Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-10
MISSISSIPPI.
Course Of Parties Deined---The Issues
Ioined---H0w they are Diseased
srai AIeOrn and cOIOnsI Lawry.
Their Speeches Yesterday at Holly Sprises.

Special to the Appeal.
HOLLY SPRINGS, October 9.-Ths dis
cussiOn of partisan issues to-day at
Holly Springs, between General Lowry
and Governor Aleorn, began at noon.
General Aleorn opened the debate, and
spoke one hour and halt
GOVERNOR ALCoRN'S SPEECH.
he said he was not on trial before the
| people; that he was no candidate, and
| that his past or future career wss not in
issue. He Wss not to be weighed until
his course was finished; and now he was
speaking simply for the good of the peo-
pie, and not for himself. He had differed
with the people before and since and
during the war. He now asked that res
son, instead of passion, should be the
prompter of the people. When the Fed
srsl government proposed that our le0is-
lsture should perfect, in its own way, the
process OF reconstruction. we made the
negrcts slave, instead Of recognizing his
rights a. 9 man and citizen. Impotent
southern men, confronting an omnipotent
government, still pirate about State rights.
Reconstruction, as first proposed to be ac-
complished, was, Of course, an utter fail
ure. Another effort was made. with par
tiaI success. 1t was after we had spurned
the fourteenth amendment that the gov
ernment said these negroes should be
voters. It was against our will, but we
srs powerless to resist. We must bend
70 the storm. Congress says the positions
of State rights and secession must be absn-
7 - u. l.
would have made the South wilderness.
While Congress is taking testimony to de-
eide whether or no we are capable of self
government, we are doing ell we can to |
prove that we are not capable of self gov
srnment. The governor insisted that We
pause before We rsseh the yswning abyss |
before US. The peace OF the country de-
nands that the spirit of Democracy
should be crushed OUT. Our interests de- |
mgnd this. The Democratic psrty is 8
proscriptive State right party. To-day il |
excites the passion of the great Rspubli- |
can party OF the nation. You can hope
tor nothing cOnserV VstiFs in the Republi- |
can party until the wall of woe comes up
from the dying democracy. When de- |
mocrsey is crushed out he (Governor A. |
would turn upon the Republican party |
a1d contend for conservatism. The
Democratic party recognizes the vio.
latiOn Of the results Of the war |
I he EaHu Llul kuO plAtlDrl4 OF EH6 |
oOnservative party of Lafayette county, in |
pecember 1870, prcclaiming the doctrines
OF state rights, and pronounced it the
doctrine of treason, treason against a
eOnQueror who has extended To them
every humanity that is possible. Soush-
ern people confessed they hsd surrendered
righks Of citizenship, all rights of property,
when they laid down their aKnls in 1896
Il the government hsd put to the sword
every decent white man in the South; if
the guillotine had beeu moved by steam,
there would have been no voice la all the |
world raised In your behalf. He compared
Car treatment by the government, TO that
of the French commune. The world en-
dorses that, and would have endorsed
similar treatment OF ourselves. The |
ku-kiuX are our communists. The reVo-
luton will so on, and it Will go to the
disfrsnchisment OF every white man in
the State If necessary to sustain the |
great questions settled by the war. What
right hsVe we 90 talk of the constitution? |
We have been whipped upon that question. |
We have been beaten, and have no right |
tO read constitutions. They whipped US !
and read it for Us, and we have TO say it |
is all right, Here listle disturbance oc- |
CURED in the outskirts of the crowd.
Governor Aicorn said; " Let thai alone |
Listen TO me! If q Radical il killed, the 1
blood OF the martyr is the seed of the |
church. etc. Listsn to me. What am |
saying is worth the lives OF one hundred |
men. The Republican party Is stronger 1
than even Grant, who will be reelected |
by a msjority unprecedented. Our peo-
pie are supply ing testimony tor the Con-
gressionsl committee. am going 70 the 1
senate, If live. There will be the friend |
Of Mississippi that have ever been, but |
will make you obey the laws. Congress
now has power to enforce constitutional 1
RaU1a4sl har that and Rad 4
Judge Shsrzeyis lesteEto prove that we |
are supplying material TO the /
Congressional committee. Twenty-Five |
colored otace- holders have been as
ssssinsted since l came into /
Office, and not one assassin b.
been brought to justice" The people
Marshall county are not ssssssins, bu
the Conservative party indorses and en-
courages these outrages. he wanted all /
ante -bellum parties crushed out, and read |
reports of outrsges in the State. These fur
nish testimony 10 the congressional COM
mite. He would yield up his life to Sc
cure liberty, Whice is now imperifled. The /
maintenance Of the Republican party in /
Mississippi is necessary to the prosperity, |
order and peace of the State He would do /
all he can In the Senate, but, with proof 1
before him, he will yield to truth that 1
there are organized bands Of asssssiDs in /
the state. BE will strike hands with the /
would with uurderers. The restoration 1
Of the Democratic party, by placing the
State in opposition to Congress, would |
undo all that the Republican party has
done. The Democratic party is menace
TO Congress, and must be defeated /
for all time. The Republican party /
has administered the government with
hdelity and economy. Carpet t-baggers have
a right to come here. Our course makes
carpet t-bsggers a necessity. He called
|zapOn Republicans 20 look At him in their
Night and glory. He was governor of the
State, and knew how 20 govern it. He
said be saw ahead of him sgrarisnism.
We gave the negro the ku-klux, the ne
gro gives us taxes. The negro is a man,
and has the passions and resentments of
man. We must not arouse them. If we
do, we will call upon congress to protect
Us against sgrsrisnism he spoke of the
financial condition OF the State When
hs vent into office all the public buildings
were bOtterinR to ruin. The Repu bliean
party restored order out OF chaos, and re-
stored the credit of the S5ste. BE read
the hRures and asserted that his govern
nsnt had spent less In one year than 1
the Democratic party In any one L
year it was In power in fifteen years. The 1
government, under Democratic rule, had |
borrowed and had had donated to It forty /
millions, all OF which, except eight hum
cred thousand, bad been squsndered. He /
discussed the relative expenditures at /
some length. and called Democracy the |
radicalism which viii cause the oonhsca-