Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-06

eoA4o DaAbdm ever VIII aiGus
boldly. You Cant get beyond your
level. Put a lot Of potatoes ia a caYt
over a rough road, the big Ones will al
come on top. lLaugbter.l Fill a cart
with sand and subject il to the same
treatment, the coarse stuff viii all come
to The top. Gold sinks, while straws and
corks hoat on h surface. He said he
CARED as little about the church rs about
politicians. The churchmen were all
shaking in their boots for fear he would
attack them, and 50 I Will they don't
keep out of this fight in ". This ego
tism Is asbug-bssr that distnrbs the weak
minded and drives them out OF the race.
II / am a superior pugilist, which 1 am,
tholding up his maulsrs and striking an
sttitude) why not admit it. If I can
shoot, night q duel, If am 3 superior duel
list, which l am, why be afraid to &C
knowledge that? Pm not. If I can beat
every other man living in argument,
which 1 can, why should 1 hide that fact
and pretend that I can't speak a
word? What preacher does it? IG
L am the most Travelled man liy-
ing, does not the world know it ? What
Is the good Of pretending to believe that /
never stepped beyond the boundaries of
my own native village, wherever that is2
If can jump nineteen feet when other
athletes can only make six or seven, no
one calls me egotistic for saying so, when
1 demonstrate it by facts. Egotism sp-
plies only to intellect, Why should I tell
a lie n order to appear humble? I'd
rather be considered proud than a liar.
When I jump nineteen feet must / put on
an humble look n say "Oh no, I'm not
a jumper; 1 can't, / positively can't jump,
/ assure your" That WOuld look very
ridiculous; but When-it comes to intel
lect, when it is a question Of brains, the
world expects that I shall act the hypO-
critic in ride 70 escape "egOtism." Phys
ical courage can be bought for sixteen
dollars per month in the army. 1t is
common. 1 don't boast out Of that.
though I have enough for four ordinary
men, but I can't stand here and say that
Pm a very common person indeed, and
at the same time ask you to make me
Presidentin 1872. 1t would be an insult
to your understanding. I want you sl to
/ become cyclists. I want to eman-
Think and act for yourselves. Don't
be made q sort of community ass
by thinking you are nobody; and don't
/ render yourself liable to be called q fool
by attempting to make an after dinner
speech, at the suggestion OF q fond wife,
when you know you can make a SEN
tence. Assume your level and be bold
enough to hold it. confess I am an ego
tist. I like myself better than any other
man on the face of the globe. Do you
think 1 don't know that I understand
twenty languages? Do you think I don't
know that I have travelled more than any
me else? Do you think I don't know
that 1 can make the best extempore
speech of any man living? Do YOU
think I don't know that 1 foresaw, be-
fore any one else did, the Importance Of
Omaha, and went there and purchased
five Thousand lots when no other man
would look at thsm2 Who is filter to be
your President in '722 All in favor of me
for President, say aye. "A universal
" aye " was shouted by the house, and the
Train slackened OF steam a little, and
pointed at the reporter to note that; not
to forget that important thing. The re-
porter noted it, with the view of becom-
ing Inspector of Customs, Uice b. lewis. at
Memphis, in " He read a letter which
he received, asking his opinion of the
hanging of Mrs. Surratt. In reply, he
said Stanton was a scOuudrel, and de-
nounced the act as b8rbarOus. Was for
the Southern Pacific. " hear" be said.
"the Southern Pacific railroad and the
Ku-KluX in one breath" suppose that
is because they are intimately connected.
When there are so many lOsves and fishes
given away, 1 confess that I am anxious
thai the South should get some of the
crumbs that fall from the Federal table.
In speaking of the Ku-Klux, he said
that after the war the Gregs of the North
ern army, as a general thing, remained
down here, and owing TO the pilfering
habits they got into, it became necessary
to stop them. The Ku-KIuX was an or
gsnizatiOn to protect hen-rOosts from
these depradstOrs. Immense laughter
Everything in the shape Of an outrage
that is perpetTatsd down here, Is Ku-Klux.
There were more murders, arson and gen
6ral inCendiarism in San Francisco. Chi
on Nau- Vol anH aAhar nsrfr- al,- j.
the whole South; but Lhen they ars not
ku-kluE. This cry is raised and kept up
to throw Grant into the Chair in ~. be-
lisye i am designed to save you. That
Infamous bill will be showed through Ia
the interest Of the opposite candidate. 1
alone can save the South from becoming
an Ireland, a Poland, or q Hungary. Vote J
for me? Another universal Aye Very
satisfactory. After answering a CREST
number of questions upon every possible
subjsct, no answered a voice that called
for his views on WOman suffrage, by
that he thought while women
reigned as Queens and Expresses in Eu-
rope. the ladies of MemDhis were fit to
vote for a policeman. loud and pro-
longed laughter
H PROGRAMME FOR TONIGHT
is as follows:
The civil war and the future of France.
lawyer, the doctor and the elergyman;i
Crutches on which diseased and dispu-1
humanity hObbis through the world.
One takes possession Of your body. the
other Of your pocket, and the other of
your soul. When they get mixed up the
little One-hOrss politician in a one horse
.own-yOu can't shake them off from the
,ommunity-tbat's why the 4th of
July is a gigantic sham, the
Declaration of Independence a gi-
gsntic farce, and our boosted Ameri-
ian Republic nothing but a great Oiigar-
of corrupt politicians. The audience
70 ask questions as a test Of intellectual
iuperiOrity. The third snd last lecture in
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