Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-23
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Mr.. VIM. NJ. Evarts, OF New YORK,
Is 8 great man; he is not only a great
man but a great lawyer, and not only
a great lawyer but a great Republican
"a Saul among the prophets OF hadl-
caIism-a Gamaliel at whose feet these
sucking politicians seek wisdom
like Zerubabel, "a prince the inst
among his equals"
We accord to, Mr.. Evarts all nat
his friends claim for him and willing
ly admit that his mantle sometimes
drops pearls and rubies instead OF
snakes and frogs, but what a differ
ence latitude makes in the value OF
mems utterances; how strangely
circumstances alter cases."
The Tammany Ring in New York
are accused of having stolen the PEG
pies money and Of appropriating it to
their own uses, of having committed
election frauds and thereby controlled
the State-docuSed we say, because as
vet nothing has been proved. Mr..
Evarts makes a speech-Americans
are always making speeches, or pass
ing resolutions. After dilating upon
the enormity of stealing the peoples
money and of ballot-boxI "stuffing
and repeating" Mr.. Evarts says:
SIT these evils cannot be remedled by
the courts, or the ballot-box, violence
must be used"
Oh-hoy Are you there, Monsieur
Tonson? evidence must be used'-
a lamp-post brigade organized, and
Tweed, Connolly, Sweeney d Co.
must bangle in the air, because Bepub-
Iieans, forsooth, are deprived of their
"saered right" of suffrage, and the
public Golfers are plundered.
You are right, Nj. Evarts. Prove
these men guilty, and if the law does
not right your wrongs hang the ruff
fans. The people are supreme; all
power is only delegated from them,
and they can, and ought to resume it,
when their servants and ministers
fail them.
But, Mr.. Evarts, remember Davy
Croeket's motto-"be sur you're
right, then 60 ahead" and while you
are on the subject let US call your at
tention to some little transactions
down sin this neck of woods"
Republicans have ruled these ''rebel-
Hous" States fora few years, and over
tloo hundred millions of dollars Of the
peoples money has been stolen.
Fraud and violence have been en-
ployed to carry elections that could not
otherwise have been carried. The
general government has protected the
thieves, and the President lends them
his eOuntenance. But this is not all;
let the filthy lucre go; u soil and
climate are ~benefcent, and soon our
labor will restore to US the stolen
money; but men have been murdered
and women violated. The blood of
slain Abels rises from the ground cry
ing for vengeance; the cries of raw
ished Virginias echo over the land,
calling for the death Of a thousand
Tarquins, and this has been done in
the name OF law, by Radicals. Shall
we hang them, MI. Evarts? Would
you not call US Ku-klux if We did?
We speak of what has been proven;
the facts stand out as clearly before the
eyes of the world as the shining light
of the midday sun. Mr.. Evarts who
knows his party from its highest OFF,
cial to its lowest pot-house politician,
knows that these are facts; yet if a
community, outraged and long-sutfer-
ing, a community Of Democrats, visit
condign punishment upon a thief or
runisn, Or destroyer Of women, the
lightning flashes, and in letters of fire
the word "Ku-klux" is inscribed upon
the northern armament. The Republi-
can press writes "Ku-klux," "Ku-
"KU-KLUX;" Republican
catch the glowing theme and
shout, "KU-KLUX," and the great
American eagle twists its feathers
awry till it becomes a frightful porcu-
pine, and its screams reverberate from
Maine to California, and from the
Ohio to the north pole, "Ku-klux."
What do you say, Mr.. Evsrts, shall
We hang them?-the dirty thieves
who have plundered communities and
and use the ignorant negro as a
tool in destroying public and
personal creditf-shall we hang their
adjuvants, the Ku-klux committee,
when it comes along seeking to give
moral supremacy in these States to IN
mixed knavery? Speak Mr.. Evarts-
you are on the right track. The South
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