Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-21

70 small, on whatever side it might an
{, pear. An attempt had been made /,
/ suppress this investigation by crack
q ing the party whips, but those wh6
e made that attempt grievously mistool
g the time and spirit Of the people. Tit
? people could be no longer deceived BIZ
!, misrepresentation of the motives o
8 those who were fighting against cor
y fuption. When motives were called
!. in question they knew that the
4 motives Of henchmen high In power
1 were at least as open TO suspicion
Q as the motives of those who opposed
: them. Let me tell these gentlemen.
Q said he, that we knew the road TO pa
: tr0nage just as well as others did, Il
( we had chosen to walk it. The crack
2 OF the party whip has lost its power.
2 IN these times mere party can lie stale
] and nauseating on the stomach OF the
+ people. II you think that the move
I ment now spreading all over this land
Is all report of politicians you will
soon discover your mistake. It is q
, reaction against easy political morals
Z and the spirit OF jobbery which has
been developed in times Of war and
great political excitement. It Is an
earnest uprising for honest and pure
government. You cannot repress Il
by party discipline-you cannot kill
J 1t with penal statutes. It may be a
mere cOmmotion to-day, but under
take to resist It, and you will find 1t a
great moral and political revolution
to- morrow. Whatever others may do,
he had taken his lot. It Is to this
cause that my heart Is devoted, and
with this cause viii stand or fail.
Senator Morton said that one new
point in Senator Sehurz's speech was
the passage quoted In the testin-
Ony OF Lecesne, and insisted that
the statement of Remingtan and
the admissions of Senator Sehurx.
In his vicious speech, showed that
| Eecesne's statements must be false,
The senator from Missouri had
charged that an attempt had been
made to stihe the proposed investiga-
tion by cracking the party-Whip, but
every senator, and every person ac-
quainted with the proceedings knew,
and the senate knew, that directly
the reverse was true. Nobody
had proposed to resist this |
inquiry, he had intended from the |
/ first to vote for it, and the resolution |
would have been passed without a ]
word of debate, had not the movers
OF the resolution forced the debate on |
the senate by insisting on q pream-
bic. The senator from Missouri had /
also asserted that the senatorial ca
bal had forced the investigation into /
the New York custOm-house. That. |
also, was untrue. He (Morton) and i
all those on his side had voted for an
investigation in New York, and their 4
only offense was that they were not
willing to organize a committee, q
majority Of which would have been
enemies of the administration, and |
give them power to throw mud and
smut on the President and his admin
istratiOn from that time up to the next
election. He MOrtOnl was indepen-
dent enough to support an admins
tratiOn which could be assailed only
on personal grounds by false
hood and calumny, and because
honest friends of the Republican party
stood up in the senate to defend it
they were called party henchmen. He
cared not for the eDithets of the sena-
tor from Missouri lSchurz1. The SEN
atOr talked about clinging to the skirts
OF power, but up to the time when he
fell out with the administration, that
senator had made quite as many re-
concentrations and obtained as many
appointments to Office as he Morton
had. He heard it stated that senators
had q personal difficulty with the ad-
which had grown out of
the removal of his friends from Office.
Senator Schurz said he would author-
iza Senator Morton to tell everybody
who told him so that he lied. Sena-
tor Morton was not convinced by that .
statement, the object of those who !
had forced this debate on the senate
was to draw these crowds to the senate
chamber and to make capital against q
the Republican party, the whole affair
gotten up by long previous arrange
ment. The charge was false from the
to the end, and the evil (
dence brought to support it was triv-
lai, but whether false or not the ma
iority were willing to have it investi-
gated. The movers of the resolution :
however we're determined to bring it /
before the country in advance OF an :
investigation, because they knew that 9
an Investigation would amount 9
to nothing. The object of the senator
rom Missouri TSchurz was to separate
hAdA4o &AOAA GDC AeCkADAC6u ndLlX
ind from native citizens, in order to I
make them the balance Of power. I
The senator was, attempting to revive :
Know othingism in its worst form. j
Senator Schurz said no man in the D
country had more earnestly or more
teadily opposed the formation Of any =
political organization based on sepa-
ate natiOnalities.
Senator Merton said he must Judge q,
he senator by his acts. He was i
for the election Of his
Democratic colleague, Senator Blair, N
Who was Senator Schurz's political C
ifspring. Laughter.
Senator Blair said he had been | y
lected to the senate not by his col II
5ague, but by the people Of Missouri. Q,
His colleague, however, had endeav- r.
red to give the people an 0pportuni-
y to have q fair election, and, Of Sc
curse, Senator Morton did not ike Z
hat.
Senator Morton said that was the
retense, but the election Of Senator
Blair was the result Of a coalition of | .
ertain Republicans with the Demo- =
rats, and that the coalition had not ~
ct been dissolved.
Senator Morton then charged that
enatOr SehurZ was staying in the Re- Se 6e
ublican party for the purpose Of de- 10
sating it, and he read an extract from
speech made by him ESehurz1 in
ihicag0, in which he said that if Cen
raj Grant were re-nOminated he
Sehurz1 would not support him. The
enstOr had right to leave the Re-
ublican party If he pleased, but he
ad no right to stay In it and attempt
} defeat it.
Senator Schurz asked whether he
Ieant to say that those who were not
j favor of the denomination Of Grant r
ad no business in the Republican
arty.
Senator Morton said that he did not.
hose who were opposed to the re-
OminatiOn Of the President had q
ght to express their opposition; but
he should be renOminated, and -
their love for the RepUbli- n
IN party and Its principles was
ronger than their personal hatred, =,
ley would submit. A man, however,
no announced in advance that II the
sndidate most likely to be elected 1
lould receive the nomination, he -,
ould not support him, as IL placed
Imself in very questionable posi-
on in the party. "a
Senator Morton continued at length, an
nd read extracts from Mr. Blair's SCI
)eechas, to show that Mr.. Schurz :
as guilty of what he had charged. a.
The senate, without voting, sd-
urned. @ ~o
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