Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-11
The Oppression of the Conquered
One of the Causes of the
Great Reform Party.
Universal Amnesty-The Time at
Which 1t Should Have Been
Granted to the People
Of the South.
The Oilice.hOl derS Under the Pres
ent Administration Complete
Slaves of Their Master.

CHICAGO, August l0.-Turner Hall
on West Twelfth street, was crowded
! tonight TO its utmost capacity by Oul
! German citizens, to listen to the speech
of Senator SchurZ. The speaker dwell
/ upon the efforts contributed by each in.
dividual of the Republican party TO its
success, and that past efforts did not
warrant the present supineness tC
/ the welfare of the people al
large. The oppression of the
conquered and the political corruption
and Capitalization of power in the hands
of the government were the natural re-
suits of any war, and were the present
| existing evils against which the reform
! ers had to contend. The placing of the
| ballot in the hands of the Southern
| blacks, as one of the results of the war, OF
necessity gave them great power, which
| the whites would rebel against, and the
government was enforced at one time
to spread its protecting arm over the
whole Southern people for their indivi-
dual protection. The government should
have granted universal amnesty to that
people in order to allay animosities, but
this was not granted until the Cincin-
natl Convention had inscribed it upOn
10 beALAAANAf anu II nOu1u udNt
been dangerous to longer withhold it..
tealty to the Republican party was syn
OnymOus with silence as to its cOrrup-
tiOns, and such a sacrifice could not be
made by honest men. The example set
before the rising generation of the utter
disregard to the laws and constitution
Of the country by the present officers of
the administration was viYidly pOr-
fwox xvan araI fIn 70 Ill 4.
duced therefrOm. Party despotism was
illustrated, and among some forty or f;f-
ty thousand OfficehOlders not a dozen
dare call their souls their own, and, as
class they were the abject slaves Of the
existing government. The ple6iScIes of
Napoleon III were being initiated and
re-enacted in this country, in preventing
a free ballot; and even the public press
all over the country was being controlled
by using government patronage toward
gaining its supporters, and its influence
used in denOunciDg men like Sumner,
Trumbull and himself as the biggest
scoundrels in the land. The Gin
cinnati nomination was conceded
to be not the strongest that might have
been made, but if not the best, the
speaker was content with the next best.
anu luOct SuplOIlluA NIttlCN cOlliu no
so with a clear conscience. The enorm-
ity OF the shortcomings of the present
could only be realized when
these were removed from power. If the
reform could not be accom-
plished inside of the Republican party,
il would have to be done outside. The
question of settling the Southern diff
culties would be solved by the election
of a man to the Presidency who has been
always identified with Southern feelings
and impulses, and each citizens heart
would be warmed within him when all
people will be reunited by brotherly ties.
Secretary BOutwell's assertion that the
" bloody chasm - between the North
and South must be first filled by1ew
was the animating and con-
trolling spirit of the present admin
and the speaker considered
it would be q vast improvement on Mr..
Boutwelps plan by filling the "bloody
chasm , with Grant men. In closing
his speech, the Senator paid high trib-
ute to the answering faithfulness of the
masses of the German people to liberty
and the right.
During the progress of the above meet
ing, large gathering outside the hall
was addressed in the English language
by Governor Seymour, of New York,
Hon. John Wentworth, and others.