
necessary in the prosecution Of G
Is purposes, to overthrow the country's I
istitutiOns, and all be asks at the hands .
Congress is the power 60 invade States; Z
suspend h0beGS corpus; to insugurste, l.
need be, another civil war. If the Ku- y
lux humbug fail him, the army and mar =