Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-11
GOVERNOR B. GRATz BROWN.
His Speech Yesterday at TOpeka-The
First Gun Of the Campaign
How He Talks
He Goes For Grant, and Advocates the
Reform Movement, and supports
the Cincinnati Convention

] the Clnclnnau convention
Special to the Appeal
ToRPEKA, KANSAS, April 10.
Governor B. GratZ Brown delivered
here to-day magnificent speech to a.
! great and enthusiastic concourse of peO-
pie. The Governor said they met to
cradle the Reform movement; to heal
the eountry's wounds, and crown it with
content. The struggle recently closed
established equal freedom as the rightful
heritage of every American citizen.
The struggle began in and be-
tween Missouri and Kansas, but
the strife was forgotten, and the
two States join hands in friendship.
This kindliness of these two great
States is significant of the triumph of
the cause they espouse. Grants party
would substitute the slavery Of the
white race for the old slavery of the
black race, and has created a new de-
partment of the Government known as
THE PARTY, and the ruling force in this
is EXECUTIVE FAvOR-a Republic in
name; we have packed judiciary and
subservent Congress, dominated by a
military chieftain.
The fact that the Cincinnati Conven-
ton assumes the initiative, guarantees
its absolute sincerity. The States viii
all be represented, and each accorded its
appropriate influence. -Four years ago
the Democrats sought to nominate dis /
tinguished Republican [cheersl, and no
one was more astonished than Grant /
when a famous editor constructed for |
him a Republican record. His doubtful /
RepubHcanism gave him success. The
people, hoping TO Danish partyism, sup
ported him. The popularity of Passiv-
ism is strongly indicative of the temper
of the times. Liberalism does not de7l
fine party, but reform and deliveranee.
The party of the future will take shape
and character from victory won, and not
from wrecks left behind it.
A President without partyism, a Con-
gress without price, and a supreme judic-
iary without politics are the necessities
of the hour and country. The revolu-
ton should have origin in the West,
whose people are both Northern and
Southern. The South stands voiceless,
and we may shape the character and
purposes Of the coming contest. The
great problem is to reunite the people on
the basis of thorough reconciliation, 10
readjust our political system, TO repro
duce our institutions. Many current
Northern political ideas have become
dangerous TO American freedom. The
work ofreconstruction has been followed
by an alien policy, swift to punish and
slow to reconcile. Negroes have been
kept solidly arrayed against the whites,
and eorruptly used to sustain the Adj
ministration. States and communities
have been ruthlessly plundered. The
masses of Northern people would
deal most generously with those
of the South, but the leaders
would never forgive because they can
only lead while passion is supreme.
Public robberies abroad-in the South
patiently borne and even approved-con-
stitute the parent cause of intolerable
corruptions at Washington, in New
York-everywhere. Curses like chick
ems come home to roOst. Erie villanies
and corrupt legislatures from Albany to
Topeka are all born of Washington vii
Iainies. Gift-taking blunted public con-
science, and the two hundred and fifty
million steal in the South was natural.
Louisiana and South Carolina may be
first silenced by suspended ha6eas corpus,
in the Presidential election, but Massa-
chusetts may next be sacrificed and 81
fenced.
The masses of Northern people do not
sympathize with these outrageous prac-
tices of the Federal government, but
they surrender their faith to party lead
ers. We appeal from the party TO the
people who would arrest the tendency to
Capitalization. Let US then go back
to first principles and re-enaet
the constitution of our fathers.
The very genius of our Federal Consti-
tuition consists in reconcilIng local free
dom and Federal unity. [Governor
Brown then adopted the precise Ian
guage of the APPEAL, often repeated.
The pretext for caring for all may end
in the ruin of all.
The public debt rests with dispropor-
toned weight upon agriculture, and
great care is shown to lift its fearful
weight from money centers and from
capitalized industry. Great corpora
tions control Congress; public lands are
given away by the province, and the
tariff and internal revenue systems are
the scandals of civilization. All these
enormous burdens fall upon labor.
These aggressive spoliations by the gov
eminent crush out the free life of the
people, instill insatiate greed for Office
and make each voter demand that some
how somebody shall support him, and
thus the shameful greed for office. CThree
cheers for Gratz Brownl1
Our foreign affairs have been shame
fully mismanaged; our commerce is no
more; we are plundered topoverty by
tax-gatherers. lGreat applause, though
he was not talking Of the pitiable con-
dition of Memphis. Sinister objects,
selfish, sehenling, womanly intrigues,
and personal antipathies master the de-
partnlsnt Of state, and lassitude feebly
initiates courage. "A yoice-"and makes
1t fishy."l
THE NEGRO vIcTIAnzED.
The negroes have been made a con-
solidated mass, and arrayed, as a race,
against the whites. Grants party re-
CARDS the negro vote as an appannage
won by force, Let the negro be pro-
tected by all means, but the law should
not be silent, that armed plHnderers
may tyrannize over both whites and
blacks.
Governor Brown then exposed the
lodges aud frauds Of the Presidents
party in its relations TO Civil Service Re
form. He spoke of arms furnished the
French and of Leet gazetted as "gene-
raj order" upon the customs, of the great
men of the country now advocating Re-
form. Against these things the best
men Of the country enter their protests
in vain. The Republicans must lead the
way and show their honesty andeour-
age, and there are enough to fc low.
Then we may have peace and