Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-20
senator Morlon,s speeeh Again.

MhRACNOA 0AAJ ~
During the last six months, he has
: made half a dozen different platforms
e for the Democratic party in the next
: Presidential election, and then pro-
{ eeeded to demOIish the man Of his
Istraw, which he has erected.
Morton knows that a normal
condition Of society would
4 be the death OF Rsdicalism, which
lives by hate and agitation, and he
: labors by falsehood and misrepresen-
tation to keep alive the fires of enmi-
! ty. If Senator Morton's speech at
st. Louis, on Thursday, is the best
showing that can be made for Radical
ism in the next canvass, then indeed
/ will the Democracy achieve an easy
triumph. Morton tells the country
that the victories won by the Union
soldiers were worthless If the Govern
/. ment they fought to save is to be
overthrow by traitors recently
engaged in treason. He seems
to forget that the Confederate
. traitors have abandoned their treason,
and are now giving their allegiance to
the Constitution, the laws, and the
Union, and that the only traitors now
engaged in treason, are such traitors
as Morton; for every act which strikes
! down the rights of States, reserved by
: them in the Constitution, is an act Of
treason. Every act which denies to
our citizens the protection guaranteed
to them by constitutional safeguards,
is an act of treason. Every usurpatiOn
of power by Congress, IL an act Of
? treason. The attempt to invest g
President with the powers Of a dicta-
tor, and place him above the law, was
an act Of treason more infamous than
any which ever was entertained by a
Confederate in the Southern States.
Go to the soldiers who survived the
conflict with the Coniederacy, and ask
them if they brsved the perils and
hardships of the war to establish the
despotism and corruption which now
prevail in our Government. Didthey
suppose that personal government
was to result from Gettysburg?
Did they suppose that the slaughter
Of their armies in the battles of
the Wilderness would establish
a party in power which would tram
pie upon the Constitution for purposes
Of the bssest partisanship? Did they
/ stand 'Tlike a stone walp' around the
/ entertainments Of Richmond to invest
thieves and political prostitutes with
authority? Did they march with
Sherman from Atlanta to the sea to
place the nation in the hands of such
tricksters as Grant, and Morton,
and Butler? Did the men who stood
by Thomas at Chickamauga and
Nashville fight for the degradation Of
their own race and countrymen, and
to make possible the infamies per-
petrsted by State governments under
the control Of negroes and carpet-bag-
gers? Did they march to battle TO
sustain policies by which political
rings, and monopOlists and privileged
classes have made serfs of the work
ingmen Of the country, and divided
our national legislature into gangs Of
b~ribe-takers?
ItW i'll be seen from Morton's speech
that he favOTs a tariff of incidental pro-
lection to our home manufacturers.
Many Radicals have announced them
opposed to the nOmina-
ton OF Horace Greeley because
is IN favor of a protective tariff; :
and now it seems Morton has placed j
Grant upon Greeley's platform. The
great labOring masses have always I
opposed those who would tax them in 5
order to enrich the manufacturing T
lsbObs. There is something plausible
N the idea of incidental protection /
rom a revenue tariff; but the policy \
8 false in theory and ubiquitous in 5
practice, because it involves two in 1
compatible principles, and because it |
s unequal and unjust in its operation. )
it as we may, we cannot q
the essential nature OF a pro- b
ective duty, which means a bounty q
evied upon one interest for the bene- :
It Of another; and the thing is stiu :
he same, whether we contemplate it
; a primary object or a necessary
esult-whether we accomplish it by II
.ldirectiOn or in a straightforward h
gay. By the operations Of the d
of incidental protection, q
be agricultural interest Ofthe country te
made to pay an annual tribute of fir
for the benefit Of the rich to
manufacturers. Grant and the Radi- eN
Il party, Ia advocating a protective 81
riff, may receive the support of the OF
lOnied manufacturer Of the North. tn
ut they viii find that the people ~
i'll, as they have heretofore done, b1
IppOTt the party which favors a of
riff that will press with equal and M,
lpartisl weight upon every interest
ID every section Of the country, ~
ID which opposes that kind air
protection which would take duties WI
I'M commodities employed in man. wi
a%ctures, and impose them upon the no
Licles which are used in agriculture. for
Orton viii learn by the result sw.
the next Presidential election that onl
all Northern States a considerable sto
dy Of men educated in the Demo. ;sfl
tic faith have sustained the Repub- 4
an party in the prosecution of the for
T and the use Of extreme measures agC
reaching a settlement Of war issues, Nc,
t the rapid Capitalization Of power, late
/, growing disregard Of constitution am
Limitations, the steady encrOach- ma
Ints of Federal authority upon the a..
ftimate sphere OF local selEgovern- tina
have reused them to the neees- aga
2 OF arresting the revolution before sale
in despOtism. I'm
not
/. pleasing little variation Of relig- ana
exercises, not heretofore down In 70
ritual, is reported from Kansas, e.
Lawrence. 1t was suddenly re-
led to a w%orshiping congregation fara
/ q eock-fght was In progress in the ~
.ting-house yard. The sacred edi- ~
was emptied In a moment, the 90,
nsible purpose of the evaeuators re