Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-12

sending such men TO Congress Keep
these things before you and suffer
them MOTTO switch you OF this track
any more. Look among you and Sc
Leet men true to your interests, true
to the old Constitution, and they will
be true TO all sections. Congress can
with as much right say that none but
American citizens should build or
manage a railroad, or that American
bonds should not be negotiated ex-
eept to American bankers, Ornone but
American citizens should pillow or
NOW in a hay, corn, or cotton field, or
build and run a steamboat, In this
Government, according to the Con-
stitution, each and every person has
a right to use his labor to the best adj
vantage; provided, he does not VIC.
late the rights Of others. Govern
ment has no right to interfere by pro-
tecting or forcing and compelling one
portion Of its citizens to trade or
traffic with another portion of its cit
liens on terms less advantageous
than they could with foreigners, as it
has done by not only the above laws
referred TO, but many Others, includ-
ing the whole system of protec-
ton. All are in clear violation
of the Constitution, and every man
who voted for them has committed
an act Of deliberate perjury, and
should be so tried before the criminal
courts Of the country. The people Of
this great valley are not only going to
make these great issues in the election
in 1872; but whilst they see their
money and land donated by the mil
lion to railroads and other speculative
schemes in which they have no inter-
est, they are going to see that Govern
ment does something for the great
Mississippi river, and through it a
cheap and positive outlet to heOceans
Of the world for their produce, COM
merce and trade. They want a free
canal from New Orleans to Barataria
Bay, forty feet deep, 50 that such YES
sells as the Great Eastern can steam or
be t0wed up to New Orleans, with
locomotives, at an expense Of fifty
dollars instead Of two hundred and
twenty-five dollars per ton. Then,
with big ships to aid our big steam
boats, we can transport a bushel Of
wheat or corn from Cairo to Liver
pool or Continental Europe for six
cents, instead of twenty now, and
with forty cents on railroads and
canals via New York and BOs-
ton. The same difference with all
our return supplies. Cheap freights
is what we want and will have.
Chicago wants the Michigan and
Chicago canal opened to a ship canal,
50 that her ships may pass to and
the oceans of the world without
cargo. st. Louis, Cairo, Lou
Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Mem
phis, V~icksbUrg and all other interior
and towns, and the whole coun-
try, will demand this, and will send
no more men to Congress unless
pledged to carry out these great plans
Of relief. We want no more apprO-
to dredge up the mouth Of
-he Mississippi river, which never
was made to do us any good;
1ut to luu the people to sleep whilst
hey robbed US of our trade, and
ROW rich At our expense with their
.ailroads and canals. These are the
sreat questions to which the people Of
his great valley must look for deliver
.nce. They must constitute the great
in the platform Of the party
which expect to get the vote of the
Of this great, neglected, robbed
md pIundered valley. We want
rec and direct trade.