Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-24

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the advent Of his successor. Conkline
then spoke Of his and his colleague:
early attitude toward the President, anc
said it had been intimated that the Sen
ator addressed the President . lettel
alluding to
his own ASPIRATIONS a gs7zr
for the Presidency and Offering to with
draw and give the State of New York
to him, provided an agreeable under
standing could be had concerning the
patronage.
The Senator referred TO the Saratoga
Convention in 1870, the disaffection Of
Fenton, and attributed 10 him the elec-
ton of Governor Holman by speech
made in October, throwing a wet
blanket over the party. He instanced
GTeeley's letter to Cornell, declining to
take part in the proposed reOrganiza-
ton OF the Republican party ia New
York, and using these words: "Had
little forbearance and cOnciliatiOn been
evineed by the appointing power at
Washington I think this might have
been different To show that differ
.ences We're the result Of dissatisfaction
with r-er-
.e THE APPOINTING POWER,
The Senator said that only one Of Fen
tons friends had been removed except
fo- the cause that not six p6stmasters
had been appointed in the State at the
speakers instance. While FentOn Sc
cured two hundred appointments, not
one of whom had been disturbed except
for official delinquency. In referring to
the appointment of Thomas Murphy as
collector, he said it was not made at his
solicitation, and that though Murphy
was held up as a scoundrel, yet the re-
cords show that he increased the collec-
ton of revenue and diminished the per
centage cost. In referring to The charges
of the President being surrounded
with a military ring, COnkling said this
ring consists Of three persons, who
write for the President, without any
expense to the treasury. Concerning
the Presidents
SEASIDE LOTTERIEGS,
the speaker said he wasg only eight
hours from Washington, and nothing
can occur demanding his immediate at
tentiOn without his being within imme-
diate call. 1t was the practice of rulers
in all countries to tarry distance from
their official residences during a portion
of the year. Senator Conkling then re
ferred to FE #
THE FOREIGN POLICY
of the administration, and applauded
the success of the Washington treaty
negotiations. The finances was the next
subject taken up, which the speaker
showed TO be in a satisfactory condition.
of civil service reform, the
Senator said this was the best adminis-
tration of the civil service the country
had ever had. Delinqueuts and default
ers had been feTreted out with the utmost
rigOr, and when caught nothing had pro-
tected them from punishment. TheSen-
atOr then took up the charge of central
ism. He said II was a mere fetch. y
Horace Greeley and Others who most
loudly
APPLAUDED THE KUKLUX LAW,
are those who discover centralizing
tendencies Of the government. The
speaker thought the real danger was
from decentralization, which means
State rights, in a secession sense. All
the Capitalization we have, he said, Is a
strong and stable government, under
which the nation prospers, with safety
to property, labor, liberty and life. Re
ferTing to fourteen investigations ordered
by both Houses, he said the only result
was to strengthen the administration.
Amnesty, he said, was now dead is
sue. The Senator then proceeded to ex-
anime
--t GREELEY'S FITNESS
for the Presidency, and claimed that
the very talents lie has shown unfit him
for the Presidency. The Republican
party has been blamed for not crafty
ing Greeley's ambition for Office, but
the mass Of the party though appre-
ciating his eccentric genius, believed
him eTratie and not possessed of practi-
cal wisdom, moderation OF business ca
pacity to make a useful or safe official.
His course in the Constitutional COnven-
ton was a series OF peevish attempts to
do everything, and resulted in his pre-
maturely leaving his post, after pouring
upon the members Yolleys of oaths. His
affiliations with men have shown him to
be a poor Judge of human nature. The
worst uen have stuck by him like bar
nacles, and his management of every
business, except editing a newspaper,
has shown him wanting in business ca
pacity. As an editor he
LACKED A ABALANCE-wHEEL,
to keep him from inconsistencies, His
of money, his ventures with
Tweed and Lendina, his name to men
of trust, evinced unsound
Judgment. The epithets and libels with
which he pursues those he hates or en-
vies, shows q strangely unchristian and
fTrnkf,4tF m
never record that Horace Greeley owed
the Republican party nothing, but the
verdict will be that he spoke like a
scheming migrate when he said: II am
perfectly willing to pass receipts with
the Republican party, and say our ac-
counts are now settled and closed y
Senator Conkling next came 10 Gree
ley's record, saying that all his deeds are
to be lrF sE. ..
FOUND N WORDS.
Extracts from the Tri6ams, after the
first election and prior to the Inaugural
ton of Lincoln, were read TO show be
melted secession by expressing his
to let the South gopeaeeablyi
as were all extracts from the speeches of
Blair in the Senate in 1871, |
making the same charge. The "On to
articles of the tribune were
also quoted as the incarnation Of e0neeit
and folly, which drove the army Gead-
long to Bull Run. Before that battle, |
said Conkling, Greeley imputed i
TREASON TO GENERAL SCOTT,
and after his defeat he coddled up to !
Scott whom he had tried 10 dishOnOr |
ess than four weeks previously. Mr.. |
Greeley, early a. Liucoln's administra- I
ion, became his enemy; this Lincoln /
knew, and he was ever on his guard. |
This is noticeable in the Niagara Falls |
peace affair. Greeley had been for seces- |
iion when secession might be avoided; !
ne had been for battle when the time 4
was not come. He had been in turn for /
war and peace, when each was i'm /
possible; and early in 1854, when the re-
DeIlion was about to collapse, and when 7
Everything depended upon Keeping the 7
North erect with united and unbounded /
'ront, Greeley fell into
A swo0N OF DESPONnENCY,
md bIameed our authorities for not try
ng to make peace. The details Of his 1
at Niagara show, said |
Conkling, undeniably that first-Gree-
ey was gulled by a shallow swindle; /
be not only bit at. the bait, I
out pressed the matter upon Lincoln in
| manner showing his intention to carp
1t him unless he yielded to his views;
.hird-that Lincoln punctured the fraud |
II a glance, and vet Greeley did not
zee II; fOurth-that Greeley bum
lied the whole affair at Ma
yara, or else .purposely violated
epeated instructions Of the PRESIDENT;
ID thot- h1. -tan1aIy slLhrIaittad 10 the