Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-17
80 POOR SPEAKER sLAIEEI'
He Is Ssrenadsd at Saratoga, and Tells q
Little of What He Thinks-It Is all
Radical Gospel, Of Course.

SARATOGA, N. Y, August 1S.-Mr
Blaine, Speaker of the House OF Rep
resentatiVes, was this evening sere'
naded at the Union Hotel, by one
thousand people. When MIR. Blaine
appeared, he was greeted with enthu.
siastic applause. he was introduced
by VIM. A. Sackett.
After returning thanks for the per-
sonal compliment, Mr.. Blaine went
on to say that it seemed to him there
never was time when there was less
need of speeches, or when the facts OF
public record carried with them
more of their own argument.
The two great parties must be
| Judged, not by professions, but
by acts. The Republicans are
in full power in Washington; the
Democrats are In full power in New
York. There is no need to draw the
picture which this brace of facts pre-
sents to every intelligent mind. In
Washington every dollar Of the sur
plus funds is applied to paying the
national debt, while in New York
every dollar that can be wrung from
the Taxpayers is applied to the bene-
| fit of private rings. Since the inau-
guratfon, two hundred and fifty
millions debt has been paid, and this
payment has been made while taxes
are repealed, including eighty mil
lions per annum. Without the aid of
the leadership of Tammany, it would
be impossible for the Democrats to
carry New York, and without the
State of New York their chance in
1872 Is not worth reckoning. The
power Of Tammany, with its money
in the North and power ofFterrorism
in the South, are the weapons relied
on by Democrats to carry the ma.
tiOnal contest in 1872. Were it not for
this, we should have peace today
throughout the length and breadth of
the land. The united appeals of ten
aspirants for the Presidential nomina-
ton by the Democracy, would pro-
duce peace in the South. This brings
a test to the sincerity of that party.
What is the new departure? Why
certain constitutional amendments,
having been regularly adopted and
ratified, the Democracy refused to
abide by them. In several instances
every Democratic member of Congress
voted against resolutions declaring
these amendments to be of binding
force. But the late Mr.. Vallandigham,
discovering that this was incipient
rebellion, called halt, and the party
in the North generally obeyed, re-
solving, upon the whole, that they
would agree to submit to the Consti-
tuition of the United States; and this
law-abiding spirit being so unusual
with that party, and the sensation of
constitutional obedience seemed to be
80 novel, that they, with one consent,
called it new departure. But we must
be pardoned for a little incredulity as
to the sincerity of the new departure,
until we see it bear fruit. We will
pray and hope for the best, yet all the
while be tortured with distrust. When
every man in the United States enjoys
his full rights under the Constitution
by the cooperation of the Democratic
party, then we shall have faith in the
sincerity of this sudden conversion.
He pointed to the Democratic
rule in New York as false to the first
principles of religious freedom, and
aiming a deadly blow at American
liberty, in attempting to interfere
with the Orange procession, and de-
manded for Protestants and Catholics
alike the right to celebrate their anni-
versaries in their own way. With the
course of the Democrats he contrasted
the policy of the Republican party,
which showed no favoritism to any
religious sect, and was true to the
spirit of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, as well as to the law OF the Con-
stitutiOn.
He also eulogized its foreign policy,
which was one Of peace, and history
contained no more brilliant chapter
than that which recorded the treaty
of Washington. Our differences with |
England were graver than those that
existed between France and Germa-
NY, but we had settled in a wise and
Christian spirit questions that might
have led to a greater war than that
just ended in Europe.
The speaker concluded with glow
ing description of the progress and
present prosperity of the country un-
der Republican administration. He
pointed to acontinent without slave,
a constitution perfect in all the ele-
ments of civil rights and personal lib
erty; to the increasing financial conf
dence, and to a nation of forty mill
lions, the freest, happiest and most
prosperous on the globe.