Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-13

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. Union Pacific alone, in which it is said
/ that many of them were well provided
with stock. They have secured all they
desire for themselves, aud now they are
opposed to any further appropriations OF
public lands. Like the old woman who
had been borrowing a kettle all of heI
life, now that they have kettle of their
own, by
THE BLESSINGS OF PROVIDENCE
they will neither borrow nor lend. But
the sixteenth section is the most striking
of all, and would be laughable if it did
not bring to mind subjects too serious for
lmerriment. ''The Republican party pro-
pose to respect the rights reserved by the
people themselves, as carefully as the
powers delegated by them to the State
and Federal governments. It disdp-
prOUes 0fd resort to unconstitutional LdSUs
for the purpose of removing eUizs, by in
reference with rights not surrendered BY
the people to either the State or national
government" When we remember that
Seward, one of the great leaders, before
the war announced that they We're gov
erned by law higher than the constitu-
ton; when we remember the boast OF
Thad. Stevens that the Congressional
legislation during the war and all the
acts pertaining to the reconstruction
measures were outside of the constitu-
ton; when we remember how the Gov
ernor of Mississippi was imprisoned on
the Dry TOrtugas, and another driven
from the executive mansion by federal
bayOnets; when we picture to ourselves
the armed vessels of the government
blockading the island of San Domingo
to eoerce a sale of It's people and terri
tory; when we remember the armed
satraps sent to the city of New York on
the day of election to stitie the will of
the voters; when we remember the in
famous
KUREUX PROSECUTIONS,
the convictions obtained by the prepared
oaths of hired iuformers and the inpris-
Onment of Southern men in distant pen
! itentiaries; when we remember how a
juror was torn from a court in Missis-
sippi by United States Marshal, while
the State Court was in session; and
when we remember that Mississippi is
to-day represented in the United States
Senate by usuTper, who was an officer
Of the army when elected, and is not to-
day and never was bona ride, tax-pay-
| ing citizen of the State of Mississippi;
we ask ourselves whether any man or
set of men, since the yelled prophet of
| Khorassar, ever dared so boldly to cover
up with silver veil of profession the
horrid deformities of their charnel house
practices. If you will any longer be de-
ceived, if you viii any longer deceive
| yourselves, remember that the time may
come when the silver vel will be torn
aside, and when a military despot, sit
| ting in the presidential chair, may taunt
| you with the declaration, "YOu would
be dupes and victims, and YOU. are. y
Thus much l have thought it necessary
| to say to my old Democratic friends. a
| few more words and | will have done
with you.
1t Is refreshing to US who have been so
| long and so bitterly assailed by both
wings Of the Republican party, to find
ourselves suddenly courted by both sides.
The Liberal Republicans came out open
ly and invited us to join in with them in
the overthrow of corruption. And now
the proscriptive, radical Republicans.
who had sneeringly told us that they did
not want US, and that if we came into
the party we must take back seats, have
come imploringly to beg US to vote for
their candidate, because Horace Greeley
WIS q bitter old Republican, who de-
nOuneed us and brought all this trouble
on US; while Grant, as Conkling tells US,
twas bred and born Democrat, and
never acted with the Republican party
until after the war had made new issues.
Can such things be.
And overcome US Ike a summer cloud,
Without our special wOnderg
We viii now
BOW TO OUR COLORED AUDITORS,
and ask them why it is that they should
support Grant and not Greeley?
Here he proceeded at 6Sme length to
show to the eolOred voters that Greeley
had been their friend for forty years;
that "Grant was bred and born a Demo-
erat, and never acted with the Repub-
lican party until after the war had made
new issues" that Grant when Colonel
had said that he and all his regiment
were Democrats, and " whenever l shall
be convinced that this war has for its
object anything else than what have
mentioned, or that the government de-
signs using the soldiers to execute the
purposes of the AbOlitionists, pledge
YOU my honor as man and soldier,
that l will not only resign my commits
sion, but will carry my sword to the
other side, and cast my lot with that
people," He then showed that Ben
Butler, John A. Logan, and most of the
prominent Grant men, including Cap
tain Maury, the leader in this county,
were all Democrats until the breaking
out of the war; that they have taken
possession of the Republican house
which Greeley built; have turned him
out of doors, and shut the door in his
face. He illustrated it by the cotton
crop. You toll through the heat of
crrss to ot 10 q
crop. You make more than you can
gather. You hire these wharf-rats at
Memphis to pick for you. Now suppose,
after they had been with you a few
weeks, they should claim your crop and
attempt to drive you from the field.
That is what Grant, Butler and Logan
are doing to Greeley.
He then dwelt upon the question OF
slavery, and showed that while the
ways of Providence were inscrutable,
there is always some good end in view.
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,
the chosen people of God, were even
held in the bonds of slavery, and in His
own good time He sent Moses and Aaron
to deliver them, but they murmured
against their deliverance and bowed
down to the golden calf until they were
cursed and compelled to wander forty
years in the wilderness, so that no grown
man among them saw theland of prom
Use. You, too, have been held in slave
nv, and five millions of you now are
far more civilized and christianiZed !
than your brethren in Africa, and in |
His own good time God made you free. !
Greeley and Sumner were the Moses and
Aaron of your deliyerance, and now |
you are murmuring and turning away |
from them, and bow down before the |
golden calf Grant, and it may be that |
YOU will be cursed and compelled TO |
wander forty years in the political viii |
derness before you reach the full frui- |
ton of your freedom.
He then dwelt upon secret political |
societies, and showed that the slaves of |
loyal leagues are not freemen. The |
carpetbaggers claim that they have set |
YOU free, and therefore you must be |
their political slaves for life. He related |
the fable of the horse calling to man for !
assistance against the stag, and applied |
it to them and the carpetbaggers. They |
tell you if you vote with the old Demo /
crats they will put you back into slave |
~. They frighten you with this as
children are frightened with tales of
raw-head ami bloody bones, and they |
laugh at your credulity. Florey, of Boil
ivar, calls the colored voters his
teoons," and the earpetbaggers boast
that they have you under their complete |
control.
They profess to be your especial
friend, but they have no use for any
negro who win not vote for them. They
pretend to divide the offices with you,
but &ey take the meat and give you the
bone. They are the Sheriff, Clerk, etc,
that pay, and makeyou Constable, Mag
istrate and members of the Board of
Supervisor. - 3
A CIRCULAR LETTER
sent out from the Radical head-quarters
last year, got into the wrong hands aud
disclosed the secret. 1t said it makes